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> It is also possible to terraform Venus, although much more difficult than for Mars. We are facing an existential crisis in the form of climate warming on Earth that we are unable…

Software should be at least as easy to uninstall as it is to install, so yes.

Parts of that article are just downright terrible. First, the criticism of Electron is moot. Yes it's not sleek, but it's sufficient. This app is not supposed to be used heavily on…

Being efficient in watering golf courses in the desert in certainly nice, but maybe it's time to question having over 50 golf courses in the desert with an impending massive water …

This might depend on the country for EU. In France especially if you're an adult, getting an appointment for a diagnosis is either extremely long (public health sector delays regul…

Fellow ADHDer here, I'm not a smoker but long before I was diagnosed, lyrics from a song of my favorite band/artist hit me particularly hard. It was Drag by Joey Cape/Lagwagon, a s…

This was my first thought. Why TP-Link, why now? Looks like another extortion scheme from POTUS.

Our first terraforming goal should be the Earth, not the Moon, not Mars. I.e. we're all threatened by the climate catastrophe and if we're not able to fix the planet we're the most…

He didn't need to own Twitter for this, so even if you give Musk some slack about his God-awful opinions, his (real and hypothetical) achievements are still not a good reason at al…

They also need an outlet for all the garbage they generate, hence the transformation of Sora into a shitty social network.

Well no. French person here. While this verdict is a great victory for democracy in itself, a lot of problems around it are still not solved. - Prosecuting white-collar crime still…

> Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in projects or frameworks where there are extr…

Don't make me tap the "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" sign.

Ryanair talks a lot, but they mostly do it for the free PR they inevitably get when people act shocked. Almost all of their proposal are unfeasible or downright illegal and all of …

The protocol boast "no fee" but that's deceptive: if it's based upon a blockchain, there will be transaction fees. Now if the problem they want to solve is the case of low amount p…

Every time a crypto user faces criticism over their favorite technology they frame it as FUD. Quite a marvel of nature.

> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content What's funny is tha LLMs got trained on datasets that includes all that incor…

There is no realistic way to do anything like that "close to the finish line" on a Tour race, especially during a mountain stage, there are people and cameras everywhere.

It's not necessarily a new performance-enhancing molecule that nobody has heard of, but alternative posology or training regimen to stay under detection threshold, new masking prod…

Yep, modern fonts have features that can be enabled or disabled, depending on client support. IDEs typically allow to enable/disable ligatures and you also can control font feature…

Most prominent example was this one: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-pulls-back-more...

Most symptoms of ADHD are things almost everybody experiences from time to time, some even regularly. What makes ADHD is combination of many symptoms cranked to 11. ADHD is the dif…

If anything, the left-pad debacle has shown that NPM package granularity has gone way too small, at a point where package overhead was outweighing the package simplicity benefits.

It's also not working well on Firefox desktop (MacOS), same issue.

It's not just about a lack of interest in walking. If your infrastructure is extremely hostile to walking, it's outright dangerous and unreliable and force people out of it.