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For intra-city trips the car is not a superior mode of transport in the Netherlands. Cars take longer, often can't get as close to your destination, and cost a lot more. And you ca…

I vote for Slop Kiddies or Vibe Kiddies. And yes, I think most of them are unconsciously incompetent for the task they are trying to execute. I've seen LLM being compared to calcul…

I worked with embedded systems in the 90's and we used pSOS. Today I learned that there are two operating systems named that way that are targeted at different problems. The pSOS w…

They are not really comparable are they. One is a rail connection over land and the other is a 130ft deep tunnel for rail and road traffic.

More information on the software side of CERN storage can be had here: https://indico.mathrice.fr/event/143/contributions/174/attac...

American minks will solve this without need to enlarge the sewers....

I really like this picture that demonstrates this size difference: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonkok/27081197680

Socat doesn't support STARTTLS. If you want to debug SMTP submission "openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect server:587" is awesome. Just take care not to use upper case "R" or "…

Size, speed, features. You can have a small FPGA for about 2$. You will however be limited in the complexity of the design you can implement because it has limited gates and pins. …

Philips isn't really dying a slow death. The company has been split into pieces. Some of which are very successful like ASML. Some are doing OK like NXP and Signify. Some are strug…

To be fair it is 100m vertical. Stand on a 25 story building and look down. That's not a small distance.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230220204315/https://ares.jsc....

Because IANA started delegating prefixes starting with 2. And haven't done enough delegations to go to 3. Prefixes starting with 0 of F are also in use for mapping IPv4 addresses t…

For transport, yes light is more desirable. For computing, no. The fact that electrons interact with each other is the basis of computational circuits. The article is about how to …

The reason you can not build a 0% tolerance resistor is the laws of physics. A very high precision resistor can certainly be build but it will never be perfect. Increasing precisio…

To rephrase te question: why would somebody be annoyed with the fractional metric size of A-n sizes ?

Indeed, Almere is a sleeping city. Many inhabitants moved from Amsterdam to Almere since gentrification has made housing in Amsterdam almost unobtainable for people with a median i…

It's 250k and a bit: the launcher is reusable.

Also what drinking water are they comparing to that gives 99% of the chlorine intake ? In dutch drinking water chlorine is not used at all, neither for primary disinfection nor to …

Being able to sideload is a double edged sword. Yes, it would be a barrier for Apple to go to far overboard on monetizing the ecosystem. It would also give companies like Microsoft…

A blunt front isn't that bad for aerodynamics as long as it's rounded enough for the air stream not to separate. A lot more can be gained at the back of a truck. Like this: http://…

If you only use your PC one day a month then yes, you may have to wait sometimes for updates. If you use your PC a few hours every week, nope. If you only use your Quest 2 once a m…

Ehh, the content is the problem because there is a lack of bad content ? There's a heap of 3D content and growing. Like last years Marvell movies, James Bond, Dune. And movie theat…

That doesn't explain why someone who has an Index doesn't use it. The setup and expense is just one time. The updates are all automatic via Steam. It's just a matter of putting on …

As much as I like VR I have to agree it will stay a niche product. The need to wear something on your head is a major hurdle. Like 3D TV's that have mostly disappeared. Also when y…