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Static RAM they bought from IBM; they trusted it too much, didn't include ECC in its path to CPUs, and completely torched any chance at becoming an enterprise vendor by blaming the…

Is that really a lot in the scheme of things? I don't have CFL backlit LCD TV info handy since they've been supplanted by LEDs, but I looked at Best Buy (a big US seller of these s…

Real, intelligent people for customer support (well, the last time I needed any, which was years ago). You are paying for the service and it's not cheap although also not expensive…

"not going out and getting better vaccines for narcissistic reasons" Not narcissism but the loss of face, which also means a loss of power. Which is the only thing Communists care …

"If by being open and liberal (in the non-political sense) one risks being banned then essentially it's punishment (or the threat of punishment) for defection and the outcome is fo…

There are others, Pleroma was explicitly designed to be lightweight for small nodes, written in Elixir and thus running on the battle tested Earlang ecosystem BEAM VM. Also have he…

"I've also seen instances blanket-blocking anything Pleroma, because "all the bad people come from Pleroma". I've even seen it called evil software because it affords more customiz…

You should be careful about such "I'm sure" statements. "Right wing" Fediverse is very tolerant in moderation, that which results in bans, the only big issue is how much, if any po…

One other thing to factor into this good picture you're making of the situation: at each step in greater transmissibility of variants and sub-variants for Omicron a given isolation…

Their two main COVID vaccines aren't terrible as far as I can tell but they're not great. Against classic Wuhan and I'm not sure about pre-Omicron variants. Which we've got some da…

My understanding is that Xi and the CCP he controls simply didn't prepare for this besides administering without mandates the PRC's two major indigenous vaccines which appear to be…

I thought it was a post-WWII Czechoslovak Soviet thing but it turns out the history goes 1419 and the English word to an example in 1618 which per Wikipedia helped spark the catast…

I run a desktop workstation with a UPS, its lead acid batteries are not infinite and don't like staying discharged, so at times shutting down quickly and cleanly is very important.…

Yes, in the 1970s plus or minus black was the preferred term.

It's worse than that, most endowment funds are earmarked for specific purposes.

And/or a threat to his or the CCP's power, which is their first and foremost concern. thinkmcfly might as well ask why WWI started when it predictably going to impoverish the major…

And not just Google, or per the article Amazon and Apple. While I'm long out of the Windows ecosystem (my Year of the Linux Desktop was a decade and a a half ago), it's been noted …

As a general principle, the Space Shuttle program was massively capital constrained, so many trade-offs were made that compromised safety and operating expenses. I suppose the latt…

Thanks for the general info ... have we found any caves on or in the moon?? And the reference, just skimmed it but it appears to be written at a high and thorough level. But I wasn…

So fiction showing people were thinking about X at such and so a time not evidence people were thinking about X at such and so a time??? All the "get to the moon" or beyond SF, whi…

"Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time. I was appalled when I learned about LEO atomic oxygen. "Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things g…

"And then the status quo took root & reusable rocket proponens were no longer taken seriously because - what were they thinkig, this is how we have always been doing it!" Disagree …

See https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Jupiter_Energy_Fleet from the late 1970s; people have been thinking about this problem for a long time. This SF TV series cheated with a new phys…