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As someone vaguely in the industry: It's because of the huge rise in RAM prices. One of OnePlus' points was high specs at low price. They don't have the margins to eat current RAM …

> the camera photos were stuck on the camera I'm surprised no camera manufacturer has created an easy way to get all your photos to Google Photos / iCloud/ Dropbox / etc. They have…

By "fuel", do you mean reaction mass (stuff that shoots out the back of the rocket) or energy source? A nuclear reactor in space would require an enormous heat sink to get useful e…

Interestingly, Cityfibre often reuse the old telephone poles. It means you can get fibre to the home with no digging required. Yay old tech?

The main cost of running a bug bounty program is developer time spent triaging submissions from all the people who just run an automated scanner against your website and submit eve…

It depends on what Poker variant you're playing. These days Texas hold 'em is dominant, but Five-card draw used to be very common, especially for informal games.

> difference between $6/user and $18/user is 0 I wouldn't go that far. Big companies put a lot of effort into saving $12/seat. But, if you can convince them they get >$18 of value …

I meant to write a blog post titled "What's good about ClearCase" in 2014, and I wish I did because now I've forgotten most of it. ClearCase is a terrible version control system I …

> You shoot the entangled photon through a double slit and see if a wave-like pattern occurs, in which case we're still in a superposition and our communicator has not measured Wai…

Tibetan script has been in Unicode since version 2 from 1996, with some characters added in later versions. Is there are particular human script you want added to Unicode?

Lots of emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and need 4 bytes in UTf-8 and UTF-16. That's without going into skin color and other modifiers and combinations.

Video calls indeed almost always use UDP. TCP retransmission isn't really useful since by the time a retransmitted packet arrives it's too old to display. Worse, a single lost pack…

Others have noted you got the CD-R speeds wrong, but sometimes sending is indeed easier than receiving. I used to work on radio signal processing for phones, and we'd spend far mor…

I used svn only a few years ago and don't remember branching taking very long. Maybe it was csv that had to copy the all files. I do remember merges being horrible in svn. Just bra…

TDM seems difficult with the long time delays to satellites, but maybe. LTE is pretty flexible and can use bands as small as 1.4 MHz. It was only 1G and 2G (GSM) that needed to avo…

OS and security updates until 2030: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#zippy=%2Cpix...

Climate change also disrupt ecosystems. Tradeoffs have to be made, and blocking everything doesn't mean things stay the way they are. It means continued CO2 emissions, higher energ…

Does asking it in the prompt to use different temperatures actually work? I would assume the temperature needs to be set with a side channel? I suspect this is just ChatGPT interpr…

> Sucks because my manager was only told this morning As a manager I find their really curious. I guess they were trying to avoid leaks. I wonder how they chose who to lay off. Mos…

I used to do traceroute to addresses far away like Japan or Australia to which way it takes. Packets often went through the US even when you'd think there's a shorter route. These …

I changed the location in f.lux to somewhere south-west of where I am. Yes it gets dark at 3pm in Sweden in winter. That doesn't mean it's anywhere near bedtime.

It's even worse with virtual machines and containers. Those things can be left over anywhere and still appear as a machine on the network.

It's worth noting that the terminology has changed a bit over time. I.e. the old Unix C function 'crypt' actually does hashing.

Great read, but worth noting from the end of the article that "late feature" here means it was added in the early '90s. The late addition to Unix that surprises me is ssh. It was o…