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the mechanism of it is not that paper is saturated with water, but that while there is water in the container, paper doesn't get hotter than 100C and a bit, not enough to ignite.

nothing like Russian, South Asian maybe

oh great, they are not using a confusing name anymore... wait, now they are using a stupid name!

Phoronix regularly tests this, search for keyword mitigations https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-mitigations-off

Could it be quantified how much UK is using coal power of other countries? Since industry is moved outside, the products we consume use power of producer country, mostly China. Is …

I WISH it would be prefetching video in background while showing ads. But no, always goes to spinny wheel buffering after ad ends. Oh, and thats after having some spinny wheel to l…

~100 MB/s write speeds? what use case needs an SD card that can be written for 40000 seconds?

> The new 4K 32" 3rd gen QD-OLED panels seem to be the closest to perfection, but I'm not sure if they're suitable for long sessions of programming, web browsing and reading docume…

Not an issue if they have a means of propulsion capable of delivering 1g the whole way Which is necessary to go any meaningful distance in space anyway

ahh, I wish they included speed comparison to numpy.average I know, thats not the point and average was only picked as a simple example, but still...

definite deja vu from Optane Capacity and price killed it, no word about these in the article

I saw comments that if introduced together with Faster CPython single thread performance optimisations, nogil would end up no slower than previous version. So it is best time to im…

maybe its a reference to Amdahl's law? If you can parallelise 90% of your code, you get only 10x improvement even on infinite number of cores

I think that site opted for consistent graphs - points lower on the graph is faster/better, indicated by blue down arrow

without knowing much of either, sounds like petalisp to lisp relation is numba to python. Or numba to numpy?

Started getting RSI symptoms in right hand years ago. Mainly from heavy gaming, but I needed to use mouse at work as well so right hand was not getting any rest. Switched to using …

I think Windows is even more permeated with legacy Off the top of my head: Nobody questions why main drive is C:, remnant of [an] early computer having two floppy (not sure) drives…

Its ironic and scary how 3.11 was the last Windows with consistent a) UI design. It was either a DOS box or a Win 3.11 style window b) file sharing, simple and intuitive c) integra…

We were getting 1000km between fill ups (60L tank) on a family road trip in a bog standard 1.8L gasoline (!) Ford Mondeo, seating 2 adults 2 kids and with trunk loaded to the brim …

Any of these use FLAC? Or does everyone invent their own wheel?

Last I was dealing with zip files in Python 3 years ago, I was unpleasantly surprised that there is no way to open Zip64 archives. It is a semi-proprietary format not supported by …

If questions are from specific field (combinatorics/algorithms etc) then general intelligence doesn't help. Even if your IQ was 150, you won't answer those questions without study …

I remember reading Donald Sadoway got inspiration for developing liquid metal batteries [1] from watching how aluminum smelting is basically a battery already. These batteries are …

Like with any condition that your body is expected to take care of. Drink lots of fluids, rest. If you have excessive fever 38+, use fever reduction medicine of your choice. Unlike…

Found a random improvement: Kraken 1.1 benchmark runs faster now. Improved from roughly 760 to 700ms on my 5800X. Still ways to go to reach Chrome at 560ms