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> I don't see how microbes degrading plastics is any better than putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones." You don't have to waste mo…

RPMFusion isn't considered part of Fedora. Yes, it would be nice if RPMFusion served hashes securely.

Latency is a real problem. Distances to satellites in orbit are very long. Also, there is a scalability problem. How many ground targets can a satellite simultaneously provide serv…

Does Webkit have a very large API/ABI surface? This seems like a nightmare to implement correctly and maintain.

How far out is servo from being the mainline Firefox renderer? A year? More? Pie-in-the-sky?

80s and 90s Unix.

It happened several years ago.

Go west, young man!

What does CoW have to do with anything?

The bad part is bs=1024. That block size will make it take longer. Often, a sparse file doesn't really emulate a real file well, and you do want a big file full of zeroes...

Why Haskell?

This is going very tangential, but no, not all bridges are directly paid for only by people driving on them. To make public bridges into an ISP analogy, imagine: municipal and stat…

I'd only change it to "... blaming drivers on your toll bridge when you're the one ..." The drivers (customers) are paying for the bridge!

Sure, but these are mostly just arbitrary caps. xfs performance at 50TB is supposed to be better than ext4 at 50TB. I don't know what xfs actually does over ext4, but I do know a l…

Or just sorting the results by performance, rather than alphabetically.

Many (and I would guess most) don't.

Seattle is not part of Redmond, which is where Microsoft is. But probably a fair number of MS employees in the city.

Totally and radically unrelated. Next time, please read?

MDMA is a lot easier than LSD, and dumb people get away with just selling Meth (even easier) as MDMA. But ok, maybe some people get away with making synthetic chemicals for some pe…

Or that successful criminals are like unicorns ;-).

And why would you claim MIT license on the code which you didn't write and has no license listed?

Probably something I should learn more about if I ever have a four year-old.

30-40 a year, mostly from suffocation sounds almost negligible. It seems fine if you crack the window and they know how to get out.

Debit card fraud recovery is only backed by guarantees from the bank, if they choose to guarantee that. Credit card fraud recovery is mandated by the federal government.

Yeah. UW feeds a lot to the local Seattle Facebook and Google offices, not just Microsoft. But I guess those satellite offices are a small portion of the larger companies.