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It’s still really strange that Linux is several times larger than ChromeOS. I would not have guessed this. And I daily drove Linux for years.

The parent is correct. Look up have many antennas are on each Starlink sat. There are multiple dedicated antennas for customers and ground stations. There isn’t just one antenna or…

Ctrl+V paste works for me on WSL. My secret is that I have given up on WSLg and use a standalone X Windows server. Specifically, the X410 X Server. This removes a whole lot of weir…

This issue here is that people have different definitions of AGI. From the description. Getting 100% on this benchmark would be more than AGI and would qualify for ASI (Algorithmic…

In just about every way. CPU caches are made from SRAM and live on the CPU itself. Main system RAM is made from DRAM and live on separate chips even if they are soldered into the s…

The spec says that the first row specifies the number of columns.

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The story is satire. But the satire is illustrating true problems and attitudes.

Kinda hard to answer as that depends on your definition of new. But most likely yes, https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/commits/main

They should move to using QUIC which is the protocol backing HTTP/3. QUIC incorporates TLS1.3 and has an extension for UDP style unreliable datagrams ( https://datatracker.ietf.org…

GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers. This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings: - No need to provide disclaime…

I also buy the most expensive Apple phone and not put it in a case. My experience is quite different from your, perhaps unintentional straw man. Let’s take this assertion by assert…

Analog telephones have terrible bandwidth. Just 300–3,300 Hz. This it technically called the voiceband, but it cuts off a good portion of female speech. Also, all phone lines these…

Normally that is the case, but California has been very active passing significant housing reform legislation in the past couple of years. Just this last legislative session over 2…

Yeah, pitch is only one of the components of speech pattern differences between genders. Others include resonance, intonation, rhythm and more. Ask a trans person and they will tel…

The problem is that a certain segment of society is passing laws insisting that everyone neatly fit into 2 distinct buckets. Also, insisting that the bucket you were categorized in…

The linked article appears to be entirely copied from the University of California press release. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/07/25/chemical-controllin... , which is a much …

Since the build page doesn’t provide much context, Fushsia has 3 different configurations bringup, core and workstation. The workstation configuration is described as: > workstatio…

The YouTube show How to Make Everything. Did this. They started the tech tree from the very beginning by making simple hand stone tools and then building up tool by tool to more so…

With the coming ubiquity of QUIC, its seems natural to have a QUIC based analog to OpenVPN using packet based QUIC instead of OpenVPN’s UDP/TLS. It also seems rather obvious to ext…

If Pinboard is being maintained, this is great news. I had thought it was abandoned and I have been looking for alternatives. My biggest pain point is the lack of maintained iOS cl…

Don’t forget the 10.25% sales tax. This puts the combined marginal tax rate at 59.85%. (24 + 9.3 + 7.65 + 7.65 + 1 + 10.25)

Windows on ARM supports 64bit ARM apps. What you were possibly remembering was that Windows on ARM when it was first introduced only supported emulating x86 apps. Although x64 emul…

That US oil self sufficiency means that it will get out of the Middle East is a key part of Peter Zeihan’s Disunited Nations. His premise is that the US will disengage from the wor…

They are making these claim using the EEMBC benchmark. This must be an interesting benchmark as they claim the fastest chip on the EEMBC benchmark is a Cortex-A9, a 8 year old desi…