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I hate to give Apple any ideas... but I've always wondered why macOS/iOS support falling back to software rendering, when all of their devices ship with a known GPU configuration. …

I imagine it's pretty powerful to put your queen on the corner of 4 squares so it can capture along two ranks and two files.

At least it's on-brand.

If I knew I only had a few weeks/months of freedom left, I'd spend my time doing something other than writing blog posts.

Last I checked, mDNS didn't support Windows (requirement for our household) but it looks like it does now. I'll play with it next time I set up a new machine.

> NETBIOS is still used in modern stuff, no? Even as a Linux guy I like to have netbios enabled since it gives you automatic DNS entries for all the hostnames on your network. I lo…

No security key, just my face. That link also seems to say it can be used without an online account. Hence my question.

There's also losses when transporting electricity. A pipe can be made perfectly airtight, but a wire cannot be made perfectly efficient* *Yes I know about superconductors, that doe…

https://www.angi.com/articles/how-much-should-it-cost-instal... > It typically costs between $400 and $1,500 to install a range hood, with the average being $750. Installing a duct…

To be fair the problems with gas stoves have been known for a while now. It's even made its way to HN a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332332

> Connecting with Microsoft accounts is only useful to enable Windows Hello. Otherwise, use local accounts only. I have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 and a local-only account, an…

Likely OpenAI wants to retain control of their company. If they keep 51%, they have a majority stake.

Fair enough. I was criticizing their consumer side and the exchange specifically. I don't know anything about their business products.

Afaik they support the backwards-compatible parts, but nothing new. I'm talking specifically about "Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH" in this chart: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bech32_adopti…

Coinbase is technologically kind of a joke. Their matching engine is crap. They haven't even adopted bech32. They just do the bare minimum to keep things working for 99% of users, …

To change the algorithm, all three of miners, users, and nodes would have to agree to the change. If there is any disagreement, the network continues running under current consensu…

88 is also the number of keys on a piano. Maybe Canada is a big fan of Beethoven? Or maybe they just bought the exact number they needed without worrying what conspiracy theories i…

Alan Kay was one of the few people in 1974 qualified to make predictions about computers. I'd compare that to Andreas Antonopoulos making predictions about bitcoin in 2011. I would…

I think he means the compelling aspect is its fixed monetary policy. Gold deposits can be discovered (Uganda) or asteroids mined. Governments actively change their monetary policy.…

When it comes down to it, between Cloudflare and Recaptcha, I think Cloudflare is the lesser of two evils.

There are alternatives: https://www.hcaptcha.com/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-altern... Unfortunately if you're a user (as opposed to a website author) yo…

I can't give you skynet, but I can give you circuit-bent furbies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

Is this available anywhere in plaintext format? I see a txt file but it looks like it was OCR'd from the ebook.