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Excellent improvement. The server-side complexity required to handle sessions has been a large burden both on infrastructure and on educating teams on its characteristics.

~1.5 billion train journeys a year is “functional”.

0C = Frozen!

It’s hard to answer without specifics but languages shouldn’t require you to determine whether it’s safe to use an api in an async context or whether it will hang your app. I imagi…

This is fantastic progress for CPython. I had almost given up hope that CPython would overcome the GIL after first hitting its limitations over 10 years ago. That being said I stro…

Right, in a 3rd-party library.

Segfaults with no use of “Unsafe” equivalents in managed languages can give immediate indication it’s not a code problem.

I believe the driver silently swapped the textures to lower quality ones that looked worse but gave a performance boost.

That’s not my experience but it’d be interesting to from others on the matter.

TR in the US makes sockets harder to use, but I have never heard anyone complain about TR in the UK, as the earth/ground pin is always present, and is physically longer than the li…

The shutter prevents someone (including children) shoving something metal into the live/hot. I have never heard of it failing. Newer US outlets (TR/tamper resistant) are way more f…

The switching of command and service in the argument order from the init script days still catches me out. foo restart vs restart foo

It at least has the virtualization framework now. There’s a product called Anka that plugs into Jenkins and lets you deploy macOS VM images as build agents on top of physical Apple…

I mean, it worked for Boeing[1] too. 1 - https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...

There’s a link in the article but here it is with a time code for the start of the simulation. https://youtu.be/07_m7HHiZRw?t=39

Assembly of the phone or device using the processor.

Do the chips get shipped to China for assembly?

input_string = "VMS" output_string = ''.join([chr(ord(char) + 1) for char in input_string]) print(output_string)

Pump filling times should be compared with DC-fast charging times as L2 is normally what you do at home when you don’t care too much about how long it takes. F150 will DC fast char…

While it’s more how they are used, imo optional is abused to the point it adds complexity. You don’t avoid handling null, but now you have to deal with present or not. Therefore yo…

I always choose the “essential cookies only” option. This is normally harder than accepting all cookies, but it is getting easier over time. I rarely see a site that has essential-…

When looking for a reverse proxy that is performant on Windows and Linux around 5 or 6 years ago the options were very limited. Traefik is what we ended up using. I haven’t checked…

Press F12 and dust off your Dabs Press BASIC WIMP programming for the Acorn… A machine that you could code up a full GUI application with the BASIC interpreter in ROM, enabling chi…

Six Frigates is an excellent book about the origins of the U.S. Navy. It also gives a little insight into how quickly Britain and the U.S. aligned themselves, helped in part by the…

Meridian Audio have been making active digital speakers for over 25 years. SPDIF input to every speaker with custom DSP to do digital crossover tuned to the cabinet and particular …