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I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to use it.

If governments want to set up online age gates, they should be responsible for providing an electronic ID system and enable privacy preserving age verification (zero knowledge proo…

There are probably still a lot of cases where you would want PoE though right? Cameras, WAPs, etc.

The article is about utility scale solar and storage I believe not home installations. It also mentions towards the end that in cold norther climates adding wind to the mix makes s…

> It's like math was forced to run on assembly language despite there were more high-level languages available and more apt for the job. I'm not a mathematician but that doesn't so…

That may be true but the sense I get from Gen Z folks who I've talked to is that for them Discord is almost more of a social network for interacting with a community. Their activit…

I know I'm in the small minority of Discord users who mostly uses it as a voice chat room while gaming with my friends, but for that use case the best alternative I've found seems …

What does the 'ad network and search engine' have to do with it? Wouldn't any organization who serves lots of traffic have the same cost cutting goals you mentioned?

> Cloudflare clearly wants to move us to a future where only approved browsers are allowed to access the web. It seems your confusion stems from this premise. Is it possible this i…

As I commute on a motorcycle (often in the rain, causing lower visibility) this is terrifying to me and I hope regulators in my state don't let it happen here until Tesla can prove…

In that case wouldn't you be better off just disabling 2FA? The problem with the cloud sync is that users like the one in the article think they have 2FA but in fact if their Googl…

Typically you print out recovery codes and keep them somewhere safe

> The attacker already had access to ... my Google Authenticator codes, because Google had cloud-synced my codes. This was such an obvious mis-feature I can't believe they actually…

> And then there’s the code that we rely on for bank transactions, package deliveries, medical results, satellite launches, airline flight paths, self-driving cars, mortgage paymen…

> I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I feel like you just described Obsidian. You can do more with tagging and linking but you definitely don't have to

A few years ago I came across (probably on HN) this little Firefox extension that I quite like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fraidycat/ . Seems like it could help …

I don't know anything about this startup but this is definitely an important problem worth solving https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/us-construction-has-prod...

How does this square with the fact that fertility declines as income rises, both within and across societies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

NYTimes publishes a fantastic calculator [0] to help make this kind of rent vs. buy decision. It's not always that clear cut. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/bu…

NYTimes has a great calculator for doing just that https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

My taxi driver on my last time in France (in 2022 I believe) almost made us miss our train from Marseilles to Paris as he drove us around looking for an ATM because he insisted he …

This is the eternal tradeoff of testing, brought to its logical (no pun intended) conclusion. Testing (and formal verification) don't get you anything for free: writing detailed sp…

I like this comment because it both argues for "SLC" design and contains the reason why we don't get it: "Sure this thing looks great if only it had " where is different for every …

I saw that and I'm not convinced this changes anything. The fact that Honey is inserting itself into the affiliate attribution chain at all when it did literally nothing is still w…

Maybe I'm just a tech philistine but I find my Pixel 8a and my wife's iPhone to be basically indistinguishable in any meaningful way.