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Machines have been making kill-or-no-kill decisions for decades, and they were a lot more indeterminant. Heat-seeking missiles largely kill whatever is hot. Proximity fuses in WW2 …

So how would this work? Does this mean Microsoft will build a directly connected data center nearby? Or is Microsoft just buying power from the plant's owner on the energy market?

This isn't always possible, though. You could grow up with parents and teachers who do not push you to study. Perhaps you are malnourished or abused. Having the environment and sup…

I think universities can probably come up with a different set of non-protected criteria to lift underrepresented communities out of social/financial oppression. This might even pr…

I was a Rutgers student when this was happening. I recall some final assignments and exams getting canceled when they attacked the Rutgers network. When the news broke about the pe…

There's probably some virtualization overhead on the c7g.large, right?

I really want an EV, but they don't work for me. I live in an urban area and park on a city street. EV ownership would add a lot of complications to my life due to the current stat…

What's the reasoning by the IRS to not refund you if for some reason you do not receive the shares you are paying taxes early on?

You still have to trust that data was recorded into a blockchain correctly/faithfully. So you can never truly remove trust. I'm not sure a immutable ledger is any more useful than …

> Ten years from now, looking back on the 2022 tech recession, we may say that this moment was a paroxysm of scandals and layoffs between two discrete movements. The author is sugg…

I was in Montessori through kindergarten. I do remember feeling a bit disadvantaged socially when I entered 1st grade in a conventional school. Most of the other students had done …

I often wonder if it is currently more environmentally responsible to dispose of plastics in the trash rather than the recycling. If we can't recycle plastic or it ends up in the o…

Air travel contributes to about 2.5% of greenhouse gas emissions and is responsible for about 3.5% of anthropogenic warming [1]. In my opinion, there is an outsized amount of publi…

There's also the ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02 [0] which you can do the trainings with albeit making sure you mind that the pinouts are slightly different. [0]: https://docs.espressif.com/pr…

> The solution is always, always, having (building) more supply than the demand, yet nobody seems to get it. It is easy to hand wave "more building supply", but that's a medium to …

Seems pretty easy to enforce. Fine Airbnb for each listing in violation of the law.

We do a similar thing. Engineering tracking is done through AZDO, but roadmap management is done in another tool with some sort of integration between the two.

I probably take more guidance from blog articles and GitHub issue comments than I do from StackOverflow. I think this started to happen for me around 2015/2016. I'm not sure though…

It might be the Pi wearing out the SD card. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 [1] actually has a PCIe Gen 2 x1 socket. Jeff Geerling (who's active on HN) has actually gotten SATA w…

It is really a shame that most people's experience of NJ is only the Turnpike and the refineries around EWR.

I'm glad that there is much more awareness and consideration around cost. When I was in high school and applying to colleges around 2011, the advice given to us was to not take cos…

Yes, the live-stream showed a MacBook Pro connected to many monitors

It seems the era of few ports, gimmicky keyboards, and thinness over function in MacBooks is over.

> DNS: Run trick DNS servers that return specific server addresses based on IP geolocation. Downside: the Internet is moving away from geolocatable DNS source addresses. Upside: yo…

I'm interested what would cause underground cables to break more often. Is it people not "calling before you dig" and accidentally severing them or is it something else?