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They just recently fixed an issue where the start menu would render slowly. The solution was to let the CPU utilization and frequency spike immediately when opening the start menu …

Only in as much as "phone" as telephony hardware, "phone" as telephony software, and "phone" as a shortening of "smartphone" in the same way. The author should have swapped the tit…

That's because this article is the journalistic equivalent of a retweet. The article links to a WSJ[0] article (which is going to be paywalled for many people). Any time you get an…

That's part of what fixed it for me. What really fixed it was three things: 1. Actually being very knowledgeable about the subject in question, to the extent that I can offer facts…

That one is actually kind of interesting. So he was born on Feb 11 the year before the British empire adopted the Gregorian calendar. After the change, his birthday was Feb 22. Feb…

11 states have them specifically for data centers. Most states have some form of this in general : https://www.michiganbusiness.org/services/pa-198/ What's more, having a statutory…

No, it's exactly the truth: https://www.ncsl.org/fiscal/subsidizing-servers-how-states-a... The legislatures are betting that the data centers stick around or bring in jobs. They w…

Nobody invests a billion dollars in a facility without first lobbying to get an exemption from property taxes. Most states in the US have passed incentives that include sales and p…

Yeah, but how often are we talking about exactly specific dates without referring to specific historical texts? The Magna Carta was sealed on June 15, 1215 for the Julian calendar.…

It's not a wrong way to think about it. There are some use cases for proleptic calendars, but there are just as many where it's completely inappropriate. If you ever need to compar…

Git doesn't need a hub. But, even though the Linux the project created git specifically for their own workflow, and is in the running for the largest and most complicated decentral…

It's definitely an attempt to pull up the ladder behind them.

That's kinda like asking why someone might complain about Chrome's memory usage in a thread about a new version of V8.

End users don't care about if it's an app or not. What they care about: - Does it do what I need it to - Can I access it easily - Is it easy to navigate - Does it work or is it bug…

Yeah, I absolutely understand the allure of agentic AI, but I am absolutely not going to give shell access or data access to any agent. Certainly not with my permissions level. Unt…

I could believe that if you were near the coast. I grew up in central Michigan and thought the same about the sun until I spent a few years in southern Arizona. The sun there feels…

Well, there probably wasn't a concession stand.

My best friend bought a house. She noticed within the first month that the name of the road she lived on was misspelled in Google Maps. Specifically, it's a slightly unusual spelli…

> While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... Eh. It's sort of like saying…

I did so in the other reply thread of the comment you replied to. > [Z]ero-day specifically compares when the white hats (vendors, system owners) and the black hats learn about the…

It's difficult to do that because we don't even really know how many cancers there are. Cancer is best understood as a family of tens of thousands of diseases. They're a whole rang…

No, that's the difference between exploit (knife) and either the incident or impact (wound). The vulnerability would be a gap in armor. The vulnerability is the exposed weakness . …

No, I think it was since Code Red. I understand why it's poorly understood. It's a snappy term, and people assume it means "bad" and nothing else because that's all you can get fro…

That's not what "zero-day" means.

That seems like it would be incredibly fragile. As soon as the receiving party made a change that required re-saving the PDF -- like commenting, highlighting, changing default layo…