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People used to do a lot of stupid stuff. If you live alone and are conscious of the risk, sure, this is not a terribly dangerous item if you're safe about it. If you live with pets…

If you break the game in such a way that no one wants to play with you anymore, then you have in fact lost the metagame

Maybe in a pinch, doesn't seem very sustainable. A single decent 400 watt solar panel produces about the same continuous power as a horse, and doesn't consume 20 lbs of hay per day…

Sure, plenty of people also wear a 14 oz hard hat strapped to their head all day with no negative health impacts. Doesn't mean it's enjoyable or comfortable for everyone.

This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.

The property you are talking about is generally called "deniability" in the literature, whereas the GP is talking "verifiability" ie. being able to verify your own vote is cast cor…

Like most things, guessing and proving require vastly different efforts. In aviation, a few more orders of magnitude than most.

You’re overthinking it. “Country” is simply more ambiguous when used as an adjective. “F5 announces attack from country hackers” sounds silly and confusing.

I suspect they also empirically have less price-sensitivity on average, for a variety of reasons

As opposed to what we have now?

"Simple stochastic blob detection" is an abstraction. You write (or import) a function where the the gnarly logic lives and call `detectBlobs()`. "Use an abstraction" doesn't mean …

He didn't "do it", he was one voice among many astronomers who have been calling for a reclassification for years, the IAU voted and made the decision. It's a little silly calling …

…you realize this happened nine years ago, right?

Is it still trespassing if the door was unlocked? Yes. Not sure why so many people have trouble applying the same principles of unauthorized access to computers.

Perhaps they are optimizing for having plausible deniability/a fully fleshed out backstory in case they are questioned by eg. local cops or a security guard, moreso than inconspicu…

Please be complete if you’re gonna translate to American units. That’s 117,000 football fields per football game, or 325 per commercial.

Guessing these are the folks that can’t get work done because GPT is down…

Could definitely be a Monty Python sketch. "I looked inside the TV, there were NO quantum dots." "Well there's your problem right there - you've gone and collapsed the wave functio…

There is at least one area where ATtiny still outcompetes RP2040: low power consumption. Even in its lowest-power dormant state, 2040 still burns around 200uA, whereas the ATTiny c…

Also not that long ago electricity and clean drinking water weren't a thing. The fact that people can make a career as an artist now, and couldn't before, is something I'd consider…

Excitingly, the next version of Minecraft will have a single block (Copper Bulb) that effectively works as a redstone T-flip-flop! Previously it has always required a handful of ot…

Imagine scientists discovered colonies of ants that compose elaborate symphonies of music that they perform for each other. Two problems: they’re small, so the music is quiet. And …

Wow, Nuts and Volts Magazine! I’m impressed they’re still around. When I was a teenager I won a subscription at a combat robotics event and it was my favorite thing to read every m…

Unsurprisingly, the first 90% is a lot more fun than the "second 90%" (polishing)...

The “embodied energy” of a new tablet like a Steam Deck is estimated at roughly 1 GJ, which is ~275 kWh. Original Xbox draws around 100W, so you’d need to play for more than 2000 h…