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Excessive xylitol consumption causes digestive problems, yes.

> Is there some limitation that WASM has that JS doesn't? You need a JS trampoline to call your WASM and make browser primitives available to it, and IIRC calls into browser code i…

I suspect partitioned tables would be great for this - with a stored procedure to create partitions on-demand, you could split tasks up by date-range and type, and then drop the ol…

And... wolves? https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy....

Equating someone not wanting you on their website with tyranny sure is a take. You’re welcome to host it at your own venue. Or , I guess, to keep whining that you’re not being give…

Debians apt repositories come to mind.

Among _many_ other things, 3 degrees Celsius globally means more evaporation over oceans, which makes the air denser. Denser air carries more momentum, which means more frequent (a…

> I don't know how it's really used in the wild, so to speak. Commit signing primarily exists because linux kernel development happens via email, which isn't a secure channel. In t…

... you're getting the agent to sign commits for you without manual intervention?

I've been doing it just fine on macOS for awhile now. What's challenging about it?

These days, a one-off PCB is dirt cheap. They’ll provide and solder the components for you, for less money than you could buy them to do it yourself.

“encodes video at 640MB/s” is the common way for codec authors to talk about performance

"Economic migration" is a (usually derogatory) term for moving into a country to earn more money, with no desire to adapt to the culture of your new home.

I mean, "no microprocessor" means no engine designed in the past 30 years, because the fuel pump needs one. "No antenna/modem I can't readily remove" might be _slightly_ more achie…

I think it aligns incentives way better (but is almost impossible to set up).

At the scale DCs are operating at, losses from flexible tubing are not negligible either. 1gw of power converts approx 400 liters of cold water into steam _per second_.

In terms of severity, Chernobyl was a long way from the worst case. If the core had melted down to a body of water, the steam flash could have vaporized it & ejected it high into t…

> even an old one My overlocker was made in West Germany (when that was a country), and is still going strong. Threading was a bit tricky the first few times, but the manual is rea…

I'd make a stronger claim: there is (today) _no such thing_ as a "neutral observer". Our state of mind is a product of our own senses and experiences; we can't hope to comprehend 1…

Okay that’s super interesting and I would love to see an example or writeup - I have a project which would benefit from being able to do that.

The confusion is, in part, because one of the functional underpinnings of capitalism is “make a bet” as a method of allocating resources. Those whose bets paid off didn’t “earn” th…

It is, but… you’ve seen the marketing material being put out? “AGI is just around the corner and could destroy humanity if we don’t solve alignment” is something AI leadership at m…

Js modules don’t work on file urls (classic js does).

Those provisions would broadly be civil (not criminal); the vendor would have to identify you had reversed the blob and then take you to court, and then win. They could also try fo…

Thanks!