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> Provide Access to Clean Water ??? We don't need any AI for this. Start with separated sewage/wastewater and stormwater drains. Then accredited and highly scrutinised wastewater t…

I got 30 GB back on a 256 GB hard disk drive. It was amazing.

Vista wasn't garbage. In fact, Vista and 7 precisely parallel Leopard and Snow Leopard both in timelines and in release quality—a somewhat rushed, haphazard release of a new OS wit…

Borrow from the late 1990s upstart GC languages: Pointer .

PowerShell needs to become more ubiquitous. There are so many things about it that once considered in greater detail make so much sense. Parameter setup, typing, and naming. Flow c…

I find that Claude does this much more than other models. GPT, for instance, knows I'm on Windows running PowerShell, and writes very idiomatic PowerShell. But maybe that's because…

India has had ICBMs for decades now.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni-V?wprov=sfla1

Thanks; this is much more concise than I could manage. I think the key idea is fixed minimum/maximum boundaries for a lot of astrophysical phenomena—stellar protium fusion, the Cha…

This reminds me a lot of https://ciechanow.ski , down to the body typeface. (IBM Plex Sans?) Also, the SI units everywhere here make me beam. Thank you :)

Not necessarily. Most desktop OS compositors provide a void** buffer that can be blitted to. Sure, this buffer will probably end up going through the compositor which does GPU hard…

There's really a lot to unpack here. (I rewrote this response thrice...) To spoil the answers straight away, and perhaps to address some misconceptions upfront: > If a brown dwarf …

Even within stars the layman labels are a bit iffy; it is better to use the stellar classification. 'Dwarf' is badly overused, as is 'giant'.

I'm clearly super old-school when it comes to rasterisation, and a lot of this has flown above my head. I have a ton of questions; I hope you can answer them. > (1) discard (fast b…

Yes; I was under the impression that from context it was clear what I was talking about. In astrophysics, to avoid precisely this confusion, the convention is to use the adjective …

Worth noting that the artist's impression is... not accurate. Both CD-35 2722 b (the brown dwarf orbiting the primary star) and CD-35 2722 b I (the exomoon orbiting the secondary) …

The definition of a brown dwarf is that there is enough heat and compression for deuterium and/or lithium fusion, but not protium fusion. The exact model limit is unclear, but the …

The situation is very different on Macs. Apple control almost the entire hardware stack of the machines that macOS runs on. They make it an absolute pain in the neck to run any app…

> There’s still a world of difference between a MacBook touchpad and a windows one Oddly I've found otherwise (Dell Precision notebook from 2021, and Surface Laptop). It might be m…

> It's Windows Update that's installing LG crapware upon seeing relevant hardware IDs This is also a misrepresentation. Microsoft has provided LG with a certificate to sign its dri…

> Another win for the Linux security model I swear, OSs have become sports teams. Linux's 'security model’ has plenty of holes. The very fact the kernel and much of its user-mode i…

> There are still differences between PDFs in different viewers Most obvious when viewing PDFs in Adobe Reader versus in Chrome's built-in viewer. The former has subpixel anti-alia…

I should've specified USB audio interfaces, which do have gain and stuff like loopback. I'm very glad the Realtek tray program has fallen by the wayside, what an annoying bit of cr…

Windows does plenty of 'advanced work'. Almost all video games are written primarily on and for Windows. > In my experience, most of the advanced work is done on Linux nowadays Tha…