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It's still part of the instruction to increment it by one, as opposed to write a value or offset to it, as jump instructions do.

They're also the target of a lot of campaigning, so politicians promise to give them even more services and fewer taxes.

Yeah, but then the elderly population will start shrinking, which will cause a myriad of disruptions.

Again, that's less than the surface area needed for the solar panels, and the body of the satellite itself is included in that. As far as satellite design goes, the thermal design …

They didn't mention it, because it's barely an inconvenience. Why does everyone seem to think it's super difficult? It's really easy to keep things cool in space. Radiant cooling i…

There was during the dot com bubble in 2000 and 2001, especially in California, where there also happened to be a power shortage and rolling blackouts.

GTK is probably the worst of the bunch, and Tk is the most underrated. Everything looks bad on macOS, because Cocoa's API isn't as stable or well documented as Microsoft's DirectWr…

You'll probably still get plenty of smirks, smiles, and silent chuckles. OpenCV or a similar machine vision system should be able to pick those out from a webcam aimed at a reviewe…

I've had great experiences with most every large corporation I've chosen to deal with, from suppliers like Toyota with their cars and Perrigo with their pharmaceuticals to distribu…

A paper factory, on the other hand, smells like barf and has huge vats of chemicals that will dissolve you. It probably uses also more power than a data center, at a much worse pow…

I used to work two lots down from one. I wouldn't notice at all if it was next to my house. The only way to distinguish it from any other business in the office park was the slight…

I think Hanlon's razor applies here. When executive agencies have separate bodies for investigation than enforcement (e.g. the NTSB, independent of the FAA and NHTSA, and the CSB, …

There's two things going on here. Most people don't report their illnesses, especially minor ones. The people that did report their illness trigger an investigation that then hunts…

It doesn't help that they were getting mixed signals from the FDA. The further up you go, the worse it gets.

I do like living and working in buildings, using computers, refrigeration systems and transit infrastructure, getting medical care, and eating cooked food, so I think building thin…

Cross-platform widget engines (Tk, GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, etc…) long predate Electron and have always been robust, stable, well documented, and easy to use. It's not creating a single…

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It's a really good billboard. I know someone that runs a sign printing and wrapping company, and he bought one to advertise his business. It has a lot of flat, easily legible surfa…

There was a construction site near me that had a Cybertruck in the parking lot during work hours. Granted, construction workers don't necessarily use their personal trucks for work…

Can you also measure how often the LLM response makes people laugh? Sometimes the responses that aren't attempting a joke are the funniest, and I'd be more interested in stats of w…

Reddit of ten years ago focused on connecting users with the ideal user to communicate with. Modern Reddit focuses on connecting users with the ideal piece of information to read. …

Why write working software once, when you can make an entire career out of constantly refactoring a new broken mess?

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Rather, they're in a somewhat precarious position. Almost all of their revenue is from phones and the services that are tied to those phones, which perform better as a lifestyle pr…

I do have stable diffusion running on a non-Nvidia GPU, so I'm familiar with the manner of rituals required before contemplating installing system updates or even suspending the sy…