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The original impetus was more about banning robotaxis in Boston/MA than it is about the actual bargaining, from what I've heard. Just as the teamsters tried to ban cars to protect …

Don't we just call these out-of-tree patches? Lots of those for Linux lying about, it's not a new idea. I guess the difference is that they have multiple upstreams, so really they'…

This kind of talent is ... not rare at all? And pretty easy to find too, just wander around the hallways at a major academic systems conference or hang around the kernel mailing li…

Engineering is about tradeoffs -- are the resources invested in improving a system worth the return of said improvement? We know full well how to build bridges that will last a tho…

> Besides the option to pay in naira, these companies allow Nigerians to store their data within the country — an advantage most of their Western rivals lack. Local servers give bu…

Character meshes were taking up 1GB? I wonder what surprising (to me, a non-gamedev) things are hiding in modern 100GB+ games...

"I would never buy a $200 ticket, therefore there does not exist a taylor swift ticket worth $200" As you point out, different people have different price elasticities. Is it so ha…

> MacBook Air with M2 and M3 comes standard with 16GB of unified memory, and is available in midnight, starlight, silver, and space gray, starting at $999 (U.S.) and $899 (U.S.) fo…

I don't work in networking, but seeing as most traffic is encrypted these days, does passing through unfriendly hardware matter as much as back in the days of plaintext everything?…

With educational pricing this thing starts as $500, and at 16GB of RAM (finally) I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom bu…

Smartwatches are poor estimators of energy expenditure of exercise: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-wearabl... The same authors publish regular research review…

There's 200k weekly downloads of node on npm. A million flutter devs means that there's a comparable amount of node devs to flutter. I'm not sure how else to estimate it, but there…

> For the group of seven metal detectorists who discovered the 2,584 silver pennies in the Chew Valley area, about 11 miles south of the city of Bristol, it marks a lucrative windf…

I think a helpful analogy here for the non-chinese is recalling the names of pieces of music from hearing a short part and vice versa. I'm classically trained, and in my circles I …

> I assume you can draw a few strokes to "get someone started" on a character and they'll pick it up In my experience this is not actually the case; I can usually remember a few pa…

The interesting thing here is that nobody writes chinese one character at a time with pinyin; you almost always type out an entire phrase in pinyin, and usually there's only one me…

I'm not familiar with UI development at all, but I'm kind of amazed that the old solution of a giant async bridge where the renderer enqueued native function calls worked at all. W…

Former employee here; the interesting (horrifying?) fact is that you can set some of these internal headers (I remember a notable bug with cf-cache-status) in workers (the serverle…

The state of the art these days is https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS It's an implementation of the minecraft server that compiles redstone into a graph representation, and then does …

The thing that got me into CS was building a CPU in Minecraft redstone, which is surprisingly good at being a logic simulator. You only got (back in my day) NOT (the torch) and OR …

Many government websites use Entrust, and that didn’t stop this from happening. So I don’t think that this is a good theory.

Sharpe ratios are not equal across different opportunities for the simple reason that actors are irrational. Many people write books even when the expected return is negative, whic…

My understanding is that eink only uses power on refresh; if you don’t change the image, the pigments remain where they are and draw no power.