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I do not know the details of Apple's file system, but I wouldn't be surprised if it needs to allocate space for the log (journal) and can't do so. That isn't reasonable in the sens…

Rutile is used in refractory bricks and the import was of the ore mineral. So not completely unbelievable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutile#Application

Due to that convoluted life cycle, we are not sure why the population is declining drastically. The numbers of young eels arriving in Europe in recent years is only 10% what it was…

Another article on the same topic from a year ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-can-ant-an...

No-one else mentioned it, so I might suggest punched tape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape There is always a trade-off between mass, durability, and data density. I know…

I don't think that would explain the difference. Using a quick look at https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_totaldeaths I see covid deaths as: 2019 : 0 2020 : 361,236 2…

This is moderately common for environments where you are pushing a lot of startup work into the dynamic linker and will be launching processes frequently. Loading shared libraries …

> But it seems odd that they wouldn't at least save a LUT relating the shortened and expanded variable name. BASIC implementations based on Microsoft BASIC store tokenized program …

Yes. Nearly everything about vehicles has US federal and state regulation. Headlight regulations being stricter in the US are why US versions of European cars up until about the 19…

> (Empress probably) Augustus' parents were not emperor/empress--he was the first person to have that title.

> no free as in freedom C++ or Objective-C compiler G++ was available in 1990. I don't recall when Objective C became available in GCC, but it was present in at least gcc-2.2.2 in …

Actually, there is already a standard way for someone to type these with the control key. To be specific, they are: FS: ^\ GS: ^] RS: ^^ US: ^_ Since these delimiters are not much …

> Not only is it what they intended, it is what they explicitly wrote into law as the definition You are correct, of course. I don't think however this is as crazy as it seems at a…

tar was designed for tape, so you can specify a volume size for the output and it will break it's output into segments of that size. Using split isn't required. The options in gnu …

This made me wonder how long since I had last logged into HN. About that long, though I had commented before that.

I'm guessing, but since in other contexts metals are used as a catalyst to decompose HOOH I suspect that it protects your hands from direct exposure. This would release a lot of he…

> Interesting how nearly all the sites are so darned close to the shore. Most of the sites do not have a known location. Or at least, not known to the people producing the map. Cli…

I tend to do this in my C programs because in development usually have malloc() wrapped so that if any block hasn't been free()'ed it's reported at exit() time. This kind of check …

I remember reading about it at the time. As I recall, some units had gotten in before the majority were seized. I have a CD32 ( complete with an SX-1 ) in my garage that likely was…

Amusingly, I had exactly the same idea and registered a domain intending to create a site doing this as well. I then promptly kept working on my day job until 4am, so haven't done …

> Also, that Amazon EULA is quite strange. You aren't allowed to "synchronize" the music file you bought? Actually, "synchronize" in copyright has nothing to do with copying a file…