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Is it just me, or the article structure and subtitles feel very AI?

Thanks for linking Arcan, looks interesting. After a quick scan, Arcan seems to be pushing a microkernel approach, with some clients providing display server capabilities and other…

Wayland design choices are heavily influenced by automotive and TV where it has been industry standard way before it became mostly usable as a desktop. And that has lead to design …

I'm not following the logic why contrails cause net warming. Why nuclear blasts - that also introduce lots of particles in atmosphere cause a cooling effect - "nuclear winter"?

This is what Chrome OS does, works pretty well IMHO.

The NAT firewalls do not like P2P UDP traffic. Majoritoy of the routers lack the smarts to passtrough QUIC correctly, they need to treat it the same as TCP essentially.

Possible. Depends how the contract is structured, they may be able to claw back some money from Aerojet. Boeing still takes all the blame.

The minimum run time of a tread before it's potentially preempted when load is high is computed based on number of cores available giving more time when there are more cores since …

Bicycles fail safe unless a wheel falls off or both brakes fail simultaneously. Balancing onewheelers - if the control or power system fails, you immediately go down, hard. And sin…

There is a significant overap - fuel up, find the restroom, grab some snacks. EV chargers have the benefits of being cheap, take little space, and permitting is raesonably simple. …

That GPU firmware is generally just a blob that has never been open sourced. The driver is the part that talks to the GPU, not the OS that runs inside the GPU. Unless I'm mistaken …

I suspect the part that is failing is not the connector itself, but rather a controller chip somewhere upstream. Given the skills you could def DIY repair it for cheaper, the high …

For most use cases shortest path is super simple and fast problem on modern PCs. So might be useful on extra large synthetic networks. Neural nets?, Trading logs?, Image processing…

This. Also the bigger the company is, the less the long term loyalty and people are generally there for the money. So top performers will get moving quickly.

Opportunity to generate cheap hydrogen?

Let me argue from the other end. The incident happened, which is obv not good. What where the causes? How can we prevent this from happening again? What do other high profile peron…

That sounds very wrong. Not a physicist, but light does not interact with magnets, or you need to get into the superconducting strength levels before it does. https://en.m.wikipedi…

DOS programs loaded fast, since there was around 1MB of working memory. Granted they did not do much, but where responsive, except when needed to do real compute, then you just wai…

The accuracy figures in TA are kinda low - 99.7 for the top one, averaging out at 98.5%. Anyone has some idea what is this measuring? Bit accuracy (way too low)? A full disk read 1…

I think GP means prefect or nothing - it errors out if not able to get a valid read. Regular error correction + checksum is a pretty solid implementation of that.

Tried ground elevation, seems to be broken. All buildings started floating hundreds of meters above the still flat terrain.

And switch to metric units while we're at it.

I still remember the days when we hand billion dollar lawsuits over 20 lines of code (Oracle vs Google). If CoPilot makes everyone see how ridiculous that is, that's a win in my bo…

The subpoena is issued by a judge for a pending case, you can either fight it by submitting an opposing motion or be held in contempt of court which in this case is pretty much a l…

Sure, here is your Lego set. But do not put while bricks next to red ones or it will explode!