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I think you're seeing the effects of Back/forward cache. https://web.dev/articles/bfcache

> undersea fiber-optic cables is that they need amplifiers every N kilometers Huh, I had no idea it needs to be done so frequently. > These days optical cable repeaters are photon …

> The Manjaro project is backed by Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, an open source driven company. I'm guessing it's more likely they are looking for investments and need to show some credib…

> south America and Europe they are all 16 or 32 for no clear reason I don't know where you're getting your data from but it's clearly wrong or outdated. These are the most often s…

Thank you for pointing this out.

Hmm, are the docs outdated then or are they talking about something else? > The Visual Studio Code Remote Development extensions and their related components use an open planning, …

..and is not even open source (EDIT: I'm wrong, see below). Zed's remote server on the other hand seems to be OSS. One could probably install it themselves without relying on the a…

Nonsense. People use ORMs because the vast majority of queries are trivial. If you need something the ORM doesn't provide sufficient control over, only then you move to raw queries…

Traffic is cheap and has been for years. Providers do not pay for the amount of sent/received data but rather a fixed price for capacity at peak and this fee can easily be absorbed…

> will that function also get to return a u8? No, the main function (the entry point of the entire program) is special cased. Have a look at the source code. There you can see it's…

> What I don't understand is the !void at the end of the declaration, if we're meant to be returning an int, surely !int would be the expected syntax (although I would prefer retur…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912354

> This does bring Chromium in line with the URL spec, but Firefox still works properly with those callback links. Not sure which other engines you are speaking of, to my knowledge …

For context this is indeed a breaking change but a change that brings Chromium in line with the URL spec and other engines. If your URLs are suddenly broken, it means they were inv…

> Although the tariffs did not win support from a majority of states, the opposition was not enough to block them – which would have required the objection at least 15 nations repr…

Maybe I'm missing something but why is the comparison table missing AMD Epyc 9684X (96/192) with a price of $14,756? Suddenly the price tag doesn't seem that outrages given the hig…

Looks like the descent into totalitarianism is going well.

> Do you know if the new updater is safer to use? I have no data on that. All software has bugs, the updater included.

Chrome uses Chromium Updater aka Omaha 4 on macOS.

The Nix language also doesn't need to exist. They want to write pure lazy declarative derivations - great, you can do that in any existing language. It's a matter of style and APIs…

> On https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/494 people unanimously agree that zfs native encryption is broken especially when sending or receiving raw encrypted zfs snapsho…

You might want to read the comment you're replying to again.