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> allthough one would think they'd get 0% alcohol related cancers I assume "alcohol related" in this context means that alcohol consumption increases the risk for those types of ca…

Perhaps a reference to Pangea Proxima? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Proxima Life might very well exist on earth even through those conditions, but not to the extent we hav…

Unreliable as in noisy in a way that I could not fix with temporal averaging. I tried to guide a robot arm to pick up the top object in a bag of evenly colored objects, but RealSen…

I've tried to use Intel RealSense in the past but found the output to be unreliable. I had much better results with Chronoptics KEA: https://www.chronoptics.com/products/kea

Is "ateljé" (meaning art studio) really the correct Swedish translation here? I suspect "etta" (meaning one-room apartment) would be more suitable.

Unfortunately sometimes even experienced people make mistakes that a recent graduate should not do (but in practice sometimes does). AI models can help avoid mistakes that in hinds…

Domesticated cats survive so well in the wild that they have eradicated several other animal species: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-stagg...

Privacy is a safety concern. If some government agency can control your car remotely, chances are that others also will find a way to do that.

Integers are simple to parse, but from_chars is a great improvement when parsing floats. It's more standardized on different platforms than the old solutions (no need to worry abou…

Rust was created at Mozilla and currently 11.7% of the Firefox source code is in Rust: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ That's down from 12.49% at the peak in July 2020 so…

Roughly the same as the difference between a country and a business.

I assume the charter issued by the king in 1347 declared limitations of liability for the owners of the company.

Stora Enso has 20000 employees and roots in the 13th century. In the 17th centry Stora produced two thirds of all copper in the world. "The oldest preserved share in the Swedish co…

This and possibly unknown similar flaws is a good reason for not advertising ssh: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnera...

Don't most websites send passwords in plaintext for login and rely on the connection being HTTPS for having any security at all? I don't like that, but seems to be very common, so …

Indeed, not many facts in that article. For example it claims that "Estonia is unique in the amount of land still covered in trees" (50%), and yet that is only 5th highest in Europ…

In southernmost Sweden, just above Germany, solar production is only 5% in December compared to June. In northernmost Sweden the sun doesn't even rise above the horizon for most of…

Prices were high two years ago, but that is no longer the case. A lot of solar power came online last year. Currently the price is negative: https://www.eon.se/el/elpriser/aktuella…

GeForce Now works great. I subscribed for a while to play Cyberpunk 2077 on a remote 4080 and it felt like playing on a local computer. But with much higher settings and framerate …

Interesting that electricity prices are so different than in southern Sweden even though the distance to Germany is less than 100 km and our grids are somewhat connected. Here in s…

I assume it could be or is part of link time optimization when compiling an application rather than a library?

I used to get nausea when playing Doom in the nineties, it never got better. But I never get nausea from fps games with slower movement. I suspect the problem with Doom is how quic…

Isn't sun burn damage and nuclear reactor damgage the same type but at different magnitudes? If your skin becomes red and hot a few hours after being exposed to the sun it's becaus…