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They used to make BD-Rs using this technology, but switched to a cheaper (supposedly not as long lasting) method without any change in branding. It was a minor scandal among dataho…

You don't drive in the Eurotunnel

Neither athletic nor scholastic performance are objective measures. Sports are contests of arbitrary skills, that on the highest level require time intensive and expensive commitme…

Kasparov also believes this to be true, but the last example I can recall of top level player teaming up with a computer was in 2014, when Nakamura played exhibition match with eng…

Europe has more both land area and population than the US, in what way is it "a small place compared to the US"?

Am I taking food off other people's plate when I manually skip ads in podcasts I'm listening to? Do people who change channels on TV when ads start steal? Is it theft to toss ad in…

For many devices it wouldn't be "pain in the ass", it would be straight up impossible. There are millions of devices, like smart TVs, that are out of support and don't receive upda…

I have a gut feeling, that person responsible for those hacks might be working for or at least informing US gov about his actions in advance. Him talking so openly to a major news …

Anyone who knows how to setup that RPi to do anything meaningful knows how to spoof mac

Well, update process taking couple of days is it's own kind of nightmare. And it wasn't my personal machine so it would've been unreasonable for me to do so.

I did 16.04 to 20.04 through 18.04 and it was a nightmare, it would've been faster to do fresh install.

I feel like there might be something different or subtler at play here. I do not get spooked by scary tales, and I have never enjoyed them. But I have perfectly good visualization …

Rue La Fayette in Paris is quite an important street, next to Gare du Nord, and is a part of Haussmann's renovation

Arguably, the short scale, not the long scale used in Ireland is obtuse. 12 zeroes for billion and 18 zeroes for trillion, 24 for quadrillion etc is 6 n where n is numerical value …

Ah yes, COVID-19, technical name for a respiratory disease, totally in the same category as Gestapo

Because there's no serious competitor, and many (most?) creators rely on other revenue streams than YouTube ads

Allied bombings of Germany began in 1939, the information is even present in the Wikipedia link you provided. V-2 launches against Allies started in September 1944, well after comm…

It's still a good read, not only as a historical artifact, but also because many of the criticisms still apply to the spiritual descendant of Unix, Linux. It's funny to see that 20…

He doesn't speak, read or write Chinese and has been caught manipulating, confabulating and straight up lying multiple times. He is a Christian fundamentalist, and has described ot…

Oh come on, it's another piece of Adrian Zenz disinformation

There are even manual deployments https://youtu.be/-hutA7In7GA

It's not that far off from the truth

AWS is nowhere near big enough to be treated as utility, there are heaps of alternatives, big cloud providers (Azure, GCP, Oracle), hundreds of smaller cloud hosts, then there is s…

I'd wager that DDG results are skewed towards tech, since it's mostly tech people who use it.