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NESQUEHONING, Pa. - The company that owns a Carbon County power plant is being sued by a group of nearly 100 residents who live near the plant. They claim the plant is burning rubb…

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Seems like a borderline conspiracy to fry the internal SSD over time, adding a wear-point to the product family, and making sure consumers keep consuming. I'm talking about system …

They thought they were going to mine cryptocurrency here during off-peak hours, if anybody is wondering why an energy company casually owns a huge datacenter. edit: guilty of 1) no…

They do it so that the consumer can't price match nor return swap from one retailer to another. The model number ultimately becomes a type of trace to reveal which retailer sold th…

One could argue that the iPad is the reinvention we don't need. Here's my loadout: iPad Air 5 (big box sale), Pencil 2 (post xmas open-box sale, you bet), Zagg Rugged Book (eBay). …

Asking the real questions, thanks.

Yeah, it's called a party. Their office probably blows through $30k of party supplies in a week.

I'm probably in the university library most weekends scanning books into my fine-tuned LLM. Y'all can enjoy the trash, I've had enough.

Unfortunately, there is not enough demand for knowledgable humans, to keep up with the overwhelming supply. Typical universe. I've run out of sympathy for those who can't distingui…

If you think about it... * they had halls of human computers 100 years ago * they had halls of humans using computers a few years ago so what is next?

I mean, AI's (robots) weld on assembly lines. It's all about the context. They do have indoor assembly line welding robots. But, they don't have welding robots for outdoor, ground-…

Thank you for this excellent example, which I'll be using when defending my unpopular opinion that Occam's razor is nonsense.

This advice checks out: at home, I have the WiFi 5 Google-pods "mesh network" with five pods (this is a larger house). Economy of scale does take a generation or two to get behind …

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Guns. Guns happened.

Thanks for reminding us about this. Also another reminder, for everybody throwing a lasso around everything and hating on it, you're actually upset with the bureaucracy (which cont…

> (For some extra “entropy”, by the way, snapdiff also takes the file size into consideration when comparing files.) I get what you mean by "entropy", but wouldn't it be more direc…

This is why I read the comments before the article, and this is one of the rare exceptions where I've posted prior to reading an article.

Yes, no surprise that a standard won the battle, over several competing choices. That seems to happen a lot.

Right, it seems the U.S. economy is trying to say, "making elementary machine tools is beneath us." The important bit is at the end: the U.S. is still a top buyer of machine tools …