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Some providers do what imo is a best of both worlds approach here: Every customer has a full fiber run to the PoP, but there they use GPON to save on the active components. The act…

That matches my observation on Windows 11. Looking at wireshark while doing the resolution I see the following: Normal queries never use the the suffix. nslookup does, which the re…

That's what I tried to capture with the "at the population level" restriction. Plomin was quite clear that for the individual all bets are off so sorry if it sounded like the envir…

I recently read the book "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin and it it was quite the eye opener as to how much the nature vs nurture debate seems to have been…

In my mind the even bigger questions is whether it being "cheaper" will stay true once we actually try to scale the use of the technology. As in can we use this to actually produce…

Afaik you can still configure it this way in Pro and higher skews using the group policy editor. And it's not like they didn't try the "asking the user" thing before. It's just tha…

They do raise this in their discussion part: "Fourth, vaccines are only active while pathogens are inside hosts, but drugs can remain active in environmental reservoirs [89], sugge…

You must not be able to prove who you voted for. Otherwise you are still at risk of retaliation, coercion and can sell your vote. For the very same reasons the government must not …

There is https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ which is also based on PyPI downloads and is more recent.

Never considered the sarcasm and social critique in that movie to be all that subtle. "Would you like to know more?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFuaYA-daw ). Loved the movi…

I must be missing some communication medium / tracker reference or is the information listed in the code-review really all there is on this change? Full commit message: "Tweak RNG.…

I was pretty impressed by the mixed native/python debugging capabilities in PTVS ( https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/wiki/Mixed-Mode-Debugging ). It's really handy to be able to ju…

Optimizing compilers.

At the very top you'll probably have to search very hard to find a sport that is actually good for your health. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnQyI3Mgbc is a great documentary o…

I have actually though about a boiled down client with baked in default configuration before. I wasn't considering business applications though but was thinking about the use in po…

Mumble core developer here. Glad to hear Mumble is useful to you and your coworkers. Always nice to get positive feedback. If anyone has question about the software or the project …

The header compression in HTTP 2.0 isn't based on gzip or something like that. The CRIME attack pretty much killed those approaches dead. It's more akin to differential updates for…

For more information about container shipping I highly recommend this omega tau podcast episode: http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/04/146-container-shipping/