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I'm pretty sure most portable ACs sold in Europe these days are R290 (propane) which has a GWP of about 1/14th of CO2, so for those that's no longer much of a concern.

I do the same as the poster above, fastmail supports it directly and makes it very easy to manage. All you have to do is bring your own domain (they'll even manage your DKIM/SPF re…

> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak. This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countrie…

NIST does not refuse hybridization, they will be publishing guidance on hybrid schemes in the draft of SP 800-227 at the same time as the final standards. They don't impose it thou…

Huh, that's somewhat surprising given bergamot fruit is not all that expensive. We may be spoiled in the UK but you can buy Earl Grey with real bergamot oil for a reasonable price …

I've even seen buskers in London with a machine set up so you can tap your card to tip. Edit: apparently this was a thing even back in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/m…

Generally recycling aluminium is incredibly cheap, especially if it's just a solid block without the regular potential contaminants, although I don't know what specific alloy they'…

There's a throwaway comment in here about the earth's magnetic field affecting CRTs and turning the TV upside down, is that actually true? I would have thought the earth's magnetic…

Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.

I'm not sure how OrbStack does it, but it can run a fully x64 Linux using Rosetta with quite good performance.

I regularly use Orbstack to develop for x64 Linux (including kernel development). It works transparently as an x64 linux command line that uses Rosetta under the hood, so performan…

RCS has no end-to-end encryption in the standard, though. That's a non-standard google messages extension. I think a better example would be the cross-device messengers like signal…

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-10-06-new-analysis-shipping-e... is the most recent example I can think of, not being an expert in the field.

If you mean RCS, end-to-end encryption is not part of the standard, it is a non-standard extension supported only by the google messages app https://support.google.com/messages/ans…

Traffic restrictions are not part of the "15 minute city" initiatives. I think they are often confused because of Oxford's traffic filter scheme. As the article you link says, tyin…

Canada doesn't let anyone in? Over a fifth of their population was born outside of Canada. Edit: Actually over a quarter.

Notably it does bound the energy of gamma rays over long distances (as the higher the energy the more likely it will annihilate with other photons along the way.) The wikipedia art…

The more recent 4 bit quantizations are almost along these lines. Q4_1 in ggml for example takes a block of 32 weights and gives each block a scaling factor 'd' and takes the minim…

QEC implies phase error correction (if you don't care about phase errors you could just use a classical error correction code). A 'logical qubit' refers to an abstraction layer tha…

You can run it on either now (for example, MochiDiffusion allows you to pick https://github.com/godly-devotion/MochiDiffusion#compute-uni... ). Anecdotally, the GPU seems to be fas…

You neither need an app nor do you need to unlock your phone in order to use it for the ticket gates on the tube. Perhaps older phones need to be unlocked? I use my phone exclusive…