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I agree - however, that has mostly been a feeling for me for years. Things feel fast enough and fine. This page is a nice reminder of the fact, with numbers. For a while, at least,…

As the newcomer to the, very entrenched, block, I think the memristor has a lot of momentum to overcome. In a EE undergrad (2007, so it has been a bit) we spent plenty of time unde…

Keyoxide and similar are a great way to establish and verify identity across a variety of platforms, and are open to more than just journalists. https://keyoxide.org/

Tiddlywiki is fun and useful- especially in environments where they don't let you run anything other than webpages...

And to the kids I say - you can make a videogame. That was always compelling to me, although I knew I'd never be a game developer professionally.

Programming a computer is a way of thinking. It in some ways involves the same thinking as determining how to break down a mechanical manufacturing process, or parts of team manage…

And that the person making these inquiries is a, "founding member of the House Freedom Caucus"? (Thanks @finite_jest for the news article https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/te…

A bit of a follow on from an earlier article: Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-gov…

You should have asked the other patrons.

Ok - I like this for some use cases. To restate my understanding so you can tell me I'm wrong if I am: I think that it's still the user's job to make sure that they are skeptical o…

I can see how then a journalist source could use this to help prove their integrity. And I like that as a solution for that... But - I don't really see that as the issue today. Tho…

But this only works if all views of the images employ your client... If I download an image (screenshot if necessary), modify it, and host it myself, how does the system work then?…

In this scenario, it would almost certainly have to be that manufacturers would have to build cameras that cryptographically sign the images and videos. The cameras would have to b…

"Once it works properly, you won't need to spend anything at all on marketing... people will flock to it in droves." I agree. However this really remains to be seen. If Waymo got e…

Recent relevant XKCD. Average Familiarity. https://m.xkcd.com/2501/

'All three statements using "because" are counterfactual.' No - the definition the article refers to is this: adjective - relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not …

Sure. "I'm tired because - I stayed up all night playing games", or, "I'm tired - because my child screamed all night long," are more along the lines of what the post suggests are …

All of the higher level systems map down to something very low level, like a syscall or writing to a specific memory address in a specific pattern. The layers of abstraction betwee…

In a cop show, they'd bust everyone they could with the info they have. Then they'd say something publicly like, "the work is only starting", to make the folks they can't bust nerv…

This was my first time seeing it - looks like there's a small community around it. Their website lists two hosting providers now...

Thanks for that - I haven't tried it there... Yup - single file operation was a design goal, but I bet there's a better way to get it working than the hack I used.

There are a few versions of tools like this, or similar, available. Here's mine: https://kc0bfv.github.io/WASM-PDF-Combiner/ I used existing wasm compiles of PDF tools. This use of…

I used a ShivaPlug and part of it melted. I was glad when I had planned for that by putting it on a low risk surface - it came with a cord option, and I was using that partly becau…