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Once I rented a car in Seattle one way to Vancouver. Apparently there is some shitburg nobody has ever heard of called Vancouver, WA but I was going to the more famous Canadian cit…

These are great but toward the end of the charge cycle they make a lot of high-pitched sounds.

Does 12000 windmills sound like a lot? Consider that we have 1.7 million oil wells in the USA alone.

The problem is that we need it to just barely break even and then a little bit more. Having a tremendously energetic fusion device is both useless and a solved problem: we already …

Can you elaborate? How are pointers to floats problematic? Or is it something else?

The steam cycle has to be up and running before sunrise so they can meet their generating obligations, so they have to ramp up with natural gas while it is still dark. The facility…

Note that they _do_ heat the plant with natural gas overnight, so there is a huge fire in there somewhere.

Just looks like high pressure sodium lights to me.

Which is a good reason to hedge and replicate but NOT a reason to alert on high CPU usage of single computers.

Could you mention which FAANG so I can avoid applying or a job there? Large-scale software systems _must_ be designed to serve through local resource exhaustion. If you are paging …

If you have "the database" then you're fucked anyway and probably your thing isn't on the scale that we are discussing.

Don't really agree that this list could have come about through discussions with engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. The more computers you have the less important it becomes to mo…

5G is too new for that but there was a decade-long study in which they blasted mice and rats with ridiculous EM fields similar to 2G/3G technology but at much higher power, and the…

Just FYI the completion results in the omnibox have little to do with the search engine results. Clearly the search engine produces millions of hits for “Hillary Clinton emails”. T…

Uh no. Google has hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real non-virtual assets, majority of which are in the USA.

Sometimes sites get dropped from the results because they are malware hosts. It’s more likely to happen to small independent sites. They are also more likely to just pack it up and…

I recall being told at one time that the great majority of youtube uploads are never watched even by the person who uploaded them. This fact figures prominently into how they decid…

Isn't there something extremely wrong about the math in this blerg? Surely 12 million hectares produces a lot more than 20 tonnes of grain annually. Did they mean 20 tonnes per hec…

Most of California agriculture is engaged in extracting fossil fertility that came from the ocean. Salmon runs -> bear poop -> soil for thousands of years. We killed all the bears …

Interesting! Terminator 2 used the Atari Portfolio as the portable computer with hackerly qualities.

I see tiny has been redefined. Doesn’t anyone remember when there were 6” subnotebooks in the vaio catalog?

Zen 1 (Naples) had all kinds of problems including that frequency scaling would hang the machine. It seems wise to not buy the VERY first Zen 2 rig.

That is literally xterms on phones. That is not amazing to me.

Strava presents a derivation of data provided by Garmin. They don't just use it raw. It is snapped to roads and the elevation data is cleaned up and so forth.