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I'm not sure if you're reply hunting or we talk about different apps but how would you fit the Qt runtime, Javascript runtime, font cache, graphics, networking libraries, etc in th…

This is very _Huxleyan_. I feel disoriented and nauseous thinking about it, the feeling is stronger when I see the 3D models and the enthusiastic writing. There are all sorts of pe…

We use 400V in Europe (in the most modern infrastructure, probably since the early 2000s) and have roughly 1.7x the power of gas for cooking. Gas measures at around 4.5kW and the m…

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> "Attention is All You Need" came from Google It also came directly from the university of Toronto, and the university of Toronto seeded all American frontier labs (including Grok…

Yes, I understand. I wrote it in a too polemic and dismissive way but what I wanted to say is: - there's a type of "puritan" people that is outright against enjoyment (if not "dese…

I don't understand the unwarranted and ongoing care and enthusiasm for this category of e-waste that was forcibly put upon us. They came out in 2008, were sold until 2010, had lite…

That is extremely closely linked to lead, especially the ban on leaded gasoline

Monsieur, on Windows this problem was solved with a large development effort, that's why it goes unnoticed on you. Note that CPU level instruction emulation is literally the easies…

He says to use Reddit in the video! That was one of my takeaway messages.

It's funny that I watched this less than an hour ago, and I click on hackernews and bam it's #1 on the front page. Probably someone else must've also watched this in the past few h…

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerun... Scroll down to Gelernte Sprachen (=Languages being learned). The data of the Swiss Federal Bureau of Statistics conf…

Check my sibling comment for a photo link (M1); or here: https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-tea...

https://macmagazine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/18-tea... This image shows it best. The memory is on the same package as the SoC. (It's not on the motherboard.)

Thank you for the laughter! (I laughed out loud) This is a well executed joke, from the design to the shortness to the being on point to the abrupt punchlines when one looks at the…

This makes me think of two things: 1: Everything can be bought and sold in this economy, and all the large and weird machines we pass by in our lives have whole production lifecycl…

Snow Leopard even happened in the first place because Apple's A team was busy with iPhone, and iPhone has priority. You will see that during this era Mac OS X was relegated to step…

This is Russian, written in Latin characters.

The touch bar and the butterfly keyboard were the only Apple features in recent memory I ever hated. I hated them because they introduced them for (what felt like to me) anti-consu…

https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/postalhistory/aviat... Catapult mail service In the years immediately preceding Hindenburg (1928-1935), state of the art mail delivery serv…

Seriously what is this ugly engagement optimized LLM slop of an article doing here yet again on the HN front page? I love the Neo as much as any other enthusiast, so yes, the subje…

But how is your writing fast enough that you don’t pause and drown the hearing in your head?

Indeed!! MIPS - $zero RISC-V - x0 SPARC - %g0 ARM64 - XZR

Staff nationality of Swiss higher education institutions: - Universities: 55% Swiss, 45% foreign - Universities of applied sciences: 75% Swiss, 25% foreign - Universities of teache…

Honestly the only organization of the past few years to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. And I truly don’t mean this in any hyperbolic way, but believe that this organization has don…