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In most countries with universal healthcare, the universal healthcare provider plays a major role in preventive medicine, nudging people towards healthier lifestyles and influencin…

Bars, restaurants and supermarkets have glass fronted refrigerators and freezers the world over, and yes, most are double glazed. They're just less efficient and more likely to bre…

Sure, but if you are a business in the US, you might not be able to use it legally. And, through the US exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, businesses in Europe doing busines…

Your "development build" is another person's daily driver. Case in point: GrapheneOS (or any other custom Android distro) is unlikely to be able to ever pass remote attestation, ev…

I think you've misunderstood. It's not an app problem. The problem is that it makes Free Software OSes unviable. The copy of Android you compile and install yourself - or your copy…

That's the standard Piagetian understanding of child development, yes. Humans do not start out with theory of mind, and are thus inherently solipsistic, but in most cases an unders…

Then the slop merchants will simply move to controlling a DAW with AI and use the same software synths that everyone else does. It's a little more involved and slower, but far from…

I think Apple doesn't really have a choice. They've been very strongly encouraged by the current US government to move as much chip manufacturing to the US as possible, and particu…

It's not so much ripping off the designs - nothing of what Apple Silicon is doing is particularly surprising and both x86 and Intel's microarchitectures are sufficiently different …

Sure there's an analogue. It's being the tech lead of a team of junior to mid level developers. You design roughly what the solution should look like, split it into reasonable size…

Here's the neat thing: you don't. I've tried, and I feel like I've got closer with faster models, but ultimately the agentic loop excludes you. Even if you're asking the agent to d…

So why doesn't the mouse pointer work that way on an Apple trackpad? Surely if that's the case then when you move your finger to the upper left then the pointer should move to the …

Umm, you can do basically all of this, today, with Home Assistant and a handful of add-on apps. I use a local LLM with it, but you can use a hosted LLM if you like. The core home a…

> How did the UK and France solve it? Remove the fuel elements, reprocess what's useful, and store the reprocessed materials and nuclear waste somewhere "temporarily" that isn't re…

No need to bother maintainers, just package it up and upload it to the KDE store as a Plasma extension. Then it can appear for download in "Get New Widgets" in Plasma edit mode. Pl…

Window previews when switching are also a nice thing when doing heavy multitasking. There are a few things MacOS X inherited from classic MacOS that I don't think work that well in…

Sure you can do it technically, but then you have a licensing compliance issue, so no reputable business will do it. You can run x86 macOS VMs in Windows or Linux too with a little…

The problem with this is that "breaking the Nash equilibrium momentarily" is a spherical cow. "Momentarily" can mean years or even decades, and millions of people can suffer or die…

The problem is those self-same authoritarian strongmen are very successfully using sockpuppeting to change national discourses in ways that benefit them and are detrimental to the …

The point is that if you convert away from COBOL to a more modern language, you can also move away from Z-series hardware to commodity x86 and ARM servers. That's why this announce…

Not really, because only the OS core is swapped in this way. Apps and data live in their own partitions/subvolumes, which are mutable and shared between OS versions. The OS core is…

In British English, rather than "very not bad", you might say "not bad at all", which is higher praise than just "not bad".

I already run stuff that was very much not made with TBDR in mind, on TBDR GPU architectures, and the performance is perfectly fine. For sure, you can squeeze a few percentage poin…

Loads of GPUs with Vulkan support use TBDR. The Adreno GPU in the Steam Frame's SnapDragon SoC, for one. There is also a Vulkan driver for the M1/M2 GPU already, used in Asahi Linu…