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Minimal. I'm behind Cloudflare and 90% of the traffic is still scrapers. I don't think they're serious about the long tail. I think the main thing Cloudflare is trying to do is blo…

That's not really true? Housing in depopulating / depopulated areas can be easily 5-10x cheaper than in premium metro regions. In picturesque locations, there's upward price pressu…

All silicon capacitors are relatively expensive, they're specialty parts that generally go into expensive things (mmWave airport scanners, optical backhaul, etc).

No, not if you want 22 nF. That's a pretty substantial capacitance. It would need to be quite big on a PCB. That would mean significant inductance, and thus, bad performance at hig…

This is, without exaggeration, probably the fiftieth blog post or long-form comment about how someone is using an LLM for "complex learning", and I'd just really like to see at lea…

You truly envision a future where every program is written in a custom programming language, for a custom operating system, for a single user who will now be in charge of understan…

What? No. Plants colonize new areas in complex succession sequences that require hundreds of years to play out. It might start with grasses, then shrubs, then dense stands of trees…

It gets little use in the sense that only a small fraction of vulnerabilities are reported there, and there are very few non-advisory discussions (often by the same 2-3 people). It…

First - and I know this is immaterial - there's something sad about the announcement being clearly 100% AI-generated and then bemoaning AI and calling for a renewed human connectio…

So how many conjectures have you proved in your spare time?... As the old joke goes, a mechanic charges you $5 for hitting it with a wrench and $495 for knowing what and where to h…