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Oil, natural gas, corn (for fuel), soybeans (for cattle feed)

The length of a noon-to-noon day (synodic day) varies from +29.9 seconds near the winter solstice to −21.3 seconds near the autumnal equinox[1]. If you account for the seasonal cha…

From the bubble center plot, I'm guessing that the bubbles are separated on average about a few mm apart? Taking the other comment's guess at face value, you're going from about 2 …

This is old (2025). Fortune links to a BBC article, which doesn't really provide any more detail about the testing conditions. I wonder if rubbing a bar of soap on your windows wou…

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740

I still don't understand why programmers seemed to get off on this sort of shit. Doing `while(( dest++ = src++));` is great and all (maybe fine because it's kinda idiomatic now, bu…

> Cocaine and its metabolite can help fish swim farther, but it could put them in danger, report finds Isn't this true for people as well?

Why would this be any different from dropping a coin or other small metal object? If you're worried about ultrasonic noise pollution, nearly every SMPS operates there, and they're …

Don't know adding, but multiplication has diagram on the last page of the PDF. xy = eml(eml(1, eml(eml(eml(eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(1, x)), 1)), eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(y, 1)), 1))), 1)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography... and search for "published attacks".

Ever play Doom (2016)? It's about renewable energy. Pesky little-- very minor --side effect that it's extracted from Hell, and using it causes the denizens of Hell to spill over to…

The US military is extremely good at doing specific objectives. All militaries are garbage at changing hearts and minds. That's what diplomacy is for.

Nowadays it's about efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Sure, 99% of the time a Shahed-136 might "lose" against a Patriot, but a Patriot missile costs 200x what a Shahed does. Laser…

Money analogy could better be put as one of: 1. Store your money in a 0% interest account—leave RAM totally unused—or put it in an account that actually generates some interest—fil…

US healthcare is a leader in administration fees (e.g. paying health system executives) compared to other countries around the world. High US healthcare cost isn't because of incre…

Unlike the PS3 which the US Air Force bought 1,760 and clustered into the 33rd most powerful** at the time. (**Distributed computing is very cheat-y compared to a "real" supercompu…

Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Wi…

The LLM model and version should be included as an author so there's useful information about where the content came from.

While "The Liberator" (one of the first 3d printed guns) was interesting as a test of the technology and what it means for the law, I don't know if I'd trust using one to not blow …

Didn't know this. It kind reminds me of MIME multipart messages (used in email attachments, MMS, etc.) where the header includes a "boundary" tag which the parser will look for to …

I've noticed diskprices.com getting increasingly bad with filters, probably because the source data is garbage with Amazon sellers trying to jam all the keywords into titles or des…

This kinda reminds me of error correction, and where at some level you can have detectable but not correctable error conditions. Adding Bob is just like adding a parity bit: can gi…

I pulled out the data that I could see; strangely it seems to be the 16th question but the page shows "#736" Data as JSON: https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2…

Decades ago, there was less competition for eyeballs, much more high-quality content (vs. slop), and investors were a bit willing to just build an audience without seeking immediat…

I get that Chernobyl is near the border of two countries at war, but why the everloving hell is anyone targeting anything within miles of the exclusion zone? Are there any military…