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Popcorn bags are a significant source of PFAS and microplastics.

So the content falls down at 10 m/s^2 unless you're falling alongside it.

The openness of those codecs depend on the last patent expiring, not the first.

Note that MPEG-4 part 2 is H.263/DivX/XviD, not H.264.

https://ibiblio-icon-archive.danq.dev/icons/1.html It'd be nice to have some way to browse the pages without constantly hunting for the Next button.

That sounds less janky than my solution: US wall wart charger -> 6ft extension cord -> international adapter. (If you want to overvolt an extension cord, make sure it's completely …

They're collecting 10X more data, at roughly the same energy per collision.

> wheel upgrade At the same size (17"), going from steel to alloy improves performance but reduces durability. Larger wheels (20") are generally a downgrade for performance and rid…

TP-Link hardware is decent, if you buy one with OpenWrt support.

You can escape Switzerland by going straight up into space. It's only "in" the EU in 2 dimensions, maybe 2.5 since you can't dig your way out.

Sodium (without chlorine or similar) is a metal, not a salt. They plan to use molten salt for energy storage, but the reactor itself is liquid metal cooled.

Natrium is expected to spend around 1 month refueling every 24 months.

I think it's a reasonable decision. The only people who will interact with dav2d by name are codec nerds, and a simple increment makes the lineage more obvious to that audience.

Particles don't like being anthropomorphized.

I tried to make an orchestra where they smash household objects, and a synthpop song where all the lyrics are burped. Didn't work. Wake me up when we're in the future for real.

CFS is ITER with better magnets.

Dora the Informer.

It would be pretty straightforward to change the text selection rule, so that double-clicking anything matching the syntax of an IPv6 address selects the whole address. The hard pa…

> the only case where a newer version of software comes back closer to an older one Winamp 3 -> Winamp 5 was closer to Winamp 2. Windows 8 -> Windows 10 was closer to Windows 7. Th…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7 exists, but was rarely used. UTF-8 is convenient because ASCII has a spare bit, but UTF-8 is fundamentally possible because ASCII is variable-le…

Here's the official one, presumably with correct data: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

According to general relativity, you (and the ground) are accelerating at 1g, and feel weight because your inertia resists that acceleration. If you jump off a cliff, you'll stop a…

Stop trying to make Fetch happen.

What if they use heat pumps to raise the temperature? Heat rejection is proportional to T^4.

When I was 10 or so, I "cracked" Slam! Air Hockey for Windows 3.1 by opening the exe in EDIT.COM and replacing some random binary garbage with spaces. After a few attempts, I manag…