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AWS' Nitro platform is no longer based on Xen and the Xen stuff is being replaced/deprecated, including moving some of the old Xen instance types to run on Nitro instead of Xen.

Latin 1 doesn't cover all languages that use a Latin script, and has an incomplete character set for others.

Sometimes the lack of diacritic can change the meaning of the name for the worse and either way, names are deeply personal things that people are attached to, so they might want to…

Sure, it is definitely more expensive than I would like. But you still have the option to watch the ads if you don't like paying a sub. Expecting it to be completely free is unreal…

Having a loss leader like this is exactly monopolistic behavior though. The fact that Google are trying to make money from it is expected and more fair to their competitors than ju…

You can use NoScript to disable JS and see how well that works. But more to the point, yes, a browser is a client, but without the economic incentive of either ads or direct moneti…

Beyond being way less carbon intensive and less polluted, they're objectively better places to live.

I think I first found this site around 2007 or 2008. I've been using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot ever since.

An open source maintainer is a person volunteering their time and resources to offer something usually free of charge. As such, they decide what usecases they want to support and f…

There is a very good reason: the maintainers want to make the change. They don't even need a good technical need to do it, but usually there is at least something that drives the c…

Either pay someone to maintain it for as long as you need or engineer around whatever issues you encounter; it's a you problem, and possibly the development process or software sta…

They're not really VMs. They are metal instances, which run without a hypervisor, but have virtualized network and storage attached instead.

A star is just a giant fusion reactor. We just need to add more fusion material (hydrogen) and remove the waste material, which gathers in the core and makes it more difficult for …

You're right, it's not believable that only 1/3 don't know the rules, most likely it's 2/3 of people that don't know the rules, given how people drive.

Firecracker uses KVM, but KVM is only part of the equation. KVM exposes some very basis functionality (vcpus, memory) that an application like Firecracker or rust-vmm (or more comm…

For me 21:9 is the ideal resolution right now. It can be split in 2 or 3 screens side-by-side and it still works well. A single 4:3 doesn't really give a lot of flexibility in the …

3:2 is very close to a 16:10.

Sounds like great customer service from Tesla, the most valuable car company in the world... Hopefully people can at least recover their money easily.

You install Linux and tell Microsoft to fuck off with their stupid ideas.

It can't scale up if it still needs to be produced in the same quantities. It takes a lot of farmland, about 80% in fact, to produce feed for livestock (especially for cattle) even…

The whole world economy relies on 3 countries in balistic rocket range of each other; not great. Having foundries distributed around the world sounds way more resilient to any conf…

Having expicitly optional/nullable types is great in languages which are religious about it, since they remove a lot of useless branching and complexity from the code. If it's just…

I think the issue there is that versions are arbitrary and being able to tell when a library is 1.0 is a non-decidable problem. There are lots of 0.x crates which are stable and fe…