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"They stole our stolen data!"

The problem is that it's not clear how useful those terabytes of information are. Ultrasound is very good for certain types of imaging, but the contrast mechanisms available are ve…

If swapping was causing SSDs to fail on M1 Macs, we would never see the end of the hysterical articles about "NANDgate". Since we haven't seen any in all these years, it's seems pr…

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They decided that the 14th amendment prohibition on insurrectionists being able to hold Federal office did not apply to Trump because he is not an officer of the United States (des…

The Republican majority on the SCOTUS announced that Trump is immune from all laws, which is insane and not supported by the Constitution in any way, but directly lead to what's ha…

Should I get an M4 Max MacBook Pro, or an M4 Pro Macbook Pro? Or a Mac Pro? Or skip the computer altogether and get an iPhone Pro Max? I mean, c'mon. They are deliberately trying t…

Apple's not great, but Microsoft is worse.

It's a vacuum cleaner. All you want it to do is suck.

Scientific vocabulary is designed to be precise. The reason papers are written the way they are is to try to convey ideas with as little chance of misinterpretation as possible. It…

Yeah, they are putting two facts together to heavily imply that they are part of a single story, but there is no evidence presented that they are. "UN leaders are gathering!" "Ther…

Don't anthropomorphize robots. They hate that.

One problem you might run into is that a lot of common plastics are opaque to NIR light, so you might find certain materials gave you strange results (water bottles that appear tra…

Chrome worked on the Mac, Safari didn't.

But if it's a LAN API, how exactly will the manufacturer harvest your usage information to sell to third parties? How will they get that sweet, sweet, post-sale monetization?

Depends on the car. My Bolt battery takes a LONG time to get warm just from driving, even with the battery heater running. You can speed it up a bit with yoyo driving (speed up to …