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Superfest was a brand of ion-exchange toughened drinking glasses. Ion-exchange toughened glass was invented by Steven Kistler in the 1960s, and commercialised by Corning shortly af…

10Gbps fibre uses significantly less power than 10Gbps copper ethernet.

Ford no longer makes traditional passenger cars. They now only sell SUVs, trucks, and sports cars. You can see this if you go to https://shop.ford.com/showroom/ and select sedan or…

The approach some JS projects have taken is to use Husky, which automatically sets up the git hooks when you install the project's dependencies during development.

There seems to be some JS on the page that messes with the URL. Try this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421141017/https://claude.co...

No, the author is a crank named Arthur Firstenberg, one of the original "microwaves will give you cancer" people.

There are plenty of snappy examples. Off the top of my head: Discord, Netflix, Signal Desktop, WhatsApp Web.

Just because a web application uses React and is slow, it does not follow that it is slow because of React. It's perfectly possible to write fast or slow web applications in React,…

No. What it can affect though is the bandwidth of the cable, meaning e.g. for HDMI cables, they might not support higher resolutions or framerates. If it's on the border you might …

With EVs, most of your charging should be done at home, with fast charging mostly just existing for trips. I know not everyone can charge at home (especially if you live in an apar…

From my understanding, the new CT machines are able to characterise material composition using dual-energy X-ray, and this is how they were able to relax the rules.

Mods didn't remove it, user flags did.

There are definitely use cases. Pis have lower power consumption than NUCs. This is the main reason I went for one to run Home Assistant rather than a NUC. I have a NAS/home server…

That is not how PKI works. Your cert provider does not have a copy of your private key to give out in the first place. Having the private key of the root cert does not allow you to…

If you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects. > One employee from a staffing agency said that Kon…

Rust is already making substantial inroads in browsers, especially for things like codecs. Chrome also recently replaced FreeType with Skrifa (Rust), and the JS Temporal API in V8 …

One aspect of Transmeta not mentioned by this article is their "Code Morphing" technique used by the Crusoe and Efficeon processors. This was a low level piece of software similar …

bcrypt is the industry standard.

Usually presents as a keyboard that types commands, yeah. Win-R -> powershell -> execute whatever you want. E.g. https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky

There's no way to test on Safari without either buying Apple hardware or subscribing to services like Browserstack. This is a problem of Apple's own making.

By "pivot into mobile" I suspect the other poster is referring to Facebook Home, an ill-fated Android skin and line of smartphones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home