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Diversity win: this notation can't be easily understood by anyone!

The specific proposal is not great but changing the rules is in fact the correct solution of the current rules lead to systematically bad outcomes.

This time it has a major impact on the possible RNG outcomes even for a player who doesn't know about the bug, and it was caught much earlier in development before the permanent st…

So what's your excuse for why New York has equally bad internet?

The idea was to transition from coal to natural gas while using solar and wind to reduce fuel consumption, thereby significantly reducing CO2 emissions. Any claims of hydrogen bein…

More efficient to spend the same amount of money on shoreside panels with lower installation costs.

Servers with ECC generally report zero recoverable memory errors until the chip starts failing, at which point there are increasingly many. Therefore the average server experiences…

So how are the special interest groups keeping their enemies out?

The government will keep changing the rules until VW wins. Using tariffs, price floors, subsidies, whatever it takes.

This only applies to steam keys sold off site, which is why the original comment specified non-steam keys.

Interesting to see the definition of moat change from keeping other companies out to keeping your customers in.

I don't hate journald because it's not plaintext, I hate it because it's worse than plaintext. Somehow journald manages to provide a database which is 40x slower to query than runn…

sqlite resolves lock contention between processes with exponential backoff. When the WAL reaches 4MB it stops all writes while it gets compacted into the database. Once the compact…

Subsidies is too technocratic, trump style is to just order utilities to keep the plants operational at negative profit https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/06/climate/michigan-coal-pla…

But enough about trump, let's talk about iran

When's the last time you made a motherboard purchase decision on the basis of firmware quality? Or rather, when's the last time a corporate purchasing manager got fired for buying …

The client side toggle might be new since 2024 but the volume normalisation has been a thing for a long time.

I certainly don't see much value in AI generated papers myself, I just object to the claim that the mere act of reading a large number of existing papers before writing yours is in…

Plagiarism is not an issue of copyright law, it's an entirely separate system of rules maintained by academia. The US Copyright Office has no business having opinions about it. If …

The linux tools can't get it wrong, the kernel checks that the files submitted for deduplication are actually identical.

Relevant to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138190

That's the promise. In practice your SSD might kill itself due to a bug in the firmware and drop off the bus without warning long before the flash is worn out.

Of course the more forty year old rules you follow the more engineering it is. Using a better programming language that doesn't depend on organisational process for safety is not e…

This assumes that I already have "my" IRB. Most people who want publish an informal online survey do not.