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> now you're getting convicted instead of having an opportunity to correct the problem You have completely ignored the fact that this is literally the opposite of what has (likely)…

The IEA has done a pretty terrible job of predicting the mix of energy sources over the recent past, largely being overly biased towards fossil fuels. I honestly wouldn't put a who…

For those of us that chuckle at it at this time, this is likely to be far far far bigger than Y2K. The reason is because software that runs critical aspects of human life will have…

Why would that be true in any alternate versions of these contests? I understand the enormous incentive mechanisms involved, and yet I cannot see this being obviously true. Edit to…

While I largely agree with you, and respect your opinion on these matters, the truth is that Dual EC was indeed a standard of the NIST, and therefore as a practical matter did get …

Great news. While this whole saga has built a sense of a trainwreck waiting to happen, I think this is the best result that everyone involved could have walked away with. I have no…

Oddly apropos anecdote to your pun: About 15 years ago, while working on Windows at Microsoft, a test machine sitting at my desk hit a kernel panic (BSOD). As was standard working …

honestly i'm glad you brought up the reference to the awful censorship for this hilariously terrible movie. it made a mark somehow, and i still remembered (and waited for a referen…

What name(s) do you have for it? What's the philology?

Great observation. It's frankly sad that it took this many years to implement such a common sense system, even though it comes with it's own flaws. I highly doubt it's gonna do any…

That's certainly one kind of minimalism, but I think it goes well beyond what GP intended. While your comment and lifestyle seems earnest, it's a bit too far for most given the GP …

Not to mention that order mix is almost always guaranteed to be a highly prized secret that companies rarely give out. You don't see Apple breaking down iPhone shipments by their v…

> * Four additional gigafactories already in development Where did you see this? Best I can tell, 4 new models (Cybertruck, Roadster, Semi, Unannounced) are in development but only…

Of course, but I'd be more likely to give the job to the person who could decipher such madness and explain it clearly any day over the author. Code should be written to be underst…

Cortana's revenge for Microsoft shutting her down.

They do, but we make exceptions for appliance power all the time. Laundry appliances frequently have a higher voltage circuit dedicated for them, at least in California. Why not tr…

True. But while a high voltage converter might be expensive, it's far more efficient and would pay off costs over the duration of the life of a home. Having a single one of those p…

Tons of amateur space nerds are analyzing every frame of video that's been gathered about the incident. Here's a gif [1] posted on NASASpaceFlight but originally shot by LabPadre t…

I very highly doubt the lean is expected. The fact is that 2-3 of the landing legs deployed but did not lock into their extended position, which resulted in the lean this time. Thi…

This is actually normal, and expected. The issue with these specific Starship tests is that the flight plan calls for 1) a height of ~10 km, 2) not going supersonic. The second one…

The issue is that the vast majority of these ingredients are artificial substitutes for the actual content of a pizza-like-thing that an average consumer might expect. That they ar…

The old school response, weaponized without being inappropriate.

Oppressive regimes even of the most extreme order still need to deal with reality and the choices of other parties that aren't fully within their control. If Google/Apple were to t…

Coinbase did need something like Mt. Gox to become what they are today, but not in the sense you imply. The whole Mt. Gox episode opened people's eyes up to the fact that large ins…