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It seems to require QUIC, are you using an old or barebones browser?

This is cool, I'd say that the most common tool in this space is bgzip[1]. Have you thought about training a dictionary on the first few chunks of each file and embedding the dicti…

I've not evaluated it or ever worked with it myself, but CitusDB has been working on PostgreSQL horizontal scaling for quite some time now, right? Does anyone have positive or nega…

How much power is the Pi port capable of delivering, or are you sending additional power to the PCIe adapter from somewhere else? What SmartNIC are you using? Most SmartNICs that I…

Because in most of the US, it is dramatically cheaper to charge an EV than fuel a similar gas vehicle. These costs in this article are surprising to me, and very questionable witho…

Disease, disaster, war all cause significant inflation because they harm or destroy both things and productivity in the real world without destroying money. If factories shut down …

I see an error saying "Remote media exceeds maximum duration" for this track that is 9:24 long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7JG63IuaWs I'm guessing that's the timeout?

What's the maximum length? I can't find it documented anywhere and keep running into it when trying to try this with Tool tracks.

I haven't measured, but I find it very likely that such a neglected corner of Java behaves just like it did many years ago. Finalizers were never a widely used feature of the Java …

If someone trying to make a joke can accidentally get this much access and engagement, imagine how well the scammers must be doing. Cryptocurrency scams must be an incredibly lucra…

Many states still only require $15,000 of liability coverage to drive, so there's going to be a lot more uninsured / underinsured motorist claims in the future. The Rivian owners i…

Realistically, what happened is that Apple increased the maximum allowed size for apps delivered from the App Store. When you don't put limits in, nobody is going to choose to prio…

I was shown an error page with an option to refresh or log out, and refreshing just got the same error. Now login seems to be down.

I haven't seen much discussion about how AM gets used for local road condition or emergency communication. When you're driving and see a sign that says "TUNE TO 1610 AM" and the ca…

Economies of scale mean that it's frequently less expensive to manufacture only the top configuration with the most features, and then turn features off in software. Broadly, I thi…

I would posit that most organizations that are on recent enough software to be using Openssl 3.x over 1.1.1 or older are in the culture of updating things extremely often, so patch…

The problem is that this class is frequently on the pre-med track, and a single F will tank your chances of getting into medical school, even if you retake the course and get an A.…

MSRPs for a given market segment seem to have permanently increased significantly. This generation is expected to be available at this higher MSRP, however.

If it really is 30W more efficient under load, that sounds like it must be a die shrink? TSMC 6nm is the shrink path from the 7nm the PS5 originally shipped with, has anything else…

My Rust is not strong, but in the AVX-512 solution, I don't fully understand how they're incrementing the input by a whole AVX-512 word (16xu32) by only doing input = input.offset(…

This paper is looking at both inherited genes, that is genes that you get from your parents, and de-novo mutations, that is a mutation that only the offspring has, that wasn't dire…

Is Spangler Candy Co the exclusive manufacturer of Dum Dums? It seems like they are trying to protect their high prices at Amazon, which is intentionally hard for commodity goods. …

Israel has a large and growing ultra-Orthodox population, with an average of 7.1 children per woman among the ultra-Orthodox Jews: https://en.idi.org.il/articles/25385 The US has a…

Organizations with any kind of license review will immediately decide that this tool is unusable and move on. Your only options for making a tool that you expect people to use and …