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He’s a Florida Man . Do not underestimate his capacity to defile himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

Current nuclear-powered ships are run by the world’s premier naval powers and protected by their own stealth or a huge array of armed escort ships. Have these guys factored in the …

It’s a rehash of a conflict from abut 3000 BCE onwards. Who really is the “historical people” of the land that is now Palestine/Israel has been the subject of bloody conflict for 5…

So this is strange, it popped up on Cloudflare’s RSS feed so I thought it was new. I’m guessing they edited the article but haven’t been able find a a diff against the original 202…

The Indiana variant of this phrase was “tighter than two coats of paint” which meant a person who was tight with money (cheap).

For tracking uniques, why can’t we just set a “first_visit=false” cookie if not present on first request? The number of new unique users is then the number of requests that came in…

Guild-style unions seem to be about setting and enforcing cartel pricing, not work quality. At least for the construction and remodeling subcontractors I encounter.

Why can’t Postgres auto-tune these values itself in 2026? Microsoft SQL Server has mostly done a good job of this since about 2005. It will set parallelism thresholds, soak up as m…

Illinois bans nearly all fireworks, not just commercial grade. You can basically only buy sparklers or tiny fountains. You have to visit Wisconsin or Indiana to get anything that p…

That’s generally too slow though; these things run in kernel space as they scan every I/O stream. Context switching and memory copies would kill performance.

> they have not hiked up their prices yet That one aged poorly. Apple massively hiked prices 2 days later, by thousands of USD on some RAM-heavy configurations. https://news.ycombi…

This is market-dependent. We offer email OTP login for small business customers because it is “poor man’s SSO”. You’re basically validating the recipient is still at the company, a…

Clarification/correction: The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity. The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that w…

Vena is one of the most popular enterprise budgeting/forecasting packages. It ships as a new-style Excel extension making Excel the UI for department heads contributing to a rolled…

The key is still in the TPM in that scenario it just requires a password to unlock it.

Luxury goods are funny. No way an owner of this $650K car can stomach the same app as the peasant who owns a $250K Ferrari Amalfi.

Purple-gray text on a black background is totally unreadable. Text zoom being overridden as well. Can’t use product with middle-aged eyes.

One thing that gets neglected by policymakers is that our top priority for energy policy should be resiliency . That means distributed systems with varied generation sources, witho…

Because “Page-cache write into any readable file” is a memory safety bug? All of these recent Linux LPEs are memory safety issues.