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nvidia supported it for 17 years and amd still supports it but only on older cards

> Imagine you’re a boomer and you just figured out how to store your passwords i'm gonna stop you right there

rare example of a question in the headline where the answer is yes

wait, springer as in axel? the guy who was in the nazi party?

really funny to propose that The Guys Who Are Doing This might hypothetically stop it

WOW64 is not emulation, it's just a second set of libraries exactly like the ia32-libs package on linux. OSX used to have this too but i guess apple got tired of maintaining it

people thinking california universities are discriminating against asian students is really funny

how would that even work? even if you could generate accurate maps of lane markings, non-differential gps in not accurate enough

one of those things is not like the other

the exterior of the ISS is constantly exposed to small mounts of atomic oxygen, which is an incredibly strong oxidizer. probably in addition to ozone there is a huge variety of org…

interestingly my ISP, at&t, quietly turned off ipv6. not sure exactly when it happened, i should get around to complaining about it but i hate making phone calls

my parents also lost data that was supposed to be backed up on backblaze because they didn't use that computer for a month and when they turned it back on the hard drive was dead. …

you can very easily prevent scalping by checking IDs at the door. they don't want to prevent scalping because it makes them more money

i was too clever by half and tried to make a NAND gate by combining an AND gate with an inverter. after about 15 minutes i realized that i had it backwards, an AND gate is actually…

that leaves out every mac made before 2014

that's backwards compatibility. forward compatibility is being able to run new apps on an old operating system. the latest version of the SDK builds apps which only run on big sur …

note that the quoted 170Wh/kg is about the same as currently available LiFePO4 cells and half that of the best available NMC cells

what about mac os?

a few years ago the vending machines in my office building started accepting credit and debit cards for an extra fee of $0.35 per transaction. just recently they stopped accepting …

one difference is that a phase change stores energy at constant temperature, which may be desirable given that heat pump efficiency is inversely proportional to temperature output …

battery life span is defined as when the reach 80% of their original capacity. it's possible that the decline will accelerate after that point but they aren't suddenly useless

i was using ipv6 at home for years but then one day at&t broke it and never fixed it

it takes surprisingly few trucks to keep stores stocked. most of the trucks you see driving around are either delivering packages or hauling bulk cargo that used to go by rail

> it likes to change the content while keeping Content-Length intact thanks, i had repressed that memory

hulu's live tv feature uses commercial detection to stop you from from fast-forwarding through commercials in recordings