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Correct. any nuclear power plant would take forever to build, and be to late to help. Meanwhile electric cars are here *now*, and solar + wind + batteries are not only much faster …

I still use sc (apt install sc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator) >

Ascii art porn was easy. It was a drag to download a image, because those files were so big. Downloading a .mp3 file was frought with danger, because those file were a whopping 2mb…

CAR-T-cell therapy might help in the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/lupus-car...

This is most likely an attempt to connect to a webserver on your own device to collect data and/or do tracking. Remember back in June when Facebook/meta got caught tracking users t…

On windows it is still my go-to filemanager (although double commander does the same)

vi(m), sc (the spreatsheet), awk, Perl (for quick oneliners), mutt, grep, tcpdump

Because it can already export to CSV/TSV and exporting to json has no direct added value? Note that Excel and Google Sheet can also not export to sc (spreadsheet calculator), to Du…

s/MySQL/MariaDB/ * It works out of the box, and continues to work with no (or only minimal) tuning (no vacuum, etc) * Scaling up through replication is straightforward * Every tech…

I always disliked that saying, because i'm never in it for the money. Money often follows, through paths I could not imagine when starting the adventure, but it was never the goal.…

"Trust, but verify" Used mostly in bookkeeping and nucleair monitoring, but very usefull outside it as well.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive anyway. In other words: relax, experiment, take a change on new or weird things, and don;t believe that the thing yo…

Not low latency, but onion-adresses/services are actually ideal for this. You only need to know the onion adress, to know that you connect to the correct node. * encrypted * automa…

A ABI is the low-level implementation of any programming interface, no matter if it uses interrupts (0x80), sysenter, or long jump to code that the OS put there, etc, etc.. It is t…

ABI is what you use when a Papa process and a Mama kernel love each other very much.

It's not a thing anymore, for two reasons: 1, It used to be that the only 'real' domain name was .com. Nowadays this artificial scarecity is over. If you want to launch a service a…

They are next to the sea. Flushing with salt water, and membrame based desalination for potable water?

But these can and will be fixed (by banks, the legal system, etc)

I'm using one (a Nokia flipphone). It's quite impressive considering its limited hardware. It has thetering, google maps, a browser, etc (the first 2 were hard requirements). My de…