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> the proportion of all 2n-bit values that can be generated by the product of two n-bit values goes to zero as n becomes large. This means that if you have, say, 10000000-bit integ…

At least in the UK, the main high-street retailers will only stock goods from reputable brands with a (relatively) decent track record and safety standards. I don't believe there i…

I don't know definitively, but the Zig project has been vocally anti-LLM code; Bun was bought by an LLM company.

Panther Lake's efficiency doesn't match M5, but it seems to be very good by all accounts. "Extremely disappointing" is a misrepresentation.

> there are testimonies of smart home devices like anti-theft alarms or automatic doors, that stop working whenever [...] because their backends rely on Cloudflare. The fault here …

All of them offer only proxied access to the internet. They do not expose access to any "private network".

The comment probably refers to data races over memory access, which are prevented by usage of `Send` and `Sync` traits, rather than more general race conditions.

And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.

There is a years-old proposal for deeply-comparable types: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple Maybe we'll see it one day.

Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who…

Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric. PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affo…

As always, remember to consider humidity when compararing locations - it can make both cold and hot weather feel much harsher. I'm more comfortable in 40c at low humidity than 25c …

I pay for ProtonMail but understand that most wouldn't. AFAIK they still offer a decent free tier, which I'm happy to help support.

It seems equivalent to desktop for me. Add-ons -> [add-on-name]: opens the modal content for an addon Add-ons -> Add-ons manager -> [add-on name] -> Settings: opens the settings pa…

Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for a few years.

Could "energy density" not refer to energy-per-volume rather than mass? Then that headline might make sense per this quote from someone at Honda: "Simply, the energy density would …

It sounds more like the I/O firmware was running on dedicated PS1 hardware: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/12/ps4-and-x... > The PlayStation 2, meanwhile, had the …

A small but passionate minority - given framework's modularity, it's not inconceivable that someone else will manufacture and sell a small batch of compatible keyboards and touchpa…

vscode is the best-case scenario for Electron in my experience; this suggests that you need good diligence to ensure reasonable performance with the framework. Even then, performan…

I'd love to see this design. There's something similar on the HP Omen 16: https://i.imgur.com/R4O5zzU.png Not sure why 99% of laptops see a numpad as a higher priority than matchin…

My guess is a dropdown selection box.

1. Efficiency, and 2. Integrated graphics power. Conversely, what is the advantage of Intel, other than peak boost performance (at vastly higher wattage)?

Most comments are in favour of the former, but we've been trained by every media player UI to understand that a button with a pause symbol means that the media is currently playing…

If you listen to music all day, saving phone battery life is a pretty good reason. Plus a non-Android MP3 player can get 40-100 hours on a charge. > all the mp3 players I've seen a…

Compilation can be very intensive, and it's detrimental to a developer's workflow if they must wait for long recompiles. Rust was originally written in OCaml before being self-host…