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1. Larger vehicles pose a much greater threat to pedestrians and cyclists, both from frequency and consequence of incidents. 2. Tire emissions are more toxic than exhaust [1] and t…

Passwords need to be sent both with the request, and to the requestor. I think GP is referring to sending credentials to the service making the request. It is far better to give se…

This is challenging to answer with the nonspecific, "regular ones?" What, to you, is a "regular tax?" Payroll taxes? Income taxes? Property taxes? Sales taxes? Carbon taxes? Gas ta…

I think in this case "better" reduces to convincing the upstream data source to not use json. Putting that frustration on jq seems like a case of transference.

Few people have screens as high resolution as even a mediocre phone camera. Before someone brings up future screen tech, there are additional reasons that's not a trivial workaroun…

Only 19% of electricity generated today in the US is from coal, trending toward 0. Then consider larger fossil fuel power plants are far more efficient than the tiny engines in veh…

There's an off by one error in the above statement. Not sure if it's the right or left hand side.

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1...

This has given me a brilliant idea: deferring maintenance downtime until some larger user-visible service is down. This is terrible for many reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised to…

I disagree. In both cases the observer benefits from reaching beyond their current knowledge. They have the same solution.

Not treated as, only backed by byte sequences. If you range over them you get a series of rune values that can be multi-byte code points. There's a few other differences, strings c…

I'm going to nit this for several reasons: 1. Walking on the moon implied a return trip which requires an extra ~3km/s. 2. Under the rocket equation the fuel requirements for more …

11 cubic meters seems like a fairly small amount of water for a car fire. That's less than the capacity of a typical water truck. What, "applied directly to the battery," means rai…

A PCIe 4.0 x16 link is 32GB/s in one direction. Capital B. Quite a bit faster. It's also fully bidirectional, allowing for the same speed in the other direction at the same time. T…

Well, the US federal government thinks this is fine. Citizens still have to file, and often pay taxes if they move out of the country. If one renounces their citizenship they are l…

To have this analogy encompass the full situation, you're also a residential landlord who owns 50% of all residential housing in the US. Your tenants are only allowed to have thing…

Huh, so they did. TIL.

Intel's fault? Uhm, they've had some misses recently, but your statement about RAM support is incorrect. The 7200u supports 32GB or RAM. That chip is over 4 years old and nothing s…

The issue is your defect rate for larger chips. If a small laptop CPU only has 25% of chips being fully functional, a 4x the size server chip will only yield 0.39% of chips being d…

That is a problem that has not been thoroughly explored. What has been motivational historically, and what is necessary to motivate in the future, do not have to be the same. And e…

That could equally be a consequence of technological and scientific development than any particular economic structure.