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Some animal species in Chernobyl (not all) have higher levels of antioxidants than their non-Chernobyl counterparts. > James Lovelock argued that we could save the rain forests fro…

You could look into running a Tor bridge (not a normal relay). It generally uses little CPU so there's little concern about carbon emissions. You can also limit the amount of bandw…

I've used Windscribe VPN for many years, but in recent months I've been getting SSL warnings in Chrome and Firefox. It's usually limited to specific locations, so I'll usually just…

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

Yep, I feel pretty dumb right now. Annoyingly I can't edit my comment now, but please disregard it.

There's a couple interesting hypotheses in that article I wouldn't have thought of. However, I think they left out an obvious culprit, the lockdown meant that kids were home all da…

No need to re-encode the video. Just split the video at a keyframe and inject an ad at that point, no re-encoding required. Most video files have keyframes every few seconds or so.…

I used D for a while several years ago. The language was always a huge mess. The compiler and standard library were riddled with bugs. D was the only language I ever used where it …

Exactly. Even if the software is never updated with any new features or changes, it still requires constant maintenance to fix bugs, patch security vulnerabilities, support new har…

It's an announcement for a major update with relevant benchmarks and some basic technical details. What more do you want? You might find this older post more interesting, more tech…

They provided links to the benchmarks so you can try running them yourself. I feel like a prerecorded video would add little value to this announcement. https://downloads.scirra.co…

Exactly my attitude. Not just for Edge, I use Microsoft products and services as little as possible. Even if they might be technically superior, I will go with the solution that is…

I strongly disagree with this view, not so much the emergent part, but rather that "any sufficiently powerful cognitive system" can gain consciousness. To me, it suggests that cons…

I'm surprised nobody else has pointed out yet, the majority of the most popular dating apps are owned by Match Group. At least in the United States, I can't speak for the rest of t…

That seems unlikely to me as UPS certainly would have spotted that kind of activity in their logs (enumerating). However, it may not be entirely impossible either. UPS tracking num…

My best guess would be a compromise of a 3rd party service that acts as an intermediary for UPS (and possibly other shipping providers) and serves Canadian businesses. Another poss…

I guess it's fine if it's free or cheap. But why would I pay anywhere from $29-232 per month for what is basically a glorified web UI wrapping open source models? I can get the sam…

I wish there was a nicer shell scripting language that simply transpiled to Bash and would generate all this boilerplate code for me. There is https://batsh.org/ which has a nice s…

I haven't looked at Digg in a long time. Looking at it now, wow it's terrible, nothing but SEO/clickbait/sponsored trash. I'm comfortable with saying Digg is dead.

It's far from perfect, but in my experience, it's much better than both ChatGPT and Bard. I've also used it to ask non-technical questions, and it often generates a good response, …

I think Reddit is headed down the same path as Twitter, it's not going to die, but it will be less popular and less relevant. The most popular subreddits appeal to a broad/general …

It sounds to me like migrating to a fully multi-threaded architecture may not be worth the effort. Simply reducing the number of processes from thousands to hundreds would be a hug…

> It also seems that they are planning on adding tablets to the cars to play ads? This one leaves me a little dumbfounded. Do they really expect Uber drivers to go along with this?…

One guess, dealerships are local and have a much stronger interest to support local candidates as opposed to auto manufacturers who have a national or global presence. Dealerships …

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