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News is really poorly written these days. I don't blame people for not wanting to slog through a poorly organized, superficial rehash of a press release for the half chance of find…

Ooh, and it could shift seasonally so that summer temperatures and winter temperatures can both be in the convenient range. And every locality could shift a different amount and at…

Isn't it, though? A GW generated one way displaces a GW generated another way. As long as we are building and operating coal-fired power plants — which we are — it is reasonable to…

I sometimes enjoy reading through my spam folder. I get a lot of docusign phishing (despite not being an important executive). I also get a lot of "docusing" phishing, which gives …

Environmental disasters that will likely outlast human civilization? Coal does that in normal operation .

Uh, that's not how global warming works, you know.

My interpretation of TwiztidK's comment is that they could save the cost of that .5–2 MW power draw by switching to a battery chemistry with looser temperature requirements.

Civilizational collapse?

Yeah, that's an interesting question. I would expect the two to look the same once converted to SSA. You can ask the compiler to dump its intermediate representations, so it might …

*foo++ (and --) is an extremely common C idiom. I'd argue it's clearer than the separated version.

From the links in the article, it looks like this DC runs giant heat exchangers to dump the heat to air.

> Windows uses Philips head screws, Linux uses hex screws, and MacOS requires Torx — but a hammer works the same way with all screws. That’s Electron. Heh.

> a vehicle with no communication, sensor, or surveillance systems Do we know that? The website seems silent on the topic, unless I've missed something.

I'm not sure "Chesterton's Fence" is an applicable fable/analogy when the fence has a big sign on it explaining exactly why it's there, and if you stop to look at it for a minute s…

"Good natured but highly irreverent" is pretty much The Register 's house style.

Hire Mark Watney to grow some potatoes?

There's a certain amount of censorship of classified information published by (ex-)military, and that kind of thing, but it can be and is challenged in court. Purely obscene materi…

Is Mein Kampf banned? It's currently in print and available from your friendly bookseller, in multiple editions spanning a couple translations and the original German. Of the two p…

Looking at the front page right now, only about 8 out of 30 are about AI.

Tokenmax while you tokemax.

Disney eventually walked it back due to bad PR, but this did happen: https://wdwnt.com/2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-la...

LEO is crowded enough (mostly with Starlink) that satellites have to actively maneuver to avoid collisions [1]. There's research [2] arguing that we're probably already in runaway …

As I understand it, Z-Wave is substantially more closed/proprietary. Both Thread and Zigbee are protocols that run on top of 802.15.4, which Espressif already has in other products…

The miterlimit just controls when to change between a miter join and a bevel join.

In the 1800s? Pretty often, I'd guess.