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I genuinely wonder the same actually. Seems like there would go even more engineering into making a speaker that is "true" and not coloring the sound as one expects from their monitors.

Well I guess it's not the wooden box of a speaker that costs $2000-$30000 (normal price range for consumer Hi-Fi speakers). Replacing the speaker drivers would be more like replacing everything within the body of a car.

Wouldn't rubber dry out over time? If you pay for a good set of speakers you probably want them to last for decades.

One thing to keep in mind and that also calls for the the precautionary principle – it's not only does and exposure over time that determines toxicity. Different substances can cause damage during different times of development in humans. There are for example substances that can cause fetal damage if the mother is exposed to it during a specific week during pregnancy.

Would be interesting if you could elaborate on why you prefer lightning?

It's not fully clear from the article if that 20% didn't manage to keep the housing at all or if it was just that they didn't manage to pay their own rent.

To me 80% sounds awesome. There are some people in this world that just wasn't built to cope with life. But they are still part of society and there needs to be a place for them too.

At least a CBDC would allow central banks to print money without also creating debt – because really the debt driven economy is the reason we keep ending up in these crises.

This is what you get if you learn everything by just googling exactly what you need for the moment. Reading proper books and RFCs are underrated these days.

This is deceptive. Biopolymers or not per definition biodegradable. Just because you make plastics from plants don't make it biodegradable and it's worrying that people have started to think this – maybe from deceptive marketing. Biostatistics are also nothing new,the first plastics was not even made from petroleum.

C is used for the whole Linux kernel and not just "utilities".

But it's gonna burn in one?

Especially since the old cookie banner law was abolished with GDPR. The whole cookie banner thing has technically nothing to do with GDPR and is the industries own perverted invention for "getting consent".

According to Wikipedia there is about 422 commercial reactors in the world and so far in history about 18 meltdowns. So statistically 4% of reactors will have a meltdown. To me that is crazy, and does not sound safe. Even if these accidents have not lead to direct deaths each one is an environmental catastrophe that is impossible to clean up. And that is just meltdowns - the most serious of all accidents.

This is what the story should have been about! Not about glorifying more surveillance.

It's interesting how these money laundering checks works flawlessly for regular people and businesses but always seem to fail when there are hundreds of millions of dollars involved.

I don't honestly understand how the Clearview thing would make any difference. The burden of proof is on the prosecutor right? So in court they would need to present proof that he was in the front seat, and if he wasn't there wouldn't be any such proof? Or has the US justice system become so dysfunctional that people actively must prove their innocence?

Apparently there are a lot of crack heads in California then…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhy3zI3wvAo

Now the article was only talking about twitter and social media, but I can't help react on the title since there really is no evidence at all of internet wanting to be fragmented. In fact it's just the opposite.

- Not even the most hardcore people are using IRC anymore

- All web hosting is now in the cloud

- There's basically only two rendering engines left, of which one is at the moment extremely marginalized

- GIT that was supposed to be distributed is now used as a centralized versioning system in centralized services.

If anything it seems that the internet wants to be consolidated.

> Nano would not help me in such a situation: but vim did it with no complaints; all I needed to know was the incantation.

Nano can do regexp search and replace. I think the problem with nano is the menu in the bottom because it makes people think that it's the only things it can do when in fact it's really powerful.

Why is the sunset beautiful then?

Well we are certifying authenticity but we do it with the trust of the CAs. But if we can't trust the CAs maybe there are other authorities we can trust more, or that we at least can share the trust between several parties.

But I agree with you on the sentiment that stopping snooping technically is the easy part and this is already possible today with Public Key Pinning, DNSSEC, client certificates and so on.

But that's why I think the role of the CA should change so that the signatures actually gives some form of tangible trust that people can relate to.

I think that a good system would be that the key can be signed by multiple parties. For example if you are running a web shop, your certificate could be signed by Visa if you accept card payments, by your registrar to prove that you own the domain, by the tax office in your country to prove that you are a real company and so on. And then the browser would show these signatures as badges when clicking/hovering the padlock icon. So essentially the more signatures the more trustworthy.

It's like when you go to the cheap lunch restaurant that have 70 items on their menu vs the fine dining place that has a set three course menu for the evening. Quantity signals cheapness.

For me I didn't even look at the face. To me the obvious giveaway that made me spot all of them was, first of all the unnatural bokeh that you see in all AI images that don't look like anything a camera would produce. And the second thing is looking at clothing that folds in strange ways.

Texture is a visual ingredient just like color or form – and if you see it this way it's nothing strange adding it in post. Basically any analog method of visual reproduction adds some form of texture as a byproduct, but not digital screens. Yet think of a paper, it's the texture in the paper that makes it real, that it appears as something you can touch.

Fun fact! Italic typefaces was originally not designed for emphasizing text but as a way so save paper since the slanting allows the letters to sit tighter.

I get the impression the author missed out on zcat for reading gzipped files.

Second this. After spending several years of full time just troubleshooting others web apps I can say that not only are database locks in 99.99% of the cases the real bottleneck but also that developers in general are quite bad at managing databases and will try to micro optimizing just about anything before looking at their DB queries.

I actually learned just recently that most of our energy consumption goes to creating heat or cooling, like 70% or something. So right now we are creating electricity to convert to heat or cooling, while we technically could just store the heat instead. A large enough pool of water could store heat for long periods (months) with minimal energy loss. So the notion that energy from renewable sources such as the sun can't be stored effectively is not true, and in fact the big part of our energy needs could be stored this way.

"I can't believe we managed to moved on from horse wagons to cars when people are so attached to wheels.." Everything that is old is not per definition bad.