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mburee··on Toyota and Yamaha join forces to develop hydrogen-fueled V8 engine
But that's what's happening with electric too? Heavily subsidized in most countries they're sold
mburee··on E-Cyclist Dies After Being Doored on Deadly West Side Strip
Wearing a helmet also causes cars to overtake closer and less considerate. Blaming the cyclist always happens in these cases, even if it's clearly the drivers (or whoever opened the door) fault.

I think Sweden just implement a law making it mandatory to open the door with the hand opposite to the door, causing you to turn and hopefully preventing these things.

Still, that's manslaughter in my opinion, and I hate people blaming the cyclists, no matter the circumstances, they could have just as well died wearing a helmet.

mburee··on LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
Yeah, just because hardware got incredibly fast doesn't mean slow software is fast now, it just expands tothr available circumstances again
mburee··on CJSON – Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
Can you elaborate? I mean it's not like that a lot of authenticator or crypto is written in C
mburee··on Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer
But Shor's algorithm is for prime factorization, right? Are there equally faster algorithms available for elliptic curves?
mburee··on Consuming content like it's the 90s
Maybe something that can play opus or other more modern codecs would be nice too
mburee··on Does my site need HTTPS?
To not sign malicious agents so they can act like they're the website you're actually trying connect to. There's a worryingly large amount of CA in Firefox or other browsers, many of the quite shady or government-owned
mburee··on If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed
But how much of the cows actually graze on open fields? Or much of their food doesn't come from plants like soy which is pretty edible for humans too...
mburee··on My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi
Because it'd be too easy to just invest some time beforehand to figure out the optimal process beforehand.
mburee··on Foundations of Computer Science
Why would it need encryption? The only convincing argument would be stuff like as insertions by ISPs and so on but that's extremely uncommon. Additionally everyone and their mother seems to be a CA these days...
mburee··on Myths about FreeBSD
Could also always try OpenBSD, they have support for some 802.11ac chipsets, but check the drivers first
mburee··on Stray bullet kills English astrophysicist visiting United States
For Switzerland I also imagine a lot of assault rifles just lying around from mandatory service
mburee··on When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018)
But cigarettes are also in a whole another other ballgame than nicotine
mburee··on Briar Desktop for Linux
I totally agree, but no one ever pays the money to have it properly audited
mburee··on Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
all while using retarded amounts of electricity
mburee··on Stanford requires booster shots for all students
That's one of the dumbest things I heard in a long time
mburee··on Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size
Really depends, doesn't it? 200x something like a attiny13 is still kind of useless in that regard
mburee··on No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
> > No one is certain what lava lamps were used for.

> Nitpick: I'm fairly certain lava lamps have been used as secure random number generators.

> Edit: a quick search on kagi confirms it.

But that use case came about in the ~90s? The patent for lava lamps was filed somewhere around the 60s...

mburee··on Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
I kinda agree though. Maybe not on their political stuff, but...
mburee··on Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
Can you share your reasons for that? I feel like I'm in the same boat now you used to be in. But also mainly because I really like Plan9.
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