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nikbackm··on All new cars sold in Europe must be emission-free from 2035
Tire wear and noise will not get better with electric cars, more likely worse due to their greater weight.
nikbackm··on Artificial Intelligence: The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)
Multi-cellular life has only been around for 600 million years or so.
nikbackm··on The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
The answer seems to be in the follow-up comments to the post.
nikbackm··on Ukraine Situation Report
Most of the Russian soldiers are relatively poor compared to other Russians. Otherwise they would not be in the army.
nikbackm··on SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic
Seems the rubella vaccines have greater efficacy and gives much longer protection (life-long) than the current COVID vaccines though.
nikbackm··on Firefox 94
They've had the MozillaMaintenance service for several years on Windows already, what has changed now?
nikbackm··on Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
Ada lacked platform support and free/open compilers compared to C as well.
nikbackm··on Examining Btrfs
What about ZFS?
nikbackm··on The real reason to end the death penalty
Even if there were no death penalty, spending 30+ years in prison while innocent does not seem like such a good deal either.
nikbackm··on The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
I just logged in to Facebook for the first time in years to check the data it has on me. Luckily I never added my phone number or address, so should hopefully be in the clear.
nikbackm··on Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
> Would I have faster browser experience if I deleted some bookmarks, or if I deleted my browsing history?

In some ways, probably.

Using the "Forget about this site" command in Firefox will generally be quite slow and cause high CPU usage for ten seconds or more.

nikbackm··on Covid-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?
https://first10em.com/covid-19-is-spread-by-aerosols-an-evid...
nikbackm··on Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
Eh, won't most participants here recognize most programming language creators?
nikbackm··on Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
Seems like bad news for AMD.
nikbackm··on 75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
Or new viewers.
nikbackm··on SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
Have you suggested this feature (along with a use case) on the SQLite forum?
nikbackm··on Disney and Integrators versus Aggregators
There's 7 profiles per account, but only one email/password. They also allow "only" 4 active streams at a time.
nikbackm··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
Inoreader.

Tested a few others, e.g. the Digg Reader, around the time Google Reader was discontinued, but Inoreader was closest in functionality to GR so stuck with that.

nikbackm··on WSL Getting GUI Support
Windows already has RDP, it would need to implement Wayland from scratch.
nikbackm··on Calibre 5.0
That's almost 9 years old now.

Maybe time to let it go?

Unless there are more recent examples to point to. Or the problem still is not fixed.

nikbackm··on Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
Just use airplane mode? Will also increase the battery life.
nikbackm··on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down
You might not know that you are infected.
nikbackm··on Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
It's not a safe compiler for C/C++, the compiled wasm code can still be compromised, it just cannot touch the rest of the process except indirectly via returned values.
nikbackm··on Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall
Ellison did not write the Stainless Steel Rat if that is what you're saying.
nikbackm··on Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
Wouldn't that make it trivial to block them all?
nikbackm··on The Second SHA-1 Hash Collision
Depends on the lottery, sometimes there is no one getting all the numbers correct so the prize money accumulates to the next round.
nikbackm··on Fix earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets
Probably because it's considered a strawman argument. Surely no one actually believes that moving off Earth is an option to solve the climate crisis.
nikbackm··on Wait Wait Tell Me: The Psychology of Loading Screens
That's actually my configuration at home. Don't really have any problems with it, can run Firefox and Visual Studio just fine.

Might be different if I did not have an SSD (from 2010) of course.

nikbackm··on History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
Hm, trying to predict the weather is probably much easier.
nikbackm··on Firefox Privacy How-To Guide
As long as the telemetry does not include the URLs you visit, how sensitive could it be?
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