Nuclear is not economically feasible and still does have its fair share of problems. It also generates waste, even if at far less scale than fossil fuels. Wind and solar are cheap and very scalable in most countries, which makes them economically feasible (and can also accelerate a move from fossil). Don’t be so quick to discard them.
As a matter of fact, last month, in Spain, we generated more energy just from wind than from nuclear. (31.7% vs 21.4%) source
They are, and many of them have existed for centuries. Most cork now is probably synthetic, but there are still some places where people harvest cork.
He’ll do it regardless. Half of what he’s done was already illegal. More of what he’ll do will be illegal. He doesn’t care as long as nobody stops him.
Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can’t look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.
And that’s why I think it’s an issue. The least popular tracks, which are the most likely ones to disappear from the internet, are the ones they store in the lowest quality. While I’m glad they made this huge effort for preservation, and understand the limitations of storage space, I also wish they would have at least preserved the original 160kbps streams.
The Avatar movies are mostly a tech demo. They’re impressive when you look at the CGI, all the special effects, the audio, the 3D, the scenes…
The story isn’t bad, it’s just average. Competently made, but predictable. However, it makes sense when you realize the story is just the excuse to make everything else. There has to be one, but it really doesn’t need to be complex as long as it gets to show what Cameron wants to show.
I think most people watch the movies to see the tech demo, and that’s why, despite being some of the highest grossing movies, they don’t have that big of a cultural impact.
The number is the signal you send to the program. There’s a lot of signals you can send (not just 15 and 9).
The difference between them is that 15 (called SIGTERM) tells the program to terminate by itself (so it can store its cached data, create a save without losing data or corrupting, drop all its open connections gracefully, etc). 9 (called SYGKILL) will forcefully kill a program, without waiting for it to properly close.
You normally should send signal 15 to a program, to tell it to stop. If the program is frozen and it’s not responding or stopping, you then send signal 9 and forcefully kill it. No signal is “better” than the other, they just have different usecases.
Funnily enough I still look for the Control Panel before even attempting to find a setting in the Settings app.
The Control Panel is consistent, it works, and it hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile the Settings app gets rearranged every 2 months, with constant design changes, and it’s also terribly slow on low end devices and VMs.
It’s sad that Microsoft is “unifying” the Windows settings and killing the Control Panel in the process.
Relying on a chance machine to thoroughly test your code sounds like a recipe for disaster
It’s been so long since I used Windows. What did they do this time?
From what I can gather, it’s not actually fake. Apparently you need to prompt the AI in a very specific way so that it produces the desired result instead of making the numbers up (which imo defeats the whole purpose of using the AI instead of learning the formulas)
https://office-watch.com/2025/copilot-excel-function-dangers/
I use Unexpected Keyboard.
It’s mainly made for programming or using Termux, and it makes some special characters more accessible than the classic keyboards. It also has a mechanic for typing special characters that makes it faster to type. And you can enable a compose key, which is something I love to see on a phone keyboard.
Unexpected doesn’t have voice recognition though, but it can be enabled by installing a voice recognition app alongside the keyboard.
Yes. It loads faster, it has integrated quality levels that increase while loading (so a web hoster doesn’t need to have 5 different copies of the same image at different qualities), it has better compression and it also supports more features. It can also be lossless. Most importantly, jpeg can be converted to jpeg xl losslessly, and it will have the benefits of jpeg xl.
Torrenting on TOR is actively discouraged for a reason. It will also be slow and exit nodes are probably in many blacklists, so you won’t get good seeds.
If you want to torrent over a shadownet, use I2P. It allows torrenting (the Java I2P client even includes torrent software). It also has its own internal trackers. And due to the way it works, you can tunnel traffic for others without risk of getting flagged for something illegal or other people’s torrents (which happens with many other TOR alternatives that allow torrenting).
They probably mean using a Microsoft/Apple/Google account with their OS
Elon musk has between $470B-$500B to his name, according to bloomberg and forbes. That would make him richer than the world’s wealthiest 8 men in 2017.
Transcription for those who need it:
Matthew 5:43-48 New International Version
Love for Enemies You have heard that it was said “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
It doesn’t. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.
Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.
(Of course, I’d never consider a Microsoft “security co processor” secure, nor an apple or google one).
[edit] I also do not see your point of apple being better (or more virtuous) than google or microsoft for designing their own hardware, for 2 different reasons:
Currently Microsoft and Google have immense control over the software of PCs and phones. Apple wants to have full control of both the software and the hardware, and making their own hardware is a big step towards that goal. It means they’re restricting you (the user) from using the hardware you bought for your own purpose.
Making custom hardware does not make a company more or less virtuous. Manufacturing/designing capabilities are just spending money in the respective industry. As I mentioned before, both Google and Microsoft have designed their own chips, and they also have designed chips for their servers. I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don’t have human traits, they’re not virtuous, they’re just there to take your money and go.
Apple gets money from both their monopoly on user data and their high prices. That’s why it’s above Microsoft and Google in market cap, even though it doesn’t have nearly as much infrastructure and reach.
Piracy (and Anna’s Archive)'s mission is to share information, especially culture, with everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for it and regardless of the geoblocks. Keeping the service hidden may benefit you and the few people that know about it, but it isn’t the purpose of these sites. They felt they were protected enough, and they decided to take another step towards their objective, that’s it.
In practice, nothing’s gonna happen. They already have 4 different domains. Even if they managed to seize the servers and cancel every domain, all of Anna’s Archive data is out there on public torrents, and their software is also FOSS. Anyone can make a mirror.