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Can sort of make sense of the transfer and performance bit as: the location is encoded as part of the data type instead of some sort of automatic spillover to main memory that will behave differently based on data size.

The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.

> I rather think most Ukrainian soldiers would disagree with you here.

In modern society, of course, most soldiers are not Ukrainian (or Russian).

Most countries don't import (and naturalize) as many foreigners while expecting the locals to serve national service. There's also this quip from a minister some time ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37627269

Believe me, if you ask the locals there they would mostly say the same thing about their government too.

In the before times, you could use Applescript to expose those things. Is MCP preferable to (LLM generated) Applescript?

This thread shows the difference between a high and low trust society.

It's not even global, is it? It's session scoped.

I don't live in the US, but yes. I've seen people get into punch-ups because of the queues (although that happens with gas queues as well). All I'm saying is that queues are not improved by having longer servicing times. If you have the same ratio of cars to fuel pumps / chargers, the one that takes 30 minutes to fill up will be worse.

And they fill up in a few minutes. Now try the same queue length when it takes 30 minutes to fill up.

The queues can get bad if there are too few chargers.

Are you comparing (hybrid) gasoline figures to diesel on a liter per km basis? What about cost per km now that diesel prices have shot up?

Surely depreciation is determined by the buyer's expected price? So it doesn't matter if objectively you say the battery is at 95% health but all the buyers apply a steep discount due to it being an EV.

Meh. In today's world if exact sizes were not a requirement then you should use the int_fastN_t types to at least guarantee the width you are expecting instead of using the fixed size types (which may not be optimal) or using plain "int" which may be smaller than expected.

A while back they renamed some gene names so they wouldn't trigger Excel's autocorrect: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

Not everything is papers and theses. Not an academic but I can imagine Excel being quite useful.

There's a gap between "old brand makes bad product" and "people knowing old brand is bad". There lies the short term profits.

There was a US lawsuit against them for their linear compressors: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/consumer/fridge-failures-...

The dirty secret is there's a lot of people employed to do things that are not "products that matter" according to your definition.

Some humans don't even manage to do that.

You get a local "tourist" SIM card then configure EAP-SIM. But I guess you don't need the wifi that much once you have the SIM card.

Train owners were mostly local versus possibly foreign ships?

> Granted, we know Android would not be where it is today without open source contributions.

But the parts of Android that are majority outside developed is still available as the Linux kernel. I have my doubts that the uniquely Android bits of the userland and system services have many outside contributions.

Counting "driving" as a sin is certainly an interesting perspective.

> How much value is all of this anyway, compared to fetching the tarball from the project's site and running make on your own? I guess the "patches to apply" is the most valuable part of all of this.

For one package not much. For a package with dependencies (that you don't already have), quite a bit of value.

I thought it meant "the factory overclock is marginal" in the sense of "borderline unstable"?

Surely that's swimming pool fees or subscription? I can't imagine having your own pool is cheaper than a gym subscription.

No. Unless the hardware had Linux stickers on it.

The point is that browsers have been made and funded by BigCo, and treated as app delivery platforms at least for the last 20 years. Netscape, Microsoft, Apple, Google (for Mozilla and then Chrome). The last non BigCo mainstream(?) browser was probably Opera.

It's silly to complain now about BigCo, WebGPU, and ignore the past 20 years of history. The WWW has not been about document delivery only for the last 20 years. Instead of tiring themselves out complaining about the Web and modern browsers, they can use something else.

The application delivery thing was done as far back as Netscape threatening to relegate Windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" so Web-whatever is simply another step in that direction. Like I said, if you purists want just document delivery, you can use links or w3m or maybe Gemini.