I was always under the impression that the grade school style summaries started before LLMs. Search engines recommends that kind of writing as condition to get into the answer box. It is bad writing never the less.
> Fun fact! floppy disks actually contain a lot more surface area than 1.44mb. By my calculation, you'll get closer to 1.70mb but a lot of that extra space is earmarked for synchronization barriers and sector / track metadata.
This explains the 2M utility that allowed storing about 1.8mb on a floppy disk. It was fun playing with it.
MSN Messenger played a similar cat-and-mouse game with AOL Instant Messenger long time ago. Unlike MSN Messenger which used this publicity to grow their own market share, I am not sure what's the end game for Beeper.
The story is missing a lot of details. It says very little about the role of Lower Silesian Railway, the company that that purchased the train from NEWAG and hired SPS to repair the train. Did Lower Silesian Railway (LSR) know that NEWAG expects that the trains need to be repaired at NEWAG facilities? Did LSR know about the technological measures implemented by NEWAG? What was in the original procurement contract between LSR and NEWAG? What is in the repair contract between LSR and SPS? Why is NEWAG still providing updates/LSR installing NEWAG updates for trains that are no longer under NEWAG's maintenance?
It's gotten worse since the introduction of smartphones. Instead of a button being hit changing into a pressed state instantly, they added animation that looks nice, but they end up making UI feels laggy and unresponsive.
> I thought this was going to be about the double standard of how they treat business vs non-business end users
While Raspberry Pi were marketed to hobbyists, other parts of the organization are geared towards businesses. After all, what hobbyists would look for 7-year production guarantee?
I recall that Xulrunner, similar to the Firefox UI back in the day, hesitates just a little bit before responding to events. Perhaps xulrunner was too early in relations to computer performance back in the day, or they simply made a technical error when designing Gecko.
Labeling and advertising is definitely a good angle to ensure that customers aren't hit by surprises:
I would also require a standardized disclosure box that must be included in the promotional materials. The disclosure box could contain information such as ownership period and so on, and consumers will get used to reading that box before purchasing digital goods.
For whatever the reason, Firefox does seem to enjoy playing with colors of the season more than trying to figure out where to take their rendering engine.
I currently use a Git GUI (SourceTree) because I used to use a GUI when working with TFS, CVS, and SVN. So when we switched to Git, the CLI paradigm just seem unfamiliar to me.
I am thinking "A pattern of anti-competitive actions leveraging Google's control in multiple parts of the web ecosystem to limit competition." Will this fly in the US?
It doesn't necessarily need to be non-renewables through. There just has to be spare capacity that the grid could count on being there. There just needs to be a way for the grid to pay for the capacity that's going to go unused a lot of times, whether it's batteries, extra water and turbine in a dam, or standby power plants.
It seems the core issue is that electricity pricing isn't taking into account that some power sources could just go offline for days/weeks. Perhaps they need to find a politically correct way to apply a tariff against unreliable sources and just pay for standby capacity.
This will cause renewable energy to become somewhat less attractive financially, but the alternative is a grid that becomes unreliable over time as gas power plants are decommissioned and don't get replaced.
How do you even find blogs to read these days? In mid-2000s, I worked in a company using beta version of WPF and I was able to search for an error message, and it brings back blogs where people actually posted about the issue I encountered. These days, if blogs still exist, search isn't showing them anymore, preferring to provide results from the same few Stack Overflow/issues aggregators/documentation aggregators mixed together.
It's frustrating because the poster was basically asking if the Wifi of the Pixel 7 was disabled when it is in certain country, but the 'product expert' kept hiding behind the fact that it is currently in an unsupported country without answering the original question.
Under section 3.5 of the Mozilla foundation Bylaws [1], Baker could be removed by the board, which consists of Mitchell Baker, Brian Behlendorf, Helen Turvey, Nicole Wong, Amy Keating, and Mark Surman [2]. Note that the directors are elected by the directors in the first place so sadly, it is unlikely to happen.