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> We don't, as a matter of intentional policy, build enough housing. If actual number of houses was the problem, house prices would not be increasing in areas of population decline. It's existing houses being repriced upward by
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Data table.[1] [1] https://news.northwesternmutual.com/planning-and-progress-st...
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Threads. I have a graphics program that has about eight different threads doing different things. The draw thread is high priority and does only the things that have to be done on the draw thread. The update thread, medium priority, is doin
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Soon to be ingested for AI training.
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Good use case for fast read, slow write.
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The Internet could have worked very differently, with virtual circuits instead of raw datagrams. That's what the telco people wanted. See TP4.[1] Although there's a connectionless TP4 mode, one plan was that you'd only be con
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There are some fundamental assumptions in the Rust async system: - The program is mostly I/O bound. - All tasks have equal priority. If your program isn't like that, the Tokio model is a bad match to the problem. Real time control
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> they have seen every form of the hero’s journey Popular culture fiction is usually more like Pixar's "Structure stories with: Once upon a time… Every day… One day… Because of that… Until finally…". Real biographies are
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> It's reasonable to suggest that the alternative settings for each of these suggestions is probably the wrong default for 2026. That's the key concept here. When tightening up the defaults, an "edition" mechanism is
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"Workers supply labor, hold no assets, and consume their wage." Ouch. There was a time in the US when most capital was the assets backing workers' pensions. We've seen speculative over-growth with a good legacy at least
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This article is about the retail version of this kind of fraud. Impersonating CEOs is a thing, and the dollar amounts are much larger. The attackers created AI-generated video and audio replicas of the CFO and other executives of the globa
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by Animats 3mo ago
Nice. Would someone please port the Waymo and Uber apps to web sites? And put them on F-Droid? Thank you.
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The upper bound on program complexity used to be the power of the human mind. "Vibe coding" can break through that barrier. But not because the problem being solved needs that complexity. Because the process does not drive itself
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> Every terrestrial concentration process relies on things an asteroid lacks: gravity-driven sedimentation, water-based flotation, density separation in fluids, atmospheric combustion. That's a good point. Most bulk industrial proce
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It's not enough to charge a car fully.
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There's a Kickstarter project to make a round phone.[1] That had potential as a female fashion accessory. But the site hasn't updated since 2025.[2] [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dtoor/the-cyrc
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Oh, they're converting Bun to unsafe rust. That's easy, but useless. That's the sort of thing c2rust does - transpile to an low level language which is unsafe Rust with a set of functions that unsafely emulate C pointer sem
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This guy, with his air quality sensor, should get together with the guy yesterday that built a fan controller. Connected, fans could turn on when really needed. That's the basis of intelligent HVAC.
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It's a loss leader by JLBPCB to get the high-volume contract. Or so said the head of OshPark eight years ago.[1] There does seem to be a willingness by Chinese manufacturers to deal with small-volume makers and sellers. Look at the min
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> This analysis, for whatever it's worth, is wrestling with a straw man. More like a straw army. Austin is surrounded by empty flat land. San Francisco is surrounded by water and was built out many decades ago. London suffers from b
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Do different people get different routes depending upon "dynamic pricing" type metrics?
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The article author sure likes Ghost in the Shell. Almost every variant is listed. The article only covers comics, manga, and graphic novels, not anime. So Bubblegum Crisis, which is half cyberpunk and half music videos, isn't listed. N
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That's DynamicLab, which has been around for years. Like most 2D programming environments, it runs into a scaling problem. At some point, the diagram becomes too big. This is why complex logic is designed in VHDL rather than with reall
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> "the essay makes the case for treating mathematical capacity as a strategic asset on a par with semiconductor capability." In other words, the mathematicians want more funding.
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It worked for NVidia.
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That's probably assuming too much persistence for some infections. Virus detection in autopsies has been around for a while.[1] But it's not routine. At least HIV, malaria, yellow fever, rabies, and hepatitis have been tested. So
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Yes. I always considered that a downside of SQLite. You have to validate numeric fields on the read side or risk the application blowing up on bad data.
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When I post a technical question in Forums, I usually add something like "Tried Copilot, got useless answer ...". The trouble with asking an LLM is that there are a huge number of people (this predates LLMs) who post answers on fo
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The US Army War College publishes a quarterly, "Parameters", with articles about current military issues. "A New Security Framework for NATO’s Eastern Flank" (253 downloads), which is about what to do about Russia pushin
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The flicker of some auto lighting systems is annoying. The switching frequency is so low that strobing is a real issue on the red and yellow lamps. Flicker in light bulb sized white LED lamps isn't so bad, because the LEDs drive phosph

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