ars

16 ms·

211.
by ars 1y ago
I'm seeing exactly this with the Texas floods. People are criticizing them for not installing an expensive warning system. "Do something!" But they decided that based on the frequency of floods it was not the best place to sp
212.
by ars 1y ago
bzip3 -b511: 580771424 8:51 I suspect your theory about compressed attachments is correct, although bzip3 isn't doing very well compared to the rest.
213.
by ars 1y ago
I got -22 to run: zstd --ultra -22: 494517545 14:00 Pretty minor difference.
214.
by ars 1y ago
That was an impressive result, so I tried it on a huge email inbox. uncompressed: 1512662084 xz --extreme -9: 508431572 12:47 zstd --ultra -21: 508432560 12:44 (-22 ran out of memory.) So at least by me zstd was ident
215.
by ars 1y ago
> and it doesn’t take much to verify them. Really, and how exactly would you verify them? And of course they would never just make up the numbers, right? https://www.cfr.org/blog/un-halves-its-estimate-women-and-ch..
216.
by ars 1y ago
There are two types of people: Those who think the Supreme court should rule based on the effect on people. And those who think the Supreme court should rule based on the laws as written.
217.
by ars 1y ago
"after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedures under the FTC Act during the rule-making process."
218.
by ars 1y ago
> They introduced a toggle in the address bar to show the window title. Who tf is asking for this? Actually a lot of people. For example on a Mac you can't see the window title except the first word or two in the tab. It's actu
219.
by ars 1y ago
It's not the bridge, the starting point seems to be on a freeway or something, if you move the starting point slightly toward the bridge it will show proper walking directions.
220.
by ars 1y ago
Anyone who call it "Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza" is hardly a reliable source. And the entire criticism is amount of coverage per death? I men the Israeli deaths have names attached to them and you can verify them, the Palestini
221.
by ars 1y ago
Looks like a 2 or 3 mile walk from the nearest public transport stops that I can find. Maybe someone local can find a closer stop. Forest Ave/Goethals Rd North to Bayway Ave at Mckinley St. Edit: This could be a fun game - find the two
222.
by ars 1y ago
I can't figure out how to add a route from Bay Ridge to Clinton in NJ. That's my wishlist subway - got to Newark Airport from Brooklyn without going through Manhattan. Edit: Actually Clifton is in NY, and playing with Google maps
223.
by ars 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
224.
by ars 1y ago
Get an RV and park it in NYC, live in the heart of the city rent free! You'll need to move it on street cleaning days but since you live in it you can wait and get the best parking spot.
225.
by ars 1y ago
If you are using enterprise drives those are 10^16, so that might explain it.
226.
by ars 1y ago
This happened about a year ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41407768
227.
by ars 1y ago
> The likelihood .. of this occurring That's 10^14 bits for a consumer drive. That's just 12TB. A heavy user (lots of videos or games) would see a bit flip a couple times a year.
228.
by ars 1y ago
> and smashing success of Bitcoin. It's a success today, we haven't gotten to when they stop issuing any more, and mining is funded by transaction fees. I suspect there are going to be some problems then.
229.
by ars 1y ago
> that smoking causes cancer was quite new Hardly new, In Sketches, Old and New by Mark Twain in 1893, he treats the concept of: smoking being dangerous, as obviously known but annoying and he doesn't want to hear about it. https:&
230.
by ars 1y ago
If this is the very first time this part of the ocean has ever been imaged/studied, how do we know that this is unusual and not something that happens periodically?
231.
by ars 1y ago
90 m/s? Way too slow, it's more like 70km/s (or 90) - seems you left out a k.
232.
by ars 1y ago
I don't have a fingerprint scanner on my computer, nor facial recognition. I do not want any kind of password that relies on my phone, because phones break and can get lost. So basically this forces me to change from a password to a PI
233.
by ars 1y ago
Is that why they come across as so antisemitic? Obviously there are biased antisemitic news organizations, but of the high-profile ostensibly neutral ones BBC stands head and shoulders above the rest in the level of antisemitism. (You don&#
234.
by ars 1y ago
Why would I want this? I watched a translated YouTube video and it was great. If I don't want the translated sound track there's a button right there in settings to change it. Why do I need this extension?
235.
by ars 1y ago
I wore one, but had some trouble with the glue, by day 8 or so it seemed like it was on the verge of falling off, so I added some medical tape which annoyed my skin. I suspect these devices will never go beyond 14 days at a time simply beca
236.
by ars 1y ago
Congress voted in 2015 to shut down the program. This should have been zero surprise to anyone. The hyperbolic comments about project 2025 and war on the courts, and climate change are just so crazy.
237.
by ars 1y ago
"said Chan had grown distant in recent years as the school’s academic performance faltered" If Chan's experiment isn't working, why would we expect her to keep funding it? The part at the end about it taking 20 years or
238.
by ars 1y ago
Funding was stopped by congress in 2015. The time to complain about this was 10 years ago.
239.
by ars 1y ago
This is such a bad article. They shut down this specific program in 2015, and switched to JPSS instead. There is no war on anyone, and this has nothing to do with Trump, DOGS, or Climate change. Rather there were too many satellite failures
240.
by ars 1y ago
> The article is saying it was DOGE Yah, but it's the guardian. They aren't exactly reliable. For it to be DOGE would require a time machine, because this project was shut down in 2015.

More ›