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Ubiquity routers and APs do. Also schedulable backups.

Granted they are pro-sumer devices, not strictly consumer.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:12PM (#50342997)
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:06PM (#50342899)
The takeaway -- prefer Debian over Ubuntu for my servers.
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:04PM (#50342866)
A few microvolts difference, well under 1 milli-volt. I'm pretty sure power grid storage doesn't need that precision.
Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:46AM (#50339586)
It doesn't apply to agents because people coming and going brought their own preferences, dislikes and ignorances. Also unspoken/unwritten rules and ideas for future structure. Agents follow the same AGENTS.md, know all the tricks other agents know, so I would expect them to code more uniformly.
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:24AM (#50333709)
I think you can. RC toys do that all the time. Maybe the measurement is less precise, but you usually don't need super precise voltage, especially if you know your capacitance and measure current.
Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:06PM (#50330419)
IMO the largest true value of the frameworks (and languages to some extent) is how they help long-running projects with many people coming and going. The most valuable trait was not what framework allowed, but what framework disallowed, preventing foot guns. E.g. Java got popular because it forced everyone to code similarly, at least more similar than other languages at that time.

But for agents it doesn't matter, so why frameworks at all?

PS: authors comparison is not relevant, as it's simple mostly-static app with very little cross-dependencies, localizations, component re-usage.

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:13AM (#50326419)
The problem is greatly exacerbated by two-party system. If there was a solid third or fourth choice, then at least people wouldn't be given two bad (in their opinion) choices. Many people don't vote at all, being disillusioned with the voting system.

Can we do something about it? The winner-takes-all Electoral College certainly contributes to two-party system [1] and to narrow margins [2]. There are two states who don't do winner-takes-all (Maine and Nebraska), and we can force all states to split their electoral votes.

[1] https://www2.law.temple.edu/lppp/electoral-college-two-party...

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/108/3/727/11948...

Re:I DO Understand Relativity on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:00AM (#50323061)
If we assume that the question is valid, then I can ask the same question but instead of Alpha Centauri I'd ask about some more distant object. Like the galaxy MoM-z14 (redshift z=14.4, the farthest known object) -- we see it as it was 280 million years after the Big Bang. No they cannot see Earth as it was 13.5 billion years ago, the universe age was only 280 million years at that time.

The correct ways to ask the question would be:

1. If we send a signal (like a question "how to you see us") to the Alpha Centauri/MoM-z14 -- what response would we receive from them and when?

2. If we send ourselves aka observer (at the light speed or slower) to the Alpha Centauri/MoM-z14, how would we see Earth when we arrive there?

In both cases the answer would be "like the Earth is today, or later", not "how the Earth was N years ago".

So we cannot move ourselves, even imaginatively, to a distant place faster than speed of light. Otherwise we would be outside our light cone.

Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:27PM (#50320409)
Albania is right now mafia #1 in Europe, after Italy cracked theirs down.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:25PM (#50320395)
Yeah, in my opinion they might easily fall into the hands of professional manipulators, I mean the same power-hungry drug dealers and human traffikers, all for the noble reasons. It takes experience living among the wolves to recognize one.

The only positive example I've seen is Georgia 2003-2013 (with strong western money support that surprisingly wasn't all stolen).

Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:48PM (#50320045)
I cannot wait for NPCs having a casual conversation. Doesn't seem too hard, as current chatbots are already role-playing.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:37PM (#50319937)
Not true, every item shows its raw materials right there in its menu. The rest is just arithmetic.

Also the LLM probably has seen dozens of factorio-related websites and setups.

And also, player (artificial or natural intelligence) don't need to setup everything upfront, it's actually the main gameplay feature is to run between production areas to expand/optimize them.

Can you buy a car in Mexico and drive it to US and register properly?
Re:Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:36AM (#50289802)
> What would be needed is some sort of compatibility switch that disables all optional CPU features. Sure, you will get some reduced performance of the compiled code, but in exchange, a faster startup time.

I think other AOT-compiled languages don't opt in for the lowest set of CPU features -- they just detect them at runtime and use whenever present, all in compiled machine code.

I remember it felt odd when XSLT code provided "otherwise" instead of "else".
Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:50PM (#50277868)
And also unit tests for edge cases and loopholes in laws.
Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:42PM (#50277691)
It is hard to do even sitting on a planet (even impossible) -- there are minute differences in gravity and acceleration between any two points, so time flows with different speeds. And it changes all the time.

If something is possible theoretically, it may not be in practice. But if something is proven to be impossible, it's also impossible in practice.

Note we're not talking about "below a millisecond" or below any other time range (second, minute, month). We're talking about _exactly_.

Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:21AM (#50240732)
To be fair, my first computer _was_ inside its keyboard.
Re:I DO Understand Relativity on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:48PM (#50236824)
Entanglement (more correctly, wave-function collapse) cannot be used to transmit information. So there is a "spooky action at a distance", but there is no faster than light communication.

I find it's easier to understand if you assume that every entangled particle already "knows" what state it will be at the moment of entanglement. In theory it's called "hidden variables". John Stewart Bell has proven that there's no local hidden variables, but noone said about global variables. For example, in Superdeterminism it's all easy and clear.

Re:I DO Understand Relativity on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:50AM (#50229821)
Theres one more thing that is often assumed, but "wrong" -- that there's some global time.

For example if you hear something like "did you know that aliens from Alpha Centauri see Earth as it was 2 years ago, as it's the time light from Earth takes to reach Alpha Centauri?". No they do not, because it would assume that there's some common "now" between Earth and Alpha C.

If we assume a common "now", it would lead to a whole bunch of paradoxes and errors, like "what was before the Big Bang?" (error in the question), or "where is the center of the Universe?", or "those faint red-shifted stars that we see as they were almost 13 billion years ago".

Re:Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:36AM (#50229745)
So it would still be stealing legally, right? And feds could watch the thief as the ledger is always public.
Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:04AM (#50218273)
Einstein read Poincare papers for sure, and realized that assembling all those pieces together turns the physics upside down. But many of the results of the special relativity were well known before. For example, the great Michelson–Morley experiment was conducted in 1887, 18 years before. Einstein was the first to realize that all the pieces form a totally new puzzle.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:05PM (#50214572)
Another weirdness is why does docker even need a daemon? Podman saw that and can work without daemon.

Similar to Helm -- in v3 they also removed a daemon (Tiller).

Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:54PM (#50214456)
> not necessarily exactly equal to the time

I believe it was Poincare who has proven that it's even theoretically impossible to synchronize clocks exactly.

They will appeal.
They will appeal, as usual, and never pay that.
Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:06PM (#50137531)
Old school HTML coder is close, yes.
Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:55PM (#50113878)
I use tables, columns and rows.

Am I DBA, accountant, or data engineer?

Re:Why are we even doing all this? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:18PM (#50111714)
I've read it, the main idea is "this isn’t just about mathematics or physics — it’s about fundamentally reimagining what it means to be human", but he still talks like all problems are solved. My point is that no only those that did not require novel creative approaches like Collatz.

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