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Re:Bug Story: Sorting by Timestamp on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:10PM (#38817993)
Then don't use UUIDs, use snowflakes / flakes
Re:Generation Junk on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:08PM (#38817962)
If you find other American manufacturers of quality appliances please share! I'm always on the lookout
> It'd take what, half a day, for some teenager to modify the firmware to double the 0-60 and blow up the battery pack at the same time?

this is basically why the NHTSA told car manufacturers not to obey Massachusetts' Right to Repair laws.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/14/federal-highway-traffic...

Re:Generation Junk on Friday December 29, 2023 @06:42PM (#38811529)
You can, it's SpeedQueen

> We test our commercial quality machines to 10,400 cycles or roughly 25 years of life in an average household.

> You probably want to hear that we test our electronic controls to one million depressions…yes, we actually do.

https://speedqueen.com/speed-queen-difference/

Re:What makes cheddar cheese taste so good? on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:28PM (#38810998)
Babcock Hall at UW is also like the world leading expert institution on dairy and cheese, too. (Try their ice cream, it's literal perfection from the ingredients to exact temperatures required to get the precise consistency)
Re:What makes cheddar cheese taste so good? on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:20PM (#38810939)
I've talked to the Hooks folks, and they have disaster recovery storage plan for their cheese spread throughout the country to survive various natural disasters.

edit: 15yr Hooks is heavenly too

Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @05:53PM (#38787867)
Nuclear is renewable for the same reason geothermal is renewable, and you can get uranium out of seawater for the same price as mining it

https://www.tiktok.com/@nuclearsciencelover/video/7092135813...

Re:Bug Story: Sorting by Timestamp on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @02:03PM (#38774804)
UUIDv7 is sortable by time
Re:Where Are the Sanity Checks? on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:40PM (#38773889)
The magic fairy dust is "really fast NVME" and "really low latency memory access" which for most users makes the 8GB give a performance comparable to slower 16GB memory (and not need to read from disk).

That's about it. If you're doing anything other than regular web browsing and word processing it's not going to be the same as having 16GB. But I'm certain the average Mac user is not a developer, video editor, or other power user.

Like it or not, tech nerds are not the average consumer of Apple hardware.

Re:A data corruption bug in OpenZFS? on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @09:56AM (#38772256)
bclones were only one way to trigger the corruption. This is not a good way to check.

It's also not worth checking for because this bug has existed for many years. Your data probably wasn't affected. None of the massive ZFS storage companies out there ran into it by now either.

Your data is fine. Sleep easy.

Wolves do a better job of culling the sick deer (or cattle)
Re:DIY ventilation heat exchanger (2010) on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:37AM (#38744492)
Exactly my concern... Just buy the Aprilaire 8100 and don't risk mold...
Someone tell this man about Leaf380

https://leaf380.com/

Buddy you realize that the Model Y is the top selling vehicle in the USA and the top selling car in the entire world, right?
Re:The Hyperloop was always a scam on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:37AM (#38735818)
Yes, it is. Do you think that everyone who would ride the train can afford a Tesla or any other new car? Of course not
Re:Who are you going to call when your private jet breaks? on Thursday December 21, 2023 @05:35PM (#38728075)
That's why you rent or lease them. Only the beyond stupid rich buy them.

"If it f*ks, flies, or floats -- rent it, don't buy it."

Apple has released a paper about running LLMs efficiently with low memory

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf

Re:Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:56PM (#38725939)
> but is it done by force?

Yes, of course. Do you really think most of these people even in the care of their own family would have complete agency over their lives? No, they'd be declared unfit and their Power of Attorney would be delegated to someone else.

Everyone wants free software developers to slave away for free. Give away your worldly things, don't worry about feeding your family or keeping shelter over your head -- just keep on cranking out new releases out of the goodness of your own hearts.
It matters when it's -20C and the cable can't bend
Re:Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:38PM (#38723715)
You see all those homeless people? The tent cities? That's because they have nowhere to go anymore. A ton of those people are mentally ill.

Yes, those mental hospitals were terribly run. But we need to create a safe place for these people. We can't just give up because of mistakes made in the past.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/06/health-beat-bring-back-the...

Re:USB-C Cures Mosquito Bites on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:11PM (#38711701)
> Vegans aren't a collective entity.

It's still human dominion over animals. And veganism is still veganism. e.g., don't tell me that "some vegans decide it's OK to wear leather" because they're not "a collective entity" or something like that. Veganism is very much a black & white ethos. There is no acceptable gray area for veganism.

This is very true about 3 phase, but I have heard that there is interest in it being used in EU for AC charging in public garages because it can handle anything up to 277 volts vs J1772 which can only do 208/240. So they can give it 1 of the 3 phases @ 220V and it will work unlike J1772. Allegedly.

But I kind of doubt it will go anywhere when they've been forcing CCS2 on everyone.

CCS2 is terrible, I'd hate to be forced to use that giant bulky connector and cable. The EU got it wrong. Design by committee always sucks.
If the other end of the wire is a bank in the USA they certainly can get it back. It's only when the money has left the country that you're in real trouble
Re:USB-C Cures Mosquito Bites on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:42PM (#38689450)
Vegans used to not own pets as that was deemed immoral. And now they do. The goal posts keep moving.
Indeed, the correct solution here is emqx
Re:Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:28PM (#38675597)
Why do so many people think the economy is in a healthy position? Strong performance now means nothing. e.g., Department Store Sales 3-month average was $17B in 2008 and is now down to under $11B. It's a bloodbath. It has been steadily trending down since 2008.

"Bill Ackman warns economy will fall off a cliff if the Fed doesn't hurry and cut rates"

The Fed isn't going to cut rates for years. They're refusing to blink. These are Volcker-sized balls on JPow.

Any rallying now is squeezing blood from the stone. Any massive layoffs, sales, mergers, bankruptcies, or consolidations is hedging for the unavoidable cliff.

These are just smart, safe moves by corporations -- getting their affairs in order, per se.

And now the workers are going to suffer because they didn't organize labor when the economy was booming and they weren't feeling the pinch. Hopefully they learn this time and don't let the unions weaken if they want to avoid being battered and left for a cheaper workforce or replaced with automation.

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