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Re:The Engineering Behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:57AM (#49742679)
Sun, rain, hurricanes, wind, debris is not friendly to long term oil storage.
Re:Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:24AM (#49659005)
Diesel in Norway was about €2.5 a litre today.
Re:Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:13AM (#48905578)
You can skip the porting part.
Re:Qualcomm Linux 2.0 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:39AM (#48758350)
Ofcourse they can. But which particular person will do it ?

The "upstream" people deal with their own drivers, subsystems or tasks which takes up their time - but if someone feels they want to take on this too, they'll do it (normally that doesn't happen - it's up to the original authors to take responsibility)

Re:Coreutils for Windows on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:01PM (#48373814)
users , especially non-technical, find it highly useful in my experience. Is it a net positive to get rid of them, or will it largely only make developers happier ?
Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:21AM (#48308604)
I've set up a local gitea now, and configured a few local runners as we test this setup out.

It's a few hours worth of work. Basic git operations and pull requests works fine for us already.

The interesting part will be how much maintenance this will need, and not the least how hard it'll be to port over github actions. We have trivial workflows, but I suspect this conversion will be the painful part.

So by coincidence, not by design then.
Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design on Sunday April 19, 2026 @07:19AM (#47823474)
Not really. Wifi does not do CSMA/CD. It does CSMA/CA, something quite different.

Wifi is in any case not considered a bus network, rather a star topology network.

Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:51PM (#47785066)
> But... Why on earth do the people filing an administrative subpoena not have to notify the interested parties too?

Generally they do - with some notable exceptions being if you're a non-citizen and you're no longer in the US, and it's either a criminal investigation or related to intelligence or national security.

Re:Do you even need a database? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:14PM (#47783832)
Yes, the code in the article will at one unlucky point end up with an empty file after a power outage.

At least write to a temp file(in the same filesystem), fsync the file and its folder and rename it over the original.

Re:MAUI Is Coming to Linux on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:59PM (#47482083)
It just means "noone" uses the wayland APIs directly, but instead they leave the wayland complexity to GTK,Qt or FLTK, and they call their app a Qt app, not a Wayland app.
A typical CPU heatsink dissipates 10-30% of heat through radiation, and the rest through convection. In space you're in a vacuum so you can't disipated heat through convection.

You need to rework your physical equipment quite substantially to make up for the fact you can't shed 70-90% of the heat in the same manner as you can down here on Earth

Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea on Saturday November 29, 2025 @08:11PM (#46092521)
Is it an advantage though ? One of the main objections in the article is exactly that.

There's no atmosphere that helps with heat loss through convection, there's nowhere to shed heat through conduction, all you have is radiation. It is a serious engineering challenge for spacecrafts to getting rid of the little heat they generate, and avoid being overheated by the sun.

They are doing _something_ according to https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-c... . It'd be good for someone with more knowledge to summarise what this act means though.
Re:Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:12PM (#45841686)
> Norwegians self identify as socialist for example

Er.. that's not even remotely true

Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @05:59PM (#45753640)
No, it's for every batch.
Mostly out of curiosity, a read on a TCP connection could easily block for a month - how does the I/O timeout interface look like ? e.g. if you want to send an application level heartbeat when a read has blocked for 30 seconds.
Re:Iceland just found its first mosquitoes on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:06PM (#45698046)
Iceland does have a lot of gnats, midges, flies etc. that are just as big a nusance.
Yes, seems so - but they shut down a lot more terminals too, not just the seized ones.

And it seems the biggest reason for them shutting down the terminals was pressure from US Senator Maggie Hassan to shut down scam centers, not the government in Myanmar.

Yes, in some areas - but not e.g. on Sicily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4_AwWpfI gives perhaps a better overview

M. Ibericus produces 4 kinds of offsprings.

    1. M. Ibericus queen + no male (unfertilized egg) -> M. Ibericus male.
    2. M. Ibericus queen + M. Ibericus male -> M. Ibericus queen
    3. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor male, no genes from the mother
    4. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor/Ibericus hybrid female, (worker ant, infertile)
I thought one of the big points was there's no M. structor females on the islands.
They tip over from inertia or a small wind gust.
Do the list go on ? For gas Q2 2025, figure 5 at https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports it's

    UK          5,6%
    Azerbadjan  3,8%
    Algeria    12,5%
    Norway     30,1%
    Other LNG   9,4%
    USA LNG    27,2%
    Russia     11,5%
Most of the "Other LNG" comes from Turkstream in the underlying data. Edit: I was wrong, Turkstream is included in "Russia".

If I read it right, for oil in Q1 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

    United States    15,0%
    Norway           13,5%
    Kazakhstan       12,7%
    Libya             9,0%
    Saudi Arabia      6,6%
    Nigeria           6,3%
    United Kingdom    5,2%
    Iraq              4,5%
    Guyana            4,3%
    Brazil            4,1%
    Azerbaijan        4,1%
    Algeria           3,4%
    Russia            2,5%
    Mexico            2,1%
    Other             6,6%
Re:ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers to Spy on People's Phones on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:03PM (#45189077)
Those Attach Rejects should have a cause value, possibly telling a bit more on the reject reason.

I see those quite frequently, the bulk of them are phones trying to roam in a network they're not allowed to though, and some cause the cell is a bit overloaded, some cause the phone sends a wrong tracking area - not sure that's a phone bug or a common scenario where the phone retains an old tracking area, then it tries to connect to the same tracking area - then the phone discovers it's is now in a different tracking area, and after being rejected, it connects with the correct one.

Proxmox is an amazing alternative
Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others on Friday September 05, 2025 @05:00PM (#45143550)
TikTok complied with their regulation last year. The regulations basically requires social media platforms with > 1 million nepalese accounts to get a license to operate in Nepal.

The bill and requirments doesn't seem unreasonable, atleast according to https://www.lawgandhi.com/social-media-bill-2081-2025/

Re:The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami on Thursday August 28, 2025 @08:25AM (#45051310)
Wasn't the point of the post you replied to that it isn't just a simple makefile ? That repo contains quite a lot carefully assembled scripts for each image that handles a lot of corner cases.
Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:39PM (#44935160)
2.2-4.4 pounds, not that much tbh. (source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140610-ol...)

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