wosat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea - NotebookCheck.net News⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In what I’m sure is totally unrelated news, South Korea’s work force is predicted to shrink by half in the next 50 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won’t be making those copies available to end users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft tried to shanghai me to the “new outlook”. When I realized the scope of what they were trying to do, under the guise of a simple software update, I was floored. I don’t even think Google, with all of their Borg-ish tendencies, would attempt such a blatant hijacking of user data. The privacy implications are profound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is amazing and all, it’s always seemed to me that this approach of using hundreds of laser beams focused on a single point would never scale to be viable for power generation. Can any experts here confirm?

  I’ve always assumed this approach was just useful as a research platform – to learn things applicable to other approaches, such as tokamaks, or to weapons applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It amazes me that there are so many people who buy a printer, are offered this “pay $x a month for Y pages” type of plan, and say yes. I mean, sure, HP sucks, but they wouldn’t be able to get away with such slimy business practices if there weren’t so many people willing to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Supreme Court to hear case against Christian baker who refused to make LGBTQ-themed cake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses that create custom works should be able to decide what they want to create, but they shouldn’t be able to limit who they’ll sell to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you. Also, it seems like it would be much more efficient to do carbon capture at the source, where the fuel is being used, like a power plant, where the concentrations are relatively high, compared to atmospheric capture where CO2 is less than 0.1%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish Apple wouldn’t restrict them as much as they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How RedPlanetLabs reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s written in Java. Even though I’m not a huge fan of Java, it’s almost refreshing to see a new project claiming high performance that isn’t written in Rust or Go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m seeing a lot of commenters shitting on Texas here, and while it’s not completely undeserved, I’d like to point out that Texas is 1st in the nation in wind power generation. Texas will implement things – even “Blue” things – if the economics make sense.