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That raises a good question (to my foreign mind). How do y'all go grocery shopping in a giant pickup? I mean ok some folks shop at Costco and buy food by the pallet so you can load them with a forklift, but what do the rest do? ICE trucks don't have a frunk so you can't put shopping bags there...

Potential for neat stuff, not just attacks. Micro SD express isn't just PCIe by another name, you have to do some SD protocol stuff to flip the pins into PCIe mode, but it's not that hard - assuming there's a way to do that without too much cooperation with the OS then you could hook an eGPU...

Something is odd there. That GitHub account was created on March 24: https://github.com/wangxiaofeng7 and its only repo is the website sources, which it says has been cloned from a template homepage repo: RayeRen/acad-homepage.github.io That suggests somebody has stood that account up as a...

I treat phones like cars. Buy one at a year or two old and let somebody else take the depreciation. It works especially now that support lifetimes have stretched out - but the depreciation on non-Apple phones doesn't seem to have improved. Currently it seems that you can get a year old...

There have been a lot of these 'we made an analogue neuron' papers over the years. The neuron is the easy bit, the difficult bit is the communication. In biology the 'wiring' grows and adapts as we learn. In silicon, wiring is set at fab time, identical for every chip. They don't remotely...

I've been affected by this. My small retro computing site was regularly knocked offline because the AI crawlers fill up the disc with logs more rapidly than the system can rotate them. It's a tiny VPS and a few GB of storage was previously not a problem. Unfortunately it's in the awkward...

A long time ago I once tried to figure out if crypto was a way to bypass exchange controls to move money to/from a very poor country with high inflation and tight restrictions on dollar exports. Then I woke up. When your economy is mostly black market cash, getting people to do Bitcoin things is...

I don't entirely buy the increasing power demand theory, because a number of failures were in audio equipment that weren't suffering from a Moore's law arms race. As the video suggests, likely more than one factor was at work.

This would be great. It would break the Apple/Google duopoly and cause there to be a third viable mobile OS. Perhaps one of those mobile Linux distros with the user's privacy and security being uppermost in the design, rather than rent seeking and surveillance. One can but dream...

The thing is that Twitter et al do have a UK presence, because they sell ads. This has kind of thing has happened before, eg the legal battles between London and Uber, which Uber lost. Ultimately the law allows the government to levy substantial fines, and if Twitter don't pay them then the...

I find it a bit like the microcomputer revolution in the early 80s. There was an initial gold rush and you could get rich by writing something quite basic. Fast forward a few years and you needed to produce something special to stand out. It feels like the early mobile apps had a similar gold...

Interestingly, it seems that LFGSS is still up. I haven't dug into the details, but it seems like they formed a Community Interest Company to own the platform and hold the liability. Which is one way to do it. I do find it amusing that there was once a strongly libertarian crowd on Ars, and...

I find it interesting that back in the day it wouldn't be unusual for shareware authors to charge $50 for some DOS utility or other (at 1990s prices). I don't know how many people paid but the market was much smaller. It seems that the price of software has fallen dramatically - with mobile we...

There's a list of forums which have decided to close in response to the OSA. Mostly small, although there are a few well known ones which seem to have worked something out, and others which have blocked the UK that aren't on that list. It seems to be that forum admins are being trigger happy...

I'm with you on measuring most things by weight. But spoons are a special case - you can stick the spoon into the jar of spices / seasoning / yeast / oil / ... and come out with exactly the right amount. If you tried to do that by weight, first you'd need an accurate scale (need to measure sub...

Why? Does anybody actually want this?

Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. The main problem is that we have a railway network built for about a million people to commute into London every weekday, and now many people aren't doing it but all the fixed costs remain. So the railway is losing a lot of money, even more than it...

Just for context, a rail season ticket between London and Newbury, the kind of not uncommon London area commute, costs £5857.20 ($7550) per year for 2 days a week and £6356 ($8200) per year for full time. So that's the level of de facto pay cut - add 20% or 40% as it'll come from post tax...

Does it actually make a difference to typing behaviour? Smartphone keyboards are a game of guessing which is the nearest key to the finger press, and if you change the shape of the onscreen graphic does it make a difference to the algorithm? It's not like they're icons we're hunt and pecking...

I do FPGA development which has 1-8 hour build times. Cutting those down can really improve the number of test cycles you can do a day. FPGAs are notoriously opaque, so sometimes when debugging a problem I'd use the time during the first build to try 4 different modifications to try to smoke out...