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GPUs may have existed in the 90's but they were very specialized to graphics and couldn't do general purpose computation like factoring integers.

This is the same for mains power cables. Permanent installs are usually solid cores, while the "flexi" cables you plug into a socket are stranded.

This is configurable in Github Actions. Many projects want to run CI for each commit to avoid situations where one commit breaks the build and the commit after in the same push or PR fixes it. Broken commits in the history makes bisecting harder.

As someone vaguely in the industry: It's because of the huge rise in RAM prices. One of OnePlus' points was high specs at low price. They don't have the margins to eat current RAM prices.

> the camera photos were stuck on the camera

I'm surprised no camera manufacturer has created an easy way to get all your photos to Google Photos / iCloud/ Dropbox / etc. They have some wireless photo transfer things, but they're clunky and unusable. Just connect the camera to WiFi and auto-upload everything to the service of my choice. I'm guessing it's a mix of:

* Camera manufacturers are hardware companies and can't do software and cloud stuff.

* It wouldn't interact well with swapping SD cards, which is what all the pros want.

* The camera would need to stay powered when off to upload photos. Current cameras have a hard power switch.

By "fuel", do you mean reaction mass (stuff that shoots out the back of the rocket) or energy source?

A nuclear reactor in space would require an enormous heat sink to get useful energy out.

Interestingly, Cityfibre often reuse the old telephone poles. It means you can get fibre to the home with no digging required. Yay old tech?

The main cost of running a bug bounty program is developer time spent triaging submissions from all the people who just run an automated scanner against your website and submit everything it outputs.

It depends on what Poker variant you're playing. These days Texas hold 'em is dominant, but Five-card draw used to be very common, especially for informal games.

> difference between $6/user and $18/user is 0

I wouldn't go that far. Big companies put a lot of effort into saving $12/seat.

But, if you can convince them they get >$18 of value from it they're usually happy to pay. With hobbyists it's more emotional. $6 is "just a coffee" and can be justified just to try it out. At $18/m is one of your household bills, and many will decide they enjoy watching Netflix more than messing around with Tailscale.

I meant to write a blog post titled "What's good about ClearCase" in 2014, and I wish I did because now I've forgotten most of it.

ClearCase is a terrible version control system I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, but it did have some good points that git still doesn't have. Large binary file support, configuration records, winkin, views.

With various big companies going towards giant monorepos and the local git repo just being a view into the super-centralized repo, I think they will re-invent parts of ClearCase.

> You shoot the entangled photon through a double slit and see if a wave-like pattern occurs, in which case we're still in a superposition and our communicator has not measured

Wait, does this work? Are superposition detection devices theoretically possible? Got any reference with more on this?

Tibetan script has been in Unicode since version 2 from 1996, with some characters added in later versions. Is there are particular human script you want added to Unicode?

Lots of emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and need 4 bytes in UTf-8 and UTF-16. That's without going into skin color and other modifiers and combinations.

Video calls indeed almost always use UDP. TCP retransmission isn't really useful since by the time a retransmitted packet arrives it's too old to display. Worse, a single lost packet will block a TCP stream. Sometimes TCP is the only way to get through a firewall, but the experience is bad if there's any packet loss at all.

VC systems do constantly send back packet loss statistics and adjust the video quality to avoid saturating a link. Any buffering in routers along the way will add delay, so you want to keep the bitrate low enough to keep buffers empty.