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Comment Re:Congrats to Linux Devs and Distros! (Score 1) 41

Does a Windows game run 100% in WINE?

YES! Many happy users of Proton on Steam Deck will answer in the affirmative for many games. This is what Valve's 30 percent cut of Steam sales pays for.

If *Nix was just a simple drop-in replacement without all the config issues that require an hour of reading to fix

As if Windows 11 doesn't have its own host of "config issues that require an hour of reading to fix."

Comment TF are these toasters *doing*? (Score 1) 42

Every time they talk about this damn thing it's a different size and works by a different mechanism. Explanations given vary from this magnetic field mumbo jumbo to essentially just being a near perfect dead reckoning integrator.

Anyone have links to any actual papers or journalism on the subject that hasnt been oversimplified to the point where it is just nonsense?

Comment Re: Don't be overconfidence battery tech progressi (Score 1) 197

"Messing around with your car"

How long do you think it takes to plug in?

If I need to plug in when I get home, it literally takes under 30 seconds. I had someone else time it as well as counting myself on more than one occasion. 30 seconds to: open the charge door, remove the plastic cover on the port, walk over to the EVSE (around the corner of the house), grab the charger, unwrap one loop of cable, walk back over to the car, and plug it in. And I can do all that one-handed while carrying something else.

Then I go inside and forget the car even exists. Next morning, it's exactly the same process up reversed. This is the routine roughly twice a month.

Meanwhile, while I was still a gasser, I'd have to make a detour at some point during my travels to pull into a gas station and deal with all that, which all told would all 15+ minutes to my commute. A mandatory 15+ minutes, mind you, because there is no alternative... I can't refuel a gasoline car at home.

I can count the times I've used a DCFC in the past 5 years of EV ownership on one hand, and at least two of those were completely unnecessary and I did it just to have that experience. I'd say it's about the same 15+ minutes overall because I don't count all the stuff I'm doing that I would have done anyway if I had just parked a gas car... except my parked gas car would not be getting refueled so I'd have to make another special trip for that.

This might be the weakest of weaksauce complaints against EVs you've come up with yet.
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Comment The line between citation and advertisement (Score 1) 33

I happened to be aware of the existence of a extension made by someone else that offers domain-level opt-in consent to run script in a particular web browser. I cited the extension's title and author and deliberately left out any URL. I thought that would have been adequate to imply lack of conflict of interest. A user has implied to me that it is not. What means of citing a source would have been adequate?

Comment Fan as CPU spike monitor (Score 1) 33

?) it’s handed a lightweight JavaScript proof-of-work challenge—solve this trivial SHA-256 puzzle before proceeding. [...] There’s no crypto mining, no wallet enrichment

Yet. Because Anubis is free software, and because its hash happens to be the same as the proof of work of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, someone could modify Anubis to tie the SHA-256 puzzle to the Bitcoin block that a mining pool is working on.

no WASM blobs firing up your GPU

Until someone writes a browser extension to offload solving the hashcash to WebGPU.

Most users won’t know their machine is doing extra work unless they’re monitoring CPU spikes or poking around in dev tools.

Laptops tend to have an always-on CPU spike monitor: the exhaust fan. So do phones and tablets: they get warm. So do older, less expensive, or small-form-factor desktop computers: they get stuck on the interstitial for up to a minute.

Anubis is a fantastic tool, but I think we can strengthen it by baking in the principle of informed consent.

This already exists. Use an extension to make script-in-the-browser opt-in per domain, such as the Firefox extension "Javascript Control" by Erwan Ameil.

Comment Remember Coinhive? (Score 1) 33

Apparently no one else thought to use this solution for this problem until Xe Iaso came along.

I seem to remember a service called Coinhive that offered a script to make the viewer's device mine the cryptocurrency Monero in the background. I forget if it had an option to hide the article until a particular amount was mined. (Coinhive shut down when too many intruders started installing its script on other people's websites.)

Comment Re:Gemini is far more transparent on this vs ChatG (Score 1) 74

https://github.com/0x192/unive...

I've been using this to good results. Of course it's always sketchy uninstalling system level packages so the risk of bootlooping/bricking your device and/or breaking features you actually want is entirely on you.

That said, permanently disabling/removing Gemini shouldn't be a problem.
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Comment US used to have 40 percent tax on the richest (Score 1) 249

Why and what does a "balanced budget" look like?

In a balanced budget, taxation exceeds spending, like it did at the end of the Clinton administration and just before George W. Bush went to war. The highest federal income tax bracket at the time was about 40 percent. What broke the budget was a misguided attempt to stimulate private business by cutting income tax on the richest American taxpayers.

Comment Receipt bug in early Steam (Score 1) 47

I sorta think of it as the "always online" issue, which in the past I thought was absolutely unacceptable for a single player game, and now I mostly don't care because I'm always online anyways.

That created a problem for dial-up users and laptop users back in the day. That was solved in two ways. First, Valve fixed the bug in early Steam that was causing it to fail to store purchase receipts for offline mode. (Users at the time were experiencing this as a need to be online for switching to offline mode to work.) Second, the home Internet market as a whole phased out dial-up, and even in areas not served by fiber, cable, or DSL, dial-up users largely switched to satellite Internet.

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