the Germans occupied Ukraine, actually occupied the house of one of my grandfather. What is your stupid point?

Just to be clear, I believe that part of the problem was that the city government was broke and basically in receivership. Ergo, the politicians in Flint were not actually in control of the water contracts, it was an emergency manager appointed by Governor Rick Snyder(R).

I remembered the broke part and not in control, looked up the specifics.

Basically, to cut costs, the manager stopped the practice of piping water from Detroit and started using the historically very polluted and corrosive Flint River, without adequate testing and treatment (itself actually a violation of federal law).
Because many of the homes still had lead service pipes, going from basic to acidic caused the protective oxidization on the pipes to dissolve, putting excessive lead into the water.

It eventually made national news, but by all measures, this is still a far better situation than what Tehran is facing.

Switching back to the old water source or adding more controls like running the water through a filter of crushed limestone to correct the PH fixes the issues in Flint. No such easy solution is possible for Tehran.

No, he chose war in Europe, this is the next step for putin. You didn't really think the ruzzian murderers that make up their armed forces will be allowed to return back to the motherland alive, did you? The next target is Estonia or Latvia, then Poland and the rest will follow. Regardless what anyone thinks, ruzzia has learned to fight the next type of war and nobody is ready for this except for one nation, that is holding the orcs - Ukraine.

Bandera is a national hero, fighting for Ukrainian freedom from occupiers, the ruzzians spout nonsense. Ukrainians are actually proud that Bandera was a Ukrainian. If the ruzzians went to war against the USA they would call George Washington a nazi, whatever.

I just landed in Warsaw, taking a ride to Ukraine right now. There are dirt poor people living in Ukraine, I am sure, probably some older folks are. That said, I work with over 950 people from Ukraine, vast majority of them living in Ukraine, over 200 people in software development, over 600 in support, many sales and other roles. Half of them own their homes, half of them have their own cars, everyone owns a computer, power banks, generators, satellite communication equipment, most also have fiber at home. They dine in nice restaurants, food is not worse than anywhere.

Here is a link to one of many restaurants I frequent when in Odessa for example. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GvHDHh...

Here is one in Kiev https://maps.app.goo.gl/JSnpEW...

one in Mykolaiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sd72r6...

here is a shopping mall in Harkiv https://maps.app.goo.gl/3osPzi...

You should maybe find out a few things before typing something, though we know that paper tolerates everything.

I'm not really clear what it even does. You get an @thundermail.com address I think, probably blocked or assumed to be spam by many systems. Anything else?

The containment buildings didn't contain the meltdown, and the emergency cooling system that was supposed to let them use external pumps diverted the water into holding tanks instead of the cores. There were many screw-ups, and even now they are behind schedule with the decommissioning and clean up.

Chernobyl and Fukushima had the same root cause - too expensive. Chernobyl skimped on not bothering to build containment buildings or train people properly. Fukushima didn't build the necessary tsunami defences, despite being warned.

It's nuclear's Achilles' heel. Costs too much to be commercially viable, can't afford to be properly insured, and doesn't get the necessary level of investment once it's running.

I think there is some confusion here. They don't seem to have disabled it on older chips, only on new laptops, before sale, where AV1 is supported.

"No backup" is amateur-level. Also that they did not use n-out-of-k with n k is a pretty basic mistake.

Especially for people who do cryptography as their livelihood. They understand the importance of keys and to keep them safe.

Not using n of k is understandable - not every situation warrants n of k and they were likely thinking that it would be fine for all three people to be in charge of the results. N of k usually is for situations where you want K people to have the key so only N of them need to be present. Like if you were accessing say, a secret vault - you want N people to verify everyone's role in the access, but K people need access.

Here all 3 people likely were going to be needed to certify the election results so having 2 of 3 wouldn't have done anything other than let one of them lose the key.

30 GB of Mail Storage
300 GB of Send Storage
15 Email Addresses
3 Custom Domains
Is a good amount of service for $9 a month. I assume that this is 15 different logins. Proton is $7 per user.

I pay $11.50/month for 500GB of storage. It's a hosting service called OpalStack. You can have unlimited email accounts, unlimited domains as long as it all fits in 500GB

Sure it's $2.50 a month more, but you get hosting as well. And it's a full Linux shell prompt, no chintzy CPanel or other service - full linux LAMP hosting of whatever you want.

The problem is not the few parents who are homeschooling because their kid isn't getting adequate education, it's the larger majority of people who are homeschooling, or rather "unschooling". Usually because they don't want their kids exposed to "strange kids" (kids who are non-white, or do things that are unusual), or exposed to "bad ideas".

If you don't know, that's when parents are basically not teaching them anything - they grow up to be 18 and have the social skills of a 5 year old, math below a Grade 5 level (they can barely add two single-digit numbers together), and are completely hopeless.

Yes, there are people growing up literally as dumb as rocks. Their parents teach them that ignorance is good. Just vote Republican and all will be well with the world, and stay away from anyone with a different skin color as they're evil. Just stick around and do the family business and you'll be alright.

It's an alarming trend, and sadly, they outnumber the few kids who actually get a decent or better education at home.

I'm sure soon enough you'll get HEVC enablers in the Windows Store where you can pay $5 and enable hardware HEVC decode.

But it's likely not a huge issue - HEVC would only apply for 4K videos, and web videos are using either h.264 or AV1. Some streaming services are using HEVC, but the patent issues have generally steered them to using h.264

HEVC is generally reserved only for Blu-Ray playback, and since UHD Blu-Ray is not possible on PCs anymore, it's basically relatively useless. Everyone else uses h.264 or AV1

Sorry, I didn't get that quite correct, they're Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners. They require no external power.

/. can't do UTF

It can, actually. It just implements an ASCII filter because you must sanitize your input, especially Unicode. Anyone who doesn't sanitize their Unicode is asking for trouble as people abuse Unicode to screw up your webpage. It's trivial to make say, a page unreadable if you do not implement any filters.

If you count by characters, you can ingest megabytes of Unicode because you can have unlimited decorations on a character. You have to limit your inputs and you have to limit what you can input. Unicode is ever evolving and new codepoints are constantly being defined that can mess with you. /. filters to just the ASCII set in a very hacky but correct way of whitelisting allowed Unicode characters.

It's also advanced enough to filter HTML entities which can contain arbitrary Unicode codepoints, to avoid the same issue. It's supported, just filtered.