At least cron weekly jobs run at a somewhat arbitrary time. Systemd weekly timers all run at midnight on Monday. That includes RHEL's fstrim timer. That's just great when you have 100s or 1000s of VMs starting a filesystem TRIM at the exact same seconds. Really kills the backend storage. /rant

I remember modifying the source to NCSA Mosaic to support JPEG (using the reference decoder), when the growing popularity of Netscape Navigator made it a viable image format for web pages. CompuServe and Unisys starting to enforce GIF patents at about the about the same time meant it caught on pretty quickly. At least from what I remember.

And Solaris servers have LDOMs - logical domains - which do the same thing.

They have about 20M customers a week across the UK. A "99.98% accuracy rate" might mean 0.02% false positives, with 4000 false positives a week. But, to make some numbers up, it might mean of the 10,000 people identified as know shoplifters each week, only 2 are wrongly identifed by the system. It's then up to staff to make a judgement call, and perhaps they mostly get it right. Who knows what they mean? Statistics is hard.

Maybe not the first time. But after the first, I can imagine some desperate dictator in dire straits programming others to explode if they detect they are being jammed. As a fuck you to the world.

To be fair, that it is a pretty crappy chart. It's misnamed (it's not charting emissions, is charting changes in emissions), and doesn't say what 2025 being compared to. Personally, I found it a clunky way of presenting this data.

Are you blaming the victim for every scam ever carried out through all of human history?

Concorde had pure turbojets, not turbofans like almost all passenger jets. The bypass air from turbofan helps reduce the noise of the jet exhast. Also, Concorde was on afterburners (reheat) for short while after take-off, but probably not for long enough to reach you - I think it was only for a few miles.

This wasn't very hard to do 20 years ago. The Viola-Jones face detection (not recognition) algorithm was first described 25 years. I remember my pre-smartphone digit camera drawing boxes around the faces it could detect in a group photo, and letting me select who to focus on. Here's a 2007 article about it, from one month before the iPhone's launch.

Older than that. The UK's first gasoline/electric submarine was launched in 1901.

While technically an international project, it sure feels American:

* NASA payed for 90% of it
* NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center managed the development
* The primary contractor was Northrop Grumman
* It's controlled from Johns Hopkins' Space Telescope Science Institute
* The ground segment uses NASA's deep space network

A good portion of the instruments were designed and/or built by ESA and CSA, and of course it was launched on an Ariane 5.

Indeed. I second that gnashing

I think you are both looking only at battery storage. The UK also has about 2.8 GW / 24 GWh of pumped hydro storage (with plans to add more).

Yup. The "Russian" bit was made up by El Reg - that was not in the quote at all. What she said was:

There exceptions made, including coconut milk, peanut butter, almond milk and ice cream.

Capitalism rarely gets projects like this done at all. The profits (tolls?) are too uncertain, and too far in the future. Large civil engineering projects typically come from governments committed to building infrastructure.