The purpose of needrestart is to check if any running software is using packages that have since had new versions installed, so you can restart just the software that needs to be restarted rather than rebooting the whole machine. So of course it uses python to check python software, and perl to check perl software, etc. Nothing wrong with that. Using OS package manager dependencies would result in tons of false positives, and doing everything in a single language would result in a ton of reinventing the wheel and thus likely introduce more security bugs rather than use the functionality that the various language ecosystems already provide.

No they couldn't. For decades after Tetris was released people thought playing past level 29 was impossible because you simply couldn't press buttons fast enough. It wasn't until around 2010 before someone developed a new hypertapping technique that made it kind of sort of possible, and then it wasn't until 2021 that the rolling technique was developed that finally allowed for real play at the higher levels. It was only after those techniques were developed and people spent years practicing them that anyone was able to play long enough to even get to that crash, which first happened a few months ago. Until then there was no point in having a modified version, because there wasn't anyone on the planet good enough at Tetris to make use of it.

So sorry to break it to you, but today's teenagers are playing at such a higher level than we did in the past, it's not even funny.

It has nothing to do with a what reasonable person would expect or want or think of Google in general. It is about how a reasonable person would interpret the contract (terms of service and privacy policy) that Google made people agree to when they installed Chrome.

Sending up new suits on the next Dragon is the plan (if they don't fly down on Starliner). The issue is that ISS only has two IDA docking ports, and both are taken. So Starliner will have to leave before the next Dragon carrying the new suits arrives. If there is an emergency evacuation in the few days or weeks between that, then they will have to evacuate in the existing Dragon without suits. In other words, this story is completely overblown and about the least interesting thing to talk about regarding the Starliner debacle, so of course it has been spreading around like wildfire.

Falcon 9 has had 3 failures in 354 missions, or if you exclude the earlier versions of the rockets, 1 failure in 298 Falcon 9 Block 5 missions.

Sierra Nevada did receive $1.4B in private investments to develop crew Dream Chaser a few years ago. That is significantly less than NASA awarded SpaceX ($2.6B) and Boeing ($4.2B) however those Commercial Crew contracts include 6 operational flights each, not just development. But I do consider Dream Chaser the least likely of the five to succeed.

Also rather exciting that the US will soon have at least three and possibly up to five different manned vehicles at once in the near future:
* Dragon
* Starliner
* Orion
* Starship
* Dream Chaser

Yes, though the association varies from +10 to +11 twice a year.

Branches are particularly bad on GPUs. In that SIMD model of computation you usually have multiple hardware blocks (called threads but unrelated to CPU threads) implementing the same instruction on different data in parallel. Since some of the threads will evaluate the branch condition to true and others false, and they are all operating in lockstep, that means the hardware needs to execute both branches every time, with some of the threads just sitting doing nothing while the other threads execute the "if", and visa-versa while the others execute the "else".

At least that was the case when I was doing CUDA 5+ years ago. Don't know if things have changed since then.

Vorbis was significantly better quality than MP3 and roughly on par with WMA and AAC. But yeah everything but MP3 had an uphill battle, and without a big company to push it, vorbis only ever had limited support on portable players.

FLAC was completely uncompetitive for portable players at the time because it uses like 5-10x the space than high quality AAC or Vorbis encoding that could not be distinguished in side-by-side listening tests with high quality audio equipment. FLAC was a good format for CD rips and online purchases because it was lossless, but if you wanted to take your music with you had to reencode with something else.

It was at least a decade after the first iPod until storage on portables became large enough that 5-10x wasn't worth worrying about and lossless encoding become obsoleted by convenience.

No, adding friends is opt-in, but they changed what information is shared with friends, and that change was opt-out and done without notice.

This mission is part of a program that is all about low-cost projects that are willing to take on more risk. The total cost of the mission was $80 million including $20 million for launch. A Falcon 9 launch costs around $70 million, which would have been more expensive than all the other hardware and operations costs combined. So if it works NASA get a great bargain, and whether it works or not they are helping develop competition in the launch market.

That is one of four factors *considered* in determining fair use. Something can be radically transformative and still be considered copyright infringement if it fairs poorly on the other factors. The effect upon the work's value is a big one when talking about ML, particularly where the value the model provides is competing directly with the works used to train it (for example, stock art).

Sure, the RX 7600 is basically is on par with the RX 6650 XT, and doesn't really push the midrange significantly forward. But it is launching at an MSRP that is $130 less than the RX 6650 XT launch price. Attracting customers that skipped the last two generations due to price is more important to the video card manufacturers than providing an increase in capability for those who purchased a card recently, especially in the mid-range.

The $4.5 million of the criminal judgement may be classified as restitution (I haven't read the decision), but I don't think you can say the same for the $10 million civil settlement. In that case Nintendo was asking for actual, statutory, and punitive damages, and the actual damages were significantly smaller that the other two. Since this settlement is an agreement to cover all of the claims of the lawsuit, it is fair to say that most of the amount is punishment not restitution.