I turn the refresh rate down on phones, where battery matters. I turn it up on desktops, where it doesn't matter.
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While that's what people I've seen tend to do for convenience
using chest freezers in out of the way places because they already have a combination fridge/freezer in their kitchen, in terms of energy cost of opening the door, it's the other way around. Opening a chest freezer doesn't cause as much loss of cold air as a side-opening freezer. The heavier cold air doesn't spill out the side.
kagis
The way that these freezers open also impacts their energy usage. When the door is opened in an upright freezer, large sums of cold air are let out and heat is let in which draws more energy to re-cool the system. Whereas with a chest freezer, there is less cold air loss when the door is opened, the larger depth of the freezer also helps reduce cold air loss, resulting in less energy being needed to restabilize the cold temperature in the freezer.
If you have room for it in a kitchen, it'd be totally reasonable to use a chest freezer for day-to-day use. I wouldn't have space for one, myself.
EDIT: To extend the analogy, the upright freezer is more like a small internal solid state drive on a SATA bus that came in a desktop from the OEM
you probably already have one, but it has limited capacity and there is a higher access cost
and the chest freezer is like NVMe.
If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029
Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029
The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.
Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.
Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.
Newsweek is just using a clickbait headline. Hegseth hauled in all the top brass so that he could impress everyone with the fact that he works out.
Hegseth told senior military leaders that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals” or overweight troops in combat units.
“It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, in the world, it’s a bad look,” Hegseth said.
For people who are actually engaged in combat, okay, but usually generals are not going to be personally engaged in physical combat. If they are, things have probably gone rather wrong on other levels. Like, we're theoretically choosing people at that level based on ability to coordinate and plan, not to look sexy on TV.
The Defense Secretary pointed to his own regimen as an example. “It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” he said. “If the Secretary of War can do regular, hard PT [physical training], so can every member of our joint force.”
Every time I think the cringe bar cannot go lower, this administration manages it.
Oh, damn. I assumed that this was another headline trying to play up a heart attack or something, but this, in fact, does not sound good:
The Paris prosecutors' office said Mthethwa had been reported missing by his wife on Monday evening after she received a text message from him that had worried her.
The prosecutor's office said Mthethwa booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and that a secured window had been forced open.
wet, microwaved dogs
Honestly, that's not helping me much as a reference point.
Could be, but I haven't tried that one myself.
I see that someone has a bone to pick with T-Mobile.
kagis
Looks like it's going forward. 2026 should be the last year that the US mints the penny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)
In 2025, the U.S. Mint announced a plan to end penny production after the 2026 production run.
He has named...the State of Israel... in court documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_immunity
The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or expropriation of property in violation of international law.
Because you want to have a single interface that accepts natural-language input and gives answers.
That doesn't mean that using an LLM as a calculator is a reasonable approach
though a larger system that incorporates an LLM might be. But I think that the goal is very understandable. I have Maxima, a symbolic math package, on my smartphone and computers. It's quite competent at probably just about any sort of mathematical problem that pretty much any typical person might want to do. It costs nothing. But...you do need to learn something about the package to be able to use it. You don't have to learn much of anything that a typical member of the public doesn't already know to use a prompt that accepts natural-language input. And that barrier is enough that most people won't use it.