Not really a problem with UDP itself, but with some very old protocols like DNS that rely on UDP but can’t be changed because of compatibility. If you’re writing a new service that uses UDP, there’s nothing stopping you from designing it so that it doesn’t provide an opportunity for bandwidth amplification.

Not quite; movie’s only 35 years old. First colonoscopy is recommended at age 45.

The fact that most universities will graduate CS majors without ever teaching them how to use a debugger, build system, or version control system shows how useful they are to actual engineering work.

synchronous gig

I think you mean “symmetrical”

I don’t understand how this is getting approved.

Because you get promoted for changing things, not for keeping things the same. Almost every change like this is motivated by someone trying to get promoted.

“Right to work” refers to the fact that in those states, unions cannot force membership or payment, or force you to participate in labor strikes. You can still have a union in those states, but it’s very difficult for them to be effective because most people will choose not to pay into it, and strikes have significantly less bargaining power if there’s no legal obligation for union members to follow through with a strike.

The result is that in such states, there are very few unions, and so very few protections against firing workers for arbitrary reasons.

Pascal’s little-known friend Luigi’s wager.

If you pay with your CC and sign the receipt after seeing the total, you’re going to have a very hard time getting it removed.

This is brilliant. Definitely going to try this tomorrow.

Not only that - they’re dying in the street immediately adjacent to vacant luxury condos.

A good pair of pliers, like the Knipex Cobra.

Textures have been the biggest size contributor by far for a while.

It seems silly to be distrustful of proprietary BIOS firmware without having the same skepticism of the actual hardware.

Wow, I had no clue. TIL

3 nanometer

That’s a silicon lattice just six atoms thick. What a time to be alive!

TIL a single T-72B3 costs less than $2M.

Inference, yes. Training, no. Derived models don’t count.

I had a linux 5520 and it was terrible. Standby and bluetooth never worked properly. Are the new models any better?

I think it’s more like “snuck up on us” than any kind of nefarious connotation. Kind of like “how did a niche game like BG3 sneak into the top ten games list”?

I have 7 trees on my property. If you pay me $700 I’ll promise not to cut them down for five years, and you can subtract 35 tons of CO2 from your environmental balance sheet.

That’s how carbon offsets work. They’re bullshit.