With an ICE you get the heat for free as a byproduct. Here in Austria I’ve never noticed a significant efficiency difference, maybe up to 10% could be true for ICE cars in our winters.

Another link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-ECC

He has very strong opinions on certain topics, ECC being important is one of them.

Adding another data point pro-ECC: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-ECC

Torvalds went on his lengthy post to say, "The “modern DRAM is so reliable that it doesn’t need ECC” was always a bedtime story for children that had been dropped on their heads a bit too many times. Yes, I’m pissed off about it. You can find me complaining about this literally for decades now.

Kind of, but if the backdoor is months old some hours don’t seem like they should matter.

Sand sounds a bit mean. Postal service is not our enemy.

What’s less clear is which of these expenses are for having such a big military in the first place, and what it costs on top to shoot all those missiles.

Which came first though?

These days a ~10€ gadget can tell you about the electricity going through a USB connection and what the cable is capable of. I don’t like the idea of basically requiring this to get that knowledge, but considering the limited space on the USB-C plugs I’m not sure anything is likely to improve about their labeling.