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  • You should watch the recent videos by “Nate from the Internet”, he keeps doubling the amount of vanilla extract put into cookies until you can detect a difference.

    Spoiler: 1tsp, 2tsp, 4tsp, etc all taste exactly the same in the final product. After adding in cupfuls, the cookies start to taste bad from too much alcohol, but don’t taste any more vanilla than the 2tsp batch. He even tried with vanilla beans and whole pods.








  • For those who don’t know the history, Servo was the very first Rust project to ever exist.

    Back in 2012, Mozilla knew that their Gecko web engine was already getting old and unmaintainable. One of the engineers in their R&D department Mozilla Research was quietly working on a new programming language, so they adopted that to start work on their new browser engine, Servo.

    Rust v1.0 was released to the public in 2015, and was much more popular than the new browser engine it was used to create. Mozilla Research eventually gave up the idea of a new browser engine, but they did merge some of the Servo features into Gecko. Mozilla Research was shut down in 2020, and the Servo project was taken over by the Linux Foundation.






  • If I’m reading that correctly, that shows the system is drawing around 100W just sitting idle.

    Something is not right there.

    Either the power meter is way out of calibration, or there is a configuration issue with your PC. Maybe you have a performance setting that is causing the CPU and GPU to not idle down ever? Or a rogue antivirus software that is cranking the CPU constantly?

    Are there any spinning disk hard drives in your PC? They can sometimes use around 5W each on idle. That was the biggest cause of idle power consumption on my old xeon server, with 8 HDDs.

    PSU choice can also affect it. Eg, if you buy into marketing and buy a monster 850W PSU, but it’s idle all the time and only uses 450W under load, then the PSU is spending the whole time outside it’s efficiency curve, and can end up causing more power draw than expected.