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Does anyone turn these old devices into a project and install cool software on it only to never use it again? I stop using multiple devices because having several iPads is as usefu…

What program do you have an issue with? Wine has been supporting a lot of non gaming software for a long time better than Windows itself. Proton has similarly been good for a long …

Does anyone else get confused by "apps" and "executables"? This one uses the term "Windows Apps" for ".exe" files, I wondered why anyone would want to run a Windows App https://www…

>What has replaced that in modern classrooms? You mean free game bundled with your OS? Nokia: Snake Windows: "3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet" or Solitare TI83: If it was used…

I would like to make a server that would output games in VM to several other devices like tablets, or have several people using the same computer with different monitors, keyboard …

It doesn’t make much sense, how would money be guaranteed to come back after making its way to through the government and back? The cost of electricity already functions more effic…

What is “fair competition”? Can you define it?

Have you seen this talk? Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317 tl;dr Software efficiency is traded for time efficien…

Google isn’t dumb. They are an advertising company that creates hype with other experimental products (to increase stock prices) they fully intend to dismantle, and buys out functi…

That solves nothing, it only lines politician’s pockets. The cost of electricity is the deterrent currently, which is why you don’t see everyone mining. If you want to make electri…

For anyone into photography, an unrelated topic is that Amazon prime offers unlimited photo storage, you can upload all your RAWs as long as you keep your subscription. The next ge…

Agreed. I’ve been at a friends with all the streaming subscriptions. The most used is HBO (been watching Silicon Valley and they got tons of movies), Amazon is second (terrible ads…

They shouldn’t have changed the definition. I saw them as the same as flu shots. They call them seasonal flu vaccines, the COVID ones have the same issues but decrease their effici…

It would cause tick saliva from causing infection for a lifetime, it matters so you can give a vaccine and not need to upkeep it especially in rural areas. It matters because it wi…

Ideally we’d want neutralizing vaccines wouldn’t we? Before the pandemic, my idea of a vaccine was a preventative measure that worked for long periods of time. I read Harvard did a…

Will this be a neutralizing vaccine? I like the idea of mRNA based vaccines but unless it prevents infections and is permanent like for polio, I don’t see any great uptake if it’s …

I’m reading the law and I don’t see that issue. All the issues are from the requirements of the FDA, making it patent free solves nothing, unless you’re talking about another indus…

Hasn’t it always been corporate interests in academia? Stanford was a joke when it was founded, MIT was being petitioned into becoming a tech school. Patrons of sciences have alway…

Where did you get that idea from the article? Altruism isn’t a fantasy like Robin Hood, there’s a way to do it correctly; it’s why Aaron was interested in policy. Dumb altruists ar…

Windows can run Linux in the subsystem and has a better Android emulator than Linux. Windows doesn’t run old windows programs as well as wine though, and if it hasn’t happened yet …

Yet Windows has Linux subsystem and Android emulation. Games sure, but all these OSes are just good at running VMs now.

Do you see yourself ever using a phone docked?

Don’t they? Free and open source stuff is often an implementation of closed source or commercial goods. Without Bell labs, there’d be no Unix, no BSD, no Linux. Commercial can run …

Do it manually. I wonder what automatically means legally or scraping. It’s pretty hard to enforce those requirements, because I assume it’s being broken by search providers. If it…

Usually it’s sensors and it does usually make sense unless it’s also processing the data, IoT is usually simple switches. Aside from graphics such as video streaming off the top of…