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You have to be a sovereign state before you can protect your tech scene from the US. There is a reason only Russia and China do that.

No mention of any kind of encryption?

The gotcha in the German university system is studying 4-5 years and then dropping out without degree, because there is very little support and a culture of expecting knowledge and…

This is especially infuriating if you compare the numbers from Covid with a bad flu season in NY. Twice as bad as the flu is certainly cause to take special preventive measures but…

The most scary part is the usage of if(0).

The Virus Total detection list is very interesting [1]. How can your antivirus-software not detect a dangerous, publicly known, two year old exploit? How can anyone take these prod…

A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?

If woke clickbait a la Vox does not work in these times, I can't imagine other media companies with the same business model surviving for long.

There is a good chance that macOS is being neglected precisely because Apple is moving away from x86.

For comparision, here is the AI bachelor degree from JKU Linz: https://studienhandbuch.jku.at/curr/714

This is not as common as you might think. Some universities do closely collaborate with their regional industry, but the vast majority of master thesis have zero practical applicat…

But iPads and iPhones have. The existing library of already ARM-optimized software will make the transition easier.

Will be interesting to see if bootcamp grads are more affected by the recession than your average CS college grad.

Yeah, 10 litres per day.

There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in th…

Do you have a source for that? Even at a lower angle you still get some UV B and energy from the sun.

Can anyone give some substantiated information about Kape? Why is so bad? All I found was FUD.

The amount of tech workers migrating is minuscule compared to the number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin. That is where the demand…

TL;DR; The major question in the philosophy of computer science, according to Smith, is: What is computation?

Atleast WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted unlike Telegram.

That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and ho…

It works, but it is hardly the silver bullet for higher education HN wants it to be. The biggest problem is the lack of incentive for staff to deliver quality in teaching. Free col…