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__michaelg

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    Comment #48028366

    Finally establishing the concept of Feiertag on the internet. Come back tomorrow.

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    Comment #41392715

    > receive side uses a per-packet interrupt to finalize a received packet This has made much faster systems not being able to process packets at line speed. A classic was that stand…

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    Comment #40106681

    This is stupid clickbait title, and the article isn't even very precise. Yes, that whole fritz.box situation is known and bad. But the problem discussed here doesn't nearly apply t…

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    Comment #40095959

    Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/

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    Comment #39017666

    Yup, something is strange there. There are 14in x86 laptops that consume 7W or 8W in idle (with the screen turned on but on minimal brightness).

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    Comment #38178694

    Given the title I really wanted this to be a small and portable graphviz reimplementation...

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    Comment #37688591

    Reminds me a little of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio... which deliberately crashed an airplane. The fuel contained an additive that was supposed to l…

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    Comment #35067124

    I read "Stunning designs in Flash" at first, and it almost made sense.

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    Comment #34603925

    rsync at it again?

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    Comment #33733545

    I think my critique is somewhat correct in that you seem to suggest that this change was made to allow for expanding the permissions from one product to all products, which I don't…

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    Comment #33730921

    Meta: my answer here is probably also a good example of motivated reasoning because I likely read a bit more into what the author wrote than is factually in the blog post. Oh boy.

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    Comment #33730848

    > [...] though I'm sure they're just beginning to transfer their services to the main google.com domain. This and the wording across the article imply more than the factual changes…

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    Comment #33730804

    Upvoted, this looks more correct than what I wrote.

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    Comment #33730276

    This is a fantastic example of motivated reasoning. This "change" (which apparently isn't even new) can have so many different reasons, some of which are less harmful and some of w…

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    Comment #33102187

    Or you just update your F-91W to a somewhat smart watch: https://www.sensorwatch.net/

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    Comment #31563389

    Side note: If you need to say this: > (click on the icons for more information) then you almost certainly have an unintuitive design and know it, but instead of fixing it you just …

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    Comment #31085553

    Thank you. Someone had to.

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    Comment #30590200

    I love how they went through all the internal hoops to make this public and consequently put the SECURITY.md in there. Just in case someone finds a vulnerability in GW-Basic after …

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    Comment #28943093

    "My Name Is Peter Parker, And I've Been Pig-Man Since I Was 15 Years Old."

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    Comment #27850598

    Finally a way to sort out candidates that's even cheaper than making them implement B-trees.

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