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    Comment #37886192

    I tried it a few months ago and ReFS ate my data. No indication of why in event logs or SMART data. It had IsPowerProtected set because I have a UPS and I had a unclean restart, I …

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    Comment #37106895

    Orbstack does not seem to run Windows.

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    Comment #19583803

    Media queries can leak info to the server easily without JavaScript: https://matt.traudt.xyz/p/YF4ciVY6.html

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    Comment #17542902

    They are bad, but it is better than nothing. I think if you are completely deaf they probably are not good enough. For myself, I have some hearing damage from working with fire ala…

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    Comment #16211290

    BCH for small transactions with 0-conf is not slow as hell. When you require confirmations a system like Bitcoin has a quite random time between blocks, but 10 minutes on average. …

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    Comment #16210944

    How is it a scam to keep it working like it was intended to work? I did not buy into Bitcoin to hold it forever, I bought it to use it as cash. Therefore I do feel defrauded by the…

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    Comment #16210903

    Have a look at my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210897

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    Comment #16210897

    Transaction malleability has nothing to do with the security properties of zero conf, it only allows you to change the signature of a transaction, not the contents. So if you malle…

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    Comment #16002491

    If you wanted to use a secondary nVidia card for PhysX, all was fine until nVidia changed their driver to disable PhysX when it detected an active AMD card.

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    Comment #15044127

    That was my problem first too, but you can make it require the token on mobile too. I have it set up that way and I need to tap my Yubikey NEO to authenticate using NFC on Android.…

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    Comment #14808229

    It got patched after he posted this. Before that there was no only_uninitialized.

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    Comment #13911784

    > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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    Comment #13460426

    At the 2008 Beijing summer olympics they actually reduced the censorship a little until the games were over.

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    Comment #13295002

    The mplayer keys work in VLC too, BTW.

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    Comment #13283933

    I think the multi tab selection is not part of the extension, but is integrated in Chrome itself. I recently discovered it by accident and found it to be super helpful to do things…

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    Comment #12870263

    Did you reply to the right person? Your reply does not seem to address anything that was said.

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    Comment #12587790

    "Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) was invented by Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba circa 1980. According to Toshiba, the name "flash" was suggested by Masuoka's collea…

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    Comment #12574128

    It would be really nice to have physical hardware that identifies the same as the VMware / VirtualBox hardware.

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    Comment #12048636

    I think you might have replied to the wrong post

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    Comment #11304228

    Wow, finally being able to resize dock widgets. I've been searching for this forever, always thinking I was doing something wrong. At least now I know it wasn't really possible. Th…

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    Comment #11215770

    It definitely affects Thailand too, Sinet sent notifications about the problem, and speed is quite bad to some sites.

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    Comment #10518630

    Same here, I only use it because I have to make my applications work on OS-X and to me it is the worst operating system that I've ever had the opportunity to try. I took my time to…

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    Comment #10030227

    I agree that Opera the browser is not as competitive as they once were, but for the ads point you could say the same about Chrome since Google makes its money from advertising, not…

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    Comment #9993541

    The flags kind of look wrong, there is 'f' without an argument and piping a file inside? Maybe my tar memory is just fuzzy, it feels like https://xkcd.com/1168/