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Read on to the last paragraph, I think what they meant to hint at is this: > And about those WWII bombing raids? Midway through our work, we noticed a demolition team carefully dis…

You're probably right that it's forgotten and all, but.. > We can safely assume that the final decompiled code is way more readable/usable than the original. Have you looked at any…

Norway and Switzerland are both Schengen area countries though and have been for decades, which is why there would be much less friction in getting in as a migrant, or no friction …

One factor in this may also have been the way the privatization of East Germany was handled. Its often overlooked, but the vehicle for it was called Treuhand[1]. Regardless of whet…

> Not once has a European ever given the US credit for the Marshall Plan. How can you honestly say that though. A blatant overgeneralization of a large group of people, but this ha…

I'm sure that person must've been a pretty bad one. But to tie Dutch colonialism, apartheid and WW2 war criminals (centuries later by the way) together this way to excuse these dis…

Are you sure this is right, and if so would you mind sharing a source for this? According to the Nexperia 2024 annual report [1], they had just committed to _invest_ in the Hamburg…

Very cool work.. and frustating running into walls imposed by manufacturers, I imagine! I've also been working on GPU-based audio plugins for a long time and have done some public …

Very anecdotal and stereotypical, of course. Doesn't quite paint the whole picture, though I agree there's usually a sentiment of risk aversion in the _conservative_ part of any po…

I don't believe its accurate to say that most EU states have no separation between executive and legislative branches. The split is around 50%-50% with a majority of states actuall…

History is funny because at that time in the 90s there was a company called Bitboys Oy. That company was founded by some Finnish demoscene members and was developing a series of gr…

I'm curious to know why they have chosen to use FreeBSD as a base as opposed to Darwin/XNU on which macOS itself is based. Nothing against FreeBSD (happy user here) so there's prob…

Haha, the good old DL360. That fan noise was loud. Let alone the spinning, whining 15k SCSI disks..

Or maybe three times sync;sync;sync just to make sure :)

Yeah, though I would say human readable bytecode, and it is interesting to see that in the actual context. For anyone who's interested, there's a git repository containing a histor…

Compaq were already using Torx for their products in the 80s and 90s, including some Torx variation screw with a slot cut across. I don't know whether this was for some simple form…

Thanks, this gave me quite a laugh :) I almost fell in the same trap as some in here due to some sudden login anxiety. If only that could've been an alternate ending as well.

Agree with this, I happened to get to experience this today again as well. The transitions really seem to take their time. Combined with the number of "pages" you need to get throu…

Good point. I'm wondering whether they intend on placing the battery in the keyboard compartment, and perhaps carry the power wires next to the hinges. Can't really tell from the C…