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The problem with Apple laptop is few years into the future - it's what will happen when Apple drop support for this hardware in OS X. Even if Asahi Linux or similar will be in a go…

Maybe you should check your memory? I recently started to get quite a lot of Firefox crashes, and definitely contributed to this statistic. In the end, the problem was indeed memor…

> You wouldn’t trust a 30-year-old car to drive cross-country. The main difference between software and physical objects like cars is that they degrade with the passage of time (du…

> The granted orders would stay in place for a year with the option to extend if necessary. If blocked sites switch to new locations, the court can also amend blocking orders to in…

Did you miss definition of G, or I didn’t have enough caffeine yet?

> Historians describe that Russian peasants pre-1917 were basically living in Medieval conditions FWIW, communism actually forced Russian peasants back into Medieval conditions: fi…

I already had cheaper HD Netflix subscription, and didn't notice difference between it and UHD Prime/Apple TV/Hulu. I only noticed that I didn't have UHD when I was cancelling it, …

Personally, I cancelled all my subscriptions (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+, Hulu, HIDIVE, AMC+) this christmas and reverted to piracy. Modern piracy (the so called *ARR stack) provide…

> For example, if a user deleted their* content, Facebook can still use it and show to their friends. That's why it's "kinda". I don't think it is correct. If you asked Facebook to…

> You’re right . That’s why scraping must be unlimited and legal for all. Unlimited scraping makes some of privacy regulations moot. Such as right to erasure (ability to delete per…

I would like an option for those of us who don’t care and click whatever button have brighter color. Like a default consent to sharing all data. This don’t have to be on by default…

> you can do pretty much the same with Google Pixel and more. Can you? According to apple website, “AirTag is designed to keep going more than a year on a standard battery you can …

Isn’t it what economists would call a 4x increase in productivity? Isn’t fall in productivity mean that you now need more people to do same job?

> clearly these people just wanted an automated way to access their own data GDPR and CCPA (and probably many other national/state privacy laws) forces facebook/instagram/etc to le…

I bet you can stop anytime you want, right?

With cloned profiles (or any data obtained and shared without your consent) it will be harder for you to exercise your right to be forgotten, for example.

> much more violent society at its roots than the Old World I am originally from Russia, but live in US. I actually feel safer in US than in Russia. It is far easier to get assault…

Or PnP machine didn't place the resistor or misplaced the resistor because coordinates were wrong in PnP program, it was found by AOI machine, and then wrong resistor could be plac…

Yeah, by "In 1.47" I mean that as of 1.47 it was already implemented, didn't check since which version.

TryInto is already implemented for slices in 1.47, so `let foo = u16::from_be_bytes(some_slice.try_into().unwrap());` would work before 1.48. This trait wasn't implemented for vect…

I think this is just engineer that works at Facebook created project with same name in their free time, not Facebook the company made such a naming decision. Here's why I think so:…

> While providing comparable development experience / ease of use. I would argue with that. Part of my job is writing a lot of PHP currently (Hack actually, but they are very simil…

> All other markets have failed miserably. In Russia Yandex (search engine) and VKontakte (social network) were and still are quite successful (Google and Facebook were never banne…

Just ordered my Oculus Quest from Costco a week ago, and it's scheduled for delivery today. And I have no problem using Facebook account. Yeah, my data will be used for ads, so wha…

> Consciousness comes indirectly into quantum mechanics through the measurement postulate. You have to assume something special about measurement which breaks unitarity. Not all ph…