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Comment #48633725
Canadian fraud is on another level. When I worked for a Dutch company my boss forced me to take a sales pitch from some Canadian startup. They claimed to have some new magic wirele…
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Comment #48610520
Unfortunately, yes. My own daily driver is Firefox, so I basically only open Brave just for this website. I personally prefer managing apps on my phone through a browser on my lapt…
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Comment #48608010
DroidStore is a web catalog of open-source Android apps drawn from F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, and curated GitHub releases. Talks to the Android phone over USB. Open the page, and instal…
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Comment #46655951
It's really not that complicated: do you prefer to work at a tiny desk or a huge desk? Same with monitors. Either you stack huge piles of papers and work through the piles (with ev…
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Comment #46655891
SpaceX is doing fine woth that approach?
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Comment #46466592
Kinda like photoshop 2 decades or so ago.
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Comment #46466590
The reason it's not recommended for all ages is money. Not safety concerns. Same reason you can't get Shingrix under a certain age.
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Comment #46188461
Why is "no early returns" not a good rule? I do early returns in code I write, but ONLY because everybody seems to do it. I prefer stuff to be in predictable places: variables at t…
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Comment #45796321
I've been in towns in Mexico where the kids ONLY speak a Mayan language. No Spanish or English. I asked for directions and just got blank stares until someone who spoke Spanish in …
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Comment #45568016
Meaningless. You can replace socialist by capitalist and it would be equally meaningless. The correct word is democracy. The people (or "workers") having a say or not has nothing t…
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Comment #45557005
AI progress has slowed down?! By what metric? Quite the statement for anybody who follows developments (without excluding xAI).
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Comment #45546576
"make speculative statements" isn't this 99 percent of modern infotainment "journalism" though? making speculative statements, omitting and lying..
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Comment #45539925
What are the chances that Signal is an op ran by the NSA?
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Comment #45535942
A single malicious infotainment outlet can fool thousands or perhaps millions of real people as that fact gets repeated in different forms and amplified with nobody checking for a …
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Comment #45520877
Feel free to accuse the Germans. Russian bribes is basically why they have some of the most expensive energy in the world now. They're surprisingly corrupt for a "developed" "high …
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Comment #45507713
Not if you consider that you need to either renew or add battery capacity (and panels and power electronics) after x years? Or did you take that into account?
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Comment #45491453
The good news is: there are still off-site backups. The bad news is: they're in North Korea.
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Comment #45443572
This could be a quote from some Roman around the year 100 :p
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Comment #45403693
Another fun fact: you can remove all of the brain of a cat on threadmill except the brainstem and he'll keep walking.
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Comment #45391104
I can highly recommend aluminum tape or copper tape. Doesn't let any light through and super easy to apply.
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Comment #45369877
Apple is even worse. Try searching for Grok in the app store and it will be almost impossible to find due to some deal they have with OpenAI.
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Comment #45322632
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Comment #45243675
What right wing elements?! Almost all of the EU (both at the EU level and member state level) is dominated by self proclaimed socialist parties or coalitions and has been for decad…