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bobmcnamara

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    Comment #49217275

    Historically people just shoot pipelines and transformers.

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    Comment #49163515

    It totally worked! Took out like four decent risc competitors with just a little FOMO

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    Comment #49149383

    X11TCP is blazing fast compared to X11SSH

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    Comment #49128564

    Found the drywaller

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    Comment #48992314

    Consider yourself Qualcommified.

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    Comment #48956682

    Heck I've seen it admins do this, then I rooted the camera and pivoted into their data center and put it into the report, "security contractor told is they needed it"

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    Comment #48942246

    Probably explains the duck farm OpenAI purchased recei

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    Comment #48942241

    Who needs stability when you can have a pelican?

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    Comment #48899788

    You're making my point here - this sort of corporatist, bait-and-switch-if-you-dont-opt-out behaviour is illegal in many countries, Netflix got spanked for it this spring.

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    Comment #48863312

    Christ it's the airport bellhop scam: Someone appears, gives you a service unprompted(carries your bag of spams some AI code reviews), them later demands payment.

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    Comment #48842782

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

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    Comment #48830603

    The big USB racks all have separate power.

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    Comment #48830584

    smartmontools misses data corruption at the drive layer, as it trusts the drives to report faithfully. "In hashes I trust"

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    Comment #48830560

    The worst part of either approach is: how do I find disk number 39 out of 48.

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    Comment #48830540

    What do you dislike about SATA?

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    Comment #48826457

    We've already leached too much uranium into the groundwater for many to drink just from the mining alone.

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    Comment #48820466

    How does this work? I hover the mouse over a dot and a pop-up appears nearby, but when move the mouse away from the dot to click the bubble, the bubble closes.

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    Comment #48796595

    I ran 2003 on my laptop for ages. Only tricky part was installing the audio stack.

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    Comment #48796582

    You can fix Windows7/8/10/11 with Retrobar

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    Comment #48750257

    That sounds like something somebody hopped up on social media would say.

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    Comment #48703047

    Same with pre arm Atom indows tablets

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    Comment #48619744

    > does it have to be so convoluted? Getting strncpy right always has been

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    Comment #48619727

    The switch sure sucked though. I doubt Microsoft would risk their reputation for backwards compatibility.

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    Comment #48619643

    CRLR is Baudot, predating UNIX by what, a century ?