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cosmotic

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    Comment #49202442

    This was very common at the time. I suspect there was a technical reason, maybe freeing up the CPU and memory from dealing with music and offloading that to the CDROM drive.

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    Comment #49175687

    I thought the pitch for just-cameras was that the hardware was cheaper and that it's what humans are "using", evidence that it should be sufficient. Just-cameras was to take more e…

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    Comment #49175625

    Yet people still have to work the same number of hours each day - they are performing the same amount of labor, just in a different form.

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    Comment #49102026

    Did they not look up the PC manufacturer or model number to verify this hypothesis?

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    Comment #49102005

    There are many people in the HN comments supporting the decision to rate apps with one star when said apps solicit ratings. You posted a screenshot of another person agreeing with …

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    Comment #49099563

    Baseless? You posted all the evidence people need in the form of a screenshot and acknowledgement. People hate the nagging and support the only recourse they have to stop it.

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    Comment #49026600

    How will this not lead to tragedy of the commons?

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    Comment #49026551

    How does this handle hardware encode/decode of media? Tje announcement says it encodestdecodes AV1 but doesnt indicate if it leverages hardware codecs.

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    Comment #48961929

    If you're going to blame someone here, it should probably be Microsoft. They are the ones that built the system LG is utilizing.

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    Comment #48611233

    This site is asking me to paste code into powershell to view the article. This post should be taken down.

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    Comment #48578223

    Would those same proxies work with the new method?

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    Comment #48571576

    Why not just define the semantics of a GET request body?

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    Comment #48494314

    I think Liquid Glass is inherently bad. Universaly accepted truths about UIs that Liquid Glass violates: * Consistent look across instances * Consistent look as surrounding content…

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    Comment #48363448

    Looks a lot like CyberChef which is web based. https://cyberchef.org/

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    Comment #48285797

    My understanding is that LibreDrive leverages a bug in the drives firmware such that decryption keys for Blu-ray was accessible. This OmniDrive seems to have little to do with decr…

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    Comment #48165300

    Oh, not the owners of the company, the owners of the cars the company made.

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    Comment #48152203

    Terminal seems like an odd choice for a platform to read on, considering the fixed-width characters.

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    Comment #48118148

    Using the system webview theoretically saves memory. Though it's still not great.

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    Comment #48102382

    They couldn't be bothered to train their staff?

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    Comment #48098315

    Write a good article explaining why and maybe someone will post it to hackernews so we can discuss it as on-topic.

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    Comment #48098113

    How can ignorance of the law not be a valid defense while intentionally not recording known illegal activity be a effective defense?

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    Comment #48045550

    Except in many cases the experience isn't benefiting the electorate.

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    Comment #48038442

    Those third parties are running at capacity and are certainly the source of the increased prices since the supply is outsized by the demand.

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    Comment #48028933

    Apple doesn't make their own CPUs, they just design them (using ARM IP). It's TSMC that makes them. The bottleneck with RAM is the manufacturing side.

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    Comment #48025974

    What would be 'submit' then?