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effdee

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    Comment #49166822

    As a side note: This is the most impressive page I have laid eyes on in a very long time. Nothing but calm and content. Beautiful!

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    Comment #48105615

    Is it just me or is Turkey being put in the rogue state corner recently?

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    Comment #47947363

    > they do not actually give the user access to general purpose computing in the sense that the users can control exactly what computations the device is going to execute What preve…

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    Comment #47824662

    If your game uses more than 1% CPU and 1% GPU when paused you're doing something wrong. A damn blurred screenshot should not make the GPU consume hundreds of Watts.

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    Comment #47610042

    If port 502/TCP is open you can probably access it via Modbus protocol. Implementing a Modbus client is trivial. My rebranded Fox ESS hardware has it enabled and there's even offic…

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    Comment #47209615

    I prefer the term "classic coding".

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    Comment #46708781

    The first link's broken as it includes the semicolon.

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    Comment #46430845

    There's a slash missing at the end.

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    Comment #45665663

    Hint: click it!

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    Comment #45665649

    The use of HAL 9000 in the top divider is a nice touch.

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    Comment #45665607

    Regarding 1, that's like saying the Mongols beat the US at owning China (and most of Asia for that matter) by 700 years. And counting.

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    Comment #45586723

    Tobias Engel's initial video about this was "Locating Mobile Phones using SS7" given at the 25C3 in 2008: https://media.ccc.de/v/25c3-2997-en-locating_mobile_phones_u...

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    Comment #43444550

    Let's also add a link to the handwritten version for good taste: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

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    Comment #42532835

    So... the next step clearly is ChatGPT adding Ads to its output.

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    Comment #42532055

    > I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that p…

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    Comment #42424681

    Four people seems to be an interesting threshold when it comes to groups. The British special forces, for example, started doing four man teams and several units of other countries…

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    Comment #42133628

    The phrase "SSL added and removed here" from an NSA slide comes to mind.

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    Comment #41797695

    I used to have the same problem. Switching from pencils and pens to keyboards fixed it for me. :)

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    Comment #41609101

    Graphics cards are already dead for me (as a causual gamer). I recently bought a used notebook with a 12th Gen Intel Core processor and it can run an impressive list of games.

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    Comment #41470880

    One version of this is to use a bare repo, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797

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    Comment #41470756

    A sneeze-hickup combo is also _very_ painful.

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    Comment #41207887

    I still miss the flexibility of the originals Opera's UI. As well as the built-in email client. https://imgur.com/a/HWaxm0P (from 2009)

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    Comment #41103976

    Fantastic. But needs support for URL parameters to change things like the default units.

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    Comment #40987949

    Thank you for sharing this! My 5-year-old daughter occasionally has canker sores. I just checked her toothpaste and it contains SLS.