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Is that why the name of the country is sometimes spelled with a space, "Viet nam"?

kernel_task is due to high temperature on the left thunderbolt ports caused by charging. Plug your charger into the right side instead and it'll go away in about 15 seconds. https:…

Are you sure it was that good with large files? I used to be a TextWrangler evangelist until I noticed it was mangling large files. You'd change one character but the saved file di…

Will L2 congestion become a problem once JWST and a few more missions join this craft? Will we have to manage that orbit like we do with geostationary?

Which Macs still have a light?

You're right. I saw this post on the bus, installed the app. Checked what it says for my transfer. I had about 8 minutes. Google said my bus comes at 7:29. Transit app says it come…

- Night Shift is disabled for external displays. That's another killer one.

Because your $apt_repo_url is useless to a yum user. The package management community needs to stop balkanizing. How else do you propose releasing software to all Unix-like OSes wi…

AT&T's cooperation with NSA has been public since 2004. It doesn't seem to have much of an effect on them.

American rail is built for cargo, so there are no sections as fast as a freeway. Also there are several sections that are particularly slow. The track through the Rockies is the or…

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I had your view until recently. I got a matte screen for the first time in several years, and immediately had a reflection problem from window light. On a glossy screen the problem…

How is this different than Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)? ECN has been in the kernel for many years and is half enabled by default.

Why is it problematic to mark a good bot as a bot?

I propose marking bots as such. Keep following useful bots. But users will at least know that a troll is automated and are able to act accordingly without wasting time and energy.

I agree that it's important to educate people both to question what they see and also how to question it. I disagree that this is the answer. We've been teaching that for years. It…

Microsoft was on the other side of such a scheme when OS/2 got the ability to run Windows apps. That's when you stopped getting native OS/2 apps, because why write one when the Win…

A big problem is that the Linux world loves to fragment itself. There is no "Linux" to bundle. You have to pick a distro. On the surface all major distros look like a good choice, …

This is true on other OSes as well. C extensions are assumed to be compiled with the same compiler as Python itself. If you use distutils it will also use the same flags. This is l…

That's a regulation I support, because unlike toothpaste it's a legit fire hazard. A broken lighter that shorts something out can get nasty quickly. One lighter on a person means a…

His chess celebrity keeps him out of Russian prison.

The BA crash in London was also on dry land.