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You can add my business to GP's. I'm currently in the market for stock photos. The allotted budget isn't one those folk would miss, but it's more than enough to commission our own.…

If you're in a situation where throwaway-hardware makes sense, you'll care how the throwing-away is actually done. While not throwaway hardware, the company I work for destroys har…

In an industry where "kill and reap all children" is a valid technical statement, I see no issue with shaving beaver images. Both have valid technical meanings.

That's fine and dandy if you can afford to put up the resources to keep your deployment up to date. For more constrained others, an LTS release can be the deference between using t…

As a guy who likes the stability traditional vendors provide as apposed to the madness that is chasing hip upstream developers, the mere fact that your working on providing LTS gua…

It will also tell you that pumping horses full of steroids will make them go faster. Tech's absurd obsession with metrics and statistics will be their undoing.

I don't. Should I? Why?

> What do the vendors gain by this 'land grab'? One thing is that it could be used to as a venue to pursue new recurring revenue streams. While not exactly the same thing, I've see…

Just wait when coca-cola and friends fill the skies with their own logo constellations when (not if) space technology gets cheap enough. After all, it only needs to be cheaper than…

>We base so much of human progress on these little wafers of silicon, it shouldn't be extreme to want to know what they do. Well said. I'll add that security is a threshold, and th…

This is nonsense. What you describe is the current state of affairs for CPUs. Intel, AMD, ARM, and every other company working in this space already "put all of their stupidity ins…

I noticed that the repository is served from a KDE domain. Is this an official KDE project? Also, How usable is this for building GUIs on Windows? Does it play nice with QT creator…

Software that collects and sends back any form of information is a big no-no unless it's opt-in. It's not acceptable when vscode does it. It's not acceptable when .net-core does it…

I was thinking about this recently. I think this type of consolidation starts to make sense if you think of software as mathematics. A formula gets devised, iterated upon and refin…

It's a shame. From past examples, we will likely not see any real innovation in this space until these patents expire. It's especially disheartening to me since I'll probably be to…

Why should they bother communicating clearly with their customers? Who are those customers going to turn to? AMD? ARM? Between Intel's numerous CPU bugs that they refused to refund…

Hopefully, this would be it. But rather than damages, the courts would rule that access to one's own device is protected by a fundamental right.

I doubt they did it out of a desire to better serve users in Germany.

Cars and planes (and even radio transmission equipment) pose a high risk on public safety. They aren't restricted because owners don't have the right to control these devices, they…

The fact that they are required to allow owners access is what I hope the lawsuit would address.

What about suing for full control over a product you own?

Why haven't Intel, AMD, and other processor manufacturers been sued for preventing processor owners from securing the processors they own? These processors are effectively running …

Until a vulnerability is found in ARM TrustZone.

At the time of this reply, there are at least five competing definitions being argued for and against in this thread; some either requiring that the input and output be machine cod…

What's the distinction between Compile and transpile then? and is this distinction agreed upon and meaningful?