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But it's not really Philips anymore... It's the same with some TVs with the Grundig brand, which is also very strong. It's just some Chinese factory licensing the brand name... Gru…

Maybe this is a way to achieve that? "So, for the different apps to be interoperable, no encryption is allowed" Again, I would prefer the market to sort it out without interference…

In elementary school I remember hearing the planets move in CIRCLES in THE SAME PLANE around the Sun. In an atom, electrons would also move around the nucleus like a mini-solar sys…

One system based on semiconductors will eventually fail, as their failure rate follows the bathtub curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve As much as I call cryptocurrenc…

In train accidents, usually the first compositions are the most badly hit. The train driver is the most susceptible to die. You're better assisted by a remote operator...

a) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with AZ+Moderna+JJ+PB, then 1/4 of the population will be barely protected. b) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with Moderna…

Regarding the organic food, I wish it were that simple, but organic isn't better than conventional. It can still use pesticides, if they have a biological origin, and these are mor…

There's a TV series watchable on-line about him. Only in Portuguese, though... https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/alves-dos-reis/

In most of Europe, the company doesn't pay anything, so it isn't tough for it. Every worker contributes a percentage for the Social Security, so basically the cost gets diluted amo…

I have the opposite experience! The image on the right is almost pixelated; the image on the left has almost perfect diagonal lines!

> google will now have the DNS data It wont necessarily be Google... From what I understood from the article, if you're currently using OpenDNS, Cloudflare DNS, etc., after the cha…

Not very well known? It was even the subject of a TV series some years ago! https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/alves-dos-reis/

The amount of time I spent exploring it! What a rabbit whole to wonder into!

Then I prefer the unexpected and incorrect behaviour of Windows, which freezes the offending application and continues to be responsive, allowing me to kill it if I wish to do so..…

In civil engineering, all construction contracts are usually based on FIDIC's Red Book. This way, everybody is used to a standard contract, from lawyers to judges, in whatever juri…

Infineon not exactly... Intel's 5G chips were being developed by the former Infineon Wireless Solutions unit, which was bought by Intel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Mobile_…

I see this will only shift the timings some offset. But many times it isn't enough e.g. if the video source is NTSC and the subtitle were meant for PAL. In this scenario I use Subt…

Only five probes were launched with the ability to leave de Solar System, but the Voyagers are still the fastest ones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_le…

I believe this to be the biggest problem of nuclear power, not the risks of an accident. So while we have cheap energy today, the cost of containment will be paid throughout thousa…

Amazing that nobody has so far mentioned "Mission Impossible Rogue Nation"! There's a scene where Benji has to pass a corridor where people are identified by the way they walk!

It's interesting that every single article about graphene shows a 3D model of a plane of molecules, but never a photo...

Japanese videos still render correctly, at least the relevant parts...

Although the country is nowadays irrelevant on the international arena, it's always a shame to see represented only four of the five then-big players of the colonization race, miss…