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It's always good to not slack when compiling.

Best Buy is actually one of the worst and slowest websites from any large retailer. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like they set out to make it pretty and accidentally steppe…

Yep. Gaikai.

Canonical. at least they used to, although not a fan of the recent (last ten years) Canonical.

Saber rattling and nuclear threats always benefits someone.. who?

Phoronix is blogspam?!

The thing that prevents a TV mfg from bricking your device is that they'd be instantly (and successfully) sued. In fact, there have already been many such class actions, ie with pr…

They didn't just outperform "normal" congress critters.. they also outperformed nearly every hedge fund on the planet. But they (meaning, of course, just one person and their spous…

you mean... like Linux? or gcc?

There are a lot of smart TV's (name-brand ones!) that will try to connect to any open wifi. Monetizing from analytics and telemetry are literally priced into the cost of the gadget…

> Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. ... followed by lots more words that don't support this premise.

You can always move somewhere else. It's a big country with different state laws for every type of preference.

.. and why it's even a problem.

If that's what you want, then just hold. The beauty of capitalism is that nobody's forcing you to buy or sell. Be a Warren Buffet and buy for keeps, and obviously you can do very w…

Too bad Userify is too expensive for a lot of VPS-style projects (free for less than five instances, but we blow through that pretty fast most of the time)

> Is “don’t buy stuff with TSMC chips” really a valid option we have? Not sure that TSMC would want to do that either! We're probably their biggest market, even allowing for China.…

Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA (The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.) https://melmagazine.c…

Amazon didn't raise money from credulous investors. Alphabet's Waymo was also having humans take over for some of the driving as well. And everyone knows that ChatGPT Pro is exclus…

Easy to criticize, hard to actually build something.

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If only it wasn't Java.. but it looks very cool anyway.

The contrast ratio of an old CRT (and amber and green were considered more comfortable than white-on-black) is radically different from a modern LCD/IPS/OLED screen. It's so differ…

The patent on the manufacturing process , not the peptide itself.