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j3097736

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    Comment #17430787

    I still see many shops with modern VESA mounted mini PCs running an AS/400 terminal emulator to access their inventory systems.

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    Comment #17251613

    Residential providers had a head start and got their addresses when large IP blocks where still available

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    Comment #16624319

    I don't know about the US, but where I live speed camera are relatively large bright colored boxes with reflective stripes on the side of the road, with mandatory "speed camera ahe…

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    Comment #16380452

    > potential long term safety Some of the older ones near me have already been vandalized by woodpeckers

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    Comment #16371380

    This, windows phone works well as a phone, but the lack of quality apps and crappy browser that chokes/crashes on avertising make the "smart" part a complete fail.

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    Comment #16320291

    Yeah, until a few years ago when they started doing things like - Automatically upgrading devices to Win10 - Announce that they will keep adding upgrades to win10 instead of creati…

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    Comment #16298227

    Because you might want to process it differently?

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    Comment #16298154

    But modern ones sound all the same

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    Comment #16087543

    Swap is activate pretty late in at 5:59 and you can clearly see there isn't much disk activity going on. A barebones debian installation should be using < 50Mb at boot, so a custom…

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    Comment #16087419

    Already done https://github.com/diasdavid/npm-on-ipfs tough it doesn't seem to be mantained anymore.

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    Comment #16074718

    >The T2 is responsible for controlling the iMac Pro’s stereo speakers, internal microphones, and dual cooling fans, all by itself. So it's just a fancy Super I/O chip

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    Comment #15537242

    But it's been stuck at 40 for a long time

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    Comment #15537189

    Hmm, reducing the need for long lasting and easily recyclable paper by replacing it with mostly-plastic stuff (including packaging) that becomes obsolete in less than a decade?

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    Comment #15261426

    I've seen a drone scanning over a large corn field, dropping sensors seems silly when you can outfit infrared tempature sensors/humidity sensors/etc on a drone.

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    Comment #15261266

    And 10 years later everyone will be using glasses to correct the "looking at an 8K postage-stamp sized display" syndrome. Not possible without some magic holographic technology.

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    Comment #15261118

    Since size isn't much of a constraint it probably uses electromagnets instead of rare earth magnets as fitted on cars. Also trains have been doing it for decades.

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    Comment #15113720

    I don't understand what the fuss is all about, last time I tried AdNauseum it barely detected and clicked very few Ads, maybe one or two on really ad-heavy popular websites, and ma…

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    Comment #15113611

    Most supermarkets where I live have a battery bin near the entrance, and I've seen many times various packs or even sealed lead acids crammed in.

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    Comment #14714739

    I had couple of games installed on a symbian phone (200Mhz ARM) using "AR" almost a decade ago (a table tennis one and a virus catcher thingy), they were a bit laggy but that was b…

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    Comment #14476241

    Third-party applications/drivers not being ready and higher resource usage than XP.

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    Comment #14175555

    >reminder of human presence. Still not as bad as a plastic bottle on the ground.

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    Comment #14133939

    AFAIK YaCy "peers" are just instances of solr doing search/indexing on their own (as set by the user) and the "distributed search" page only redirects the user to one of the availa…

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    Comment #14110312

    Servo plus browserhtml could become a nice alternative considering that mozilla plans to kill XUL and thus firefox interface customization.

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    Comment #13963035

    Certainly more useful/less code than the analog clock in the date/time settings window.

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    Comment #13962929

    To synchronize radio-less clocks/timers/etc?