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Is it lying if you believe it?

Can’t let people use it the way they want to now can we? They gotta use it the way I want them That’s the kind of attitude that gets you laptops with no ports and keyboards that do…

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“Experts who reviewed the exposed secrets said the commit logs for the code repository showed the CISA contractor disabled GitHub’s built-in protection against publishing sensitive…

> needlessly complicated because they wanted to be backwards compatible with an old bad design. It's not really needless complication of there is a reason for the complication. Obv…

The Air Force has their own demonstration team named The Thunderbirds.

The Blue Angels are the Navy's demonstration team. This accident happened at an airshow on an Air Force base. The Air Force's demonstration team is named The Thunderbirds.

FYI 4699 OS is based on Concurrent DOS 286 and runs worldwide to this day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4690_Operating_System?wprov=sf...

It seems to me to be saying that the person finds Elon Musk’s behavior problematic. What else are you reading into it?

I guess I wasn't aware that Wine pivoted from trying to be a general purpose, drop-in replacement for Windows to being a platform for games that only supports a subset of Windows f…

Most of my software development career was spent working at a small company that sold a product that emulated the operating system developed and sold by a much, much larger company…

Most modern engines have two turbines. A low pressure turbine and a high pressure turbine. The low pressure turbine is connected directly to the fan.

I really don't mind boilerplate nearly as much as most people here on HN seem to. To me it's really no biggie if it helps structure things and make them explicit. I think it kind o…

The ad was deceptively inlined in the article IMO. I read most of the ad before I realized it was an ad. I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to monetize with ads but I do think it sh…

Transmission coolers and suspension kits are great but one of the things that’s really even more important is the ability to stop it comfortably. I think it’s prudent to build in a…

What’s the towing capacity of your van. How do you think it would do pulling a 6000 pound trailer?

Have a Stoolap https://github.com/stoolap/stoolap

The airforce retired the KC-10 in 2021.

>> This is not true for most so-called Engineers in the US. >> Anyone can declare themselves an engineer with no exam, >> no sponsor, no assermentation and no real legal ties >> to…

I’m pretty sure this is what the pros use. No AI though https://www.crossword-compiler.com/

> “every app can be command tabbed to and therein each app has its own subwindow management” This is so, so annoying. Your Mac app’s window is minimized? No alt-tab for you!

There should probably be an audible cue to go from exhaling to inhaling no?

So it is hard? Not easy? I would agree with that position. I think the analogy with automatic transmissions misses though. Programming actual intelligence into a computer seems ord…

If the solution were easy or obvious the problem would likely have already been solved no?

... says Bill Maher.