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That post is 3 years old, so basically around 1 year into the Steam Deck's release.

If the author had googled better they might have discovered https://www.learnpdc.org/

>later someone (Gibbs?) gave them the familiar vector calculus form. It was Oliver Heaviside ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside ) that rewrote Maxwell's original equa…

How about some penalties for their creation? If NSA is discovering or buying, someone else is creating them (even if unintentionally). Otherwise corporations will be incentivized (…

>What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character. Conservatives are OK with rolling everything back and hiding be…

>Valve still restricting the OS to their hardware. This is changing very soon - Lenovo announced the Legion Go S at CES 2025, and it will ship with SteamOS. https://store.steampowe…

>Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term. That timing is all about how long it takes a lawsuit to work through the system to reach a stacked court.... not…

The sad truth is even if XYZ country "interfered" with a misinformation campaign... they didn't actually manipulate the votes. Enough US citizens voted for Trump.

Common ground? They don't believe in climate change, want zero controls on guns, are generally anti-immigrant - even the legal immigrants are lied about e.g. Haitians in Springfiel…

The evidence is likely simple deduction, as in asking "when was the last time this area was bombed" combined with the history of the airport (built for the military in 1943, later …

Some banking feature are only accessible via mobile phone - e.g. check deposit.

>By introducing a profit maximisation goal you (supposedly) create a more efficient operation. Yes but one way that happens is by ignoring unprofitable customers. That's great if y…

I'm old enough to remember anonymous ftp to grab the FAQ text file for various games, typically including a walkthroughs (e.g. the kind of thing now aggregated on sites like gamefa…

This was my flow, except instead of PC I was using Mac. But then, that Mac died and I hadn't also happened to save the proper old version of Kindle for PC. And I migrated to a linu…

No it is not. Responsibility (issue advisories) for unclassified, commercial, non-defense internet is a confusing mess split between Commerce (NIST, https://csrc.nist.gov/about ), …

A commission would find that there was no problem whatsoever. Almost everybody misunderstands NSA's defensive mandate. They aren't corporate America's QA department, they don't hav…

I think I'd do what your landlord is doing if I were in that position. Having a long term reliable renter, which I'm sure you are, give them a rent that is a good deal (slightly be…

>However, there is value in learning some of the under the hood concepts such as >[...] >I don't think schools need to teach employable My University taught the intro CS class in S…

>I'm certain there's a good language in there, but it's so rarely used during my time in the industry (I'm in my mid-30s), that it's just never been worth the effort. I'm sorry, Pe…

I think it is fair to interpret that as: Signal is not storing messages on their servers, also Signal is not storing them on someone else's servers. Whether or not a 3rd party, out…

I'm the same as far as Netflix, they have enough "good enough" shows for me to keep them around. I figure if I average ~2-3 hours a week it is still worth it. Yes some of their new…

Everybody is suspicious of Microsoft's motives but I think in this, you gotta consider how many windows systems are out there used by security novices. Lots of people are computer …

Microsoft shutdown stores, resulting in loss of purchases for customers. I lost a few ebooks when they shut down their ebook store, their Zune Marketplace and Play For Sure was a c…

Another vote for Endeavour. I already run Ubuntu on my NUC, and when I was looking around to install on my former gamebox (i.e. computer with a graphics card unlike NUC with onboar…

But what to do or how to fix it? All I see is the cognitive dissonance of worshipping the free market, except in this case where corporate America sold the future of US away in exc…