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kpxxx

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    Comment #15696734

    How is uboot fundamentally different than BIOS or UEFI/EFI? It's not like all the PC clones through the ages had the same bootup sequence for RAM and peripheral init.

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    Comment #15557065

    > The result: the controls of modern aircraft look very similar to those from the 1930s. http://magazin.lufthansa.com/content/uploads/2016/07/A380-80... http://imgproc.airliners.ne…

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    Comment #15499503

    > You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it. I have better things to do then have a "vendetta" against either …

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    > Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this case, unless you intend to wheel it around like a suitcase Did you walk out of a 1980s…

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    Comment #15495224

    That's because Microsoft is trash. Typing this from an SP3, which I overall like very much. I was given this, so I have no misgivings. But the overall sloppiness of Windows and the…

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    Comment #15494969

    The difference is they are demonstrating fantasies or idealizations that much of their customer base have or aspire to themselves. Truck commercials are made that way with a large …

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    Comment #15436800

    > MS was probably worse. Not that this counters anything you said nor that relevant to this topic, but as a nerd I am genuinely curious if this was true. I used to write lowlat aud…

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    Comment #15419435

    No. Ironically, you're probably not old enough. AIM predated any meaningful adoption of SMS in the US by a long time. In the 90s, I was one of the youngest to carry a cell phone (1…

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    Comment #15328599

    I'm not quite sure I believe that a lot of people use the X primitives. The alternative to Gtk and Qt is most often not raw Xlib. There are alternative toolkits such as Motif, Xt. …

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    Comment #15328580

    Imagine if the creator of the ideal windowing system wasn't aborted in the 1960s.

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    Comment #14805285

    I'm going to give the article a pass on this. They explain the genesis of the Snapchat dot codes. They don't explicitly say that the FB and snapchat codes are based on QR, they do …

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    Comment #14608058

    > Once you file suit - small claims or not - discussion time is over. Not true in America at least. Parties can agree to settle at pretty much anytime. Most civil filings don't eve…

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    Comment #14446506

    > Since 'beginning-of-file' isn't really something you can reduce to a token... Of course you can, generate a token immediately upon opening a file. Nothing special about b-o-f or …

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    Comment #14446247

    > Not sure where you get the patronizing tone from. This would be a start: > Most people doesn't have your or my kind of work. And even those that do will be able to use their phon…

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    Why this happens has been explained, but more generally what you posted really doesn't prove anything at hand really. The dictionary created from scratch could be made an updateabl…

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    Comment #14433084

    As someone that used to do kernel and RTOS development for many years and then migrated into web and app dev for a living because it allowed a more flexible lifestyle for paying th…