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makaronin

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    Comment #18206709

    "..apparently goes off without a glitch". Apparently, not.

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    Namecheap fucked up everything today

    Suddenly, all DNS records for my domain have disappeared. The project that is based on dozens of subdomains has just halted. Has anyone else faced the same issue?

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    Comment #12869240

    I won't, because I never purchased any Apple products.

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    Comment #12548389

    One guy has done a nice work decompiling the BIOS and found that skipping over the hidden BIOS pages is hard-coded into the firmware. See this https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Di…

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    Comment #12548206

    It does not make a much difference as all new Lenovo ultrabooks are "Signature Edition".

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    Comment #12547438

    I named it secret because these laptops have been sold for months and no one was aware of this agreement with MS until today.

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    Comment #12547416

    Why was the title changed to "a recent Lenovo laptop" when at least four models are affected: Yoga 900 ISK2, Yoga 900S,Yoga 710S and Ideapad 710S.

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    Comment #12546809

    If you read the original reddit thread, you would understand that this is not just a drivers issue. Lenovo intentionally programmed their BIOS so that it reverts any changes to RAI…

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    Comment #12545988

    It is much worse because Lenovo programmed the BIOS to lock the system so if you try to toggle it to AHCI mode with an EFI variable from EFIshell, it immediately sets itself back t…

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    Comment #10649804

    New epoch in UGC. Imagine how easily movies can be generated from user scenarios.

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    Comment #10649734

    Access code: fb-arts-nov15

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    Comment #9874256

    Of course some legacy software is still in use. But i'm in doubt that python can be a good choice for today's startups.

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    Comment #9874195

    The programming languages you mentioned dominate their niches. What is left for Python? Being a former Python programmer (5+ years) i really don't see any reason to use it now.

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    Comment #9874012

    Good work done, though Python may not be the best choice as it is a bit ancient programming language.