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There should be a warning before a Web page captures keyboard input and prevents browser hot keys from working.

Why are these chips required for the latest versions of Windows and macOS? Windows 11 Home doesn't support Bitlocker, and Bitlocker seems to be the only feature that requires a TPM…

I work in managed content. I develop AMS and CMS and intranet portals for companies that do web publishing. My specialties are workflows and middleware connectors (for fulfillment,…

The arrow key cluster, it burns us!

Beware the throttling. You get that i7 or Xeon performance for the first 45 seconds of the compile, and then that and the testing (or encoding, or whatever) go down to i5 performan…

I'm impressed that you got past that no-rings end boss gauntlet on the first try.

But they didn't upgrade the Mini, iMac, or Mac Pro. The Mac Pro has been the current model for at least two years. The iMac is a hack that uses two logical display panels to produc…

I don't understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life. I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I'm going to delay my upgrade …

I doubt it. I walked past a whole shelf of Sega Genesis emulation boxes at Target. That and the Atari Flashback 7 seem to be heavily stocked.

What would that feel like in a DAW? You open the plugin, change its default configuration, get rid of it, and then add it back independently and let it tell the DAW how many output…

Any chance that you could make the output channels arbitrary? Just yesterday I built a sampler array with Kontakt, in REAPER, that used 28 outputs from a single plugin instance.

That's one thing I can say for Robotix: the pieces that move are virtually indestructible.

I have an old, four-motor Robotix system from my childhood. It's part of the reason I became a programmer beyond QuickBASIC for DOS. Having played with the Robotix kit, I encounter…

I've found the French I studied to have more consistent grammar and spelling, and less variation in idioms. Its achilles heel for technical stuff seems to be vocabulary, in that ne…

Despite English being my native language, I am sorry that it won. There is a lot of ambiguity in it, whether you are writing on technical matters or not. And what is with this scou…

In my case, delusions, paranoia, and the occasional inappropriate remark that could be construed as homicidal or suicidal ideation. Depression genuinely caused the latter ideation.…

Silly Selective Service. You need the stone of Erech, and to be the heir of Isildur, to summon the army of the dead.

CSV is really slow to work with, because you have to check for well-formedness, like you do with XML. And in the end, I always end up making specific concessions for the files that…

I grasp the concept perfectly well. But this is theater. Look at the title ("When Will Patent Trolls Learn Not to Mess with Newegg?") and the ridiculous picture of the lawyer!

I have plenty of principles. However I am not a for-profit corporation. It is not cynicism on my part to assume that Newegg is motivated by economics. That is the very definition o…

Newegg are cheapskates. The publicity from doing this pays far more than the money they'd save by settling with patent trolls.

I don't think VCs are interested in anyone who wants to work at a sustainable pace. Also, the piece we're discussing doesn't make it sound like the author works at a sustainable pa…

I think you have to pick one. Startup or kids. You can work at a burnout pace for 5 years in the hope of getting rich, or you can be there for your young children. In my opinion, i…