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I use an iPad Mini 5 with the Zagg Rugged Keyboard case, which essentially turns it into a small, iOS-based ToughBook-alike. It runs all my iOS apps locally, & I use the WiFi or LT…

How/where can I learn more about your laptops?

The Nuraphones are better than the Sonys and the Boses.

It is not 'hit or miss'. It is the first, and still the best, steampunk novel. It defined the genre.

CTRL ALT Revolt, Soda Pop Solider, & Pop Kult Warlord, by Nick Cole.

My best guess is that the slightly quicker drop-off is because he happens to be Jewish, and so the mods are sensitive to the merest hint of a possibility of being accused of anti-S…

It doesn't properly support authenticated feeds.

Where are the dead grad students? Oh, there aren't any? Then there's no 'cold fusion' taking place.

Flow telemetry like NetFlow in general; ntop, specifically.

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house." And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife."

How is this Hacker News? This story should be flagged.

The fact that he's still alive and kicking undercuts his thesis.

>They all sound better, on average, than any Bluetooth No, they don't. They may sound better than cheap Bluetooth headsets. But I guarantee they don't sound better than my Nuraphon…

>the loss of sound quality My Nuraphones sound great, as did my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2/HD-1 Wireless Bluetooth headphones before them. No static whatsoever. Just because yo…

Why use the in-flight entertainment system when you can bring your own entertainment on your phone or tablet?

I don't believe you.

OP asked about novels . Here are a few excellent novels in this genre which I highly recommend: Soda Pop Solider by Nick Cole Ctrl-Alt-Revolt by Nick Cole Glasshouse by Charles Str…

This is about the supervolcano hypothesis. Note that this and the Alvarez asteroid hypothesis aren't mutually-exclusive; a significant impact event could in fact trigger vulcanism …

My favorite theory is that there's been at least one Bracewell probe in our solar system since the 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

The USSR would've conquered all of Europe if it weren't for Germany - read _Icebreaker_, et. al. by Suvorov.

The Expanse is a garbage TV series which totally and completely diverges from the novels - for no good reason, since it's a miniseries, with plenty of time to do justice to the boo…

. . . so, you either leave your laptop at home (assuming you've a sufficient degree of certainty it won't be hacked there) or you keep it with you at all times, with all wireless t…

One word - immigration.

Firstly, I'd start with a good dictionary, since 'architect' isn't a verb.