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I'll tell you what is NOT hot! I have Phonak Audeos paired over bluetooth with my iPhone. A few years prior, I used to have Oticon, also paired with my iPhone. With the Oticon, if …

I learned to program in VAX Pascal, and didn't learn VAX C until later. I always found Pascal more intuitive, especially for string handling than C, and combined with the VAX/VMS S…

Incase anyone complains that a protest against genocide is not suitable material for HN, then heck, lets link to some cool tech that is involved: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tr…

To paraphrase Voltaire, I mean, Tallentyre, I mean, Hall, I may not agree with what you publish under the GPL but I defend to the death your right to assert the GPL...

Huh, today I learned about Iron Rings! Thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

In addition to your points, I can't figure out the licensing - they state that CheerpX is a commercial product, but I am unable to find any information about paid or free usage tie…

Yes, and also they are not HP servers, they are HPE. HP split off the server division into HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise some years ago. I have a very high regard for HPE products…

I agree! I had to drill down into the article a little and found this: https://www.cargonet.com/news-and-events/cargonet-in-the-med... To quote their media announcement: CargoNet® …

It does sound amateurish eh? I do most of my business logic inside Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedure, and MS SQL just takes care of date pretty well. But then, come to think of…

I would say Yes and No. I think Effective C++ was one of the first books to use this name, but now there is a publisher who uses "Effective xxxxx" in a series: https://www.amazon.c…

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I'm somewhat bemused that your school ran the toy ISO Pascal on a VAX, because VMS came with its own version of Pascal! VAX/VMS Pascal had some cool language extensions that made i…

A good example of how a well chosen title can have an effect on HN. I've never heard of "Fyrox" so "Fyrox Engine" didn't trigger my attention at all. However I'll (almost) always c…

The title should probably include the date, 2020. It is a well written paper: I enjoyed reading it and learned a lot from it. Well done to the authors! A relevant link for the curr…

William of Ockham (of Ockham's Razor fame), and an important advocate of Nominalism, died in 1347. Surely you're not suggesting that the Medieval Period ended then?

Phishing for what? The amazon.jobs website only requires a login to... itself: amazon.jobs. So it is not phishing for your amazon.com login...

I agree. My 80 yo mother in law has stopped using her Apple TV because she is simply unable (or perhaps unwilling) to learn how to use the remote and how to navigate the Apple TV m…

I agree, until the early 80s, while most computer owners I knew in NZ had a ZX81, Spectrum, Vic20 or C64, but there were a few people I knew who had an Australian made TRS80 clone …

Relevant link: https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/appli... (expand the section titled Computers)

Here is another article about the painted trucks. https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to... I was trying to find out why people started building wooden crowns…

In the long term, you are probably quite correct. In the short term though, the sea-walls give an impression of safety and protection, allowing the owners to sell their properties …

In the book it described Paul feeling almost unbearable pain, almost to the point where he was pushed too far, but the Priestess turned off the gom-jabbar just in time. Wincing was…

You are entirely correct in what you say, and if this was just a virus that most people get sick then recover from, then I'd agree with the point you are making. But there are repo…

I am going to attempt to transcribe what was said about the Hobbyist Programme: The last thing that I wanted to touch on has to do with a new community licensing programme. I have …

Scientific American is a magazine for the general public that have a high school level education in science. It is not a peer reviewed scientific journal, thus the SA articles do n…