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Comment #48798311
Programmers work on trains too, you know. Some of the busiest metro lines in the world are fully automated, pretty sure that code is held to a higher standard than some shitty YouT…
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Comment #48763471
The problem with MacBook is that they have a shit OS...
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Comment #48698913
Can't help but notice all the Aramco ads during the world cup. "Who could have foreseen this would happen?"
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Comment #48638893
France has higher prices than several EU countries. Spain in particular has low prices thanks to their solar and wind, and the Nordics thanks to hydro.
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Comment #48632393
This will be great for their customer service, now they'll have a new excuse for losing your package.
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Comment #48627695
EU member *countries" certainly do, but that's true of all countries that have the ability. If anything the EU puts limits on what EU member countries and companies can do. By host…
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Comment #48599014
Lots of games run just fine on Wine. Those that don't, usually work on Steam/Proton.
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Comment #48574211
And yet still has more personality than the latest Ferrari.
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Comment #48554444
The restrictions are a good fit for children under 16. As a parent you want to be able to reach them, and they want to reach their friend. And as a parent you not want them waste t…
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Comment #48553544
It shows that you don't need to know how to code to succeed in this type of project. As someone who does know how to code, I find the approach to be great, as it can motivate other…
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Comment #48495142
That any of this needed I would consider a form of social failure, a path to a future where only corporate entities can own anything. Much respect for the hacking. Clawing back som…
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Comment #48495041
The developer is "Ascensio System SIA", and they are located in Riga, Latvia. Why the mention of Russian developers?
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Comment #48493980
You mean the "US-Israel war of aggression against Iran"? Let's not avoid assigning responsibility when it is so clear.
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Comment #48412505
By that logic all sorts of technical and scientific terms would be "meaningless". Seems like playing semantics, to not say disingenuous, using "meaningless" to mean "unknown", when…
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Comment #48412085
> Weight gain has basically happened across the whole developed world Could it be that maybe, maybe , there is a link to this and the subject of the paper being discussed?
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Comment #48411895
It's absolutely not a meaningless term, it's a classification in the Nova standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification And regarding health risks, please ask your do…
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Comment #48411218
I'm seeing quite a bit of request for these on my work's GitBook documentation site. But perhaps these are developers specifically targeting these pages to feed whatever LLM they a…
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Comment #48411188
> a blogging platform with around 80k blogs But nah, I'm sure OP doesn't know about CDNs.
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Comment #48377136
Linux are also more likely to contribute bug reports and crash dumps. Security conscious doesn't mean not getting involved with the community and helping useful projects.
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Comment #48377105
You can try running in gamescope, although in my experience Wayland has not been an issue. The few games I have that gave me problems in Wine didn't work any better when using an X…
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Comment #48285135
On the one hand this could be interesting for military and government looking to make sure there are no backdoors in the hardware they are using. On the other hand, having it publi…
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Comment #48281946
If they use US tech they are just one orange temper tantrum away from losing access...
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Comment #48281662
You must be deep into the Apple walled garden. And you're right, I'll never get it I guess. I'll spend more on something of equivalent features for only two reasons: build quality …
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Comment #48241683
That's what how we got fuel economy regulations in the 1970s. But it didn't really usher in a golden age of public transport. Probably would just help Tesla and BYD.
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Comment #48241632
Wow you live surrounded by idiots. The dog owners, not the dogs, of course.