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I googled "us government anti trust wins" and found a few articles that point out some recent ones, e.g. Adobe and Figma in December 2023, and an Apple lawsuit in March 2024.

btw there is a bash feature that you can use for this touch a_tset_file.txt mv a_t{se,es}t_file.txt it works for changing file extensions: touch foo.txt mv foo.{txt,json} or for ad…

It looks fairly clean but the lowercase "r" character stuck out at me as I read the webpage. Mainly in the smaller paragraph size, not so much the titles. Something about it just l…

Also the search index has not been updated in 8 months so it doesn't include the several recent articles. Which can be confusing, since those articles are right next to the search …

The Pix example looks like a cinemagraph. They can be really neat and beautiful. There is a popular subreddit, /r/cinemagraphs, and other various google results. Maybe those are ex…

> To my surprise it came not just unlocked but rooted. This rings alarm bells for me. What are the chances that it comes with a pre-installed Android rootkit? How would you know?

I had the same thought. You could practice magic tricks if you could flip over the deck and then shuffle and fan it! "Pick a card, any card!"

I don't know why a non-gamer would bother with an AMD/NVIDIA graphics card. Even a developer. If the most graphically intensive thing you do is watch YouTube videos or Netflix, use…

Typo: the pricing section says "Workpress"

I'm not a C++11 developer, I've done a little C++ in the past. What is the pride in putting all the code in the header file? Shouldn't the declarations be there, and the definition…

So the server always sends the same plaintext (the private key of the bitcoin wallet), encrypted presumably by the same cipher but each time with a different symmetric key of cours…

A toll near me (NC) has cameras and an electronic sensor over the highway; it reads your pass if you have one, or takes a picture of your license plate if you don't so that they ca…

Sorry. I googled to check before posting too, but didn't consider specifically the A123. It still looks like it is an uncommon choice for main battery pack but I can see how it's a…

It's 100% believable, technology-wise. It's a 2600 mAh LiPo (or LiFePO4 or other similar lithium battery), and the charger charges it at about 4C == 10A. The tradeoff is that such …

It's not as entertaining than say a dynamite explosion, but here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIOEPnsgbI Gassing (or smoke, not sure which) starts around 15 sec. …

5C is still like 10-15min for a full charge -- and definitely does have side effects, it causes damage to the battery and will result in sagging voltages and lower capacity in just…

I think you have to really consciously process your email though, in order for your system to work. I have gotten really bad at email lately and it's because of this: I leave my em…

I re-evaluated my DNS provider choice a couple days ago (good timing, apparently, as I was using Google before then). Switched back to OpenDNS because their servers responded faste…

Not sure if he meant P2P as peer-to-peer or point-to-point. The latter seems to make more sense. But P2P is most commonly used to mean "peer to peer". (also pay-to-play in the game…

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My mom has Alzheimer's disease. I either sympathize with your situation, or if you were using it as an expression, I find the misuse a bit offensive. Particularly in this context f…

10 years. Interview is dated 1985, Windows 95 is obviously 1995.

I have used this technique to help me memorize company goals and also to connect codenames with their version numbers. I hated when someone would mention "Julio" and I'd have to as…

"And as a hypothetical story-telling construct I created in my mind, Jane agrees 100%!" That's a very strange way to end an article. Could have just stopped before adding that last…