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samuellavoie90

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    Comment #45450600

    Microsoft isn't ending Windows 10 support, it's all just marketing to encourage people to move over. They already partially backed out by saying they will provide updates for (At l…

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    Comment #44365867

    Also, If I remember correctly, the originally announced end of life for Windows XP was extended because too many people were still running it when the date came. (I think they even…

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    Comment #42698668

    The goal of a standard is to not be forced to code specific things for each implementation out there. This is failure of the web standards that the google implementation has become…

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    Comment #42087258

    LoRA radio things are a lot more common than the newly popular AI stuff.

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    Comment #40598040

    It's not just about performance, I think one of the reasons for moving away from OpenGL is that the High level functions are inconsistent across driver implementations/GPUs. Whats …

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    Comment #36494510

    Shouldn't a system like that be part of the car, not the phone? Trying to force a feature to exist outside of the context where it makes sense can only lead to issues in my opinion…

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    Comment #30925364

    In the U.S., its part of their culture that striking up a conversation with a total stranger is normal. It just looks weird to the rest of the world, but I think it works out in th…

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    Comment #28791257

    Microsoft's next step might be to 'Extend'; add feature to wsl2 that aren't available outside of windows. (To lock in WSL2 Users, and since they have the manpower they can outpace …

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    Comment #20997023

    Isn't a rational actor with emotions called an irrational actor? ;p

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    Comment #16934429

    Probably just some 'Write Once' Memory, where they can raise bits to 1 but can't lower them back to 0. (Or the other way around, depending on the memory)

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    Comment #10124643

    I had my hopes up, Expecting Q from star trek.

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    Comment #10097190

    They should try to ban it, just so they can really see how much stuff depends on it and how vague 'Banned Encryption' is.

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    Comment #9192660

    Mort is Death in french. Mort says goodbye in english, while death prefers goodbye in french.

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    Comment #8126709

    Yes, if an hijacker got as far as the webcam, it's safe to assume they have access to everything else in your computer. But most webcams have a light to tell you if its being used,…

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    Comment #7543760

    Here's a good Board game that has the concept of instructions and executing them: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally