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somanyphotons

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    Comment #46114466

    Your head might not be, but you might find yourself being unhappily cleaning up a mess for months

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    Comment #46010461

    Presumably the idea is that if you go ipv6-only you can avoid this cost and just use a firewall?

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    Comment #46007625

    Kids (and teachers) generally don't deal with bullies well. It really just results in them continuing to being bullied, or reacting badly and getting blamed themselves.

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    Comment #46006915

    What motivates CodeWeavers specifically to work on this?

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    Comment #45995982

    I think Apple will be ok with this, it clearly shows Android being less capable/compatible than other iPhones, a bit like blue/green bubbles

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    Comment #45995325

    Am I right to assume that they simply implemented AirDrop without discussing with Apple?

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    Comment #45974041

    $company can't find high skilled people willing to work for low wages

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    Comment #45906659

    If they can make it play Microsoft Flight Simulator then that'd be pretty enticing

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    Comment #45906514

    Does this suddenly become the best supported ARM desktop?

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    Comment #45906513

    I'm surprised they went for ARM in the desktop, but for x86 on the handheld. Does this mean the handheld will move to ARM aswell?

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    Comment #45840149

    If a bad spider bite happens, government-provided health care has your back

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    Comment #45839435

    Kids will slam car doors at dropoff/pickup. It's pretty annoying. I used to live around the corner from a school and parents would use our street for it. They can also cause unexpe…

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    Comment #45837773

    With free power for 3 hours a day, I'd skip installing solar and I'd buy a ~30kwh battery (2x Ruixu Lithi2-16) and a big inverter. Charge the batteries in the free time and then us…

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    Comment #45815392

    2 years ago I landed at London City (from Zurich), got off the plane and then we all walked all the way to the exit without being stopped by a single human to check passports or cu…

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    Comment #45774769

    US companies get big first, only then try Europe once they have big revenue/headcount to handle the risk/complexity.

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    Comment #45774254

    What are the aspects that you're looking for from enterprise-land

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    Comment #45762803

    What mass of hydrogen is needed per house to last a winter?

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    Comment #45762204

    It might be the plan now - but it only takes one Product Manager in 18 months who is looking to push a metric It's also concerning that you have to be logged in to use a free nativ…

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    Comment #45751155

    ETFs like VOO will buy it eventually. It started me wondering if theres an ETF that explicitly avoids the top 20 companies

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    Comment #45749120

    > Or make room for a new fat binary for a future "arm64v2" :) Or, one can dream: RVA23

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    Comment #45749064

    What are the failure modes here? Is the tether company itself a vulnerability?

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    Comment #45727755

    I have a desktop that I'm using as a server box, I'd like to avoid plugging in a GPU just to change BIOS options or debug a boot failure

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    Comment #45724239

    I wish there was a KVM out there that didn't need HDMI, where it sat on PCIe bus and presented a really dumb framebuffer/kb/mouse to the BIOS/OS, but sent it out over the network

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    Comment #45619944

    This is an amazing quote that really applies to all software development

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    Comment #45610507

    Getting the mass into orbit for those heatshields sounds expensive