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Maybe I did, maybe he made absolutely no mention of "enforcing censorship". Without reading his comment we'll never know. Let's do it together. > This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian
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> Not sure why there are so many salty comments. Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a regression to colonialism. Reads to me like the people have no problem with the idea of boycotting countries or products one doesn't align wit
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> A telltale sign Internet psychoanalysis based on "telltale signs" is just seeing what you want to see especially if you're responding to a perceived personal slight. The people telling you they're having the time of
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How strange, took at least 30s to load on my iPhone 12 Pro Max with Safari but it was smooth to pan and zoom after. Which is way better than my 16 core 64GB RAM Windows machine where both Chrome and Edge gave up very quickly, with a "b
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His term ends in a few years. At that point he’s either replaced, maybe with the same kind of person (the US people have showed their hand with these elections), or he stays in place somehow. Are you hinting at the second scenario? Then we’
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> Truffles have a functional role in a dish Cheap "truffle oil" can fill that role as much as a free font can fill the role of a premium one. The real truffle and the premium font have a functional role for the few people who c
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I pay for Youtube and see in the results a lot of irrelevant videos that have nothing to do with my search or viewing history. But it gets so much worse. I leave the "smart downloads" feature enabled in Youtube Music on my phone b
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Those who cause the crisis will show up soon to sell the solution, in the form of private ventures that make them a lot of money. This mirrors a lot the physical destruction of other countries only to come back for "reconstruction&quot
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> I also do not see Google parting with something so critical to their advertising. This is not really their choice at this point. They were already found to have abused their position so it's up to a judge to decide what Google has
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The comparison to phones is shaky here. Phones bring substantial performance and feature improvements over 6 years, HW and SW. Synology on the other hand still uses a 5-6 year old CPU and 1Gbps connectivity in their home "plus" li
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> the 90k trump files Just a question I asked below. That's the size column in WinRAR (left of the Compressed column). Is it by coincidence also the number of files?
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> Trump has ~91k files in the data That's the size column in WinRAR (left of the Compressed column). Is it by coincidence also the number of files?
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"Genuinely curious" or "honest question" are the internet equivalent of "don't shoot, I'm coming out with my hands up". The disclaimer people feel the need to put so they don't catch a bullet for
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By now everyone who stands to gain from (ab)using crypto is probably already convinced. Almost everyone else heard so much about scams and illegal activities around crypto that they find it too risky. So the current admin is preaching to a
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They made a chart where the the 28 bar is 40% of the size of the 32 bar. How to lie with charts. Their intended audience is made of IT news sites publishing filler.
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Every review I left for Amazon products (Amazon EU) got rejected until it was diluted into nothing. The explanation was always vague, listing a dozen possible reasons, none of which fit what I wrote. On non-Amazon products it's a coi
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> could not deliver the same scale, international coverage and breadth of features that AWS could Amazon's biggest superpower is their ability to convince customers that they need the scale, international coverage and breadth of fea
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You were lucky that you ran into the ideal case at every step (quality of people, trustworthiness, company performance, etc.), except for the initial invoice hiccup. Your experience is the very rare exception. After being in your position r
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> confirming that coding itself, not mere proximity to ping pong tables, contributes to their dissenting mindset It might even be that the highly regarded and remunerated job of coding is what gives the people the mindset that they can a
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This might be "well ackshully" territory but the memory effect those NiCd/NiMH batteries were experiencing was very real but temporary. It could be fixed by doing a deep charge/discharge cycle for each cell . It worked
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> it still assumes that users understand that it is a problem 3 decades ago everyone with a mobile phone knew that you should never charge the battery unless it's empty. They knew "it has memory" and if you charge it when
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I've used Thinkpads consistently for 25-30 years, and still do. I can't really draw a line between "before" and "after" but if I take a long enough period I can definitely see differences in the experience gett
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Someone evaluated Huawei hardware for many telcos years ago and a lot of them decided the equipment is not only usable, it’s the best choice. So which ones were the incompetents or shills?
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Just look at how a discrete GPU vs. an integrated GPU look like in terms of size, power, cooling, and other constraints like memory type and placement. That’s why both options still exist. If one size did it all, the other option would just
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> just because you don't like the person who's running/ruining/most associated with the brand, doesn't make the product itself bad. And just because that product does something you need doesn't mean it'
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> Researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their findings yesterday at RootedCON in Madrid. > "Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that
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> You're putting YC into the same box as Meta? Only in the sense that their primary interest is making money and they'll do what it takes to keep making money, whether that's in education, crypto, social media, or the euph
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Meta or Alphabet did whatever they needed to extract profits from their users. What makes you think that all of a sudden they would pivot from chasing profits to defending those users, as opposed to playing ball with whoever they need to in
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I'm sure they'll find a way to make a profit working with the system rather than against it.
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"Insiders" get (got?) to use Windows without license/activation as long as they stay on the latest version. That can be seen as "payment". The rest of the users get to offer QA services for free, after the repeated

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