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1. 691.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   IBM was saved by an outsider Louis Gerstner - who worked outside computer industry before entering IBM... Maybe this was his critical advantage...
2. 692.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Since the final solution for cancer doesn't exists (yet), every improvement is better than nothing. We will all die. So the question is: how long will a person live. Prolonged life means some "extra days" for cancer patients.
3. 693.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Physical switch could be made INSIDE the laptop and would be automatically pressed by the lid itself - when the lid is closed. No sensors needed. No chip needed. When lid is closed - mic is disconnected. When opened - mic is connected... U
4. 694.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   I had diametrically opposite experience: I read Java Language Specification and Java Virtual Machine Specification back in 1996 - after many years of programming in (pure object-oriented, dynamically typed, invented by Alan Kay) Smalltalk.
5. 695.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   People can change their habits only to a certain extent...
6. 696.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Go visit San Fransico and take the cable car and walk around (Market Street, China Town, Fishermans Wharf, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Park, maybe Twin Peaks, maybe Alcatraz, ...)
7. 697.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Such tools and technologies WILL be used - regardless if it's legal or illegal. They will be used at least in HIDDEN ways by security agencies in - at least - some places on the earth...
8. 698.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Compile-time evaluation is for faster startup (initialization is done at compile time).
9. 699.▲
   by pulse7 8y ago

   Having Box-es (legacy java.lang.Integer), Lox-es (new lightweight value boxes) and Pox-es (primitive wrapper value classes) and primitives (int-s) would complicate the understanding... I wish there would just be one (int) or maximum 2 (int.
10. 700.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    How true is this... and there are products with false ETL and other certificates and Amazon is not removing them from the marketplace... in the last 2 months I've started looking on Amazon like a bit better Aliexpress - at least for el
11. 701.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    If this lands, they will get another x billion dollar fine from the EU. Looks like the fine needs to be set higher...
12. 702.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Almost the same FPGA (Lattice Semiconductor FPGA ICE5LP4K) has been found in the iPhone 7: https://web.archive.org/web/20160916230725/http://www.chipwo...
13. 703.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Choosing FPGA = learning, how to be independent from ASICs, which have more and more "hidden security parts" like Intel ME, AMD PSP, ARM TrustZone...
14. 704.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Are the Athos monasteries also connected to the grid? (According to the night photos they seem to have lighting.)
15. 705.▲
    An advocacy group in NYC wants people to stop circumcising their infant sons(independent.co.uk)

    2 points by pulse7 8y ago|0 comments
16. 706.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Try this (bad formatting, but readable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.lat...
17. 707.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Most probably created in China, used on the West then dumped in the sea...
18. 708.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Yes, tax collectors are just checking if you really moved or not. So if you really move, then you will have (almost) no problems.
19. 709.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    If this can be generalized to "<Anyone> Needs to Stop <Saying> Things He Can’t Prove" nobody would be able to say things like "God exists." or "God doesn't exist." (because you can't prove
20. 710.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    According to this graph one could actually get from Java to Objective-C to LLVM-IR to Machine Code... Or with LLVM-IR to C in the last step you could get from Java to C...
21. 711.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    It would be fair if they would provide accurate weekly production numbers for the last 6 consecutive weeks. Maybe the pattern was: 3000, 2000, 1000, 1000, 3000, 5000... Which is quite different than pattern: 2500, 3000, 3500, 4000, 4500, 50
22. 712.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    It would be fair if they would provide accurate weekly production numbers for the last 6 consecutive weeks. Maybe the pattern was: 3000, 2000, 1000, 1000, 3000, 7000... Which is quite different than pattern: 3000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 70
23. 713.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Please correct the title: it is called Ultibo (and not Ultimo). Ultibo = ULTIMate BOx
24. 714.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    I many cases, the science is not talking about real proofs (in the mathematical sense) but marely about assumptions based on some (or many) indicators. Such "science" should not be part of the real science. The real sciense should
25. 715.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Now hibernation will be fast and usable. Stand-by will not be needed anymore...
26. 716.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Maybe these editor(s) are paid Public Relations of some "war investors".
27. 717.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    Gogs author didn't want to incorporate proposed changes into Gogs, so a bunch of other developers forked Gogs and went on their own promoting Gitea as true open-source by spirit and blamed Gogs author for his inflexibility. I am using
28. 718.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    <sarcasm>Of course: the time gained by using Untoll.Me - "at least a day's worth of manual effort" - can be used for reading their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, for analysing, understanding and explaining all the
29. 719.▲
    by pulse7 8y ago

    ...or Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (2018)
30. 720.▲
    Intel’s Core I7-9700K: What We Know (And How It Could Beat AMD)(tomshardware.com)

    2 points by pulse7 9y ago|0 comments