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Also, the title would read better without the comma.
No, they are usually different things.

Robbery is theft using force or the immediate threat of force. The article you linked to says that much of the phone theft is done by pickpocketing.

Re:House Defies Automakers and Mandates AM Radio in New Cars on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:57PM (#49735532)
Why not also add a requirement to receive NOAA Weather Radio, too?
Re:How Big Are Factorials? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:09PM (#49734788)
Stirling’s approximation is mentioned in the article.
Neither, the biggest danger is being a chiropractor (her main job), taking people's money and wasting their time with useless treatments.
I guess you could fork it and add support for retro systems.

It looks like much of the engine uses fixed-width types (for example, int32_t), so maybe you don’t need to change that code at all.

Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:13PM (#49502312)
*cues
The Department of War was split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Department of War didn't include the Navy.
Here are some features, common in other simulator games, that could now be added to these games:

• Custom control panels, with various switches and levers, and lights and displays.

• Multiple displays.

• Virtual reality.

• Mixed reality that shows your hands and your custom control panel, combined with the VR display outside your craft.

• Speech recognition for giving commands to your allies.

• Cockpit motion control and seat rumble.

It's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., not John.
It's actually about 4x10^19 (exponent 19, not 9).
Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:30AM (#49220801)
Though for Infocom, portability was secondary benefit. The primary purpose of the Z-machine was smaller code size, compared to assembly or a high-level language compiled to machine code.
Re:How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:22PM (#48996924)
The title is misspelled. It's “H-1B”, with a hyphen.
Re:Why Dark Sky Lighting? on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:39AM (#48684985)
From the article:

> See 6 important reasons for using it, or skip to What is Dark-Sky Lighting?

The actual title is “macOS 27 'Golden Gate' delivers more Liquid Glass and updated Siri”.
“High school” is two words.
Re:The Invention of Buses on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:19PM (#48216607)
The article says that horse-drawn buses were successful.
Re:Lets Encrypt Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident on Saturday May 09, 2026 @05:29PM (#48078436)
It's fixed now. Thanks!
The title is misspelled. It's “Let's Encrypt”, with an apostrophe.
Did you actually play Tempest on the Atari 2600? As far as I know, Atari did a prototype, but never shipped it.

https://www.atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=8...

Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:34PM (#47841163)
“We broadcast most episodes live on Wednesday nights at 8 PM US Eastern time.”

https://atp.fm/live

Portability between different computers is only a secondary reason for the Z-machine. The most important reason is code size, making the largest possible game that can fit on a floppy disk.

See the article “How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine” by Marc S. Blank and S. W. Galley, in the July 1980 issue of Creative Computing. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-07/page/n...

Re:Why Objective-C on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:09PM (#47222565)
Hopefully, you're using ARC by now, so that's a no-op!
Are you confusing Motorola Mobility with Motorola Solutions? The article is about Motorola Mobility, which makes cell phones. Motorola Solutions makes two-way radios and surveillance systems. They split in 2011.
Re:Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:22AM (#47058236)
Also, the original title is only 77 characters long, so there was no reason to change it. And the title should never be changed to something that misrepresents the article.
Karp has also bought into the myth that fentanyl can be ingested by contact. It can't, unless it's been prepared as a patch, and those act slowly.
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:59AM (#47031366)
I actually used an Amiga to browse the web, back in 1994 or 1995. I started with Lynx, but then I switched to a graphical browser (probably Mosaic).

This was an Amiga 500 with maxed-out RAM (8 MB) and a hard drive.

Re:Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:40PM (#47029434)
Title has a typo, should say “framerate”.
Are these the cars where the safety driver is in a car tailing the robotaxi, or do they actually run without the need for a safety driver?

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-didnt-remove-the-robota...

Title is misspelled, should be “independent”.

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