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I mean you can already do normal ethernet over coax if it's all you have in your building, thanks to MoCa.
Re:Ask HN: Has return to office affected your productivity? on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:11AM (#38639711)
I'm more productive in the office in my current job to be fair

In my old job, no.

Depends on your commute/type of work/hours, really.

Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:17AM (#38626272)
Amazon Corretto 8 is widely used in the Finance industry for example
Re:Ask HN: Do You Self Host? on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:22AM (#38614273)
The problem is around DNS/IP whitelisting

I worked for a large bank and we eventually gave up on it for customer emails because trying to keep your domain/IP ranges in the correct lists so that you didn't end up in spam folders was so operationally expensive

Re:Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:21AM (#38614254)
how is it any different to writing to another WORM media like a cd?
Command and Conquer did it too, if I recall
> The first minivan was the Volkswagon type 2 in 1950.

The British Morris J was a little earlier if I think

Re:Ask HN: Do You Self Host? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:46AM (#38529258)
Email is one of the hardest things to self-host because of spam filtering.
Re:Ask HN: What laptop computer do you currently use? on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:24AM (#38473173)
Lenovo t14s g2 at home

2021 14" mac m1 pro at work

Re:Ask HN: What games could you spend a lifetime playing? on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:58AM (#38458781)
Ive got 3000 hours on HOI4
Re:Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:51AM (#38276578)
probably

intel used to sell cheap core solos back in the core duo days, which were just duos where one of the cores was faulty so they disabled it.

Same with the F model (no iGPU) chips today. People have done teardowns and found that more often than not its there on the die, just disabled because its faulty.

If it works out as say £150/seat/month to be in the office vs say £600/year for a reliable broadband connection, contributions toward power/heat, and providing a chair/desk/monitor setup, many won't consider the 2/3 cost saving worthwhile.
Re:Why is Java still so popular even in 2023? on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:07AM (#38082013)
Because lots of things are written in it, it has good library/tool support, is pretty performant, lots of developers know it, and it's good/flexible enough for most tasks.
It does. Here in the UK at least, it's usually a lot cheaper to take cards than to pay transport (this is a real pain) and deposit fees (the latter is 2% on top of a fixed monthly fee, for my business account) so its usually only tax dodgers that go cash only

I think in the US merchant fees for card transactions are much higher though so may be a different ball game over there.

Re:Falcon 180B Released on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:13AM (#37406344)
I bet when you said a 12 litre jug and a 6 litre jug it wrongly assumed that you required it to actually make use of both the jugs in some way (not merely that they were available for possible use), leading to the pointless step.
Re:Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:44AM (#37405041)
I understand why - quite important on Samsungs to use dark mode and not just at night, as their OLED screens draw a less power displaying dark colours, giving improved battery life
> Anyone with an experience with this? I don't want my address and/or phone number publicly visible, so what are my options here?

Depending where you are, you may already be required to share this information, for example any business here in the UK must have their company registration number , registered office address, and contact (email and post) details, on any website.

Re:Why Open Source? on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:16AM (#37223952)
matters a lot, most orgs have a whitelist of permitted licences, and if some software you want to use isn't on it you have to jump through loads and loads of hoops, so much its usually not worth it.
not at all, I recall that no one (outside of the music industry perhaps) used the phrase 'digital rights management' until iTunes added DRM to music in 2003/2004, other things like the copy protection for videotapes/DVDs/games were just generically called copyprotection, or other domain specific terms such as activation (in the case of things like windows XP), not DRM.
> secure solid-state

Or a CD

Depends where you live

In the UK its technically illegal to rip a CD to your own PC to back it up, for example, see the recent high court case(s) about it where the government won against Brennan (who make hifi gear which can do this) - no different to this app.

Re:Google Releases Palm API on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:18AM (#35167893)
They might get lucky branding it PaLM but TCL own the trademark on the word Palm (Since the original Palm went out of business, and HP sold it off) in the software space

Wonder if it will end up like the IOS/iOS thing where Apple ended up having to pay Cisco

Re:Ask HN: What do you think about wireless charging? on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:41AM (#34323325)
The main benefit of it is it doesn't wear out unlike USB ports

Ive had way too many phones fail conveniently after 18-24 months (just in time for an expensive 'upgrade'!) because the port has become loose/blocked/whatever, so its a useful backup to have.

Absolutely.

The only thing I care about is the negative reviews on 3rdparty sites

electronic document signing as a concept is covered by many software patents

if you started your own product doing it you would get sued by DocuSign and friends, and they have lots of money for lawyers

so quite hard to disrupt their monopoly