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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#18599069)
When I find a glitchy site in Firefox, I try chromium. Usually turns out it's glitchy there as well.
Re:Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:12AM (#18380457)
Windows is practically clean on install compared to any Android phone I've owned
My Nexus Android phones were clean. And yes, Sony etc phones are adware, but so are Sony Windows computers.
Re:iPhones are allergic to helium
on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:37AM (#18344564)
Sugar in coke doesn't sink to the bottom, indeed, but if you put a sugar cube in water, it first sinks to the bottom, and then (slowly) dissolves.
Likewise, if you release helium in air, it goes up first, and then (quickly) dissolves in the air.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected
on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:09AM (#17462596)
And if you do contemplate them, you'll be accused of participating in project fear.
Re:Analysis of USB fan given to journalists at North Korea-Singapore S...
on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:09PM (#17459678)
They may want to know who is leaking the sensitive information to the journalists
Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C
on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:04AM (#17440676)
When I compile the example, i get:
0x7ffd0b57ebd0 0x7ffd0b57ebd8 0
int *p = &a + 1;
int *q = &b;
gcc -o c c.c && ./c
0x7ffe55eb0aa4 0x7ffe55eb0aa4 1
gcc -O -o c c.c && ./c
0x7ffcfeffd914 0x7ffcfeffd914 0
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:58AM (#17219139)
Response by one of the original authors:
https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/05/31/the-marshmallow-test-he...
Re:How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:37AM (#17219068)
"It’s not clean until it’s been soaked in sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide, UV sterilised, gamma irradiated, then parked in a decaying orbit above the sun."
By that time, you've also 'sterilised' most electronics...
Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:58AM (#17218819)
Often the poor are fat because healthy food is more expensive. So yes, scarcity of healthy food is linked to poverty.
Re:Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense...
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:07AM (#17038937)
Multicast may be useful when the hairdresser is busy at the requested time, and algorithm searches for an available option.
Re:Twenty years of speedcubing (2003)
on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:31PM (#16286102)
But then, why is it called "twenty years of speedcubing", if he started in 1981?
Re:GG-flip: simplest and most efficient ways to flip the sign of a number
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:03PM (#16195417)
So what if x > MAXNUMBER/2 ?
Also, how can this be faster than x=0-x; ?
Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
on Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:47AM (#13660804)
Many stories on HN, for example:
Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi
on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:15AM (#12365446)
Because when your home gives free access, sharing the connection (and cost) with your neighbors becomes easier.
Yes, it's possible now already, but now we're all afraid the others may abuse our connection.
Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:09AM (#10923723)
If downloading more than 5% of stored data is so expensive, wouldn't it have been cheaper to upload a file 19 times the size of the stored data (containing /dev/urandom)?
After that, downloading just 5% of total data would have been free.
Re:EU Telecoms deal: Mobile roaming charges ban in 2017
on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:34AM (#9805493)
About tethering restrictions: I would have hoped network neutrality would forbid those as well. Probably not though.