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Re:A Business with No End on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:48AM (#18551040)
For all small electronic phone/charger stuff I buy Anker. Hasn't let me down once.
Running a T480 with dedicated nvidia hardware. The GPU in mine is mostly off, as I use the intel onboard graphics for most day to day tasks. The occasional gaming session in windows is the only time the dedicated gpu actually gets some power fed to it.

I run linux on this without any nvidia drivers even. Just bbswitch that turns off the dedicated GPU.

Re:How We Found a Missing Scala Class on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:31AM (#17978426)
Also Scala's lambdas create new anonymous classes, but Java's lambdas are kind of bootstrapped static methods in the existing class file.

It does get converted to a class at runtime, but then it's long past the classloader anyway.

Re:Ryanair strike hits 55,000 customers across Europe on Friday August 10, 2018 @09:26AM (#17732987)
Yet their net income is over a billion dollars. Surely some spending can be allowed
Re:Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:40AM (#17731645)
Reminds me the first time I watched a european version of lost. Being used to the show so much, I noticed the pitch of the intro sound was different. Then I realized PAL is 25fps vs NTSCs 23.976. I was surprised I could hear the difference at all