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I read The Register daily, and while I don't normally visit it other than HN links, Ars Technica is also a respected site with quality content.
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Why do articles like this call the Cybertruck a car? It's obviously designed and branded as a truck, albeit a unique-looking one.
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Interesting that they call Chandrayaan-3 a shuttle instead of a rocket. At least the AI in the screenshot got it right...
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It's not necessarily movies that make people move. My dad met a guy whose dad moved to the US from Germany. Why? During Elvis Presley's Army stint, he was deployed to Germany. This man was a…
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I am Gen Z and I do not approve of the word "rizz" :)
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Has anybody else here read Kim Zetter's great book Countdown to Zero Day? It's a wonderful look at the discovery of Stuxnet.
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https://ehmorris.com/lander/ is really good and made a big splash here on HN earlier this year.…
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Apparently you don't remember when the Tesla Model S scored 103 out of 100 possible points on Consumer Reports' test: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/09/tesl…
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- D (the programming language). It's a lot like C++ if C++ were rebuilt around modern concepts like modules. - Matrix. It's pretty popular but I see way too many open source projects still s…
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Why do we never see AMD support in these projects?
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El Reg is in need of stories, so if you enjoy this like I did and have any stories to share, maybe send them in :) (I am not affiliated with The Register in any way; I'm just interested in seeing…
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This line in the readme cracked me up: > You have to be Java
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I got a Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB SSD for just $90. Unfortunately the sale seems to be over now.
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QML is not "magic". It's a separate language that integrates with C++ and makes UI design easier, sort of like how webpages use HTML/CSS for the graphics and JS for the logic.
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Bluetooth has "just worked" for me for nearly four years using KDE Plasma on Ubuntu and then openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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Wow, we live in a time where I can run Windows 98 in my browser on my phone . Technology has really come a long way since the olden days. (And I wasn't even there for the olden days!)
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Huge respect for the RGB :)
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At one point, my local dump featured a sign that read, among other things, "No Mattresse's".
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