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  1. Re:Will they rename it? on F5 Acquired NGINX For $670M (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not here, it isn't.

  2. Re:My nearly 4 year old vi\zio tv had 2 things goi on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't cost "a bit more", they cost several times more for a display of equal size. 55" displays go for anywhere from $1,500 up to several thousand dollars. Yes, it's an option, but be upfront about what it's going to cost.

  3. Right, just like the internet search clustered around companies that don't, and the online shopping market clustered around companies that don't, and ...

  4. I get my internet service over cable. There is, however, no cable connected to my television.

  5. Ah, the always-connected world we dreamed of. It's a paradise.

  6. Re:Torvalds rant: X86 development vs Arm Developme on Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, so the i7 in this Precision 5520 is a desktop SKU?

  7. Re: Signed up to go to Mars ? on Elon Musk Announces That Raptor Engine Test Has Set New World Record (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Delta rockets run on hydrogen and oxygen. Atlas uses kerosene and oxygen. Falcon uses kerosene and oxygen. Blue Origin's smaller engine uses hydrogen and oxygen, and the big one under development uses methane and oxygen. SpaceX's new engine under development uses methane and oxygen. Soyuz uses oxygen and kerosene. Long March (other than 2) uses oxygen and kerosene.

    Methane is somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.0025 per kg. NASA's numbers from 2001 say hydrogen was $3.66 per kg and oxygen was $0.16 per kg. Kerosene is $0.79 per kg.

    UDMH is not a common rocket fuel. Other than Long March 2F and Proton, you don't see a lot of UDMH outside of upper stages (because it's ridiculously nasty stuff, expensive, hard to work with, and doesn't provide very good specific impulse. Really the only redeeming quality of the stuff is that it's hypergolic with various oxidizers.

  8. But I think the point is, in this case, it means "Microsoft's computer", and that's where their money is coming from now. They're not so worried about Windows or Linux, because their business looks a lot different now than it did 13 years ago.

  9. If you purchased 3 Note 9s, you're definitely out of my price range. They're very nearly twice the price of this 6T.

  10. This doesn't make sense, currently. While you are absolutely correct that theaters make little on the seats themselves (as I understand it, the studios take a percentage of each ticket sold, which starts at "nearly everything" in the first weeks, and diminishes to "very large percentage" later on), MoviePass subscribers pay exactly the same to the theater that any other purchaser does. MoviePass doesn't (yet) have special deals with theaters for lower ticket prices. A theater full of MoviePass subscribers represents exactly the same ticket revenue as one without any MoviePass subscribers. There's also the theory that a moviegoer who paid nothing for a ticket might be more likely to spend on concessions.

  11. Re:Am I the only one... on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, personally, I find bash's syntax awful, and powershell's functional-ish syntax not so bad, but that's just me. At least they didn't base it off of Windows' batch language.

  12. Re:Am I the only one... on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    What does "full BASH support" mean? You seem hung up on the syntax. If bash's syntax was universally accepted as "the best", then we wouldn't have things like csh, zsh, fish, etc with differing syntax.

  13. If you're going to illegally stream your media, you might as well do it for free.

  14. Ah, but you *can* use Cygwin's X server and run the clients from WSL. At least, I believe you can: https://virtualizationreview.c...

  15. Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    While USB monitors may be rare, DisplayLink is not rare. Essentially all USB-C "docking stations" use their chips, which are essentially USB graphics cards.

  16. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    The benefit of DisplayLink is that you don't need a large proprietary docking station connector. Just USB-C. The "docking station" is essentially a USB hub, USB graphics card (DisplayLink makes this part), USB sound card, and USB ethernet chip, all in one box, that connects to the host using USB-C.

  17. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    The "dock or dongle" connects over USB-C nowadays; while you can get one external monitor using the built-in HDMI port, you can't get two external monitors. DisplayLink is a company that makes what amounts to a USB video card supporting multiple monitors.

  18. Best use for WSL that I've found is to finally have a good SSH client on Windows.

  19. Anyone who says Eclipse is good needs their head checked. No matter how you feel about Visual Studio or Microsoft in general, Eclipse isn't good.

  20. Re:Both docker and kubernetes are just front-ends. on Can Docker Survive Google? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows now has native container features. The docker situation there has gotten quite confused; "Docker for Windows" creates a Hyper-V virtual machine and runs Linux containers on it, or it can be switched to "Windows containers" mode where it runs Windows containers directly on the host machine, like it would Linux containers on a Linux host.

    It's going to get even more confused, too, because Windows is gaining the ability to run Linux containers "natively".

  21. Re:Both docker and kubernetes are just front-ends. on Can Docker Survive Google? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Kubernetes is not at all a front-end to Linux's isolation features. Kubernetes doesn't include any container engine. Most people use Docker's container engine with Kubernetes.

    Kubernetes is a system for scheduling containers across a set of worker nodes, and includes features that make that easier, like service discovery and load balancing.

  22. Re:Kubernetes ad-post much on Can Docker Survive Google? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon Kubernetes Service: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
    Azure Kubernetes Service: https://azure.microsoft.com/en...

    Kubernetes doesn't compete with Docker. Kubernetes competes with Docker Swarm.

  23. Re:This should be good on China Is Building a Solar Power Highway (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    'cause engineers never finished a design that couldn't work, amirite?

  24. Full disclosure: I read all of Atlas Shrugged. I also read The Fountainhead, but it's not very good. I am not an Objectivist, and I am not a Libertarian.

    Ayn Rand never agreed with Libertarians. In fact, she said she'd be more likely to come to an understanding with a Marxist than a Libertarian: http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-...

    Objectivism says you should do what's objectively in your best interest. Libertarians do what's in someone else's (Koch Industries, most likely) best interest and hope that somehow the benefits will flow to them.

  25. Explorer is the shell; of course it's always executing.