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  1. 11/22/63 on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Light read, yes, but a surprisingly engaging novel.

  2. Re:Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    The ASCII tab _character_ is a form of text compression which was useful when disks were 20Megabytes or less.

    What a moron. How many spaces a tab is supposed to "uncompress"?

    You're mixing up tabulation with spacing. These are two different enough concepts that, lo and behod, we have dedicated keys for each.

  3. Re:At least iOS is still around. on All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're literally the same thing. Apple's "secure enclave" uses the ARM A7's TrustZone/SecurCore tech, which is basically an independent CPU in the same die. There's nothing magical about it - Android's been supporting it for eons now: https://source.android.com/sec...

  4. Re: Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    Tabs work great if everyone uses them consistently. Which *never* happens.

    No shit. Too bad the same is true about spaces.

  5. Re:At least iOS is still around. on All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Any device using Android 6.0 onwards.

  6. Re:At least iOS is still around. on All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree it would be significantly stronger than not having encryption enabled, how much stronger it is entirely dependent on the particular device's hardware.

    Wrong. Android uses AES via dm-crypt, which is the same cipher used by iOS - the difference is that not all devices have hardware crypto support. IIRC this is one of the reasons Android doesn't enable it by default; it comes with a performance hit.

  7. Re:Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    They exist solely to provide invisible errors in the editor and text processing system of your choice. Tabs are nothing but a really primitive text compression system that should've died 50 years ago.

    No, tabs are tabs and nothing else. "Invisible errors" come from handling indentation with spacing, in fact.

    Grow up and use tabs, then set the display spacing to whatever floats your boat.

  8. Re:At least iOS is still around. on All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com) · · Score: 2

    Ever notice how the FBI never goes after Google/Android/Samsung/etc. for access to their phones? Apple has a much smaller market share and the feds are all over them?

    Because Android is like a screen door. The feds don't need to sue, they just walk in.

    No, it is because Android doesn't do encryption by default - the "why" beats me. Enable it and it is as strong as any Apple offering.

  9. Re:Have they added curly braces yet? on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Using tabs for indentation is a mental disease.

    Um, why? Tab exists solely to provide indentation.

  10. "Cultists". How ironical.

  11. Re:Asus UX305CA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    No backlit keyboard on the UX305CA. It is a damn nice keyboard otherwise.

  12. Re:Is it just me? on Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com) · · Score: 1

    "Distracting mess"? The Google search homepage?!

  13. Re:I am sick and tired on Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:CPU cycles area cheap. Bandwidth is not. on Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com) · · Score: 1

    Opera has this feature called Turbo which was basically a compressed web proxy - it really makes a difference on poor connections and was specially useful for me in the early days of mobile broadband data.

    They really used to pioneer useful features back in the day...

  15. This is sad. on Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I still remeber when Opera was the best browser around - not that long ago, in fact. I was a loyal fan until they became yet another Chromium skin and the company ditched their entire codebase, spending ages to release a non-Windows binary in the process.

    I now look forward for Vivaldi.

  16. Re:Asus UX305CA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    The key question you have to ask yourself is; am I using this for work or play?

    I work with this laptop every day. When i say it is rock solid under Linux is, well, because it is. No driver issues, no hibernation woes, no bluetooth pains - everything worked right out of the box after a fresh Arch install.

  17. Re:Asus UX305CA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Having working sound, volume controls, 3d support, wifi, touchpad w. multi-touch, Bluetooth, suspend, hibernate (and resume), etc, etc. is another matter.

    Check for all of the above.

  18. Re:Asus UX305CA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    It was, but since Linux 4.7 the machine is been rock solid for me. Zero issues whatsoever.

  19. Because it is useless on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a 3D printer using flimsy plastic at a low resolution. Once the novelty wears of there's really little use for it.

    Wake when there's a metal powder fed 3D printer cheap enough to own. That will start a revolution.

  20. Asus UX305CA on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Beautiful design, screen and battery life, plus it runs the latest Linux kernels without any issues whatsoever. I love mine.

  21. Hey, when the only tool you know is a hammer...

  22. Is an async framework for Javascript which somehow become hugely popular and people use to write web servers. Yes. In Javascript.

  23. Re:Thanks 2016 on Ron Glass, Firefly's Shepherd Book, Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Expect to hear more about Andrew Breitbart.

    ...from beyond the grave!

  24. Let alone the fact is two days old by now.

  25. We 'should' always validate the result and have one random state recount their ballots after the vote to verify the integrity of the voting and recount processes.

    Agreed - i'm talking about this quest for a recount based on the vague hope that Trump won due to fraud. It simply didn't happen.