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I don't understand why Prusa thinks keeping their designs proprietary addresses the "unfair competition" problem they seem to be concerned about. Anyone wanting to release a printer can use freely available designs, like those from Voron. The openness of the Prusa Core ONE is not what would allow a competitor to enter the market "unfairly" with a competitive product. Maybe it would make sense if they were bringing some new innovations to the market, but for a catch-up product like the Core ONE restricting access feels like slighting your customers for no gain.

It's difficult to quantify. Perhaps it's something as intangible as a space optimized for _living_ (like an apartment) as opposed to a space optimized for _profit_ (like a hotel).

Whatever the case, despite the existence of the options you list, Airbnb's are still popular. There's clearly some significant differentiator between them and an Airbnb.

The checkout process requiring I enter my credit card details before seeing the final cost (tax + shipping) is strange and discourages me from proceeding.

Samsung announced that their mainline phones and tablets from 2019 onwards would receive at least four years of security updates. We are now entering the fifth year of the life for the oldest of those devices, so we can already see what they actually delivered. No need to cast aspersions.

Google has been reliably delivering OS and security updates for the promised timeframes on their Pixel phones. I've run a few different models out to the end of their promised support window and updates were timely for the duration.

The experiment was on mice, but the process has been observed elsewhere.

From the article:

This use of orthogonal coding to separate and protect information in the brain has been seen before. For instance, when monkeys are preparing to move, neural activity in their motor cortex represents the potential movement but does so orthogonally to avoid interfering with signals driving actual commands to the muscles.

The main value I find in LineageOS is for devices past the end of vendor support. If LineageOS supports a device I own, great, I get to keep using it with security updates for extra months or years I wouldn't have otherwise.

If a reviewer doubts the CPU benchmark on a phone, are we going to talk about how a single reviewer cannot understand the trade-off a bigger team at Apple/Samsung/Google has put?

The equivalent for the GP's claim would be the reviewer claiming that a phone's CPU is underpowered and that a more powerful one could have been used instead. That assumes a lot of knowledge about the tradeoffs that the phone designer had to consider - technical, logistical, financial, etc.

I don't know anything about Monroe & Associates' expertise, but I agree with the GP that this is a high bar to clear.

Speciesism is a new concept to me. Thank you for introducing me to it. Since you seem to be familiar with the concept and its application to the discussion at hand, perhaps you can clarify a point.

Are humans, among the species on earth at least, uniquely capable of speciesism? Are rats or ants guilty of it too, to the extent that they exercise speciesism until they run up against limitations of their environment? Or is speciesism a moral ideal, similar to murder, meaning rats and ants can't be guilty of it because they can't reason and act with intent?

I don't understand this point of view. My interpretation of it is that there is some idealized, perfect form of earth (and apparently the universe) that doesn't include humans. Everything in it is perfect except for the humans, which ruin and devalue it.

What confounds me about this view is that humans are as much a product of the earth/universe as any other part of it. What is so unique about humanity in the universe that gives us the exclusive agency to tarnish it? Why are the products of humanity somehow excluded from the perfection of the other productions of the universe?

When the difficulty is adjusted, the next difficulty adjustment is set to happen after the number of blocks the current hash rate will complete in two weeks. If the hash rate drops, it will take more than two weeks to adjust again.

I understand that the chip has a flaw. The title claims non-Cisco products are being bricked. What other products have actually been impacted by this issue? The article doesn't give any data, just a list of vendors using the chip. Is there any proof other devices are impacted by this issue?

I'm not claiming that the chip isn't failing; I'm disappointed that the title makes a claim that the article doesn't deliver on.

It says other vendors are using the chip, but there's no data on failures of other devices. We don't know what causes the chip to fail, but it's possible that Cisco's application may be uniquely, or at least uncommonly, susceptible.

This title seems incorrect. The article doesn't specify any other vendors or products that have been directly affected by this issue.

csproj's do have wildcard support, just no way to create them through the IDE: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164283.aspx

Can you explain why wordexp.c on the referenced site has a completely different (and older) copyright? Did they merge in another implementation?

I don't think anyone is trying to ban smart-guns. What they're trying to stop is regulation requiring guns to be smart.

Does Keurig actually sell their coffee makers at a loss? I've always thought they were overpriced to begin with.

This looks to be an implementation of the concepts (but not the language) proposed in http://www.walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/04/what-coffeescri.... Several of the terms used are exactly the same.

the device’s manufacturer made the police department sign a non-disclosure agreement that police claim prevented them from disclosing use of the device to the courts.

I don't know where to begin with this, other than to say it's quite clear that this police department is not interested in participating in the justice system.

"ASP.NET" is the name of Microsoft's .NET web platform. To answer your rhetorical question, ASP.NET MVC is an MVC framework for Microsoft's .NET web platform. "Microsoft MVC" would not be clearly constrained to web development.

I may be misunderstanding it, but the Clinical Assessment section of that article appears to claim that the reported injuries were not due to a laser but to other pre-existing conditions.

In addition to what tlrobinson said, you only need a small threshold of hash power for a cryptocurrency to function. More hash power reduces susceptibility to 51% attacks for those coins that are at risk for it (including Bitcoin), but it does not impact the functionality of the coin in any practical way.

This sounds like 3Dfx and Glide all over again. I do not miss those days.

Desura runs on Linux, but assuming SteamOS is akin to "boot to Stream Big Screen," users won't have a Gnome or KDE desktop to install it to. In such a case, Desura's existence on SteamOS depends on either inclusion in Valve's marketplace or users' willingness to venture off the map.

Having a machine boot into Steam will have an interesting effect on other similar services like Origin and Desura. It will no longer be sufficient to request customers install yet another download manager/DRM platform; instead customers would have to boot in to a different OS to play their Origin games.

The blocked speaker issue was fixed in a silent hardware rev. Two tiny bumps were added to the bottom edge of the rubber edge that lift it ever so slightly when placed on its back so sound escapes. Unfortunately, this change doesn't do anything for the "magical hovercraft" feature.

The biggest draw would be if you wanted to work in a functional language on the .NET platform.

OP was regarding Homeworld, not Homefront.

Your analysis ignores competition on any axis other than price. Clearly a low price alone will not win you the market. There is always space for selling premium goods to those who consider their purchase more than a commodity.