I really like having a 4K display in my laptop, 13" or 15". It provides much crisper / clearer text which is vital when programming with lots on text on screen. My next laptop is probably going to be the pixelbook 2 though, since it now runs linux client apps.

Northern Norway doesnt have a rail network, and airplanes are used instead of busses for people transportation, because the roads are so windy in and out of the fjords. And up there, there are lots of small airports scattered where it only takes 15 minutes to fly between them. It's perfect for efficient electric planes that can swap batteries at each airport.

You're paying more for healthcare because you let the marked dictate spending. Read this article; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upshot/medical-mystery-health-spending-1980.html

The life expectancy in the US is below other countries as well due to this.

I'm surprised the logo isn't a picture of a fork!

Does anyone know how to enable with Freetype, the same kind of font appearance as apple does on OS X?

Some say apples font rendering is a bit more blurry, but I find it easier on the eyes than stock font rendering under linux.

"Granted, they've been very creative with things like the MsPL but people see through those ruses pretty quickly." Yes, total ruse. Except that the MSPL is an OSI-approved open source license. There's plenty to bash MS on, the MSPL isn't one of those things.

Wow, this is a perfect example of completely misunderstanding memory-CPU tradeoffs. No. For a non-trivial amount of data, it is never cheaper to recompute the data, at access-time. It may be faster overall, as you might be able to use the freed RAM in a better way elsewhere, but it will never speed the accessing task up.

If you recompute the data constantly, it has to hit RAM and then read it back, unless you're dealing with a dataset small enough to be stored completely in cache, in which case this is a nonissue anyway. More caching is never a bad thing, so long as you set smart defaults for how the caching is done, and you allow the users to configure it. More RAM, in the hands of a smart developer, is a Good Thing (TM).

That's the firmware for the application CPU, but I don't believe the GSM baseband chip's firmware is open.

You don't even need to go the FPGA route. The baseband firmware on the iPhone has been patched for an unlocking, there's nothing stopping someone from patching it to change the IMEI built into the phone or the IMSI it "reads" from the SIM. Change these and the phone can become any other.

When you're in a position of power for a long time and an alternative comes along, what do you do? You assert control in any way you possibly can. Not that that's a good thing, but that's the way it goes.

Helluva drug^Wengine

There's a bird virus going around. They used to sing in a way that let me know what was going on, but now even the birds are pushing g3n3r1c c14l15.

And Nothing Of Value Was Lost (TM).

That was my first thought, too. Mediatrons are finally coming.