Comment OKR stands for Objectives and key results (Score 1) 66
... modulo unimportant singular/plural forms
Comment List of Firefox extensions (Score 5, Informative) 12
Here's the list of Firefox extensions containing GhostPoster, as reported by Koi Security around 2025-12-18:
- Free VPN
- Screenshot
- Weather (weather-best-forecast)
- Mouse Gesture (crxMouse)
- Cache - Fast site loader
- Free MP3 Downloader
- Google Translate (google-translate-right-clicks)
- Traductor de Google
- Global VPN - Free Forever
- Dark Reader Dark Mode
- Translator - Google Bing Baidu DeepL
- Weather (i-like-weather)
- Google Translate (google-translate-pro-extension)
- libretv-watch-free-videos
- Ad Stop - Best Ad Blocker
- Google Translate (right-click-google-translate)
(Source)
Comment Free link to entire article (Score 1) 183
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
Comment Re:Space walk (Score 1) 43
The Polaris Dawn capsule does not have a dock (nor an airlock -- the crew have to put on spaceships then depressure the whole vehicle to open the sole door for their spacewalk).
BTW, there are 4 people on board Polaris Dawn.
Comment Humble Games Humble Bundle (Score 1) 31
Humble Bundle begat Humble Store. Later, Humble Bundle begat Humble Games.
As TFA says:
Humble Games is the separate publishing arm of digital storefront Humble Bundle. Both companies are owned by IGN Entertainment, but operate as a separate entities.
We are 'only' losing Humble Games, an excellent indie publisher.
Damn.
Comment Re:EULA ? Stating: nobody? (Score 1) 196
One of the benefits of a huge EULA is making it hard for customers to notice exactly what we are agreeing to.
Comment Another useful link (Score 1) 15
Comment Wikipedia has an article ... (Score 1) 72
... about the publisher, which says they publish "over 185" journals, and employ over 1400 people. The article is gently but firmly negative about Frontiers Media.
Comment Paper has been retracted (Score 1) 72
Comment Less Interesting (Score 1) 70
All done by "country's largest EPCI company in the country"
(This text is still in the [not so] Fine Article.)
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year (adventofcode.com) 16
"Advent of Code" has begun. New programming puzzles will appear every day until Christmas at AdventOfCode.com — and the annual event (first started in 2015) has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. This year's first puzzle has been completed by over 150,000 programmers (with another 115,652 completing Day Two's puzzle). And 108,000 fans have also joined the Advent of Code subReddit.
Contest-related comments are popping up all around the web. Some participants are live streaming their puzzle-solving efforts on Twitch. Self-described computer nerd Gary Grady is tweeting cartoons about each day's puzzle. JetBrains is even giving away some prizes in their "Advent of Code with Kotlin" event. And JetBrains developer advocate Sebastian Aigner is also hosting daily livestreams about each puzzle.
It's hard to overstate how big this event has become. This year's event attracted 60 sponsors, including Kotlin (for the third consecutive year), as well as Spotify, Shopify, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (as well as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and American Express). Individual donors can get a special badge next to their name, and there's also a shop selling coffee mugs and t-shirts. But at its core is real-world developer Eric Wastl (plus a team of loyal beta-testers) sharing his genuine fondness for computer programming. Wastl is also the creator of a satirical web page for the fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework Vanilla JS ("so popular that browsers have been automatically loading it for over a decade") and also curates a collection of "things in PHP which make me sad".
And you can find him on X sharing encouraging comments for this year's participants.
Contest-related comments are popping up all around the web. Some participants are live streaming their puzzle-solving efforts on Twitch. Self-described computer nerd Gary Grady is tweeting cartoons about each day's puzzle. JetBrains is even giving away some prizes in their "Advent of Code with Kotlin" event. And JetBrains developer advocate Sebastian Aigner is also hosting daily livestreams about each puzzle.
It's hard to overstate how big this event has become. This year's event attracted 60 sponsors, including Kotlin (for the third consecutive year), as well as Spotify, Shopify, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (as well as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and American Express). Individual donors can get a special badge next to their name, and there's also a shop selling coffee mugs and t-shirts. But at its core is real-world developer Eric Wastl (plus a team of loyal beta-testers) sharing his genuine fondness for computer programming. Wastl is also the creator of a satirical web page for the fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework Vanilla JS ("so popular that browsers have been automatically loading it for over a decade") and also curates a collection of "things in PHP which make me sad".
And you can find him on X sharing encouraging comments for this year's participants.
Comment Re:Microsoft Store (Score 1) 58
(Off-topic, sorry.) Steam is not "an open platform on which anybody can distribute anything". Valve is quite cautious about what games and other software they accept onto Steam.
Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 78
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Processor specs (Score 1) 81
Processor is a Google Tensor G2. Wikipedia says it has 8 cores:
2 × Cortex-X1 @ 2.85 GHz
2 × Cortex-A78 @ 2.35 GHz
4 × Cortex-A55 @ 1.8 GHz
(The Cortex-X1 is a high-performance variant of the A78.)
Those 4 fast cores have quite a lot of power.
The GPU is a Mali G710, which was ARM’s top-of-the-line only 2 years ago.
Comment Yes, It's real? (Score 1) 16
TLA = "Temporal Logic of Actions". It uses a mathematical notation. TLA+ is a formal language for TLA.
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