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DerekL··on YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
But why would à la carte be that much cheaper? If a user watches a certain amount of streamed video, it doesn't cost more to stream it if it comes from ten different channels than if it comes from a single channel.
DerekL··on Every position of Rubik's Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less
Title needs (2010).
DerekL··on Apple, Atari, and Commodore, Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den
> condensators

In English, the term is now capacitors.

DerekL··on Why π^π^π^π could be an integer (for all we know) [video] (2021)
Title needs (2021).
DerekL··on How Sonic 3D's 27MB intro was fit on a 4MB cartridge (2020) [video]
Title needs (2020).
DerekL··on Ao486_MiSTer: i486 core for the MiSTer FPGA gaming system
(Maybe you were joking.)
DerekL··on Ao486_MiSTer: i486 core for the MiSTer FPGA gaming system
Of course, you could just simulate a Game Boy Color directly on the MiSTer.
DerekL··on US child labour violations rise as businesses defy laws to fill roles
> This is also why children are out of school in the summer so they can help out with their family’s farm.

This is a common myth. There's more work to do during the spring and fall than the summer.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-ge...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/debunking-myth-summer...

DerekL··on The Nixon White House plotted to assassinate a journalist
Title needs (2022).
DerekL··on Police say GPS tag darts can eliminate need for dangerous high-speed chases
Also, Spider-Man uses Spider-Tracers, first depicted in 1964. That probably wasn’t the first time these were seen in fiction.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_11

DerekL··on Weird architectures weren’t supported to begin with (2021)
Title needs (2021).
DerekL··on Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743078
DerekL··on ‘Perfect explosion’: merger of neutron stars creates spherical cosmic blast
How do you know that?
DerekL··on Controlled experiments show MDs dismissing evidence due to ideology
*Marin County, not “San Marin”.
DerekL··on A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Title needs (2016).
DerekL··on The x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction
Making computers use more memory, use larger chips, and consume more power just to make one thing easier for novice programmers is a bad trade-off. Decimal floating-point types could be implemented in software for those who really want it.
DerekL··on My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
> Isn't that the job of the police?

The Secret Service are police (that is, they're a law enforcement agency).

DerekL··on My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
Title has a typo. It should be “the White House”.
DerekL··on The Disturbing Secret Behind an Iconic Cartoon: Sexual Abuse (2018)
Title needs (2018).
DerekL··on Does glass break faster than a bullet? [video]
The same impulse (force times time), not the same energy.
DerekL··on What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?
That's right. On PCs, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End move the cursor, but on Mac, they only scroll up one page, down one page, to the start, to the end, respectively, without moving the cursor. (Also, the cursor is called the insertion point on Mac.)
DerekL··on Where did software go wrong? (2020)
Title need (2020).
DerekL··on Louis Rossmann explains why he left New York
* counsel
DerekL··on Gas pump manipulators steal millions of dollars in fuel
Tampering is not legal, but simply owning the device is legal. Law enforcement wants to bring charges when they find the device in a search, not wait to catch the thieves when they are pumping the fuel.
DerekL··on Raspberry Pi hired an ex-cop and people are pissed
The submitted title is based on the page title, which is different from the headline.
DerekL··on Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow
> If you have in16 + int16, being assigned, returned or passed to a int32 type, then the calculation can be done in int32.

By the way, if int has 16 bits (which is rare nowadays), then the calculation will happen in 16 bits. If int has more than 16 bits, then both operands will be promoted to that size before the operation.

DerekL··on Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports
I agree. “Someone stole my car” is different from “I lent someone my car and they didn't bring it back when they said they would.” Require the rental company to sue the customer and prove to a court that the car wasn't returned.
DerekL··on Edward Snowden swears allegiance to Russia and receives passport, lawyer says
> [Snowden] would not be subject to the partial military mobilization that Putin had decreed days before, since only men with previous military experience were being called up.

Does experience in foreign armies count? He was in the U.S. Army, but left after six months after breaking his legs during training.

DerekL··on Bob Iger back as Disney CEO
> Furthermore, Disney did collaborate with Skylanders.

I don't think that's true. They had their own toys-to-life game called Disney Infinity.

DerekL··on The Decline of Work
> Teacher's have disgraced themselves…

Should be “Teachers”.

> Teacher's unions are a weird beast…

Should be “Teachers'”.

You should have listened to your teachers when they tried to teach this to you.

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