Source: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
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Passport control e-gate system failure causes chaos at UK airports over the bank-holiday weekend. The reason for the failure is unclear due to being sensitive information.
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Source: Why I use Linux instead of Windows — whoisthisjoker
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After choosing the “keep my files” upgrade option for Windows 10, the start menu refused to work for the author and bugs increased so much so that a Youth Pastor of the author’s church suggested they opt for a new installation. They switched to Linux Mint and found that it increased the speed of their laptop and led them to their passion in programming.
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Source: The obvious final step
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In order to avoid programmers writing out the final step of a piece of code that is obvious, people use tools such as destructors to write it automatically. However, this is a difficult technique to implement as there are issues such as throwing exceptions that are not handled well with destructors.
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Source: US jury says Google owes Sonos $32.5 million in smart-speaker patent case
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Google must pay $32.5 million for infringing on one of smart-speaker maker Sonos’ patents in its wireless audio devices. The verdict is part of a larger intellectual property dispute between the companies, which includes multiple lawsuits in the US, Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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