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91bananas

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About 91bananas

Programmer from CA USA

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    Comment #47955732

    They're asking for 1.5B right now

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    Comment #46137104

    Time for a change.

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    Comment #46137045

    125k people, $9,000 for the city council position in my area.

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    Comment #45918449

    This is like the "why do i have to pay property taxes after i pay my house off?" for Apple™

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    Comment #45918358

    running VMs on apple chips has been rather difficult for me. other than that, yeah.

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    Comment #45879911

    I've been trying to build a golf side hobby business making putters on antique machinery in my garage. Have grown to get some pretty steady traction on instagram, have realized I a…

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    Comment #45816509

    https://xkcd.com/37/

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    Comment #45761859

    Probably. I guess I meant a shit ton, but written in a series of confusing "choose your own adventure" style bursts of 40 new browser tabs to figure anything out.

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    Comment #45761519

    This has to be satire at this point.

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    Comment #45733666

    Yeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than…

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    Comment #45733588

    I'd counsel you to work with LLMs daily and agree that we're no where close to LLMs that work properly consistently outside of toy use cases, where examples can be scraped from the…

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    Comment #45723804

    I have found this while trying to teach my kids how to write anything software related from scratch. They've done some code.org, but it becomes boring quickly. We tried to make tic…

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    Comment #45723493

    I definitely get this often vibe that: somewhat comparable things that take a lot more time often end up a lot better than things that take less time. It's like that commitment you…

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    Comment #45673984

    Heroku made an application I worked on possible. I don't think we had the team to maintain the application stack without something like it. It enabled the company to exist long eno…

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    Comment #45594822

    Play with your keyboard, alt, ctrl, cmd + tab or ~ or combos of those will do wild things for ya

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    Comment #45363644

    Very optimistic thinking in your first 2 sentences there...

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    Comment #45031585

    If it all happens out in the open and by the "letter of the law", and everyone involved in steering it that way appears to be complicit in some manner, is it a conspiracy or even h…

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    Comment #44423971

    Or print a custom spacer to fill any gaps you have on the edges that also has holes or slots to hold even more random crap.

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    Comment #44297755

    I've been at this 16 years. I've seen one planned project in that 16 years that stuck anywhere near the initial plan. They always grow with the whims of someone.

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    Comment #44129271

    Not all engineering is creating models though, sometimes there are simpler problems to solve.

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    Comment #43966674

    "You are innocent until proven guilty". Now lets all build out our truth tables to check if what he said is accurate.

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    Comment #43928166

    I will go against the grain here and suggest that this UI has become gracefully more and more terrible after being pretty good like 5-10 years ago. The more they have tried to do t…

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    Comment #43928145

    I think everything McMaster dates to it being a physical book first. They still operate on that same business model, but we have the internet now. The supplied product might change…

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    Comment #43906891

    Because many of the people that need it the most keep voting against their own interests. Because education is terrible in all the the states that vote red.

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    Comment #43898787

    And if we apply the 80/20 rule, feels like we're at about 50-75% right now. So we're almost getting close to done with the easy parts. Then come the hard parts.