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98codes

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    Comment #49198282

    > extremely unlikely But never zero.

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    Comment #49173493

    Adopting anything as blind dogma is Expert Beginner territory. See also: DB table normalization.

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    Comment #49158375

    Weird to us, but it's not as if it's not well known to (in this case) the state of NJ, nor is there an infinite set of license plate designs, particularly for the actual letter/num…

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    Comment #49038342

    Every AI response I've seen that uses em dashes also includes spaces around them.

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    Comment #49011190

    > I don't think the average person actually knows anything concrete about them. The average person around them knows quite a bit about the noise level, and how far it carries. They…

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    Comment #48937632

    It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat

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    Comment #48763806

    > - nearly made me cry. > - solved my back pain. Reminds me of the first time I got to sit in an Actually Good chair that came with a new job. My back was killing me for the first …

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    Comment #48560136

    "Someone else would be willing to ruin this, so I may as well ruin it and get paid for it" is not a direction everyone wants to, or even is willing to go.

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    Comment #48560113

    I've held a short list of organizations I wouldn't ever work for, for a long while. Meta is on that list, but so are most of the big tech companies you see in the various anagrams.…

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    Comment #48494286

    It's a pain if that isn't communicated in the app prior to committing to payment.

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    Comment #48492583

    Far too many introverts in software development for that.

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    Comment #48311254

    Isometric sims make it easy to build something that looks good. CS & PZ can make things look incredible, but it's a PITA to get there.

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    Comment #48142020

    As someone now firmly in the "used to be a developer" part of my career, AI use seems like good old atrophying of the memory muscle of coding. Whether it's because you just don't c…

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    Comment #48010793

    Only if you think of it that way -- making every human interaction purely transactional. Conversely, there's something I've used as a guiding principle for a while now that isn't q…

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    Comment #48010730

    Saying someone's name back to them is also a memory trick to help yourself remember their name for next time.

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    Comment #47720714

    Ahh, the three relevant numbers in development: 0, 1, and infinity.

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    Comment #47524504

    I got reeeeally good at producing repro gifs that I could plug straight inline into email replies to "can't repro"; it's forever clear that most developers either don't know how to…

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    Comment #47504571

    > That emotion is nostalgia, whether real or perceived. Absolutely. One of my prized possessions is a book I had made from digital pictures I took on a family trip when my kids wer…

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    Comment #47251909

    > serious damage from typical daily use Doing what? I've used one of those laptops for years, and it still looks and acts fine, hardware-wise. Windows though...

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    Comment #47170498

    OK then... let's see, it's citrus season -- meyer lemon meringue it is, with a swiss meringue[1] of course. [1] https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-swiss-meringue-recipe

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    Comment #47170071

    For my life, I don't understand the gestures for the 3D map. It would seem that I can ONLY manipulate that view by accident.

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    Comment #47170015

    I already did for October, November (twice), and December. Does that count?

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    Comment #47158669

    I'm a human who writes like that, because mobile and desktop OSs have made it easy—so easy—to include things like em-dashes and other formerly uncommon punctuation. I also come fro…

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    Comment #47094010

    I'm a dad that stopped using facebook when I got divorced, so there's a bit of anecdata for you