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Boxxed

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    Comment #49124139

    Surely you realize he or she is not literally looking for the answer to that but rather pointing out the censorship.

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    Comment #48981962

    Probably the same reason that people use webkit rather than fork chromium?

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    Comment #48977984

    Why does everyone use webkit instead of gecko? Is gecko hard to work with or something?

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    Comment #48747279

    The first one was for a $4k bounty. The second one was for a university assignment.

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    Comment #48673674

    ClickBench is of very limited utility already because it doesn't have a single join in it. Which is maybe less weird in the context of ClickHouse not being great at joins.

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    Comment #48668848

    Wasm and platforms like iOS and Nintendo Switch (I think).

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    Comment #48541864

    Additional irony points for the fact that the URL is purportedly pointing to a '.md' file

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    Comment #48536139

    Yes, it is impossible? If you owned everything on earth you still would not be an avogadrillion-aire.

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    Comment #48481134

    For that to be the case, wouldn't that mean that companies are awful not in the name of money but just because they're evil? Which I thought was the antithesis of your whole thesis…

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    Comment #48479366

    > And from an investor perspective, as a group they have underperformed the S&P 500. This should be kind of obvious -- if they are avoiding doing awful things in the name of money,…

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    Comment #48451225

    > I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround. Ding ding ding. Stop using chrome!

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    Comment #48446561

    ...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.

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    Comment #48378592

    Those differences are not due to the syntax, they're due to much deeper things like the differing type system.

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    Comment #48281031

    What the deuce is an "RPA"?

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    Comment #48279529

    The massive AI generated image header is more than a little bit ironic

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    Comment #48201779

    It's the best there is.

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    Comment #48141610

    That already exists, and it is in fact called unspecified behavior. Order of function argument evaluation is unspecified, for instance.

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    Comment #48139265

    > The interesting thing here is the Undefined Behavior (UB), well... actually two UBs, thanks to which there are three possible correct answers: 11, 12 and 13. No, if you invoke un…

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    Comment #48011152

    Yeah I guess; I'm generally not a fan of solving a problem by adding another layer of shit on top.

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    Comment #48008869

    Pyinfra is what ansible should have been. It's straight python rather than a janky mix of yaml, templates, and bolted-on control flow primitives.

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    Comment #48000576

    "It's possible to write in " is a common trope, but "It's possible to write in Rust" is painful and borderline impossible in my experience. I don't mean this as a defense of rust, …

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    Comment #47957198

    Can you say more about the system? A lifetime ago I was really excited about gambit (and bigloo) but I never had the chance to work with them beyond messing around here and there a…

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    Comment #47854532

    Deadly Rooms of Death is criminally underrated and generally unknown. Journey to Rooted Hold is personally my DRoD of choice.

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    Comment #47770955

    It works both ways: "Yeah, let me eat 100kg of beef per day instead of 500g of broccoli to get my Vitamin C." But anyway, legumes are much more efficient source of protein than bee…