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    Comment #45404871

    The font is really awful. Misunderstanding aesthetics from difference cultural sources to feed to people who will take them at a surface level, there's nothing of substance. It's g…

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    Comment #45155894

    With Windows XP already being visually designed, this project not being "fully-functional" but just a visual wrapper of some portfolio pages where the code was written by AI, I'm l…

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    Comment #41621162

    The `src` folder is structured that way because the Android NDK demands it. They're not just chosen by convention, but because the build tool searches for those files and subdirect…

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    Comment #34366030

    okay? you've pivoted from "not understanding" vim to having an anti-vim boner. other people in the same environement achieved as much or more than me with different tools. and thos…

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    Comment #34364767

    I agree with your point but fwiw when I worked a full time C job doing things with servers running a custom Linux kernel the biggest conveniences were Shift+k over a keyword to ope…

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    Comment #33960979

    What makes this man wise, when the effects of excess sugar and a blood sugar spike are well documented and aspartime in diet is one of the most heavily-researched sweetners with no…

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    Comment #33575260

    If you can get into the beta. I'm a ten year C++ programmer and focus a lot on games but my dove's song didn't reach Jonathan Blow's ears, or something. I fear I might not be the "…

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    Comment #33491818

    Entered the thread for a different reason. No, I don't really find building the API request complicated. I mean, it is but they provide a python example that I was easily able to g…

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    Comment #33442397

    I could have been a talented C++ developer. Hell, I _am_ a good C++ developer. I should be, I've been doing it for a decade. Across a range of projects, from hardware to web backen…

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    Comment #31054373

    Definitely expensive for an individual or small group which is why I emphasised agreement with the message. The question was specifically about the cost estimate they gave. Edit: R…

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    Comment #31040057

    > Then the actual cost. While you can get a cheap site up and going for not much. If you get even slightly popular you are now looking at a decent amount of money for many people. …

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    Comment #31000177

    All the time. I don't have an outrageous salary (£40k/yr) but I have such an easy-going schedule and light workload. If I need to do a life errand I don't have to plan and can go o…

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    Comment #30990730

    When a pope is or isn't elected (a vote on a single candidate), the Vatican releases either white or black smoke respectively to signal the result. We get to see the result of the …

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    Comment #30620286

    We had different childhoods, I never saw violent fights. Totally didn't mean to present my memory as a universal truth which is why I led with the first sentence. Definitely whole …

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    Comment #30619168

    It's true, which is why I tried to caveat it with 'even if they aren't worth sharing'. If I got a Tangela and had it in my pocket I'm still going to show the neighbour friend, she …

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    Comment #30618869

    This definitely isn't a universal experience and there are definitely a lot of trading card horror stories, but for me + friends growing up the purchase of trading cards had a diff…

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    Comment #30603172

    Any guide to diet and nutrition that is dozens and dozens of pages with heavy emphasis on calories, tracking, numbers and restriction without even a _single_ mention of disorder is…

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    Comment #30556158

    The laws account for limited retention time, and can be retroactively changed to make it so that companies have to get rid of historical data. Versioned history is supposed to be i…

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    Comment #30554135

    He made conscious decisions across decades to disempower the aspects of hardware and software he didn't like, from trying to have the Apple II have two expansion slots for the bare…

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    Comment #30289032

    The other replies are missing what analytics is really comparable to. With a standard purchase, we have an exchange of the minimum necessary information at the point of engaging in…

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    Comment #30246137

    An alternative viewpoint: Minecraft is Lego, and Lego isn't. When there were fewer themed Lego sets, Lego was a sandbox. You had a mish-mash of generic pieces and your creativity. …

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    Comment #30226103

    The 2011 laptop was similar to that (i5-2410M) but the one you cite is from 2018. From 2012-2015 browsing for laptop deals to find an equivalent laptop for the same price point was…

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    Comment #30224764

    I bought a $400 laptop in 2011. Trying to upgrade it in the years after for something at the same price point was an exercise in frustration - when almost every new mobile Intel CP…

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    Comment #30221930

    Hadn't noticed before but speakers haven't suffered the same fate as other tech where additions and improvements of tangential aspects haven't affected the core performance. A mode…