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D-Coder

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    Comment #49088500

    > wait until at least the X.1 release I think that applies to almost all software, not just Apple OSes. After all, Confucius said: "The only thing worse than old software is new so…

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    Comment #49062694

    I'm using LiveCode for a dozen personal applications (and for just the fun of coding; I'm a retired s/w engineer). It's no longer free, but I started with HyperCard and LiveCode is…

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    Comment #48862248

    And carrying stuff, the Lug Age.

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    Comment #48614475

    Note that "360 Patches" is 360 uses of strncpy that have been removed, not necessarily bugs.

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    Comment #48530484

    Yes, and people keep paying ridiculous prices for the first and for ads for the second.

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    Comment #48287815

    > He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking. He did give us a manual. He very clearly says that slavery is okay and eating shrimp is a …

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    Comment #48012168

    > non-local hidden variable Like, global variables?

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    Comment #47943183

    Someone should be fined a bazillion dollars and disbarred for life for this indictment. Like every lawyer and law firm involved in the prosecution.

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    Comment #47912363

    A billion years of kludges.

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    Comment #47905130

    > Seriously, I wonder about why it's supported. $$$.

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    Comment #47855171

    "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." — Auric Goldfinger

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    Comment #47699407

    So... who is Satoshi?

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    Comment #47667957

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    Comment #47667874

    I've heard that a non-Mensan asked a Mensan what it's like at a Mensa event. They replied, "If I have to explain something during a conversation, I only have to explain it _once_."…

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    Comment #47667793

    I see your point, but voters are not voting based on the candidate's intelligence levels.

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    Comment #47559590

    Crashing the economy in order to put all the blame on already marginalized scapegoats may well be the point.

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    Comment #47557853

    > Uppercase doesn't distort shapes It distorts the shape of the words . Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".

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    Comment #47549941

    Yes! I had a QA person apologize once for finding a bug in my code. I thanked him for not letting it make me look like an idiot.

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    Comment #47498483

    > There are no fully electric, or even hybrid, options for the type of vehicle I drive. So fucking what? Keep driving your air-pollution vehicle. No one (not even Obama or Biden) i…

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    Comment #47495983

    Interesting historical overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/aviation-fai... . (Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494469 .)

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    Comment #47407634

    And killing them with an insufficiently tested treatment is not optimal.

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    Comment #47405551

    It's a trade-off: better info versus handling an immediate crisis. If it's not an immediate crisis, you can take more time. Engineering is trade-offs.

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    Comment #47252834

    Scroll down a page or so, the article is there. It's identical to just going to CNN's article, not sure why it's needed though.

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    Comment #47238589

    Because NOT enriching uranium worked so badly for Gaddafi.

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    Comment #47143264

    All it takes is one ultra-rich individual to say, "I'm having my bots build a bot-building factory and giving them to everyone who wants a bot. For free (after all, bots are doing …