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GrumpyGoblin

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    Comment #46526003

    Not saying it's not a problem, I actually don't know, but new CPU's are just old models with more improvements/tooling. Same with TV's. And cars. And clothes. Everything is. That's…

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    Comment #46155491

    Meh. Good article but not sure it's globally relevant. Spotlight is about personality. Some people are visible, outspoken, and in the spotlight, and impactful. Others are quiet, su…

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    Comment #46059476

    You require "statistical calculations" to support the notion that a sample size of 4000 people in two countries, two of the most modernized and affluent nations on the planet at th…

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    Comment #46046865

    > based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. That is an absurdly small sample size to mak…

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    Comment #45761621

    There is another aspect that many people aren't discussing, the communication aspect. For a medium to large organization with independent programs that need to talk to each other, …

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    Comment #45514953

    At my company there is a team like this who are solely responsible for a significant piece of internal infrastructure. People bring them ideas. They reject them out of hand. "Can't…

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    Comment #45437084

    I like the realistic idea of Duolingo. I know I'm not going to get fluent with it and I'm not trying to, but I do want a good app to expand vocabulary and basic structures that I c…

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    Comment #45437041

    This is really helpful. Every comment is about immersion, I get it people, but how do you achieve that in the real world. Most of those comments seem to ignore that fact that many …

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    Comment #45266633

    This is a ridiculous reply. I'm not friends with Google. We're frenemies at best. Google has zero reason to keep this effort going. It won't make them any significant money. If I w…

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    Comment #45263662

    Aaaaaand it's shut down

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    Comment #45255026

    Widget appearance is tied to *icon appearance. Grumble grumble. I want clear for my widgets but default for my dock and other icons. Too bad so sad me I guess. edit: replaced dock …

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    Comment #45168050

    Uber didn't have to convince anyone, taxis were ripoffs. It didn't even have to always do with money. Taxis asked people where they were going and drove off if it wasn't far enough…

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    Comment #45140796

    Man, the number of times Claude has told me this when I was absolutely wrong should also be a count on this. I've deliberately been wrong just to get that sweet praise. Still the b…

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    Comment #45137790

    Podman networking is extremely unreliable. Our company made an effort to switch to get away from Docker Enterprise. We had to kill the effort because multiple people had random dis…

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    Comment #45106810

    Yes, but they call them senior. My company is bad at hiring.

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    Comment #43962724

    A lot of disagreement apparently but I agree with you. Been doing this a long time and never seen it be a good idea. I completed one successfully and it paralyzed a team of five fo…

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    Comment #43868386

    Like Up? This is amazing.

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