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ImprovedSilence
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Comment #48392769
In the long run, python projects just became an unmaintainable mess, and now lots of devs moved on or use python less. At least in my experience.
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Comment #47929266
It's so remarkable how many people here refuse to understand your point. It's like, there is no right or wrong, no perfect score, just pure subjectiveness, and they can't handle it…
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Comment #47929242
I mean, that's the whole point of this exercise. In reality there is no hard line between green and blue, and if you make someone pick, their line is going to be entirely subjectiv…
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Comment #46627321
it's a perceived must. when running "all season" tires year round the AWD inspires more confidence, and most people don't even know winter tires are a thing. Plus 4x4 only helps yo…
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Comment #46627267
It could be that. It could be AI farming. Ask questions you want AI to be able to answer, get a bunch of reasonable comments for the models to gobble up. Next time you ask google, …
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Comment #44781197
Even still, I suspect tractor deaths and injuries are far far higher per driver than for cars. Tractors are very capable, but it's also very very easy to get in a dangerous situati…
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Comment #44546706
Very incorrect, the US constitution states "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights a…
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Comment #39113793
>> Something terrible happens to men as they grow up lol... testosterone? or perhaps testosterone combined with thousands of years of "wolf pack" evolution where one has to prod an…
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Comment #39113772
> “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Strange, cuz Marylin Monroe told me "if you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do …
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Comment #39113711
From his writing he sounds British, where class has a somewhat different context and from what I gather, can be inferred from speech/dress.
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Comment #39113685
uh... it is 100% is how men make friends...
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Comment #38974862
yeah buts its not even cheap like aliexpress. its overpriced mushroom brands!! there are no deals that I see on Amazon anymore, or at least maybe they know im more likely to pony u…
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Comment #38974844
yeah but those are easy to filter to results available in store. or even in my store, so i can go pick it up tonight even!
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Comment #38974771
i ise ublock origin, but I too suffer from abysmal search results on Amazon. Im sure their AI has decided ill just buy all the junk after i give up on finding what I actually looke…
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Comment #38964063
>> I've literally never heard of anyone using google pay, zelle or venmo or cashapp But you use Twitter..? That's some crazy bubble. venmo isn't even a tech savvy thing, everyone e…
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Comment #38921025
oh for sure. every big money sport is loaded with doping and most hardly test. NFL, soccer, hockey, baseball (still), even golf I’d bet on.
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Comment #38237152
while I agree that the v10 is the most unholy of sky shredding sounds…. its been almost 20yrs since F1 has had them at this point. Times change I guess..
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Comment #38147590
No, the cardio/fitness aspect of soccer absolutely cannot be overlooked, especially at the top levels where players are at the margin and need that edge, and where the amount of co…
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Comment #38147532
Na. the only real solution is the one we currently have.
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Comment #38142986
I’m not going to disagree with the sentiment that drugs are speeding up the peleton. but >>” most drug filled sport”. comes off as probably naive. o think footbal, hockey, soccer, …
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Comment #38008001
Everyone knew about LOTR and read the books before the movies came out. It was in no way some obscure out of print lit, it was both pop and a cult classic, and it was very much fro…
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Comment #37963802
>>The guy sounds like a super bike snob. Well, he is the writer of bikesnobnyc, so yes.
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Comment #37773354
im all about keeping my phone 5+ years, but I think that “significant” progress is likely only realized in small incremental amounts..
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Comment #37406814
drivers that enjoy manuals have always been around. We’re just louder now because they almost don't make cars with manuals anymore, so when one does come along we rejoice.
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Comment #37406781
this was always a key point from people who drove automatics but claimed to like manuals. i daily drove a manual in some of the worst traffic the US has to offer. but so what, gues…