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Insimwytim

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    A throwaway just for this thread, wow!

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    Comment #49236120

    Billionaires love it when you try to vote with your wallet, because while billionaires only represent 0.00004% of the population, their wallets are 100,000 times larger than averag…

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    Comment #49236003

    I actually liked the story, despite some valid negative comments here. "AC on" crowd usually have no consideration for anyone and rarely understands that while air flow matters, th…

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    Comment #49175353

    The Cloudflare folks apparently want security issues reported via HackerOne (which wouldn’t let me log in because the Cloudflare CAPTCHA HackerOne uses seems to be broken…). That's…

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    Comment #49114050

    I do that too. I do introduce changes in separate PRs. They could be related to the same problem and referenced accordingly. and the changes depend on each other so I can't open mu…

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    Comment #49113869

    I feel like many people (and industry in general) complicate things unnecessary. Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. That's how pull req…

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    Comment #48968352

    So many numbered and non-numbered lists...

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    Comment #48913586

    You cannot call it a supply chain, if you have zero contractual relationships with the authors of the solutions you are using. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434355

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    Comment #48901383

    As many have said before: it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying ... Instead of complying, they choose this obnoxious practice so they could con…

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    Comment #48900255

    The post is vibe-slop, prompted by non-technical PM who viewed the task as a chore. The tone with which it manages to objectify the users and distance the writer from them is a che…

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    Comment #48897106

    Precursor is a client-side, session-based verification system, built with privacy in mind, that uses dynamically injected JavaScript to continuously collect behavioral signals as v…

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    Comment #48849932

    There should be some process that punishes those, who does that.

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    Comment #48849904

    As I was reading, I mostly thought "well, it might make sense sometimes; well, it's an opinion" And then I reached: > 10. AI is fine. Generic language is not. > It is fine to use A…

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    Comment #48849797

    No reason to post shortened URL instead of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4dmufm/how_tech_writ...

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    Comment #48821861

    Dismantling the EU is like burning down your own house I'm not an expert, but isn't "your own house" should rather be your country in this analogy? It ought to be still there witho…

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    Comment #48790685

    The application probably still treats id as unique, but nothing in the schema guarantees it. And you can’t recover the guarantee with a separate UNIQUE (id) constraint: both MySQL …

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    Comment #48790519

    That is absolutely a horrible dark pattern and abuse of the technology.

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    Comment #48737256

    So, if someone were to modify a Debian package to show Palestinian flag for Hebrew speakers or Iranian flag for ...Enligsh speakers, the change won't be instantly reverted and the …