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J5892
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About J5892
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Comment #43573624
I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something …
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Comment #38537066
It's not really similar to your idea, but your idea unlocked a memory of playing Gizmos and Gadgets as a kid. Edit: So I decided to go and play it on an online archive site. It's j…
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Comment #36048460
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Comment #36035762
As an Android user, I sometimes feel like I should be a protected class. But I get cheaper DoorDash orders, so that's good enough for me.
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Comment #35995377
Ah, so that's how Soylent was founded.
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Comment #35720439
You're not wrong. But if I'm paying $70 for a game, I'm definitely going to be annoyed if the trees look like they were pulled from Ocarina of Time.
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Comment #35545686
I have an ongoing chat in chatGPT where it's instructed to every once in a while ignore my question and just respond with "Shut up, nerd."
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Comment #35545645
Now I'm curious about training a bot on my IRC logs from the early 2000s. It'd be like a chat time machine. I'd love to go back and bullshit with long-lost online friends about mod…
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Comment #35545447
There... is.
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Comment #33183361
It's basically social suicide for kids now. But it's great for people like me, because I'm much less likely to be added to a family group text.
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Comment #33098923
Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc. We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media. Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this adva…
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Comment #33087641
My crypto project is powered by D batteries. I don't know how dense they are, but they're pretty heavy.
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Comment #30645715
I imagine having access to the user analytics of this site is one of the most anxiety-inducing states of being known to man.
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Comment #30619453
Just make sure your notebooks don't get too hot.
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Comment #30618400
Well yeah, but just don't call them out. If you identify a problem, the person responsible will (usually) know you're talking about them, and may even appreciate that you're not ca…
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Comment #30603624
Best approach: Don't hire people like that. Good approach: Specify that complaints be non-specific to a person on the team.
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Comment #30561597
This applies to literally any public corporation.
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Comment #30560180
Judging from the current sentiment around piracy among younger generations, I've concluded that MPAA/RIAA propaganda against piracy has been a rousing success. My philosophy has al…
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Comment #30215346
I have an endorsement for HTML by a salesperson at a publishing company I did some IT work for during college.
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Comment #30213918
A better analogy would be to subtract the amount of bullets embedded in the wall behind the ducks from the total bullets fired. Assuming ducks stop the bullets. And assuming it's n…
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Comment #30199515
It's inevitable that at some point in the future the only way to achieve true privacy will be to be completely and totally uninteresting.
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Comment #30075520
"Vaguely Tech-related Information for Programmers" wasn't a catchy enough name.
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Comment #29478394
A swamp is a type of wetland. They weren't renamed.
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Comment #29478345
> Why hasn't such a product been invented yet? The YubiKey Nano is really small. I'm sure a skilled piercer could find a way to get it under your skin.