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PretzelPirate
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Comment #49145411
> absurdal energy waste of standard Blockchain. Proof of work is pretty much put of fashion. I'm not sure I'd consider it to be "standard" anymore.
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Comment #49099580
Was this probe timed to align with Microsoft's earnings call?
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Comment #49055363
I'm almost 40 and never wanted kids. As a kid, everyone would say things in the context of "when you have kids of your own..." and I always knew that I didn't want them. If I lived…
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Comment #48178971
> This actually begs the question I beleive that raises the question. I don't think it begs the question at all.
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Comment #48138998
That is charge back. Even with a credit card, your bank is the mediator between you and the merchant.
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Comment #48125042
> because it doesn't allow chargebacks You can have chargebacks in crypto if the payment is scripted to allow chargebacks. It would be up to the merchant and the buyer on whether o…
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Comment #48077206
I had GH Copilot make me a new programming language (LLVM based) with a pretty unique syntax, and it was able to write games in it using SDL easily.
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Comment #48039641
> but as a supporter of Bison If you support Bison, why commend someone who killed them for a profit?
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Comment #47952624
In my experience, Solutions Architects don't do the implementation, they provide guidance. FDEs actually build things alongside the customer engineers.
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Comment #47925345
> it's like people are LARPing a Fortune company CEO when they're giving their hot takes on social media At least in large tech companies, they have mandatory social media training…
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Comment #47835839
I'm not who you replied to. Banks are cracking down on PO boxes and CMRAs as the residential address for their clients. It's fine as the mailing address, but people who travel abro…
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Comment #47833086
That might be a good approach to become a better programmer, but I don't think it's good advice to become a better software engineer.
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Comment #47833066
As someone who doesn't own an EV, I don't understand what this post is trying to tell me. He used the panel, and later a generator from a road crew, to stop his battery from shutti…
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Comment #47753375
It looks like you're using the Microsoft Whiteboard logo for DrawX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Whiteboard You might want to change that to avoid legal issues.
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Comment #47707821
This should have included the insemination and slaughter as well. That cow didn't come from nowhere.
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Comment #47666172
> pretty much full rewrite This is far from my understanding. Changing out this signature scheme is hard work, but doesn't require a rewrite of the VM.
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Comment #47616843
I don't understand the title. It doesn't seem like they are trying to figure out why two copies of outlook are installed, they're trying to figure out why neither is giving them ac…
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Comment #47615668
Haven't we moved past using derogatory and offensive words like the one in the title?
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Comment #47529530
Blockchain-based social media isn't new, so what makes this special? Is there a technical write up where we can see how consensus works and what guarantees you have that the chain …
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Comment #47529471
I already get unlimited tokens at work. I love it, but if they started calling it compensation, I'd worry about that eventually becoming taxable income.
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Comment #47441976
> I think most people expected Trump Two to be a similar shit show to Trump One While they were being warned that his team spent 4 years planning on how to get rid of anyone who pu…
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Comment #47294869
> Godot is for people who want to make games but don't care for programming and would rather use a GUI for development. You can write a lot of code when using Godot and mix that wi…
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Comment #47222640
From your /en route, clicking on a card brings me to the /nl/cards route.
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Comment #47197511
You spelled Iraq as "Irak". Is there a meaning to this? I couldn't find a reference but wonder if that's somehow a meaningful spelling.
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Comment #47039102
They use the email example, but if Google bans me, my identity is also banned and that may be how people contact me. We also need decentralized identity so my identity can exist in…