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PurelyApplied

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    Comment #48930538

    I do all* of that with my phone and a Bluetooth bone conduction headphones. It kinda seems like the glasses part only make sense if it's for loading it up with a camera. You know, …

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    Comment #48692559

    Yeah. Like, you can do all this without LLMs. "Oh, I didn't copy this open source repo with a restrictive license, I just found an fork that was identical except for having removed…

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    Comment #48576060

    Oh hey, Photobucket! I wonder what I stashed in there... Look through old email to figure out what email address they had. Attempt to log in, no memory of password. Get reset link …

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    Comment #48529781

    Certainly not fictional. You just haven't heard of the company that doubled every month for a year, which obviously they did because why wouldn't you?

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    Comment #46783630

    If minor mistakes are corrected without the PR author's input, do they ever learn to stop making those mistakes themselves? It seems like a system where you just never bother to le…

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    Comment #46675788

    I apprEciatE your dEdication to ExclusivEly using 'e' in quotEd rEfErEncE, but not in thE rEst of your clEarly human-authorEd tExt. I rEgrEt that I havE not donE thE samE, but plEa…

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    Comment #43312422

    The etymology of "manuscript" is from Latin "manu" by hand "script" (scriptus) written.

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    Comment #43041319

    They made a drama comedy faux-documentary about it a few years ago titled _Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game_. It's cute, regardless of your investment into pinball as a whole.

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    Comment #40330348

    Oh, I fixed the link. It was easy enough to figure out. It never bodes well when an author fails to proof their summary line, though.

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    Comment #40329553

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40178027

    I feel like the header where you define key terms is a space where you really, really want to check for typos.

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    Comment #40089406

    > A major reason they don't make the news is that many aren't that critical. My favorite recall was the letter I got last year for 23V048000. The instructions for how to engage the…

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    Comment #39933548

    It was turned down three days ago.

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    Comment #39907990

    > How did they got access to it? Concerning.. Someone bound system:anonymous to ClusterReader "just for now, for testing, I'll delete it right after".

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    Comment #38773446

    Or quote-wrap `'rm'`.

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    Comment #38692924

    Not the glib root-commenter, but the two big caveats is that Go is memory-safe provided you import neither `unsafe` nor `c`. That can end up being a pretty restrictive constraint, …

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    Comment #38358268

    [flagged]

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    Comment #37933446

    I don't know anything about markets or why things trend certain ways, but I am an avid pinball player. In fact, as I write this, I've traveled halfway across the country to attend …

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    Comment #37929120

    I too remember when all my projects were greenfield, before my first burnout, when a less jaded me with better knees enjoyed the simpler times.

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    Comment #37812146

    There are so many things to dislike about git, but I feel like so much of this post is reaching for cause to be offended. Sha1 is a hashing function. As a hashing function, it's fi…

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    Comment #37766535

    There should be a `curl | sh` in this, a security-oriented product? To demonstrate how badly you need it, perhaps? Please don't pipe the Internet directly into your command line.

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    Comment #37013353

    > The Industrial Revolution shaped humans and culture to move to cities, work in factories/offices instead of home/fields and to think in more abstract terms (math, written words, …

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    Comment #36839807

    This just in: flawed model discovers flaws in model!

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    Comment #36795665

    > > it is recommended not to ... compare values based on different models > i.e. R0 numbers are worthless. You can't compare these values between pathogens That conclusion doesn't …

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    Comment #36644982

    Oh, duh. I shouldn't try to read code past midnight... Thank you!