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RegW

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    Comment #49116945

    Where as I'm stuck in a big team with a legacy codebase and lots of business rules, performing small incremental changes. So I spend my days banging the Esc key and shouting "Shut …

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    Comment #49086517

    It would seem that the officer was searching for evidence of a crime, not to prevent importation. However, did that evidence really exist? And if it did, was it for something else?…

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    Comment #49052210

    > In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone. Who needs researchers when you have…

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    Comment #48913564

    Reading the comments here - I can't help feeling I've missed this bubble.

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    Comment #48759362

    I don't have a mandatory bank or gov id app. Where are you living?

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    Comment #48745070

    Also didn't ask about docker and "docker system prune".

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    Comment #48405740

    ... when we find that it also affects us - sat on our fat backsides in our air conditioned gold plated ballrooms.

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    Comment #48400905

    > I yet have to see someone actually argue that you don’t need to understand SQL and ORM will suffice Well that's because decades of bitter experience has told us all that object g…

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    Comment #48398774

    If it is conscious then perhaps it will human like. If the consciousness is human like perhaps it will have a conscience. If it has a conscience then may be it can be trusted. But …

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    Comment #48308259

    May be search is not the golden goose, perhaps more the carrot that brings the user into range of the shitty stick of ads and data leeching. I'm a bit afraid that although AI is be…

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    Comment #48056285

    Because they don't know (that they are an ad company (and they don't know what the implication is)).

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    Comment #47849125

    What exactly is the example? Sorry, I'm in the UK so I haven't read the article that the author has decided to block my access to.

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    Comment #47632577

    > Note: This PDF only works in Chromium-based browsers. I thought that PDF was some sort of open standard.

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    Comment #47359125

    I don't know how I feel about this. I started programming in 1979. I went for a job in AI in the late 1980s and realised from the bonkers spin of the company founders that it reall…

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    Comment #47166192

    Right now as I eat my lunch, I'm listening to The Rest is Classified.

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    Comment #47060744

    Productivity is a moveable feast and tricky to compare with the past. The productivity business talk about is the ratio of cost to profit. As tech become available to help reduce y…

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    Comment #46968068

    > Follow the law. As a guest in a country, treat your host with respect. Do not support terrorist groups. The article describes Thomas-Johnson as a "student activist and journalist…

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    Comment #46961012

    Did you take a copy of that flyer? I would be interested to see it.

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    Comment #46855964

    Is it just me that sees "Windows Recall" and thinks "Total Recall -> Arnold Schwarzenegger -> Terminator"?

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    Comment #46854872

    Feels like a Wiremock for Rust.

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    Comment #46813606

    Hey dude. That's a thought. Get your AI to expand it into a full report and send it to my AI to summarize!

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    Comment #46813510

    I really enjoyed unchecking all those cookie controls. Of the 1668 partner companies who are so interested in me, a good third have a "legitimate interest". With each wanting to dr…

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    Comment #46812318

    I'm a bit confused about if it does calls. It doesn't mention it for most of the page, but then says: > DIY Phone > Use the Comet and the Linux stack for calling*, messaging and mo…

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    Comment #46787731

    It is sad. It's now happening west of us. In Europe we have been trying to protect ourselves by not saying too much and attracting the attention/wrath of the bosses. I don't think …

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    Comment #46600402

    10+ years ago I had a job which involved developing/testing geo-restricted software in another country. Eventually each VPN exit point would get marked up as such, and I would have…