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TheGrassyKnoll

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    Comment #48601177

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer

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    Comment #48549192

    Fox owning Roku is alienating to me.

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    Comment #48549142

    Yes. If this goes through, my Roku is going to the Goodwill.

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    Comment #48415904

    Wtf, no porn category ?

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    Comment #48299680

    DoubleClick (2008, according to Wikipedia)

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    Comment #48259401

    I wish I had figured that out a year ago. MU up ~10x, SNDK up ~37x. My crystal ball is woefully under performing.

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    Comment #48155820

    The shovel sellers are ringing the cash register.

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    Comment #48041116

    Our illustrious president doesn't want any bison. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalo...

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    Comment #47457553

    Some say the LA aqueduct saved Owens Valley from development. (I’m sure the old timers out there would have a different opinion)

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    Comment #46839917

    If an AI model thinks it's alive, isn't it just another hallucination ?

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    Comment #46737046

    > "...a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident." Good point. AI is already making regular Joes into software engineers. Management is so confident in this, the…

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    Comment #46559267

    Reminds me of the Starboard/Larboard nautical terminology. That must have created many disasters over the years. It took the British navy hundreds of years to rectify that one.

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    Comment #42384876

    Eternity is a LOT of time...

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    Comment #42351880

    It was significantly larger than a mere $billion. That's pocket change for Elon.

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    Comment #42325047

    It was probably poisoned & couldn't give a damn about anything else.

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    Comment #42162716

    I recommend giving ripgrep a try. (it's been around awhile now) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

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    Comment #42104436

    N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125425/

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    Comment #41619098

    Lol. Geez, we gotta do something about key sequences getting 'molested'...

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    Comment #37459803

    Don't forget the OPM hack (2015) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

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    Comment #36686023

    Hoover Dam 1931-1936 $49 million Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1937 $35 million Spruce Goose 1942-1947 $23 million

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    Comment #35307577

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Fosbury

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    Comment #35126605

    Mike Tyson, the epitome of sound fiscal management. ($300 million lifetime earnings, had to declare bankruptcy)

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    Comment #34461484

    I had to: $sudo apt-get install -y systemd-container to get machinectl

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    Comment #33104358

    I've got an 80,000 line text file full of notes (probably half blank lines). Would never work without the Emacs 'occur' command.

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    Comment #33061495

    Turbo Pascal was a GREAT tool; it was like a breath of fresh air. It was 'fast' even on an 8086.