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VonGallifrey

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    Comment #48997530

    It reads to me like FreeInk is the e-book reader and e-Paper SDK, and CrossPoint is the firmware that uses FreeInk. I currently use CrossPoint, so I wanted to install this, but whe…

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    Comment #48440410

    > But a company that does that is basically delegating both compliance and legal functions to IT. No sane company does that. I was a Software Dev in a small (but fully regulated an…

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    Comment #48098481

    > If there were a license in the US for it, I’d agree with you. Yeah, that is basically the thing in my country. You can't call yourself an engineer without passing a test, but I c…

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    Comment #48089605

    His channel isn't really about 3D printing or maker projects, which is maybe why you have not heard of him. He has (or had, not sure) an electronics repair shop where he showed lap…

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    Comment #48036337

    You don't need a cookie banner for auth cookies. You only need consent (aka the banner) for 3rd party cookies and tracking cookies. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the func…

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    Comment #47766541

    Can you show how you would do this in jj? I know how I would do this in git, but don't really see how this would be in jj. I currently don't use it in my workflow, but if it is sup…

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    Comment #46610218

    > turns out plenty of people say they write for others to read LLMs are not people. They don't write blogs so that a company can profit from their writing by training LLMs on it. T…

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    Comment #45172887

    > just make a choice, run the linter automatically and be done with it. Most people probably do this. These types of discussions (probably) come up when someone else made the choic…

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    Comment #44630750

    Well... Self-taught means that the person learned by their own initiative, "without formal instruction or training". Going to the library or buying and reading books is not formal …

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    Comment #44602645

    > Attentive CS graduates have a structured pool of information to draw from Yes, but a self-taught Developer also has their own pool of information to draw from. That could be prio…

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    Comment #44406638

    How exactly do you suggest that a country like Germany (since Germanys inaction was the topic of this thread) reach those goals? How does Germany end the blockade of Gaza? How does…

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    Comment #44406233

    It’s one thing to call the situation “nothing complex”, but there was no solution in this clip. Usually when people call something complex they mean that the solution is complex.

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    Comment #44376901

    Excuse me for the bad joke, but it seems like your context window was too small. The Tree growing comment was a reference to another comment earlier in the comment chain.

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    Comment #44264563

    > Given how many people use How many people use software like this because they have no choice? I used Paragon NTFS, but the entire time, I thought it was ridiculous that MacOS can…

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    Comment #44008869

    Given that the commenter left another comment about having been misinformed, I don't think it was a Joke. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008622

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    Comment #44008478

    Fixed. I should have gotten a clue when I spelled Gemälde without the extra h.

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    Comment #44008451

    From your link there: > written in a mangled form of German. If you show this to anyone who knows German, they will recognize that this was written by someone who doesn't.

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    Comment #44008291

    painting = Malen a painting = Gemälde drawing = Zeichnen a drawing = Zeichnung

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    Comment #44008130

    None of those are actual German words. For some of them, I found references that these words could potentially be used in Pennsylvania, but most of these words are not even German,…

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    Comment #42972747

    > We both guessed the censor was catching it as a false positive for the slur. There is a word for this. It is called the Scunthorpe problem. Named after the incident in which the …

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    Comment #42951607

    > I brought over the blueprints, and the technician found the schedule of beams and columns within seconds Is that really an example of the standardization you want? It shows that …

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    Comment #41974422

    > Technically, the person who distributed the file to them has violated the license by not sending the license text in-band. That person might also just send parts of a file instea…

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    Comment #41751118

    > who notably said horrible things How do you objectively decide which statements are horrible and which aren't? The other stuff you listed are facts, but this one would be subject…

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    Comment #41432831

    The way I have seen this is that single letter variables are mostly used when declaration and (all) usages are very close together. If I see a loop with i or k, v then I can be fai…

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    Comment #41358288

    I have never heard any native German say "Bauer" for builder. "Bauer" is definitively Farmer unless it is used as a suffix.