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a5c11

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    Comment #48554274

    But it's Meta, yuck! Better use Signal or Telegram.

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    Comment #48488656

    Raspberries are cool for tinkering with hardware, learning how to write kernel drivers etc. But I think this is how maybe 30% of Raspberries are used. People do uncanny things to t…

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    Comment #46419590

    People easily forgot how they laughed at wizards in Harry Potter series who said "You-Know-Who" instead of "Voldemort". Now they are doing exactly the same thing.

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    Comment #46216251

    At this point it's easier to just write the code. If my prompt is to be longer than the code produced, why bother with explaining that to LLM?

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    Comment #46216224

    Sounds very depressing.

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    Comment #46203363

    I used to code at night with a kerosene lamp sitting on my desk. I love the light spectrum of a live fire. "Portable" (they couldn't even fit in a pocket) CD players were the worst…

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    Comment #46181195

    What other social interactions are needed more than: "One flat white to go, please", and "Thank you"? Asking genuinely, because I don't know what else I can say.

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    Comment #46181155

    > whatever ultimately gets you to where you want to be Money. > classifying people is utter BS, and assigning labels is very hurtful Is saying "you have cardiovascular issues" labe…

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    Comment #46180996

    Ironically, we chose a work style that requires maintaining prolonged focus, which sucks without meds (especially when dealing with boring tasks).

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    Comment #46119722

    Never happened to me. And I'm using Mac and iPhone.

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    Comment #46119687

    Nice, but what does it mean? Are you gonna replace a group of specialists in their fields with prompts to LLM?

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    Comment #46119637

    Can't tell what would be the best case (pun intended) for you, depends on the language you use. Yes, it will eventually end up as some sort of look-up table, though switch statemen…

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    Comment #46115253

    I really enjoy doing the dishes now that the dishwasher does ~100% percent of the work.

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    Comment #46115190

    Maintaining a switch for all possible TIFF tags doesn't sound like a good programming practice, though.

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    Comment #46115122

    So... Mindless coding is it? The best part of coding is doing research and learning. Coding, for the pure sake of finishing the project as soon as possible with the least involveme…

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    Comment #46104795

    At least when reading a human-made material you can spot author's uncertainty in some topics. Usually, when someone doesn't have knowledge of something, he doesn't try to describe …

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    Comment #46104748

    Apparently, it's not only em-dash that's distinctive. I've went through comments of the leader, and spot he also uses the backtick "’" instead of the apostrophe.

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    Comment #46032273

    I've scored pretty high on the "inattentive scale", but got only a few points on the "hyperactive" one. I was told that both scales must be high to be diagnosed with ADHD.

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    Comment #46032100

    I passed the test at 100%. Still, I had gone through a professional assessment not that long ago, and I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD because I lack hyper motion activity. I compensat…

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    Comment #46003038

    One of my favorite is an RC circuit with a Schmitt triggered inverter. So simple and ingenious.

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    Comment #45865653

    I think that's the usual way the american attorneys advertise. I kinda like that style. In Poland, attorneys aren't allowed to advertise that expressively, which I think is a stupi…

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    Comment #45865614

    Depends how you use it. I see numerous possibilities of taking advantage of such "bad name". People know the real Breivik is in prison, so they will be genuinely curious. Besides, …

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    Comment #45865588

    A couple of years ago when I still was on Facebook, I had a problem with my account being falsely accused of hacking. I believe it happened because I had been chatting with my frie…

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    Comment #45865415

    Depends. If you are a really recognisable persona and you just log out one day, then expect a bunch of psycho-fan creeps looking for you in the real world.

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    Comment #45771009

    What was the question like? "How to print a decimal in C"? Valuable questions aren't downvoted. If you ask about something that could be found on the first Google page, then no sur…