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alexdunmow

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    Comment #45640690

    > using PHP as a thin wrapper. I am as impressed as I am horrified.

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    Comment #41693778

    I just don't buy this. It might be why the media is pushing an "end work from home" narrative but I don't believe the majority of execs are making the decision due to this reason. …

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    Comment #41666776

    Here's a Reddit comment! https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

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    Comment #41666297

    It's the same in Australia. I've seen little kids who are into a particular sport parrot off the odds for the game. It's crazy.

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    Comment #41632849

    If you don't want to assemble a PiKVM yourself there's always Tiny Pilot: https://tinypilotkvm.com/

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    Comment #39270252

    Outrageous claims require outrageous evidence.

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    Comment #39246471

    Maybe you just have a faulty sarcasm detector?

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    Comment #39142623

    I've got no sound either. :( Works in Firefox though.

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    Comment #39075456

    I don't disagree with you. But I've been slashing all of my subscriptions. At least to test whether I truly need said product. For instance I cancelled Intellij and used VS Code fo…

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    Comment #39069805

    I have definitely noticed that the search results are often old now. I constantly have to set "past year". Something that was otherwise rare not even a year or two ago. I would lik…

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    Comment #39037114

    I think this is almost a "not even wrong"* situation. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

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    Comment #38964716

    I often wonder how many artists ended up making explicit music simply to get that sticker. There's no doubt that it became a marketing ploy for artists. As an edgy teenager I was p…

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    Comment #38349363

    Competitors including Quora: https://quorablog.quora.com/Poe-1

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    Comment #38304392

    I have a feeling your API costs would definitely creep up quicker than you realise...

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    Comment #37976133

    What do you consider to be tilting in the opposing direction?

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    Comment #37496414

    This would be pretty easy in Go, too.

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    Comment #36916521

    The low-key judgement you get from people and especially other parents for not putting your children into day orphanage as soon as they're born is absolutely bizarre! People act li…

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    Comment #36873340

    Much to the chagrin of people named Alexa, Siri and the handful of people named Bixby.

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    Comment #36786868

    Name a single subscription service that never changes over time? If your product is based on another company's service then you are beholden to them.

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    Comment #36662990

    I only have normal subpar vision but I too have never been able to walk out of an optometry appointment with a pair of glasses. That's a thing? Optometrists keep prescription lens …

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    Comment #36597022

    IntelliJ has this too.

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    Comment #36488180

    We even have preferential voting. The problem is nearly two-thirds of MPs - out of 144 of them - own more than one property. Which is more than three times the national average: le…

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    Comment #36415043

    Hugged to death?

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    Comment #36351534

    There's nothing just about this world, and if iPhones are your biggest concern in this regard then you're profiting from that injustice.