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    Comment #48663118

    It would probably look like the Third Temple.

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    Comment #48501558

    I agree with the sitting down and focusing part. For me, I've always been extremely inclined to audio processing, so I can sometimes just lay in bed or in a chair, or on the train,…

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    Comment #48501512

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48501129

    Probably at the very least the one for artists and DJs, you don't think so? You'd rather take your car to the sweaty, unkempt mechanic with his hands coated in motor oil, who you'v…

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    Comment #48501000

    I mostly agree with your point, but I wouldn't use the term "storyteller". LLMs do not even understand that there is such a thing as a story and a reality. To the LLM, there's not …

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    Comment #48500930

    Wow, I use Emacs and tabs over spaces. And K&R braces. Now we must fight to death.

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    Comment #47593907

    As opposed to me, who is perfectly rational.

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    Comment #47555683

    I'm not sure people get desensitized. Personally, whenever I notice a really unintrusive donation banner, I have more chance to actually give money to this entity, because I've bee…

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    Comment #47476335

    describing the setting should (ideally) be done through a character's interaction with the setting. if you're developing some sort of dystopia where everyone is heavily medicated, …

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    Comment #47283571

    https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/ Discerning readers do not stop at the em dash. At least, I don't.

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    Comment #47261010

    Yes, because everyone is a perfectly rational agent in the economy.

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    Comment #47258274

    Nice. I really like ZorinOS. I converted my dad a few years ago, and he never looked back.

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    Comment #47183908

    There's no hardening against idiocy.

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    Comment #47177487

    > It's one of the reasons why people get annoyed at jargon or are pissed off about pronouns, [...] It's worth noting there's an overabundance of legitimate reasons people get annoy…

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    Comment #47177426

    Whether this was a joke or a backtracking, or this dared waste your oh so precious time- You're missing the forest for the trees. There's extreme covert and even overt hostility be…

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    Comment #47177335

    Entitled mentality.

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    Comment #47171021

    "Less fortunate" is a generous wording and framing.

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    Comment #47170730

    As opposed to OP's extension, I would heartily recommend this one.

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    Comment #47149145

    Wow, it's been a while since I haven't read ICE and parsed it this way. Black ICE, even?

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    Comment #47132829

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47033331

    > But I can think of one possible reason: SQLite has been known to have memory safety vulnerabilities, whereas this codebase is written in Rust with no unsafe code. I've lost every…

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    Comment #46968808

    It's only a conspiracy and paranoia if it's wrong. 11 years ago was 2015.

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    Comment #46958490

    One has still yet to convince me of anything IRC has over XMPP.

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    Comment #46958051

    Because they have an huge PR campaign and a lot of money to invest in keeping their place.

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    Comment #46948157

    That's pretty close to the underlying concept behind Guix and Nix. Give them a glance, if you can!