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alternatex

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    It's 10km, which is a lot more than 10k steps.

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    Comment #49166223

    Speaking as someone who worked offshore for most of their career and is now a full time employee at MS. Vendors are treated as vendors usually are. They are given the work that nob…

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    Comment #48936909

    Pixel phones have always been behind in hardware power. They're not performing at budget level, but compared to most OnePlus devices they are way behind in performance. In the Andr…

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    Comment #48903263

    Nothing effective about self-diagnosis. Quick and easy yes, but not effective. Most things that are worth diagnosing require a visit to a clinic. No doctor is going to lose a job b…

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    Comment #48819105

    I've a Xiaomi Mi 6 phone (2017 model) that I still use as a fridge-mounted shopping list and it's using the latest version of Chrome. I think it would be quite the stretch to find …

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    Comment #48249446

    I think it's also meant to protect from potential mistakes in handling of hard disk decommissioning which presumably is a common thing with data centers.

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    Comment #48247056

    Copilot cannot be behind any models because it's a harness, not a model. You can use any of the popular models through it, including Claude models. Though people have been saying t…

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    Comment #48224729

    Same experience with UI performance, especially on Linux (Fedora). I went back to Zen Browser because of this, but frankly most browsers are performing worse for me on Linux than o…

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    Comment #48210303

    According to the email I initially received for this alert, zed.exe was attempting to access its own folder within the AppData directory. Nothing more normal than that, no? No idea…

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    Comment #48204191

    I installed Zed on a work machine at a well-known software company and a week later they forced me to reimage my machine because they got some alert that the app was attempting to …

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    Comment #48164869

    As with regex, querying is about not getting what you don't want as much as it is about getting what you want. And the former of the two is much more difficult to verify.

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    Comment #48108979

    I don't want to paint your comment as pro-AI brigading, but in the solution to any problem, considering the collaterals is a pillar principle of engineering. You don't get praise f…

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    Comment #48108859

    I don't think performance advice should be part of a general architectural principles list, so I don't think that's what they meant. Otherwise might as well add "avoid nested loops…

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    Comment #48108129

    Not sure if it's a joke, but twins don't have the same biometrics

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    Comment #48075276

    Adaptability is a virtue, flip flopping is being disingenuous.

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    Comment #48037813

    Bottom line is the people described as hypocritical in the comment have no principles, but rather feign passion in anything they think other people consider valuable. When devs tho…

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    Comment #48022086

    They said 2 years after purchase. So that's where the debate is. How long should we hold manufacturers accountable for in regards to waterproofing? 1 year, 2 years, forever?

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    Comment #47968589

    Legal wiggle room in case the sleepy eyes cam catches some action? Disclaimer: no idea how the tired driver sensors work.

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    Comment #47968548

    Isn't it mandatory in the EU if the car supports it? Mandatory as in it's opt-out and will re-enable itself every time you turn on the car.

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    Comment #47950205

    Thank you for the tips. I didn't know it was possible to install other themes as extensions.

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    Comment #47949303

    The only thing that bothers me about Zed is the theme. It's so bland it actually gives me reading difficulties. I'd be surprised if some of the color combinations don't pose an acc…

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    Comment #47923574

    MS incentivizes feature quantity, and the leadership are employees like any other. Product improvements are not on the table unless the company starts promoting people based on it.…

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    Comment #47873814

    Hetzner was raved about before AI was cool. I know since based on those good reviews I moved half of my apps from DigitalOcean to Hetzner. My DigitalOcean droplet was lacking in RA…

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    Comment #47865278

    Don't you have to replace the batteries every few years though? That should be factored in the equation.