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ambentzen

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    Comment #47192206

    "Some of you are going to die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

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    Comment #46069719

    Why is that a stupid rule? If I sell Nvidia stock to buy AMD stock, I need to pay tax on my Nvidia stock gains.

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    Comment #45758197

    A quick search nets this: https://modrinth.com/mod/pause-music-on-pause

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    Comment #45757863

    There might have been, but they didn't know because they couldn't access it. Could have been something totally unrelated.

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    Comment #45730300

    Over Current Protection

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    Comment #45653877

    Looks neat, have you considered releasing an AppImage for wider Linux support?

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    Comment #45653858

    Doesn't that make it "complete" as opposed to "abandoned"? Everything does not need constant updates and new features.

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    Comment #45502069

    Nobody tell my machine that. I have a 5080 paired with an 9800X3D, no blacklisting of kernel modules necessary (for me at least).

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    Comment #45360450

    DHH is on the board of directors at Shopify.

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    Comment #45179387

    If you have self-referential columns you are going to have to name them something else, like `parent_id` and tell your model code about the discrepancy.

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    Comment #44964038

    I was left with the somewhat opposite feeling. I still don’t know what OPA actually is or does. It has a nice paragraph describing it without saying anything at all.

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    Comment #44340623

    How would law abiding citizen Joe Random from Nowhere even know where to offload that on the black market? It's a bit like internet piracy, make it easy and convenient to follow th…

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    Comment #43142004

    > I've noticed recently that the JavaScript debugger in Firefox can "un-Webpack" (and in some cases un-minify, if I've read the inputs and outputs correctly) the code behind many s…

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    Comment #40809394

    I did that in 8th grade across 3 schools that shared a network. Got my laptop privileges revoked for a few months. It was just a batch script where I had copy/pasted the same line …

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    Comment #40799459

    > Society has to find a way to promote traditional lifestyles Why? If those lifestyles are so superior why do they need promotion? It's almost like people are not some homogenous b…

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    Comment #40387410

    > I've plastered a copyright notice at the top of the source - as I've always done... Do people actually still do this?

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    Comment #40062122

    > Taxable benefit would occur if Microsoft bought software of others and gifted it to employee. Or if Microsoft could not reasonably expect people to actually test the software, or…

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    Comment #39001032

    I don't know about GP, but personally I already have a music streaming subscription so I don't want to pay for yet another one. Come to think of it, I think I have 2 ATM; Apple Mus…

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    Comment #38083763

    You forgot the second part of that post: "I think that's what he wants but doesn't know how to go about it". Which is, to me, clearly another jab at the critic, as if Ben is just t…

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    Comment #37520607

    Hetzner does marketing. A German tech youtuber I follow does in-video spots for them.

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    Comment #29636835

    Slow traffic is absolutely fine, if you can actually identify it as slow traffic. Just by looking at tractors, cyclists and pedestrians you know they are not going very fast, but a…

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    Comment #27880843

    If it took 12 hours to get pointed out, it's probably not a well known fact.

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    Comment #27514236

    While in absolute terms rim brakes are probably just as good as disc brakes. The difference lies in the feeling and modulation of the forces. Also, the disc is a consumable on both…

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    Comment #27181725

    Looking at the stakeholders section at the bottom, this looks like the typical academia project that is, currently at least, far removed from the real world.

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    Comment #26902428

    For daily clothes, sure. For sports clothing, synthetics all the way. There is no worse pain in the world than sweaty chafing cotton.