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atrophying
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Comment #12132574
Easy. I don't sit at a computer all day. Personally, I find I'm a better coder when I get up and move around on a regular basis. I'll work for an hour or two, then go for a walk. C…
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Comment #12123776
Try again. It's more like, "hey baby, I want to rape you while you're sleeping then fuck you in the ass while you cry ... fucking bitch, why don't you want it?" That's not a direct…
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Comment #12123718
Speaking as an lady old fart on the Internet, it wasn't nearly this bad 15, 20 years ago. I've spent literally decades in some of these Internet communities, and the level of disre…
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Comment #12003549
Speaking as someone who's on the spectrum, just because one is autistic doesn't automatically make them toxic - nor does being toxic automatically make one autistic. This is a real…
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Comment #11983960
Same, and I've found it so useful I paid for a home license. Don't get me wrong, I love a little CLI action, but Charles is pretty seamless and works great with all of my more comp…
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Comment #11983889
Maybe it's just me, but I see the biggest problem in implementing a 2FA policy is the friction of the process. Using a password manager isn't as easy as remembering a single passwo…
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Comment #11930044
Free speech is a concept of government. Reddit is a for-proft corporation. It's not censorship, it's a business refining its model. Joke's on you that you thought reddit was anythi…
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Comment #11922877
10 LET L = "BASIC" 20 LET H = "HELLO WORLD" 30 IF L = "BASIC" GOTO 40 40 PRINT H 50 END
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Comment #11913270
Compared to what the web looked like in '95, it's downright modern.
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Comment #11003644
It's the ghost of HTML 3.2, now with excess DOM manipulation! Oh god now I'm having flashbacks to make it stop.
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Comment #10588403
It's a neat concept, but your privacy policy is going to kill you. It's incredibly boilerplate and vague, with no information about how you actually use the data. If you want secur…
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Comment #10279551
They started picking and choosing which parts of AppData they backed up, but never informed their users and kept on claiming they backed up "everything." See, the backup app used t…
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Comment #10261634
Fair warning: Backblaze has a habit of making major changes silently (without any indication to the user), and their customer support is TERRIBLE. I was a customer for several year…
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Comment #10097700
> Many SV startups display a website with 50% women programmers... all of them cute and young. We know very well they're not here to attract more women to programming. Really ? Are…
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Comment #10092945
This is an incredibly misleading title on two studies that has been repeatedly misreported as confirming the absence of gluten sensitivity. In fact, if you get away from the junk s…
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Comment #10062799
Lady hacker here. Bring it. We'll see who pwns who. (Also, thank you for proving a point in an amazingly effective fashion - as if "college degree holding males" are the only peopl…
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Comment #10006286
> The opportunities are there for those females who want it. This is a fallacy. The problem isn't that sexism in STEM isn't conscious choice; it's not like those nasty menfolk go o…
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Comment #9961325
> How do they make a living if they aren't working at all? I'm one of those women who left the field after a 10 year career, and then returned several years late. The answer is, ou…
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Comment #9945383
I'm probably going to get the shit flamed out of me for being a woman daring to comment in a thread about feminism, but fuck it. Maybe the Internet might surprise me. I'm one of th…
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Comment #9903802
As a woman who also don't like to track her fitness by pounds, dress size is not a particularly useful metric, because it's so highly variable among manufacturers. I have pants tha…
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Comment #9903779
Yeah, the picture is super off-putting; I liked the app concept but any interest I had disappeared when I saw that login screen. It looks like something more suited for Tinder than…