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b473a

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    Comment #49112812

    If you like the vibes but not the humor you might like The Dig. It's more serious, and has Orson Scott Card and Stephen Spielberg credited as writers. I last played as a kid it in …

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    Comment #49093599

    I agree, at least in that we need more human contact, not less. But I will say Gemini / Claude have both been surprisingly good at understanding my half-assed attempts to put a com…

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    Comment #48995282

    Shame. I'm on the $20/mo Gemini Pro plan because the 5tb of cloud storage and the youtube premium lite were good enough perks, and my coding complexity needs were light enough for …

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    Comment #48993653

    No word about updating Jules, which is still stuck on 3.1 Pro. I get that it's probably niche but I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my pho…

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    Comment #48402582

    I feel like if I were just a little deeper on the Autism Spectrum I would really like Germany.

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    Comment #48336684

    I am a Catholic who is heavily involved in adult faith education, and and I can very safely say everyone in the Church thinks this is a terrible idea except for the tech people tha…

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    Comment #48090171

    Currently a Google search for vulpine-lz4 gives a very serious AI overview.

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    Comment #47978003

    Yeah tenure is nice but there's just a hint of mystery behind the title "itinerant professor." Like a wizard that just pops up in places to work computer science magic.

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    Comment #47461964

    > Windows UI is the most disjoint though, with designs accumulated over the past 20 years still kicking in various places. But every Linux distro has its own UI, and pretty much ev…

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    Comment #47461731

    Mac works great out of the box. Linux can do whatever you want if you put some work into it. Windows sits kind of in the middle, and it turns out for a lot of people that's a comfo…

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    Comment #46675351

    At $10/mo for access even if he's not doing it for profit he's absolutely making bank. Verge in 2022 estimated about $20,000 a month [1]. CDPR has an explicit policy allowing free …

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    Comment #46675294

    CDPR's policy is you can have a tip jar but you can't put it behind a paywall. Dude was asking $10/mo on Patreon for access. I imagine he does quite well because he has the same mo…

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    Comment #44968608

    They purchased Intel's entire NAND business a few years back, so they just kind of exploded into the SSD market. They sometimes sell their drives under the name Solidigm.