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barryrandall

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    Comment #46122524

    Python's ping3 package also encodes this knowledge in LLM-accessible form.

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    Comment #45463161

    I'm not looking forward to _that_ CAPTCHA.

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    Comment #44888835

    Then they'd have two problems: people camping out in the stores and managing thousands of printers.

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    Comment #44073372

    Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

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    Comment #43895166

    It's not a person in the chat, it's an account. The account is usually controlled by the person associated with it, but you can't assume that it's always controlled by that person.…

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    Comment #43857485

    All the more reason the elected need to experience it.

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    Comment #43857291

    One could assume that the previous priority was "grow the app catalog through the use of a permissive listing model," and it's changed to "improve the quality of the app catalog by…

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    Comment #43845781

    Please note that this isn't a call for investments or request for startups.

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    Comment #43706220

    Never present an option you wouldn't want to live with. The internet teaches us that what "nobody should ever do" isn't obvious to everyone all the time.

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    Comment #43505443

    IIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.

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    Comment #43483004

    How many of these would it take to drive down property values in a neighborhood?

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    Comment #43470941

    Policy is a political issue.

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    Comment #43464426

    But for modernity's sake, the site needs to add 100 MB of poorly-understood and maintained JavaScript dependencies that break the behavior you're describing so that it can be done …

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    Comment #43437220

    Someone has to pay, but there's no requirement that someone gets to take a percentage as profit.

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    Comment #43436955

    What's the percentage?

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    Comment #43412040

    "We have inferred that you need to learn more about Florzipan+ by Pajoobi."

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    Comment #43320479

    I'd be very surprised if there's not at least a debug port onboard.

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    Comment #43291547

    Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot o…

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    Comment #43079714

    Not if you're breathing through your mouth. Inhaled asthma medication has about the same consistency as brake dust.

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    Comment #43079489

    It's either that, or Enterprise Linux vendors will start buying out struggling maintainers in order to make future updates subscriber-only.

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    Comment #43036776

    It's great because it gives politicians a foreign enemy to deride, generates lots of online engagement, doesn't impact people's lives in any meaningful way, and when it's implement…

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    Comment #43012903

    This is the parody. Anything else would be imperfect.

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    Comment #43012895

    It happens because political theater works on enough people to swing elections.

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    Comment #43001653

    What's the political alignment of this group? All we have is a paid press release from a group founded in 2024, with an executive board consisting of "Jive, Lilli, and Nathan."