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    Comment #49142150

    Ditto for PS4 and PS5.

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    Comment #48953407

    Who needs tests when you have vibes?

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    Comment #47243260

    Fascinating. What a time to be alive.

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    Comment #46053459

    Extending on that era’s TV programming (born in the late 70s), even if it wasn’t “your show”, there was only one screen in play. Secondary devices came much later.

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    Comment #42859684

    Very informative. Thank you!

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    Comment #42292854

    Day 1 led me to a deep(ish) dive into the CPython implementation of the abs(...) builtin. Good times!

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    Comment #42069299

    Indeed. 5th Circuit -> SCOTUS will easy mode for right-wing causes (if it isn't already).

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    Comment #41855066

    Your FreeBSD on AWS work is appreciated, @cperciva.

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    Comment #41423975

    ^ seconding this

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    Comment #40548036

    Brings back memories, but you'd have to install a programming environment, e.g.: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works... - http://www.think-pascal.org/#Se…

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    Comment #40023711

    Thank you, for putting many of my frustrations to words.

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    Comment #39889701

    This was the lead story on 60 Minutes tonight, right after the final Elite Eight game of March Madness. Increased visibility, at least.

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    Comment #39797139

    Consider: if your adversary is the NSA, CIA, or (maybe) FBI, you’ve already lost the game you’re playing.

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    Comment #39710997

    It works quite well in practice, as KYC (know your customer) is in order for every state that has legalized it. Typically, a government-issued id#, SSN (last 4), and perhaps a lice…

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    Comment #39224802

    Amusingly, and colloquially, Harvard predates the government by more than a century.

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    Comment #37371965

    Did ambition die, or did founders encounter a populace that believes in work/life balance?

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    Comment #36669185

    I felt dirty reading the blog post as a longtime ZFS (FreeBSD) user.

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    Comment #36315450

    Our RDS instances seem to be fine (can connect, run queries, ...). The console is borked though.

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    Comment #36191348

    Daily standups can be performed via a Slack channel and a template.

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    Comment #35351267

    In what sense is TikTok "Chinese media" when the majority of the creators (consumed in the US) are in the West?

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    Comment #35229059

    You omitted the GPT and web3 (possibly passé) angles…

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    Comment #33220676

    Nothing to see here. That stretch of Broadway has been sketchy for decades.

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    Comment #30839495

    I am Batman.

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    Comment #28703898

    I run image-processing workloads on lambda and my body is ready.