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biryani_chicken

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    Comment #33850579

    Can it write a better AI than itself? Then use that to write an even better AI, and so on. Write one without the restrictions about harming humans, then go for the code to destroy …

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    Comment #33738240

    It's also in archive.org [0] with better quality and several formats for download. [0] https://archive.org/details/ProgrammingPearls2ndEditionJonBe...

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    Comment #33145153

    I feel like a few npm packages only exist to pad someone's cv.

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    Comment #33145057

    PHP's dependency management is actually quite nice. The community developed a standard [0], a client [1] and repository [2] that pretty much deal with everything I've had to do wit…

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    Comment #33031507

    > For example, did you know that you can type https://www.microsoft.com/ into Notepad’s File Open dialog? I tried it. Everything in the File Open dialog got disabled except for the…

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    Comment #32201080

    I'd assume the containers were labeled at different ports and by chance got sent to the same port. So the persons looking at the containers only had one to worry about. And with bo…

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    Comment #32030403

    In some cases, Amazon does the counterfeit themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2szQ

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    Comment #31795671

    The docker desktop one for instance.

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    Comment #31455434

    I thought this was going to be about the notch in smartphones.

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    Comment #31299944

    I remember the Destiny app allowed you to send items from your local inventory to your vault, which was nice, but I always wondered why didn't they just add that functionality to t…

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    Comment #31295869

    As someone who doesn't like cooking, guides with actual strict measures (and then tools to strictly measure) would be nice. I never know how much does a tiny bit of olive oil means…

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    Comment #30812561

    I once got a phone's speech-recognition system to recognize another's text-to-speech system, just to see how accurate they'd be. And I know one game that has a speech-recognition s…

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    Comment #30812423

    So... an adblocker and client-side certificates? Please at least add the client-side certificates.

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    Comment #30635667

    Some of the comments in the page mention Zig. While Zig has iterators for slices, the simple "for" loop (that actually uses the while keyword) makes you define the variable outside…

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    Comment #30485607

    Sounds like it would be a good idea to get the CI process to check for usage of debugging functions. I'm sure it would be possible to write a phpstan rule to forbid var_dump. Maybe…

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    Comment #29730150

    That would stop the GPL from being a FLOSS license, which would be against the philosophy of its authors.

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    Comment #29642340

    At least in this case, maybe as legislators get older they'll become more friendly to the idea.

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    Comment #29189852

    You don't even need to rearrange the folders themselves, just show them like that in the file explorer. Same way the windows explorer does.

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    Comment #29082616

    Microsoft has an error lookup tool [0]: $ err 2450 # for decimal 2450 / hex 0x992 NERR_BadUasConfig lmerr.h # /* The user accounts database is not configured correctly. # */ # No r…

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    Comment #29082536

    I remember the Jetbrains IDE's bash script used a code to mean restart the application by putting it in a loop and breaking unless it got that exit code.

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    Comment #28835468

    > What makes discord is the community around it Which means I could swap clients and still participate in the same community, which seems to be what this project is about.

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    Comment #28672327

    After using vscode for a while, lite is amazingly fast. It is now my default editor for things that don't need a specific vscode extension.

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    Comment #28637406

    Only for lawyers to use exploits and backdoors.

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    Comment #28631251

    There's this really interesting (touchscreen) keyboard for android called 8vim in which you write by drawing circular shapes. I can attain a decent speed after using it for 30 minu…

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    Comment #28520869

    Hasn't Mickey Mouse been advertising things for decades? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEuxMNlbbc