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bmelton

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About bmelton

barry.melton@gmail.com

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    Comment #49134950

    Hawaii would be another place (or set of places, depending on how you want to collate)

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    Comment #48954478

    > which is very different If you say so

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    Comment #48954072

    Thanks for the answer! It wasn't a gotcha, I was genuinely just curious.

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    Comment #48954069

    > The GDPR doesn't try to remove anything from the global internet GDPR Article 17 expressly requires the removal of things from the global internet > You're free to not serve your…

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    Comment #48953978

    How do you feel about GDPR?

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    Comment #48870809

    and I cannot (so either I am AI at a level less than Opus 4.8 or just all-round defective as a human)

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    Comment #48542686

    Thanks for the response. As a lifetime Plex passer, I am inured to having to re-learn the navigation UI with every new release, so that part can't be too bad. But yes, I would be t…

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    Comment #48541457

    I was also super-early Roku customer, but frankly I have been mostly disappointed with Roku for the past year or so. The hardware on the top tier devices doesn't seem to keep up. I…

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    Comment #48534079

    It _can_ be tedious those 9 times, or especially when it pushes back on something that it thinks is wrong but isn't wrong but it actually has nothing to do with the issue at hand. …

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    Comment #48533588

    My system prompt tells it to first challenge my assumptions, and to feel free to be a dick about it where it thinks I'm off on something, or have assumed facts that aren't actually…

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    Comment #48423054

    I agree with you that the AI market is greatly undervalued, but I also agree with the field that these companies are overvalued

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    Comment #48414430

    I would guess they're worried about breaking something, but thanks for the clarification (and apologies for not having RTFA)

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    Comment #48414028

    Well, I won't claim to know the answer, but "please do not move between different airlocked sections while this work is underway" sounds a lot like the definition of "shelter" to m…

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    Comment #48395710

    Meteor Chelyabinsk suffered catastrophic fragmentation, a rapid, violent release of energy accompanied by a pressure wave with debris, which would satisfy the definition of an expl…

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    Comment #48271919

    A bad law that only affects other people might be a win for me, but it's still a loss for society

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    Comment #48265709

    That I wouldn't know. I only know the above from the one employee I helped (successfully) immigrate to America So, at least one

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    Comment #48252819

    If it seems too interesting it's because it isn't true. There are five functional categories of immigrant visa in America, each with several subcategories: Immediate Relatives (IR)…

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    Comment #48200039

    The core holding was this > "congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own."

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    Comment #48102456

    Clearly that's because they searched the history of all chats and didn't find the perpetrator

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    Comment #47608151

    It was indeed not on by default I appreciate the tip! I'm going to have to put that in an Ansible playbook

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    Comment #47586287

    > totally possible to use mac without trackpad As I discover every time I have a mouse fail, it is exceptionally difficult to use a modern Mac without a pointer device because at s…

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    Comment #47189070

    Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-111

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    Comment #47159760

    Are they only banned in the cities, or are they banned in the state, which -- even in California, should have rural areas far enough away from cities to be tenable? It's an interes…

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    Comment #46885576

    Sorry for the old-heads, but just because I'm new doesn't mean I don't appreciate the craft, or the pains endured by many others before me that enabled this painless experience. Bu…

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