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bobmaxup

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    It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness. Also, not all maintenance involves co…

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    Comment #39170162

    ...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.

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    Comment #39159940

    An article on the topic: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-the-death-of-the-firefo...

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    Comment #39150401

    Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.

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    Comment #39114646

    To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".

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    Comment #39109087

    > Youtube isn't a social network. Certainly seems to be one to me?

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    Comment #39070599

    not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider. archive.today (main) archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md

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    Comment #39070175

    Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.

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    Comment #39070129

    > this is being widely misinterpreted It sounds like Ubisoft wants their streaming and subscription services to grow, but reality doesn't line up with their vision. They are purcha…

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    Comment #39065664

    How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.

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    Comment #38910904

    In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules…

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    Comment #38910601

    https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules

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    Comment #38904441

    Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper

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    Comment #38904398

    Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.

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    Comment #38900079

    I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.

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    Comment #38899513

    This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled i…

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    Comment #38899436

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

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    Comment #38896858

    Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?

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    Comment #38896794

    Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling. > Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and …

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    Comment #38889570

    Maybe it boils down to how well you are able to navigate a code base. With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It…