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boring_twenties

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    Comment #48652964

    No, that's not what it assumes at all. For example, another objective would be avoiding the situation described in the article the rest of us are commenting on.

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    Comment #48652916

    No one said or implied that "all" cops are evil, or anything remotely close to that.

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    Comment #48652897

    > but the "never talk to them advice" assumes they all are No, it doesn't, that's absurd. Does wearing a seatbelt assume that you're going to crash every single time you drive?

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    Comment #48652815

    No, that's not the problem, as you yourself admit in the false dichotomy you constructed in the second line of your post. The problem is that, in your own words, they took days to …

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    Comment #48639946

    I can tell you that while women appreciate romantic electronic messages, they appreciate handwritten ones 10-100x more

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    Comment #48639654

    The problem here seems to be that the person was unwilling or unable to ask for help when they needed it, not that they don't know math per se. I don't know how to do that either, …

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    Comment #48639600

    > Since 2023 or so, I've noticed more and more tech companies and hyper-growth startups dropping bachelor's degree requirements. Those requirements were never real, anyway. I don't…

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    Comment #48639546

    This shouldn't be hard to understand. Don't talk to the police, without your attorney present, under any circumstances whatsoever. Dating the police is just such an astoundingly eg…

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    Comment #41985884

    Well the obvious answer there is that port scans shouldn't be considered abuse absent other factors like rising to the level of a DoS.

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    Comment #41697167

    That isn't going to handle possibly conflicting changes from more than one source.

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    Comment #41458457

    Whatever you may think of what OP's buddies were doing, there is no way to apply any reasonable meaning of the word "stealing" to it. There is indeed plenty murky here, and it is m…

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    Comment #41458431

    > Plus, if you don’t like it, reconfigure it. It’s only the default, after all. Or -- and I know this is crazy but hear me out here -- if you don't like it, and it brings nothing b…

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    Comment #41358875

    Xmonad integrates nicely with xfce and MATE, at least. Probably KDE as well.

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    Comment #41224049

    Here's not only the IC but an entire development board for $0.95: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805283269799.html

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    Comment #40356977

    Android supports this but as usual with Android, it's shoddy and broken. For example, if you log out of a secondary profile and log back in, all your widgets will be gone. I don't …

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    Comment #40345450

    I am having a hard time understanding how you could even ask for all this personal information with a straight face for an app like this. In fact why would any kind of account at a…

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    Comment #39605760

    Well you can't expect to hire engineers with half a brain for the pitiful compensation Meta offers, can you?

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    Comment #39605628

    Beyond unbelievable that going on an hour later, they're still showing "incorrect password" errors. How many hundreds of millions of people have wasted time frantically trying (in …

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    Comment #39445313

    I don't see any suggestions for improvement in your critique of this article, either. Which would make your comment whining by your own definition

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    Comment #39445128

    Why would you bother with the second CPU just for irssi? You would probably notice the energy savings from removing it

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    Comment #39362320

    Oh wow, another reason to be terrified to go to Florida :)

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    Comment #39305792

    Yeah, I went to a Korean place serving "live octopus." They bring it out and cut it up with scissors in front of you. The individual pieces of tentacle continue to move and flex. I…

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    Comment #39305757

    I'm pretty sure there are no crocodiles in Florida, only alligators.

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    Comment #39291267

    I use AntennaPod from F-Droid, and it has the following search options, in this order: Apple, fyyd, gpodder, Podcast Index.