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catach

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    Comment #48767588

    > This website will die off in a couple years While that might be true, it's worth noting that the project has been running for seven years already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P…

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    Comment #45859714

    > Battery state is probably the only thing that I really think it must show you. The screenshot provided does show a battery indicator in the top right of the UI (Usage section).

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    Comment #45859417

    I've found the "Copy text from image" menu command to be useful from time to time, and the features I'm not interested in seemed easy to turn off/dismiss/ignore?

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    Comment #45190027

    > It’s not a big enough slice for them to want to chase. Typical strat for them is not to be first with an innovation, but to wait and work out the kinks enough that they can convi…

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    Comment #44589752

    It's really difficult because many of the task types we use AI for are those that are linguistically tied to concepts of human actions and cognition. Most of our convenient languag…

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    Comment #44529998

    It would indeed be naive to make that claim, so it's a good thing that's not what I did.

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    Comment #44518603

    If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it. And if th…

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    Comment #43541412

    Speed of replication isn't a part of copyright law, is it?

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    Comment #43377325

    I have TST set up thus: closing a tab will close all its child tabs, if that branch is collapsed. Pretty sure Sidebery can be configured the same way.

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    Comment #43303140

    I recall it being claimed that Mozilla has the warchest to survive at typical spending levels for quite some time, without Google.

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    Comment #42406131

    Indicating that they could make it amazing if they wanted to, they just don't want to. Likely due to cost.

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    Comment #40840217

    Incrementals tend to rely on a drip-feed of new mechanics and capabilities at the introductory phase, extensive automation in the middle phase, and marathon-like competition agains…

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    Comment #40757191

    I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.

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    Comment #40366941

    Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.

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    Comment #40366361

    We won't, because the machines are trained on data created by humans. We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.

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    Comment #39825294

    I'd say rather that linking is the standard, the established social order, and that companies restricting linking in their platforms are the ones subverting.

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    Comment #39418953

    The article's talk page already has a request for an impartial editor to weigh in, though several months old.

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    Comment #38778235

    Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread …

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    Comment #38778142

    Maybe, but that's not US law.

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    Comment #38659427

    Interesting question! The st and ct ligatures used in the article don't seem to be part of the precomposed Latin ligature set, and what is there strikes me as far less obnoxious [1…

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    Comment #38653204

    Luckily Reader Mode or disabling CSS takes care of the oddity.

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    Comment #38577838

    I believe you're talking about capacity for compassion, and I'm speaking of the triggering of compassion. I'd agree that both capacity and scope of triggers can be altered, but it …

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    Comment #38577464

    Observing that a particular business model is very likely to fail because of the conflict with another business model that happens to have much more powerful backing requires no co…

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    Comment #38483257

    > The fact that the project you had to work on didn't use maven isn't evidence that java's tooling is bad! It can be simultaneously true that some Java tooling is excellent and som…

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    Comment #37961151

    Solution: disable JS. The site degrades quite gracefully. https://geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/