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cocok

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    Comment #41997650

    > Is there any way to get push notifications instead of polling? Push support has been there for a long time now. You can enable it on a per-folder basis, check in Manage folders.

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    Comment #41968109

    > Remember that big hot war in the 90s? Ah, when the Servians shot down the invisible airplane, because they didn't see it. I remember :-)

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    Comment #41967696

    The teachers misspelled Serbia and Romania, but expect little American kids to know where these are.

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    Comment #41967124

    There are a couple of other worthy jokes in the text, BTW.

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    Comment #41966314

    For Firefox: https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play

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    Comment #41961290

    filter-repo is the recommended way these days: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo

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    Comment #41855308

    > Poland imports slightly more from Germany than it exports to it Why do they import/export the same product between each other? Honest question. In general, not just about Poland …

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    Comment #41764930

    I saw an asphalted road on the mountain ridge, along the E-3 hiking route, in a national reserve territory, with a EU funding sign saying that it was built "for the benefit of the …

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    Comment #41635859

    The mass surveillance in question will likely lead not to an "everyone knows everyone" society like that in your story, but to a "the government and the big corporations know every…

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    Comment #41537296

    I don't know, quality of modern life degrades after 30 for many of us. After living with chronic diseases for a decade or two, I kinda envy the hunter-gatherers. Die quickly at 30,…

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    Comment #41508202

    I wouldn't say either is better "usually", it really depends on the situation. If the next five words begin with the same prefix (happens to me), searching will be wasteful. Just s…

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    Comment #41498182

    i programmed things for fun for months on end without having an internet connection. never had the need to share. occasionally I needed connection to download papers on the subject…

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    Comment #41478844

    NSA are not ready with the backdoor yet. Once done, NIST will include MRNG in the next standard.

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    Comment #41453860

    Feels like I'm reading this classic, but with cryptography examples. https://www.tcl-lang.org/doc/scripting.html

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    Comment #41424641

    > You mean brought up to be Muslims. No one is born with religious beliefs or faith. In Islam, it is common belief that all people are born Muslim, then their parents may choose to…

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    Comment #41345677

    > My pet tinfoil-hat theory is that he decided that staying in a French prison is safer for him than being out in the open People do that. Recently, the Bulgarian drug lord nicknam…

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    Comment #41345266

    "We all began as something else."

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    Comment #41158853

    I'm stealing this for all my future code reviews.

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    Comment #41154263

    Taking a gulp or two from the bottle should be enough of a differentiator, IMO. Are there edible explosives?

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    Comment #41153083

    > Why would you ever do that? What's the point? Performance, mostly. If you have to re-parse part of the code many times a second, in a text editor. For [pseudo]structural editing …

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    Comment #41152002

    I stopped at 1.1 Notation. Full of arbitrary-looking decisions on which characters can be used for what. It's 2024, and we still don't have a string notation that doesn't use the s…

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    Comment #41146549

    > Why would a doctor not first test and treat the common things, rather than do an invasive procedure? For the money he/she would get for doing the invasive procedure. This happens…

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    Comment #41145175

    Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain!

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    Comment #41136599

    Can anyone familiar with Go explain why not return sayThanks(thanksStr) I've seen this "if err != nil" pattern before, but I can't help thinking that it's not necessary. "return re…