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contr-error

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    Comment #49128155

    https://philo.gay/linecam/

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    Comment #49128130

    The former is in the prior art section at 2:24!

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    Comment #43789093

    Thanks for taking the time to spell this out and sorry for making it necessary. As it happens, I thought the product looked cool, so a belated congratulations to the founders, and …

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    Comment #43781172

    This is amazing, especially if it helps facilitate astroturfing, such as these comments made by fresh users, all with AI-generated responses from frabonacci: https://news.ycombinat…

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    Comment #39886320

    What a bait-and-switch Google Chrome has been...

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    Comment #39765849

    Another thing that came to mind: do-nothing scripting[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367

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    Comment #39764638

    More info on pytest's test parametrization: https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.1.x/how-to/parametrize.html

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    Comment #39585980

    I see dead butterflies.

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    Comment #38084614

    So not Bca chefs!

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    Comment #38057655

    You have to allow sudo without entering a password to use this document (to build Emacs)? I wonder if gksudo could not be used instead…

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    Comment #37722537

    Rubbing one's eyes is not entirely innocuous, as it can induce or worsen astigmatism.

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    Comment #36983086

    Can you share an example?

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    Ask HN: Dang, could the login page get a title?

    RFE: Could the login page [0] get an HTML title element containing the string "Hacker News", say "Login | Hacker News"? This would be immediately useful for password managers match…

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    Comment #36560745

    Help run an ArchiveTeam Warrior VM pointed to the URLTeam project. They’re archiving all URL shorteners. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

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    Comment #35163161

    +1 for language transfer, great execution of a great method.

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    Comment #34454866

    Also, if you haven't seen it before, read this seminal procrastination post by Wait But Why[1]. Of course it's just a theory, but one that clicked for me and many others. It gives …

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    Comment #34454763

    Hey, I own the existence of my thesis (and resulting degree) to Beeminder[0]. I also made use of someone who was my supporter. Someone not involved in any capacity with the project…

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    Comment #34065998

    Thanks for sharing, looks really nice. Way less verbose and more intuitive syntax than PlantUML. Also seems to drop some vestigial UML aspects, like those default icons in the top …

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    Comment #33150678

    Well put...

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    Comment #33150671

    That's one hell of a mind fuck! I wouldn't know what to do with that keyboard (at first) and I've been typing with Dvorak for ages. If you're touch typing, you never look at the ke…

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    Comment #32950479

    Nice work! Do you automatically convert the links on yanking? How has being free from employment been working out so far?

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    Comment #31808939

    What I'm forever looking for is a software-agnostic write-up of what makes a good and clear diagram/flowchart. Something like Tufte, but a little more specific. Most UML tutorials …

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    Comment #31208011

    git-annex has metadata driven views[0], which might be what you're looking for. When you're looking at a view, copying or moving a file to a folder "tagname", adds the tag "tagname…