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cvadict

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    Comment #49178649

    meh, every single license key ever issued is stored in the binary.... also you can just compile your own copy from scratch. -or- just pay the author the $7 or whatevs if you use it…

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    Comment #49105685

    That's the absolute best possible outcome... The more severe risk is where a neighborhood child gets severely injured and then the liability policy/coverage you were relying on as …

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    Comment #49069582

    > But during covid archive.org decided to just remove the limit and lend unlimited copies concurrently IIRC, this was 100% it. Lending one digital version of one physical asset was…

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    Comment #48973889

    > I loathe their bug-ridden UI. So weird that the same exact people telling you that programming careers are now obsolete are the same group who haven't been able to fix screen fli…

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    Comment #48798621

    searching for .gov reveals 0 matches... doubt

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    Comment #48741542

    >very loudly stating the foreign labs have been distilling their models Help! Someone else is blatantly ripping off my plagiarism machine!

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    Comment #48492861

    > Fail cleanly. This is the same exact industry that gives you paid usage limits as a unit-less percentage bar then gaslights customers every time the algorithm running that percen…

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    Comment #44803403

    Yes, but they are suuuuper safe. /s So far I have mixed impressions, but they do indeed seem noticeably weaker than comparably-sized Qwen3 / GLM4.5 models. Part of the reason may b…

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    Comment #42759823

    That is fine as long as the input / output is always in UTC... but at the end of the day you often want to communicate that timepoint to a human user (e.g. an appointment time, the…

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    Comment #42242429

    > That’s a good target for terrorism. Exactly! Nobody would be laughing if Al-Qaeda drove a giant Dasani truck into TSA headquarters, would they?

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    Comment #42240708

    Iirc. you just need the openMP libraries from a compatible version of clang.

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    Comment #42165981

    Agree 1000%. I'd take less pay to not have to deal with some middle-management dimwit who read this article trying to actively "coach" me.

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    Comment #41450401

    > to do what boils down to a few API calls LOL @ anyone who believes that global financial processing is primarily a technical problem vs. the regulatory / bureacratic dystopia it …

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    Comment #41338355

    Well Google's garbage-tier product cohesiveness makes a LOT more sense now.

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    Comment #41318718

    IMHO, the overhead of perpetually babysitting compiler diagnostics or performance metrics to ensure your latest update didn't confound the auto-vectorizer is never a net positive o…

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    Comment #41165907

    Agree 100%... Getting caught using a phone while driving, should be punishable by a suspended 5-year prison sentence contingent upon completion of a 1 year smartphone ban. Get caug…

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    Comment #40879573

    > thief breaking into your house, stealing all. . . This is where your analogy is flawed. You are pre-supposing the "defendant" is indeed the thief that stole your property. Wherea…

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    Comment #40788581

    Speaking of sugar coatings, have you tried Candy Crush Saga 365 yet? I've already pinned it in your start menu favorites for convenience.

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    Comment #40007532

    That’s how admissions used to be run ish... TBF, now you have to do an additional secret indirection dance to get around the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action.

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    Comment #39813272

    No device support... I started playing around with porting some CUDA code to ROCm/HIP on a Ryzen laptop APU I had. While an "unsupported" configuration (which was understood), it a…

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    Comment #36718717

    > Simply register and enable the repositories that you need. Counter offer: nah... how about I just target+deploy on any of the numerous competitors that don't make me jump through…

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    Comment #36718673

    > Almost every major open-source project is actively contributed to by Red Hat, or has been at one point. That's nice... but Redhat's entire business is also built on the open sour…

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    Comment #36718589

    Meh... there are plenty of (better) fish in the "do your own thing" sea. The thing that actually made CentOS, followed by Rocky+Alma compelling to anyone was the 1:1 bug compatibil…

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    Comment #36690258

    > which states you may not impose any further restrictions on the recipient's exercise of the rights granted herein. So "technically" that's not what they are doing. Redhat will ha…