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dementiapatent
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Comment #33468402
Thanks y'all for the immediate slander and political replies. Anyways, the strategy is now clearly to burn twitter to the ground and diminish its influence since it isn't controlle…
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Comment #33465991
Gross! NewXXXXXX and constructors should always be near the top of the file, next to the struct and interface definitions :)
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Comment #33465879
I think "the powers that be" also works in this context. Control over global public discourse is the most effective mind control tool in the world. Even moreso when your control is…
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Comment #33465628
The blue cathedral is offended and retaliating.
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Comment #33405697
Disagree, there are so many people who don't care about the media outrage machine that went from Trump to Musk and now to Kanye. It's all very political.
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Comment #33373265
No it isn't like stealing at all. HTTP and REST API was explicitly designed so that clients can request and explore only the links they are interested in. This includes links to tr…
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Comment #33371828
Isn't there a 'let me keep reading' button on these substack popups?
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Comment #33357637
They are publicly hosting their content with a protocol that was designed for clients to only follow the links they are interested in. Rather than gimping the browser stack for eve…
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Comment #33357522
I salute the IT team who keeps all of those security policies in place while not interfering with daily operations. >Who's stopping you to create your own version of VBA, release i…
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Comment #33357079
Easily defeated argument. If that website doesn't want members of the public accessing it (and picking and choosing what parts to access), then don't make it publicly accessible.
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Comment #33346800
>Do run it using a user that has no access to write/delete files and you'll see that the most malicious macro is benign. It could retrieve work from a server to start long running …
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Comment #33343588
To argue against this, a Word document has no business running arbitrary code with access to system drivers. I think it's more like opening a document in GEdit and realizing that y…
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Comment #33307418
Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public, since it could be used to automate damage upon pedestrians? Ban and criminali…
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Comment #33307289
What is easily automated? Generating JPEGs until I receive an error that there is no more space on my hard drive? This would leave no bad effect on the world.
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Comment #33306956
But stable diffusion isn't an automated system maximizing its own power and drowning the world in paperclips in an out-of-control feedback loop. It's just me generating cool pictur…
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Comment #33298114
This sounds like such a bad idea, what if one of your employees has a concealed carry permit and chooses to defend themselves?
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Comment #33293516
Fear of this is why I prefer a sorted set with ZREMRANGEBYSCORE to remove expired items
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Comment #33261907
Same here, I only caught one episode of HOTD, the one where they are at the feast and the two guys fight over the girl and then she gets kidnapped. The whole episode felt intimate,…
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Comment #33261826
It will be so much fun when the implementation is refactored and half of these comments are forgotten about and no longer meaningful.
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Comment #33247192
Not downvoting, in fact I agree with you. The speed at which these old claims were trotted out against Trump and any Republican right of Lindsay Graham has me thinking about their …
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Comment #33236982
I find it interesting that similar claims have been made against several members of the Republican party in recent times (by prominent news outlets). What is the threshold of evide…