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drabbiticus

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    Comment #49134665

    Not even saying you are wrong, but the linked article does not appear to support your premise that AI was related to this decision at all. Is there further evidence you have that s…

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    Comment #49085557

    Just imagine a "Missing Milk" [1] on the side of a milk carton campaign. I'd be so confused haha. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing-children_milk_carton

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    Comment #49047418

    I admit I've had the privilege of not following the war between Russia/Ukraine very closely, but your question seems to assume that Russia has been clearly delineating between civi…

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    Comment #49022980

    Can you clarify the collab architecture and what gets shared vs. not shared with Bento servers to enable this collaboration?

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    Comment #49006551

    The site does include a way to use a throwaway key and IIRC it was there last night too. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/late_throwaway && ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.ssh/late_…

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    Comment #49006474

    This is helpful to know, but also pretty general security practice. If you are auditing an artifact, only use that audited artifact after, don't assume that a network endpoint can …

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    Comment #48703142

    > I get that involving a human body complicates the analysis. That was the point: that you can’t appeal to it as a simple example to ground the intuition in other case. Yeah, fair …

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    Comment #48697970

    > In fact it takes positive energy just told a weight at a fixed height, doing zero mechanical work! Stacking a weight on top of a table holds it at a fixed height and requires zer…

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    Comment #48697604

    Because they were more focused on the stills than the movie. IOW, a screenshot when you scroll it to the "right" spot looks clean and balanced. Personally, I think it's a bad UX de…

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    Comment #48456141

    `rmdir` is not `rm -rf`. It only removes empty directories.

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    Comment #48153398

    slop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be a…

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    Comment #48026789

    As far as I'm concerned, it's a feature when the viewer controls the number of spaces per tab, it's a bug when someone else does (as is often the case online via css `tab-size`).

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    Comment #48008546

    We may be getting off-topic, but I despise how LLMS made em-dashes a thing that people associate with slop posts.

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    Comment #47878632

    Great, thanks for the clarification!

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    Comment #47873516

    Can someone help confirm whether I understand correctly the semantics difference between the final-line eval of x^ vs. x* ? It seems like either one evaluates the contents of the `…

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    Comment #47793487

    > holds my place can you give an example of what you mean and how you might expect it to be achieved with a reloaded diff? otherwise `while true; git diff --color=always |less -r; …

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    Comment #47751642

    Thanks for sharing! > Before writing any code, I spent time on detailed specs, an architecture doc, and a style guide. All public: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studi…

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    Comment #47501510

    Most likely the (legally) correct thing to do in the US is to first report the landlord to the relevant agency, possibly named something like Licensing and Inspections or Fair Hous…

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    Comment #46421753

    No. MIDI controllers have their place, but many people work without one, or only use one for live performances. There are often also way more knobs in the various FX chains in a DA…

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    Comment #46047445

    For the sake of easy reference, I'll leave the relevant snippet from the linked article so people can decide for themselves with a bit more information: > Another important note - …

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    Comment #45996869

    > being dead is quite a good alibi Maybe I'm misreading either TFA or your comment, but both Picasso and Apollinaire were alive in 1911? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso…

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    Comment #45948470

    Just chiming in here - any time I've written something online that considers things from multiple angles or presents more detailed analysis, the liklihood that someone will ask if …

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    Comment #45499335

    What are you comparing it to or what do you feel is missing? Remote desktop has gotten way better on Linux since the days of only X-Forwarding or VNC, at least from a performance p…

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    Comment #45442928

    This is really cool, so thanks for sharing. Since the motivating goal for the question you are answering is WCAG compliance, is the output of pdf2htmlex meaningfully more WCAG comp…

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    Comment #45440984

    > renders properly Depending on your requirements on both PDF input and HTML output, there is often no way to do this that is both easy and general. At it's core, PDFs are not desi…