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drcongo

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About drcongo

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49215413

    Reject this, but allow a billion spammy gambling scam apps pride of place in App Store searches. Gross.

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    Comment #49210991

    "No shit" everyone else says

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    Comment #49194150

    It's not just other dog walkers either, plenty of random folk will come up and talk to you just because you have an excellent dog.

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    Comment #49188672

    Why ban the symptom?

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    Comment #49185121

    Thank you sir. It's indispensable.

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    Comment #49184938

    Not through conscience.

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    Comment #49182498

    When I read articles like this, they're so far removed from how me and my male friends interact that I find it hard to believe.

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    Comment #49181646

    I highly recommend ScreenFloat for screenshots, it's one of my favourite and most used apps - endless power user features that mostly sit elegantly out of the way until you need th…

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    Comment #49158561

    This thread has an absolutely wild points to comments ratio.

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    Comment #49156254

    Kagi is the best search experience ever. The only reason I started using it in the first place was because DDG started ignoring my quotes. Never looked back.

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    Comment #49155400

    In defence of parent, I clicked around through several pages and still couldn't work it out. The image on the linked page made me think it was a game.

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    Comment #49153592

    Agree with all of this. The voice over in the video was unbearable, sounded like a cartoon dog in a preschool kids' show.

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    Comment #49153409

    > I was diagnosed as an adult and I had struggled with my self-worth and had been chronically depressed since I was a child. I've only recently been diagnosed, so I'm possibly stil…

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    Comment #49152814

    Funnily enough, I was considering writing a blog post on this very subject yesterday - none of my kids ever mentions Google at all, and even their friends who have Android phones u…

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    Comment #49147380

    That's the last donation I give them.

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    Comment #49143411

    The flip side - I don't think there's a single upside to the ASD traits I have, I don't like myself, and I would absolutely love to know what it feels like to not have ASD.

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    Comment #49134444

    I love how terrible these are, the nuclear power plant especially. They've all got an extremely amateur MS Paint vibe to them.

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    Comment #49134087

    I couldn't even get through it. Awful stuff.

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    Comment #49127420

    I visited Finland about 20 years ago and Red Bull was illegal there, though I believe they've since allowed it.

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    Comment #49127374

    For about 8 years now I've been down to one caffeinated coffee per day, first thing in the morning. If I miss it, I have the start of a migraine by about 1pm. It's mad.

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    Comment #49120986

    Finally. A true connoisseur.

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    Comment #49115325

    > There’s no soccer competition Ahhhh, you're American!

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    Comment #49111105

    They already arrest people for showing support for Palestine Action, which is why you get the unedifying spectacle of cops carrying little old ladies into vans and carting them off…

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    Comment #49095249

    Still no `uv show` and still no homepage link in `uv pip show`. I love uv, but man the ux needs some work.

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    Comment #49084550

    Never expected to see Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics on HN. If you've not already heard it, you might also enjoy this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y8t3