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elbigbad

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    Comment #36251033

    It’s also, like, Reddit. Not some financial or health database. It’s an Internet forum largely populated by literal children and teens.

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    Comment #36250972

    And among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.

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    Comment #36246023

    Just in case anyone sees this and takes it seriously: this is absolutely not now that works.

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    Comment #36226415

    Can you talk more about this source of error? When I google this, your post is the main thing that comes up for the term…

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    Comment #36221897

    The sports cars analogy doesn’t resonate with me because there’s a functional difference between regular cars and sports cars. And plenty of people buy sports cars like Miatas, whi…

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    Comment #36143939

    I found Apollo to be fairly shady. I paid for the app and they “lost” my account or something so suddenly I could no longer use the pro features. Pretty lame, no amount of support …

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    Comment #36119098

    Better discoverability and so people could very easily install and run. Git adds more overhead.

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    Comment #36103835

    Cixin Liu of course. Now let me tell you about “elbigbad’s Theory of Relativity” (hat tip to Einstein who had a hand in its development). More modernly phrased: “‘You miss 100% of …

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    Comment #36103618

    I’m guessing the admin stopped caring as much about the mission of the site, which actually seems quite compelling, or it wasn’t as profitable as they thought, and was looking for …

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    Comment #36103548

    I don’t know who Yancy is but they have some complete lack of shame to steal someone else’s idea almost word for word and prepend their name to it. I don’t know what I could muster…

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    Comment #36098604

    Of course it’s not. Neither of my children’s faces have ever appeared on social media. It just requires a little discipline on the parents part, which seems to be in short supply t…

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    Comment #36039951

    The most woo woo articles somehow get traction outside core hours.

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    Comment #36025650

    The largest city in the world is Tokyo which is about 40M people.

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    Comment #36024023

    Boomers love this sort of thing. Or at least talking about loving this sort of thing. Maybe they’re too addicted to Candy Crush style games though where they won’t actually patroni…

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    Comment #36023844

    I had to look this up to make sure this wasn’t some low effort trolling. It does seem real, which raises the question: With regard to getting people to listen to your advice, would…

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    Comment #36021729

    This is unnecessarily reductive, but it probably sounded good in your head or if someone only considers it for a few seconds before thinking about it. Of course meaning can be inst…

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    Comment #35932202

    No more than Microsoft Federal’s value add is the same, which is to say very little, even though MS Federal sends plenty of people to help set up Azure cloud services and has a con…

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    Comment #35931667

    If I see an army forming over the horizon, it would be foolish to not build defenses, even if they’re not actively attacking at the moment.

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    Comment #35931642

    It would lose its FUD-factor if it became too much more specific…

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    Comment #35931595

    It’s basically a vacuum for any and all data that categorizes and raises relevant insights to the end user while making it “easy” to find what one is looking for. Fairly straightfo…

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    Comment #35931403

    I like the sentiment a lot but curious what law this is against that has prison time as a consequence? I can’t think of any, but if there are none, we should pass laws that allow t…

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    Comment #35930709

    I can’t even imagine giving so much credence to every conspiracy theory or supposed breakthrough that only appears on YouTube that I spend time watching everything. There are only …

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    Comment #35930363

    My comment was assuming you’re the average person. I don’t know you or your reputation at all and I think it’s unfair to assume some random HN poster like me should. But if most of…

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    Comment #35930043

    > Some guy who knows enough about genetics he created his own home pill to deliver genes into his gut to fix his lactose intolerance is being ignored by the world. Someone recently…

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    Comment #35929032

    Run output through a regex that searches for words in the prompt and doesn’t return if so. It’s not a real real solution but I’ve found it works effectively so far and is really no…