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emeraldd

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    Comment #47663858

    Honestly, the mac approach makes much more sense from an ease of use perspective for non-experts. On other platforms, you have to know the layout to choose and hope things work unt…

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    Comment #47545326

    yeah, this is no go. What you want is a way for the cat to be in a box front and center. So an underdesk keyboard tray that doesn't have room for a cat to sit on, but is big/deep e…

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    Comment #47538423

    Your welcome.

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    Comment #46771056

    There are a number of cases where this is not really possible. For some classes of updates, the structure of the underlying application and the type of update being made requires t…

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    Comment #46440039

    Couldn't find a better link for that one, the tech looks interesting, but the Add is disturbing. https://www.unilad.com/technology/news/2wai-avatar-app-evil-... may be a better lin…

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    Comment #46349684

    My experience with AI code reviews has been very mixed and more on the negative side than the positive one. In particular, I've had to disable the AI reviewer on some projects my t…

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    Comment #46218423

    This is something I've noticed on academic vs "practicing" coders. Academics tend to build in layers, though not always, and "practicing" coders tend to build in pipes give or take…

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    Comment #45575975

    > by letting you just make another environment This is actually what I'm talking about .. Why do I need a whole new python environment rather than just scoping the dependencies of …

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    Comment #45574225

    This is still a complete pain to work with. Virtualenv in general is a "worst of worlds" solution. It has a lot of the same problems as just globally pip installing packages, requi…

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    Comment #44830267

    I'd also recommend the "How to Make Everything" YouTube channel.

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    Comment #44640294

    Or the changes weren't immediately visible externally.

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    Comment #44562618

    There's always arm assembly. It's a differen ISA of course, but a lot of the concepts transfer pretty nicely. You could also look at something like the Zimaboard or similar machine…

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    Comment #44351536

    In a situation where the transformations are explicit and can almost be mechanical with little to no involved reasoning. With those requirements, the LLM just has to recognize the …

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    Comment #44174231

    Honestly, what is the value proposition of a Union to Tech workers? Tech workers tend to well paid and given somewhat wider latitude and freedom than a lot of other professions. In…

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    Comment #43930835

    If you're forgetting to use the tool, is the tool really providing benefit in that case? I mean, if a tool truly made something easier or faster that was onerous to accomplish, you…

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    Comment #42905383

    The actual text of the bill, referenced elsewhere, refers to import or export, which would theoretically make it illegal to download.

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    Comment #42810298

    It would also seem that the information about Crunchyroll not currently allowing password changes is true as well.

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    Comment #42728580

    Could this be a repeat of the Xerox image duplication bug? https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

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    Comment #42704173

    This feels like the equivalent of pen-testing without a contract ... Which is basically breaking and entering. (Slightly different context of course.)

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    Comment #41991593

    I’m sorry for the ferrets, but can someone explain the significance of that lethality to humans? Other than those with pet ferrets? Are they a good proxy to humans that I wasn’t aw…

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    Comment #40909196

    Anyone actually get into the size and see what's there?

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    Comment #40359715

    Considering the title of the article, this comment had me thinking of some supernatural. Took me way to long to realize what it was talking about...