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enlightens

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    Comment #49093055

    Betteridge's Law Considered Harmful Headline Slams Betteridge's Law Betteridge's Law: Here's What We Know Sitcks Nix Betteridge's Law Pix

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    Comment #48877946

    I have a ViewSonic ultrawide like this, picked it up as a factory refurb from their eBay account. Makes it incredibly easy to switch between work and personal laptops (Mac and pc),…

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    Comment #48570468

    Yarn is usually the next best thing but there seems to be something off with the video in this case https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e9d8176d-e936-4224-a1d1-f...

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    Comment #48478183

    FWIW I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Enhanced Tracking Protection, and use Chase's website almost weekly. No issues that I've noticed on MacOS or Windows

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    Comment #47664206

    The ticket is for “two days of resources that you personally can use”, not “two days of resources that can be used by any number of ticket-holders.” It’s like the “free as in beer”…

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    Comment #47208566

    The EO itself agrees with this and says that the War title is secondary. It explicitly doesn’t truly rename the department.

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    Comment #47204439

    Only Congress can change the name of a federal department, so the Department of Defense is still properly called that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

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    Comment #47152400

    The most common one I run into is with volumes, when the full path doesn't already exist. Docker will just make the path, Podman throws an error. It's been called a "bug" in docker…

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    Comment #47079061

    from 1864: > On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Uppe…

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    Comment #47058082

    VPN to Greece! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me#:~:text=Swedish

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    Comment #46816370

    Here's a random elementary school in Santa Monica with a 15mph sign https://www.google.com/maps/place/McKinley+Elementary+School...

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    Comment #46800234

    I took the use of "virtue signalling" to be an intentional jab at HSBC given everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies

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    Comment #46455929

    real_real_ID_v2_final__USE_THIS_ONE.pdf

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    Comment #46329335

    Never mind the car charger, what about the cable itself? https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/16/lightning-cables-...

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    Comment #45493376

    It's literally "a-shell" https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

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    Comment #45409402

    that Twitter account famously posts nonsense https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jordan-petersons-chine...

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    Comment #45283227

    The summary at the top of the page says > ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain …

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    Comment #44759812

    from your sibling comment: > "var" also makes your code less reliable as seen in this example I disagree with this too, I think your example is a classic case of preprocessor direc…

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    Comment #44759654

    Ok but var has been around since C# 3.0 in 2007. Love it or hate it, using that keyword in 2025 signals nothing about how current your skills are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_S…

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    Comment #44718816

    Glad you could come visit from Beverly Hills ;) EDIT: actually, depending on your age and what you watched on TV, maybe you were visiting from Boston?

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    Comment #44487637

    Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. He spent his July 4th weekend setting the record for baking the world’s largest deep dish pizza, and as he tells …

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    Comment #44368716

    >imposed lockdown and mandate policies with zero scientific basis The If Books Could Kill podcast just came out with an episode last week about how the phrase "lockdown and mandate…

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    Comment #44250870

    They do web analytics so definitely end up on block lists for people who don’t want to be tracked. (I’ve used PostHog on several projects and feel that they are better for privacy …

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    Comment #44192506

    For those who don't know, you can tap on the link preview graphic and select "Convert to Text Link" to switch back to clickable text. As you mention there's no way to change the au…