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No, you completely had it correct. And sending an AI response to a question is the same semi-rude way to respond. The context here is that the person logging the ticket (or asking …

That first bot _did_ actually use an em dash in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170066

So what actual problem do NFT artists work to solve?

Why?

> "your child wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable" What about that could possibly make someone uncomfortable. How does it have any effect on the other parent?

So that cloudflare can now MITM their HTTPS encryption. /s

Lol, then don't use Windows. Why anyone trusts their personal data to closed source software, and especially closed source software by an empirically hostile corporation like Micro…

A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic? Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

>"Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt" To me that just sound like it will make ReactOS much more Windows-like. So it's probably a win f…

>For example, the main "customer" of the module system is the JDK itself As mentioned in TFA, "The general advice seems to be that modules are (should be) an internal detail of the…

> His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers. Okay sure. I'll use myself as another example then. When I was a dev I used to write a lot of code…

Tell that to Linus Torvalds. His whole job is just doing code review, and I'd argue he's better at coding now than he ever was before.

> or some other country that doesn't respect international copyright though. Like the US? OpenAI et al. don't give a shit.

Well that was a whole other topic. And luckily it links to a page that explains the whole topic of what a "celestial sphere" is. Going to the page, I see I was indeed wrong about w…

I've never heard of it before, and it makes perfect sense what it is from that intro. On a celestial sphere (planet, star, etc) the declination angle (being 0 is at the equator, be…

Yeah, it's not like they care about improving the state of the open source ecosystem anyway.

> Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players. Yeah, so I don't see how helping out the big players and not everyone…

> You can make proprietary changes to the engine without releasing them (unlike GPL). Why is that a good thing? >You can freely monetize games built with the engine, You'd also be …

TFA doesn't provide any measurements, so how did you compare them?

Now it makes much more sense. I realize I misread "One solution is text-wrap:pretty" as "OUr solution is text-wrap:pretty". Combined with the fact that this was on the webkit blog.…

I'm confused, this was created by Webkit, but is currently only available on Chromium based browsers according to : https://caniuse.com/?search=text-wrap%20pretty How did that happ…

> In the 20-teens That being 2013 to 2019?

Yeah, corporations have the resources to do that kind of investment in Linux which random hobbiests don't. But why do they do it in the first place, instead of investing in their o…

It's very easy to hate on him for that very reason. He's just buying a good reputation for the fraction of his wealth that is completely insignificant. If I could buy that kind of …