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failrate

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About failrate

Programmer and tinkerer

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    Comment #48615900

    One thing that really helped me was to start viewing my news media in black and white. Without the colored dressing, a lot of (especially partisan political) articles have much les…

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    Comment #48567061

    It certainly has killed some people looking to it for self help.

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    Comment #47469779

    Some of these are considered rude, but ibd I do a lot of them, anyway e.g. rubbing disposable chopsticks to remove splinters, because a chopstick splinter in the gums is miserable,…

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    Comment #46562078

    https://imitone.com/ is what I use.

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    Comment #45938132

    The background is that Night Dive tried to do this back when they formed, but it turned out to be intractable for a number of reasons including no one knew who actually owned it.

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    Comment #45938122

    Comic books already use changes in font, weight, size, of text and the shape of the word balloon to indicate tone and expression.

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    Comment #45705770

    Don't make tap the sign: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

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    Comment #45568981

    The article did not also point out issues like the compiler or interpreter having a runtime error, the hardware the software is running on having a defect, etc. Do we consider thes…

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    Comment #45443001

    My lived experience is that high stress situations frequently make me feel like just going to sleep.

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    Comment #44604352

    I recommend @robinswords on YouTube for historical fencing.

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    Comment #44318692

    The main caveat is that you have to enable developer mode on the Android device to load the apps, but that is typical if you are running your own apps. Godot uses a Python-like lan…

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    Comment #44309383

    IIRC it is an array of cilia of different sizes that filters sound into different frequencies in the human ear.

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    Comment #44309362

    Godot 3 and 4 are very good for bashing out apps for both desktop and Android phone.

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    Comment #44131040

    LLMs are using the corpus of existing software source code. Most software source code is just North of unworkable garbage. Garbage in, garbage out.

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    Comment #44112506

    I have one full of thyme.

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    Comment #43948365

    As someone who avoids making threats in public, those stickers and whatnot do leave me concerned about the person's mental health.

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    Comment #43946348

    https://www.themade.org/

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    Comment #43929199

    It turns out that those ephemeral tattoos did not fade out in time and are extremely problematic when trying to laser remove them. The company that originally started that tech is …

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    Comment #43929160

    I had a similar issue, so I just got something small and essentially random. Now that the seal is broken, thinking of more tattoos is easy.

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    Comment #43806632

    I argue that verbalizing to the duck without involving another person solves many problems just by itself. Deeper problems may require verbalizing it to a person. In my professiona…

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    Comment #43805772

    Yes, and you also want to do fast and short Kegel's in different positions.

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    Comment #43782239

    In my personal experience with SIBO, fasting can mitigate symptoms but does not resolve the SIBO.

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    Comment #43493107

    P4, not git.

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    Comment #43468202

    I have never had a doctor ask me what flavor my pain is, but I can easily describe various types of pain as e.g. spicy, sour, bitter, etc.

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    Comment #43456872

    I was the ci/cd guy. I am not exaggerating when I say this person's code just would not compile and they would not test locally.