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Comment #42161133
For those not clicking through, DOGE doesn't refer to Dogecoin, it stands for "Department of Government Efficiency."
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Comment #42158976
> Always have a glass breaker Isn't this advice becoming dated now that most new cars have side windows with laminated glass? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28422725/car-window…
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Comment #42149523
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
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Comment #42149416
That's a complete non-sequitur. If you cut off your feet and get shorter, it doesn't mean the human species has physiologically changed. And if you eat more calories and get taller…
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Comment #42148994
That isn't a change of physiology, it's a change of our external environment. AFAIK there's no evidence to show humans living 100 years ago would respond any differently to modern …
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Comment #42148023
Considering: - a century ago a greater percentage of people were "normal" weight - human physiology has not changed much over the past century - our current definitions of overweig…
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Comment #42136306
They're probably doing the same thing humans on our earth were doing for centuries until ~1600. Surviving. Given how cruel nature is I think we're lucky to have the resources to do…
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Comment #42136233
Of course there is. If someone hits their spending limit, asynchronously shut off the services (using the same API call that your customers can use, so no need to alter the system)…
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Comment #42136220
And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.
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Comment #42122309
The reason Apple and Google continually patch and change their rules is because they have been playing a cat and mouse game with bad actors who, for decades, have continued to find…
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Comment #42118777
You completely ignored the substantive part of my post, so I'll restate without distractions. 1. Do you believe that with these latest round of updates, our benevolent corporate ov…
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Comment #42118277
The crackdown was fairly recent, right? Do you think we should trust that both companies have at long last perfectly solved all privacy problems with this latest crackdown and now …
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Comment #42117998
We're talking T&Cs here. How would typing in your location invalidate you agreeing to (what a company would like to believe is legally binding) clickwrap T&Cs? Even if you deny ind…
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Comment #42117638
It sounds like you're advocating for a world where ordinary people need to choose between: - not knowing the weather this weekend - knowing the weather and signing away their first…
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Comment #42116961
1. Why would you ever login to youtube in the first place? 2. There's strength in numbers. Between adblockers, foss clients, and youtube-dl/yt-dlp, there are probably tens to hundr…
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Comment #42112815
I don't know where you got the idea that MS doesn't have copies of their own source code. They aren't just blindly shipping binaries from decades ago with unknown provenance. They …
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Comment #42101282
> That said, linux is in a way like processed foods, and windows is organic. I would have said the opposite. Linux is organic - you get the bare essentials (whatever grew from the …
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Comment #42097314
It's an interesting pattern, but it's a shame there's no way to efficiently use one of those OptionalXIndex with zig's actual null syntax, `?` and `orelse` and etc. It would be smo…
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Comment #42097153
> The same pattern in Rust would just use variadic templates/generics. Are you sure Rust has variadic generics? Last I checked, the extent of progress was a draft RFC. https://gith…
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Comment #42094745
fwiw you can mix git and jj commands on the same repo and everything will work fine. If you want to stick with 99% git commands, and use jj only as a replacement for git-absorb, yo…
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Comment #42094497
Fun fact: three.js has an SVG renderer! https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/SVGRenderer Maybe you could have created the pyramid in 3D and rendered it ahead of time to …
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Comment #42094323
You might be interested in https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order
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Comment #42078416
In a head-on collision, the space shuttle passengers will fare better than the hatchback. Even so, it wouldn't be my first choice for most destinations.
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Comment #42071506
Supported quantizations: https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2-vision/tags