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floren
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About floren
My favorited submissions are things I've actually found interesting.
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Comment #49216287
In English, the creature is a pig or a hog, and the meat is pork. We also have major feral pig problems in parts of the US.
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Comment #49179247
The LLM can't tell the difference between your messages and theirs, however many times you say "No mistakes"
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Comment #49178736
Naming a terminal emulator "rio" seems like a cruel joke on Rob Pike :)
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Comment #49175897
You can do things correctly, with thought and attention even if they seem unimportant, or you can be a feckless dipshit. This applies to most things in life.
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Comment #49169595
Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
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Comment #49055410
Next time, try a clever joke.
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Comment #49015806
Although the questions sometimes trigger useful hallucinations (we were able to instantly disqualify tons from our last hiring batch due to a hallucinated Go stdlib call, their cod…
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Comment #49008271
Yeah, for a long time I thought I disliked Rush because I only heard "Tom Sawyer" and "Closer to the Heart" on the radio. Turns out the best shit doesn't get airtime. At least my h…
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Comment #48986065
Or too little... aside from themes and music and a chatbox there's not much to it.
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Comment #48983748
> Here's the example I throw out to people who have been in the Bay Area for a year or two. It's early in the year. You want to drive straight through the middle of Chinatown in SF…
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Comment #48954986
Definitely not, I like IPv6.
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Comment #48954590
if this wanton abuse of cat(1) doesn't stop, we're on track to run out of PIDs by 2031! Just because Unix makes it cheap and easy to fork doesn't mean you have to! (who gives even …
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Comment #48924525
Oh yeah solar is getting good but the guys who come to your door and say they'll give you a $0 electric bill just sign here are peddling something that's maximally profitable for t…
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Comment #48922563
I've started telling basically that to the solar salesmen who come by every few days: if it was so great, you wouldn't have to pretend to be from PG&E or tell a bunch of half-truth…
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Comment #48852270
A del.icio.us idea
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Comment #48851689
It's so damn easy to hit "pause" on the kid by turning on the TV or handing over a phone, but the result is so apparent: demands for more phone or more TV.
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Comment #48808315
Same, I designed & built my own 108-key keyboard (no numpad, just a shitload of keys) and it's lovely. I'm very slowly binding functions to all the extras. https://jfloren.net/b/20…
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Comment #48790482
> SS No 7 only roughly maps into OSI model, the equivalent application layer would use MAP - Mobile application part. Well yeah only the OSI stack actually maps onto the OSI model,…
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Comment #48771532
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Comment #48726472
I'd rather look old than be one of those lunatics who goes for a summer walk in a longsleeve shirt, gloves, and a hat with built-in veil (a pretty common sight in the Bay Area)
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Comment #48714624
12L is 1.2 million
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Comment #48611165
Iran has figured out it can make the US president look like an idiot over and over at relatively low cost to themselves, since they're already so thoroughly excluded from the rest …
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Comment #48592022
Well, guess we'll have to wait a bit to see if we're in the weights... I got a 429, as I'm sure many others are (and thus mashing retry).