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fredsmith219
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Comment #48847317
That is a pretty nitpicking reason to say it has not aged well. Hamlet doesn’t have cell phones yet I think it’s an excellent play. Even though a quick FaceTime would’ve averted a …
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Comment #48724568
Isn't iridium already in orbit? So there would be no need for new launches due to this aquisition.
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Comment #48523803
Did anthropic threaten to go to a different cloud provider?
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Comment #46361372
I agree and have taken the same path.
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Comment #46176417
My client uses IBM servers with it’s hobbled version of Unix (AIX). Perl and access to copilot have really helped me out. I don’t love Perl but I’m damn glad I have acres to it.
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Comment #45487131
Wow. Maybe backups would have been a good idea.
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Comment #45120972
If a musician doesn’t want them to do this, why do they upload their music to the free site?
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Comment #43803039
It does. I suffer for almost 20 hours of I miss a dose. I’m very sure that doesn’t happen.
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Comment #43679419
Absolutely amazing. Good work. It downloaded and ran on Arch with no problem.
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Comment #43449107
I’m amazed that climate.gov hasn’t been taken down yet.
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Comment #42344403
The have a charger very near to where I go in Michigan, and 30 miles from the nearest supercharger. They announced earlier this year that they would open up the RAN “near the end o…
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Comment #42316094
This is very cool. I’ll have to read his blog. My 9yo just picked up a book on coding from the library, I hope he gets interested as well.
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Comment #42310983
The song needs to be updated to reflect our current reality.
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Comment #42298879
Great for assassins, but not terribly useful in a large battle.
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Comment #42141224
Apparently OpenAI can’t ask the AI to design a better AI. Perhaps the singularity isn’t as close as people thought.
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Comment #42044303
An amazingly talented person.
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Comment #41302289
Yup, it is your works crazy policy of making sure everyone gets a one size fit all VS code Configuration. I’ve loaded VS code on a 10 year-old Lenovo and it runs just fine with onl…
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Comment #41121314
My mom’s hard and fast rule when buying a new computer: It had better run Print Shop. She was barely computer literate but that program was soooo useful to her. You guys did a grea…
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Comment #41093312
FSD is revolutionary. There isn’t anything as good on the market yet. Other than that I agree, their competitors have caught up.
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Comment #40947133
I am reminded of Rana systems, who used to make disc drives for Apple II Systems. They announced the new product that was basically an IBM PC built into a disk drive so you could r…
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Comment #40935662
I use virtual card and lock the card as soon as I’m done. The company will send a few nag notices then cancel for me.
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Comment #40435941
The same day he dies, Microsoft announces version control in Windows Explorer, which he originally bought to the file system in VMS. I know he worked on NT, I wonder why they didn’…
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Comment #40315042
Does anybody else see the irony of storing a new version control system on GitHub?
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Comment #40036725
I remember flying from Sydney to London and seeing big clocks with Swatch Internet Time in both cities. It seemed both silly and kind of cool at the same time.
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Comment #39936941
My 9 yo is better than me at Mario Kart but not by much. This knowledge may make the difference for me. Thank you!