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fredthomsen
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Comment #46655283
A PM I've worked with many times always used to say, "They want an easy button! It's that simple!."
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Comment #30472219
Swedish foreign policy and neutrality originates from all the wars they fought against Russia prior to the 1800s.
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Comment #29983733
Seems like the social and commerce aspects are drawing scrutiny. I think MS will escape unscathed here
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Comment #28878540
wow... yeah... strongly strongly agree. I love email, rss, irc, etc and still use them today and strongly disagree that we shouldn't educate people coming up about these tools.
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Comment #27723539
Can you provide some more info about the raspberry pi and Ubuntu config changes done without user consent?
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Comment #27593539
It's very easy for people today to forget the 1800s that had significant periods of deflation and thus one of the reasons the federal reserve was created... although they allowed d…
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Comment #27463645
I was very happy to see this tool mentioned and recommend it highly. Very nice tool to add album art and cleaning up the tags for your existing music
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Comment #25793591
Family and friends have starting using it as the main messaging app the past 3 months. Definitely growing.
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Comment #25326514
Had the same experience and the compose equivalent was barely functional.
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Comment #25326504
Couldn't agree more. compose is a wonderful tool that lets you avoid the k8s complexity if you don't need it.
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Comment #25166072
Heavy compose user here, and when I tried the podman equivalent of compose was missing some functionality that made me move back.
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Comment #25137679
Curious how is CPU architecture abstracted away more macOS than any other OS?
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Comment #24963491
Have to agree. 280 characters is not that much better than 140, and what good ideas are compressed into that format. Sure you can link to a blog post, but then you might as well us…
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Comment #24941783
Agree with this and this is why everytime I see people suggesting some project should be moved from being hosted on a mailing list to github, I roll my eyes
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Comment #24915177
because this just seems like change for the sake of change
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Comment #24890800
Definitely agree with this. Twitter and other social media has really forced the short 140 character snippet or image to be favored over thoughtful posts and blog articles.
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Comment #24886567
As a swedish expat for most of life, it's always struck as very strange the American insistence on personal responsibility and railing against the nanny state, yet public schools a…
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Comment #24837208
Amazon would seem to me like the much easier target with the sketchiness around AmazonBasics
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Comment #24806856
Most of the places I know of or where friend's work use Atlassian. I am wondering if this will drive a shift towards GitLab considering the general consensus I've heard is that Git…
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Comment #24460406
I don't agree that centralization in Europe is the answer, that's exactly how you end up relying on others manufacturing capacity. Decentralize more so when the political winds cha…
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Comment #24197451
The cloud is just another backup option and you should have 3. That being said, you expect more from a paid service.
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Comment #24158944
and the paid providers actually have customer service
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Comment #24099259
and let's not forget the touch bar.... Urgh. Still holding onto my 2015 MacBook from work and hoping it never dies.
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Comment #23551204
so funny considering the history of 230 and how prodigy was the inspiration for it because they modded user posts
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Comment #22809196
but moral hazard makes the management of these companies worse and worse everytime one gets bailed out