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geoffpado

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    Comment #48261023

    No signs of being AI-generated, and considering several parts of the [codebase of the website]( https://github.com/rubyforgood/rubyforgood.org ) haven't been touched since before C…

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    Comment #48232459

    As someone who grew up in a flood-prone area… yeah. Yeah, they do. Sometimes more than once per person.

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    Comment #47407537

    Can confirm; the cursor goes "beneath" the camera/mic indicator on the MacBook Neo.

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    Comment #46382583

    Whoops. Not sure how I did that.

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    Comment #46380925

    > We often hear that "people leave managers, not jobs." But sometimes, people leave jobs despite loving their managers. These two aren’t really mutually exclusive. Your manager may…

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    Comment #45940417

    MacBook Air, though the $379 price does seem to be a Black Friday deal: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Apple-MacBook-Air-13-Lap...

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    Comment #45804959

    Seattle, at least, already has Waymo cars in the "human-driven data gathering" mode that this article is announcing.

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    Comment #45735934

    For those unfamiliar with Apple’s new version-numbering system, this is the version that will be released in 2027, presumably around September or October of that year.

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    Comment #45690965

    Between this and The Browser Company of New York (Arc, Dia) it seems like having a generic name is the way to get acquired these days.

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    Comment #45677642

    I think you might have posted this to the wrong comments thread.

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    Comment #45632102

    > we also estimate that factorising at least two-digit numbers should be within most dogs’ capabilities, assuming the neighbours don’t start complaining first

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    Comment #45596411

    If I’m remembering correctly, the original script he found had different emoji in the two lines (red X vs. green checkmark), but since HN comments strip emoji, pasting it here made…

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    Comment #45554815

    In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?

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    Comment #45547188

    I suspect most of GitHub's usage (by repo count, at least) is for closed-source software. It's just in private repositories.

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    Comment #45547128

    Yeah, I was thinking "wow, this is well outside the HN title guidelines" but this feels like a case where humor might win the day.

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    Comment #45485053

    > Starting from a white background Possibly an incorrect assumption. As several of the screenshots in the article show, the default background color of the web back then was gray, …

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    Comment #45470520

    If you go back far enough, they just don't have the issue at all! Running your "detect using cornerMask" script from another comment in this post, I have an app ( https://www.haiku…

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    Comment #45030094

    The way I read it, the first dialog showed up the first time you launched the app, and never had the Purchase button. The idea was that 15 days later, you’d see the second dialog (…

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    Comment #45009273

    Epic has done it: https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fortnite-cheater-forced-to-...

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    Comment #44994210

    Typo/autocorrect of “porn”, presumably.

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    Comment #44949137

    …for now.

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    Comment #44943251

    Due to existing laws such as COPPA, Meta already has in its terms of service that kids under 13 aren't allowed to use Meta AI: > Without limiting the Meta Terms of Service or any o…

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    Comment #44925959

    I did appreciate the humor in someone taking my flippant comment about "ejecting passengers" quite so seriously. :)

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    Comment #44921024

    Agreed. I feel like if they started ejecting obnoxious passengers mid-flight, people would straighten up *real* fast.