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Comment #49169660
They ruined Minecraft in the same way. Microsoft login tied, emails, captchas, losing auth, losing purchases because it can’t tie auth to the system. Microsoft is a joke.
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Comment #49067155
“Better”, maybe or maybe not. But there’s an underlying truth here. If you’ve ever LOOKED at the open source libs you use, some of them are very very rough. Going in to a project h…
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Comment #48861287
The change is exponential and happening daily. The future is smaller teams spending a lot of money on AI credits.
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Comment #48861237
It’s a new form of development. The thing that the author didn’t state is that to work the code base at all, you must also use these tools and workflows. Manual edits literally are…
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Comment #48777001
Is this an AI response?
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Comment #48627932
This is so obviously incorrect that I have to wonder if it was an AI response.
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Comment #48532260
There’s an app on the App Store that only has the purpose of YouTube without ads. Can’t get more layman.
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Comment #48506278
There are currently multiple trivial ways for a layman to block all YouTube ads.
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Comment #48361641
Residential proxies won’t get flagged and are easy to obtain, if expensive.
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Comment #47810935
It seems clear that it was a money spending machine, not a money printing machine.
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Comment #47660389
I’ve 100%’d Balatro and wheel of fortune is quite strong. It’s never worth taking before you’re at max interest though.
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Comment #47281720
Business bros will not pay high salaries to maintain software. Software maintenance will always end in India with developers making $20/hr. Or less. AI makes it look like these dev…
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Comment #46830727
Probably the opposite. Corrections happen quickly and all at once, somewhat similar to growth. It would be more surprising if the 30% drop was spread out over a month.
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Comment #46745912
Expulsions don’t happen. International students have been cheating rampantly for decades. Universities are happy enough to collect their tuition.
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Comment #46471214
Interviews have the same issues. But if you do anything more than read off templated questions like a robot, you can be accused of discrimination. It is a sad world we live in.
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Comment #46471178
In the modern era, you are purchasing a diploma. I witnessed dozens of students blatantly cheat without any consequence. We all got the same degree. Colleges exist to collect tuiti…
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Comment #46466048
Agreed. This is the only context in which I still use Google.
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Comment #46458648
Google has no actual content left to find. It’s AI spam website after AI spam website. And if you find any content, it’s on a website riddled with ads. AI search has none of these …
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Comment #46363930
I was unaware that my headphone experience as impaired in some way. I exclusively use non Apple headphones and I have no issues. I had AirPods for a while and I don’t remember them…
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Comment #46348160
Diet is the food you eat. If you change the food you eat, you’ve changed your diet. Any attempt at a temporary food change is already a failure for long term health.
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Comment #46310947
I suspect that CVE inflation has poisoned the minds of many developers. A db driver may have an issue with unsanitized user input when run against SQLite, but you only use it with …
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Comment #46310535
The unintended side effect of this is that HR coaches you to be as vague as possible in responses. I can’t give real feedback because some feedback may seem dissimilar to other fee…
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Comment #46007202
McDonald’s is a franchise. Franchise owners bear the burden of employee and goods costs.
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Comment #45977764
No open App Store is a non starter.
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Comment #45562368
Seems to be. There’s little chance this was written by a human.