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gibbonsrcool

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    Comment #42911523

    Panel interviews seem to be more common. Curious if others have seen the same? I personally feel very uncomfortable coding in front of a group. First one of these I tried had like …

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    Comment #40268479

    Wow it’s a small world. I just discovered your channel recently and love the content. Probably watched the home lab video like 10 times. I have a historic building with 3 vacation …

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    Comment #40149978

    Speak for yourselves... I'm flying to Seattle to LAN next month! :P

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    Comment #40143305

    Sure, I made the repo public: https://github.com/gvbl/TextAPic I don't believe the app works any more, something has changed and I haven't investigated. I hope it's still useful fo…

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    Comment #40142998

    And why are they bugging us for a sign in when in mobile private mode on safari! Gtfoh!

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    Comment #40142983

    After doing some Android freelance recently and having a clients Play Store account get shut down because they forgot one of the requirements imposed by Google I’m done with Androi…

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    Comment #40142967

    Yes it’s MMS. Something I learned during the process of making it was that sending a pic wasn’t technically SMS… guess I forgot. Haven’t worked with SMS/MMS since.

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    Comment #40127950

    My father continuously had problems sending pictures over SMS, which would be super helpful so that I could help him accomplish tasks remotely. The built-in app on Android was too …

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    Comment #40013515

    I understand their incentives. But the fact that they are exploited here, just less so still, makes the exploitation wrong. The H1B program needs to end.

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    Comment #40013301

    Even if the pay by salary amount is fair, these workers can be exploited to work more hours than their non-H1B colleagues such that if their pay was broken down hourly it would be …

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    Comment #39884130

    1. How to administer a secure network for a property with multiple vacation rentals. I bought a bunch of Microtik components so I’ll be learning RouterOS and how to setup VLANs. 2.…

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    Comment #38785695

    Monopolistic practices, dominating search engine market, anticompetitive behavior in online advertising, collusion with other tech companies on hiring practices, privacy concerns o…

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    Comment #38780841

    Unfortunately Apple and MS seem like they’re going strong into 2024.

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    Comment #38778073

    I predict Google will flounder on multiple fronts. They’ll either continue empty promises of a ChatGPT killer or release one that will be 2nd rate. Meanwhile more adoption of ChatG…

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    Comment #36355433

    I’ve had such bad experiences with Reddit mods I’m cheering this on.

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    Comment #35412222

    The second biggest geopolitical opponent to the US, Russia, is in major decline. Their primary opponent, China, is slowing down and has enormous domestic problems to deal with that…

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    Comment #35365304

    The decline in young people's sexual activity is a recent event: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-...

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    Comment #35364647

    Is it possibly because they're not sleeping with each other? Seems to be all over the news lately, the decline of young people having sex. The older I get, the less I see sex as op…

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    Comment #35111125

    “you could have just posted the link without your opinion”

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    Comment #35108475

    A link by itself might be another site that the person who commented likes, not necessarily the one mentioned in the article.

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    Comment #34991567

    I am also interested in OCaml, so thanks for sharing this. I’ve heard it’s higher level than Rust and has GC. I’ve spent most of my career using Java and after a few weeks of Rust …

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    Comment #34991471

    Thank you

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    Comment #34991450

    I hadn’t heard this term before so that will help my search.

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    Comment #34991369

    I’m asking this question as someone with zero experience in writing an OS, but who has done limited services development. Would it be an interesting research project to write an OS…

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    Comment #33371908

    I was just thinking the same thing this morning using the Play Store dev console, which reminded me of Cloud console. Everything is randomly jumbled into a bunch of menus on the le…