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gpgn

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    I saw the popup a month or so ago for the first time, and 10 days ago after that. Simply manually updating uBlockOrigin filters did it for me both times.

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    Comment #38098816

    I'm on the spectrum and whenever I think about possible regrets I might have on my deathbed, I always end up thinking “Who cares, I'm going to die anyway. Everything I have experie…

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    Comment #37887613

    I saw the popup just once, I updated most of the filters used by uBlockOrigin and I haven't seen it since.

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    Comment #37390953

    A relevant documentary, although slightly more about women and the world in general, is Birthgap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8QlIGanA , where they talk about "unplanned chi…

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    Comment #37186597

    How does that work in dating? If you are afraid of making people uncomfortable by asking them out, escalating things and putting them in situations where they have to say no to you…

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    Comment #37131318

    These are somewhated dated but well worth watching; the professor does all kinds of approximations. Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn: https://youtu.be/Zi…

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    Comment #37117937

    "Arm" and "hand" are two very different things (I guess?), but they are the same word (рука) in Russian.

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    Comment #36859662

    I have noticed that Wikipedia is often pushed to the bottom of the page compared to a few years ago where it would always be at the very top.

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    Comment #36284096

    Sounds a lot like the Peter principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

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    Comment #35427663

    yeah, no way "food will be handed out for free" when you can make a profit by selling it; they'd rather throw it away (as they do right now) than give it away for free

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    Comment #35412770

    Obligatory Oatmeal reference https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

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    Comment #35398599

    I'm too low-IQ to understand what this means.

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    Comment #35397546

    Not for me :(

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    Comment #35386720

    What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for…

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    Comment #34162762

    > This is an area where I have to give tptacek lots of credit. Any specific thread that might be particularly enlightening/interesting?

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    Comment #34135344

    "pure" in the context of functional programming often means "without side effects", so writing a log file, interacting with a database and so on would also make the function not pu…

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    Comment #33033589

    Italian keyboards as well.

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    Comment #32689298

    In some of the ones I get the filled data is all uppercase so they are very easy to spot.

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    Comment #32135563

    Relevant clip from The Sopranos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyn_feOptg

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    Comment #31943384

    > A combination of archived data from before the offical YouTube dislike API shut down, and extrapolated extension user behavior. How reliable is this?

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    Comment #31539648

    Btw, in macOS Monetery 12.4 Apple also removed country flags for keyboard input.

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    Comment #31195083

    It always plays the video for a few seconds the first time, than goes back to the beginning and plays it correctly till the end. God forbid if you try to mute/unmute it. On Firefox…