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    That’s only the case for American English. British English places periods and commas outside the quotes, unless part of a literal quotation.

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    Comment #45923553

    https://xkcd.com/810/

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    Comment #45564483

    Sometimes known as “laser pointer syndrome.” It can drive dogs particularly crazy, and may also affect cats in the long term.

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    Comment #45391575

    “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang.

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    Comment #44835267

    What do you mean by that?

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    Comment #44729098

    Then you just switch to another provider. The important part is owning your domain name and not relying on someone else’s.

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    Comment #44292726

    Correction: I wasn’t aware of OpenAI’s “evals” tool. If that’s the kind of thing the author was referring to, I may have misjudged.

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    Comment #44270283

    Part of me hates how certain ways of writing have been designated as hints that something was written by AI… I love using em dashes, for example. But yeah, ChatGPT models tend to o…

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    Comment #44115533

    That’s a great question. ISO 8601 doesn’t allow timezone offsets on date-only strings. If you were born in the US, can you buy cigarettes at 12:00 am on your 18th birthday in Londo…

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    Location: Atlanta, GA, United States (UTC -04:00) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, PostgreSQL, shell scripting, etc. Résumé…

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    Comment #43675453

    Location: Atlanta, GA, United States (UTC -04:00) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, PostgreSQL, shell scripting, etc. Résumé…

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    Comment #43247055

    Location: Atlanta, GA, United States (Eastern Time) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Java/Kotlin, Terraform, AWS/GCP, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, shell scripting Ré…

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    Comment #40592907

    Gothamist (New York Public Radio) engineer here. Sorry about that! Are you still receiving a 500 error?

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    Comment #40551203

    Perhaps referring to this? I’m not entirely sure. https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/mail-censorship/

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    Comment #40048046

    Many sites do allow logging in with just an SMS OTP, no password required (even if you’ve set a password for the account). If it absolutely must be used (it shouldn’t), then SMS OT…

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    Comment #37757256

    You’re not alone. That’s also how PostgreSQL itself thinks about schemas! https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-namespace...

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    Comment #36093276

    Umm… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English...

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    Comment #35756883

    To be fair, TOTP works offline.

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    Comment #35645660

    Someone’s essay on that theory: https://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Spec...

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    Comment #35433512

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_switch

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    Comment #35371158

    This is my experience exactly. I’ll add to the list of inconveniences: - hyperlinks in iMessage/SMS aren’t clickable (but they can still be copied/pasted) - installed apps that use…