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gzread

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    Comment #47988394

    None, because they are above the rules. You need actual enforcement. Or the other guy's community network idea but it would have to also publish the realtime activities and whereab…

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    Comment #47988364

    why would Iran not make a nuke when America keeps bombing countries that don't have nukes, and avoids bombing countries that have nukes (most notably North Korea)? They have all th…

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    Comment #47988337

    Small correction: Israel has been doing a genocide continually since 1948 - it didn't start in 2023.

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    Comment #47988326

    people mock communism for this, but capitalism also does it all the time

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    Comment #47988298

    And not in human-interpretable ways. An LLM was told to behave in a certain way and then output random numbers. When the numbers were pasted to another LLM instance, it also behave…

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    Comment #47946985

    The cloudflare bug was the equivalent of an uncaught exception caused by a malformed config file. There's no recovery from a malformed config file - the software couldn't possibly …

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    Comment #47946852

    I see even the coreutils maintainers find themselves needing -n (no newlines) and -c (count) options to "yes".

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    Comment #47946839

    A site that hijacks the back button. Pressing back takes you to the loading screen, which takes you forward to the site again. Ouch.

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    Comment #47946833

    you have 85 minutes to delete "(what is it with fish?)" which ruins the joke

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    Comment #47946818

    You can for using them commercially.

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    Comment #47934795

    Successful selfishness. The ability to make executable plans to tilt the future in your favor.

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    Comment #47934765

    Why would you write in C++ then wrap it in a C++ to JavaScript wrapper then wrap it in a JavaScript to C++ wrapper

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    Comment #47934689

    That is a hack. It shouldn't need to swap - it should just be able to start using it as normal memory when under memory pressure.

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    Comment #47934626

    You must not live under an HOA. They'll fine you for not making your house look the same as everyone else's.

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    Comment #47934608

    There is patent law. Patent law says you can't do the patented thing without the license. Growing the seeds is patented. So you can't grow them without license. This may be so obvi…

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    Comment #47929181

    IMO SCOTUS should retain the power to interpret vagaries of law; Congress still holds ultimate power, as it can pass a more specific law overriding their interpretation. What about…

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    Comment #47929128

    The news on the phone is worse , in fact.

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    Comment #47929101

    Open source is better because if you need the device driver then you can step up to maintain it yourself. It doesn't mean someone else will magically do it for you. I've used devic…

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    Comment #47929059

    Feetures being dropped because nobody wants to support them is a prominent feature of free software. That's part of "no warranty". If it does bother you, you're supposed to step up…

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    Comment #47929025

    If you were in Scotland or Europe more generally, it'd be illegal for "unlimited mileage" to not actually be unlimited mileage. If CF decides you're subject to an invisible limit w…

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    Comment #47921340

    When I think about products with too many primitives, I instantly think of Snapchat and Instagram - my two least favorite apps.

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    Comment #47917433

    A trademark means nobody but you has the right to use the name in commerce. It doesn't mean Facebook is forced to give you a site (whatever that means).

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    Comment #47917427

    > We will then act based on the ruling, which could take months. That's fine, you're paying for all lost business revenue during that time since it was obviously caused by your gro…

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    Comment #47917368

    So are the reporters at Associated Press. The capital class has decided that workers are superfluous, and product quality doesn't matter, and they just need to hold onto the money …

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    Comment #47917333

    > And there's zero setup. Just a deployment yaml that specifies exactly what you want deployed Writing this yaml is hours and hours of setup if you can't ctrl+c/v from your last pr…