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Comment #44254703
"Privacy-focused" unless you need privacy from the EU itself. DNS services know every website your computer connects to before HTTPs comes on, so it's rather sensitive.
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Comment #44253921
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Comment #44240927
Hard disagree. If people cared, then all iOS apps would use standard styling, but the matter of fact is that every app has its own style, which does not stop at colors. They all sh…
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Comment #44238456
The fun part is that Spotlight used to do this, but they progressively made it worse year after year. It became completely unusable for me maybe a couple of years ago and switched …
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Comment #44238428
Sorry to burst your bubble but users literally do not care "how native it looks" other than the vocal minority online. Never ever heard any non-technical user complain that Spotify…
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Comment #44234946
It's been many tomorrows :)
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Comment #44234939
I think that once a bug has been verified and keeps getting likes, it should not be closed. If the user never responded to further questions, then absolutely. What I see however is…
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Comment #44230848
Don't forget all major OSS repositories using a stale bot to close any issue regardless of how many people reported it or how serious it is. Close and lock at times. Yikes.
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Comment #44192761
Time to open source your solutions?
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Comment #44192447
Why keep using Notes if if it hurts you so much that they're not markdown-exportable? I haven't used Notes in decades other than to type out junk/numbers once every 4 months.
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Comment #44178365
> there’s no way to ascertain ownership of an account (like 3DS) 3DS is 2FA and PayPal most definitely has it, it's just that they protect the customer regardless of 2FA.
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Comment #44178239
Crows and parrots are amazing talkers too, but there's a hard limit to how much sense they make. Do you want those birds to teach your kids and serve you medicine?
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Comment #44165107
You can't "remove" how LLMs describe changes. I'm not talking about useless comments, I was just saying that they describe changes the same way as they comment code.
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Comment #44163631
I told you how it is. Copilot writes crap descriptions that just distract from the actual code and the intention of the change. If your commit messages are in any way better than t…
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Comment #44163283
If you're lucky to work in such an environment, more power to you. A lot of people have to deal with React where you need so much glue for basic tasks, and React isn't even the wor…
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Comment #44163239
> I haven't written a commit summary in months I don't know what you're posting, but if it's anything like what I see being done by GitHub copilot, your commit messages are junk. T…
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Comment #44154964
Can anyone explain to me how Tinder changed exactly? I don’t think it did, it's just that people learned how to use it better (rather, women learned to be vastly more selective on …
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Comment #44152093
Coffee is a Muslim thing then. How do you feel about that?
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Comment #44151523
If you want to try easy mode, check out those newfangled android-based credit card terminal. I bet they're much more rewarding, especially since you tap your pin on the screen. Jui…
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Comment #44148529
I'll wait for canitruncrysis in 2050
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Comment #44148439
Public restrooms in Asia have bidets, so it's generally possible there too, assuming, you BYO soap.
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Comment #44148195
No, they're everywhere in Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines, none of which are majority muslims.
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Comment #44137365
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