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    Comment #45475351

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    Comment #45464741

    I understood the comparison to be with Litestream, not SQLite in general.

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    Comment #45441852

    Many do. More common the further up the ladder you get. But I’ve been able to gain enough influence to affect most of the things I care about without engaging in that, unless you c…

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    Comment #45441532

    If that’s all you see, you probably need to level up your soft skills. Certainly the things you’re talking about are real, and particularly severe in some environments, but there’s…

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    Comment #45441468

    Could we please change this to a primary source and not an untrustworthy AI slop summary?

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    Comment #45424954

    OK, but given the view counts those are obviously fraudulent subscriptions

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    Comment #45422438

    The view counts on that channel are orders of magnitude away from the fastest growing channels. In this comment a hallucination?

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    Comment #45421051

    Yes, so they’re being incentivized to highlight products which they get a cut of, and more strongly to highlight more expensive products. This is called affiliate marketing and it’…

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    Comment #45421038

    That’s my impression but the specification repository doesn’t seem to mention that at all, when it seems like it should be a requirement.

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    Comment #45418386

    You think user deserve to have control, but you think that control only needs to extend to the treatment of those ten characters, nothing else? I guess your position is coherent, b…

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    Comment #45418342

    It will take no time. I made three purchases this weekend where I started my search with ChatGPT because it gives me better results than Google, and it can also pull in or link me …

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    Comment #45418311

    They get a cut for products that support this. So they’re incentivized to display those instead. It’s pretty close to standard affiliate advertising and the biases that introduces.…

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    Comment #45408504

    Unicode has many different representations of digits, and I would dispute using the term “alphabetical” to refer to digit ordering in any case.

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    Comment #45408463

    “Real alphabetical ordering” is incredibly nonspecific. It’s underspecified even for ASCII-US, but essentially meaningless for those of us in 2025 who need to handle Unicode. How d…

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    Comment #45408398

    Increasing the number of different possible combinations of settings your software can be running with by a factor of one nonillion is not a choice I’d make if I wanted to have any…

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    Comment #45408300

    How isn’t that currently possible? In America, your bank is already required to keep a semi-permanent record of your state issued identification for anti-money laundering/terrorism…