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hiccuphippo

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    Comment #49217989

    It feels like an Orphan-crushing machine[0] kind of story. It's amazing he achieved that but he shouldn't have needed to. Why wasn't there a road already? [0] https://knowyourmeme.…

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    Comment #49168228

    And then Hello became Allo in French and Alo in Spanish, which is only used as a greeting over the phone and never as a general greeting.

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    Comment #49151355

    > distributors are unlikely to buy a film that could appear on piracy sites So they don't buy any film ever?

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    Comment #49128388

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49035076

    I've see people write "broooo pleaseeee!" into the box. Something about the universe providing better fools.

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    Comment #49034262

    >AI will become the repository owner So Open Source transitions to Public Domain.

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    Comment #49030924

    I stopped using fancy prompts at some point. My current prompt is a single $ sign. If I need to know the current dir I just run cwd, I don't need it on every prompt. If I need the …

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    Comment #49030868

    MariaDB feels more like the original devs sold the brand and kept business as usual with a new name, not a community fork.

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    Comment #49006914

    The eagle is flying in one direction and then the opposite by morphing the back into the front.

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    Comment #48992205

    I once heard about a company that specialized in making furniture about 10% smaller than normal for use in show rooms to make the spaces look larger. Not surprised they do it with …

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    Comment #48984457

    Similar discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269

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    Comment #48983443

    What would you remove from TOML to make it perfect?

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    Comment #48969387

    Icculus has some great videos of porting games from SDL2 to 3, here's the one porting Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdeGhsoxy8

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    Comment #48849324

    Can it replace my manager?

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    Comment #48776508

    Why a JIT when they have AOT? Shipping the source code means they can ship the same thing to every target instead of dealing with multiple binaries, at the small cost of compilatio…

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    Comment #48766468

    > Cisco observed that users who initially denied permissions were only about 10% likely to successfully grant permissions using legacy prompts, but that rate jumped to more than 65…

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    Comment #48761882

    That's what I liked from Bun's proposition. A single binary that just works. Hopefully the others take notice.

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    Comment #48680863

    The new anime is a more faithful retelling of the manga from the start so you can watch it by itself.

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    Comment #48675558

    It's actually a stance against the use of AI in the industry: "We want to express that this is a hand-drawn show made by humans to highlight the humanity in the story" https://www.…

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    Comment #48675498

    At least the Frieren one was drawn by a single Japanese artist https://x.com/aoumemimei/status/2012695958824407124

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    Comment #48674130

    Not everything is bleak. The ending sequence for Frieren season 2 was entirely hand drawn with colored pencils[0] and the new Ghost in the Shell (coming out next month) is also han…

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    Comment #48667736

    I find it most useful in languages that have non-mutable variables and you want to avoid a mutable variable or an extra function when the value comes from a simple condition.

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    Comment #48643314

    Sure but use a real photo and someone will come with a copyright claim. The AI photo is the safest option.

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    Comment #48634586

    You could use Zig's package fetching system for Odin vendor packages since they made it work with C libraries for Zig. Zig doesn't have a centralized package management system thou…