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highwind

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    Comment #46222254

    I like it but I wish I can change the size of the keyboard. Buttons are too small on my phone.

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    Comment #45486680

    > That footnote does make me question the bilingual reporter's skills in both languages though. If the reporter needs an LLM to help translate they could easily be missing subtle m…

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    Comment #45175402

    I'm guessing the same reason why my house's front door and back door use different keys.

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    Comment #42483411

    How about self-evident?

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    Comment #42228397

    The article describes computational method of rendering frosted glass effect. You can achieve the same thing by rendering the effect once (then upload to a sever) and have client d…

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    Comment #41957298

    Just like any other video games, I like these type of management games because it's "work" without real-life consequences. I can play the min-max game without any unknowns that com…

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    Comment #40549686

    I'm guessing you are not familiar with how Chinese characters work nor how Japanese Hiragana or Kanji work.

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    Comment #38879640

    Hoping for 10 years of support, I adopted Centos 8 a week before the EOL announcement. I never understood why they decided to support 7 longer than 8.

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    Comment #38532979

    > The only innovation here is to combine the various pieces into one package. Isn't this how any and all innovations work? (At least in the consumer product area)

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    Comment #38478959

    > All the latest developer tools in beta, plus experimental features like the Multi-line Console Editor and WebSocket Inspector. (from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/develop…

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    Comment #38451928

    oppressive leaders -> disarm their populations doesn't imply disarm their populations -> oppressive leaders I can think of 2 oppressive leaders who tried to disarm but I know of do…

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    Comment #38249670

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_polygon

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    Comment #38118337

    > Why would anyone worry about anonymized data? I guess company wouldn't care, but I'd like to know if statistics that I'm part of is now also owned by someone else. I don't know w…

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    Comment #37795533

    It's a privilege to have any service done for you, not just waiting tables. You are free to give them extra money if you feel that service received exceeds the price that you paid …

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    Comment #37680286

    I'm Korean and if I were to write an article titled "Program like the cowboys of old west" (I've no clue what that article will be about but), would Americans be offended? Within K…

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    Comment #37514419

    Colloquial comment doesn't need to meet mathematical rigor. He's just saying that these laptops do not last.

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    Comment #37504214

    There used to be a time where you can load up a YouTube video on the site and go offline then watch the video. You can't do that any more, unless you actively find a way to downloa…

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    Comment #37309379

    The article seems to be arguing against conditionals not duplication.

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    Comment #37253198

    Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term

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    Comment #36536886

    I block ads by default and turn it on for the sites that I want to support. Main reason for blocking by default is privacy. I don't want super targeted ad. If I'm on a particular s…

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    Comment #36536792

    Rocky posted an update: https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

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    Comment #35988868

    [flagged]

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    Comment #34701093

    I believe ML family of languages do not have null. And it was developed well before Java. So I don't think timing was the issue.

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    Comment #34158780

    Did the electric telegraph actual encrypt anything? I thought they were just encoded to Morse code and there was no encryption.