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Comment #48956266
Exactly what someone without nine years of 10X pelican drawing experience would say
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Comment #48732963
Take care. In North America some services will ban you for doing a chargeback and that can be a big problem if you have a lot of content on the service
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Comment #48507030
I think you've captured exactly what they are trying to say
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Comment #48250615
Nah, there was just more economic activity to draw people in. By every other measure it’s been more hostile than average. But you are right that it is ending, just wrong about what…
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Comment #48111297
At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey. Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.
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Comment #47905792
Oh they’ll be replaced, by toadies and GOP Youth interns looking for a salary and resume boost
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Comment #47718042
Given the quality of the summaries, you might want to keep them just for plausible deniability
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Comment #47707916
I personally am not interested in the bigots of previous generations making those decisions any more than I want contemporary ones to.
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Comment #47707887
A long and storied history, the abolitionists used it pretty extensively well before it was named: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
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Comment #47707798
You can call it white nationalism if you like but you are spouting the exact same talking points as white supremacists, you just prefer to buy it under a different brand.
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Comment #47568740
The keyboard is probably the hardest bit but even then it’s more just some tedium rather than difficulty. https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...
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Comment #47274987
Haha. I edited tv shows back in the very early days of digital non-linear editing on a Mac Quadra 840AV with 80MB of RAM and 40/80MHz 68040 processor and a RAID made up of 4 x 9GB …
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Comment #47030306
There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In …
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Comment #46983546
First, this is taking Shotwell’s characterization at face value, that is not a great idea when dealing with a Musk corporation. Musk and his executives lie like other people breath…
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Comment #46940337
Ffs, taking usable fingerprints is not that easy Facial recognition cameras don’t use or give you the same data that FaceID’s 3D depth mapping FaceID uses, besides few cameras get …
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Comment #46786493
You’re not wrong that it hasn’t been passed by congress but just the proposal has already led to a massive decrease in grants. I am not as optimistic that Congress would go against…
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Comment #46219602
A coffee-table book? A Natural History of SVG Pelicans
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Comment #46206226
John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”and Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” were constant companions for me on road trips (sadly no English unabridged “Foucault’s Pendulum”…
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Comment #45408373
I think they meant “it just can’t” in the sense of “it shouldn’t under any circumstances”
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Comment #44412145
To add a little detail, Objective C was created by Brad Cox and Tom Love who formed PPI/Stepstone, with NeXT becoming a customer when Steve Naroff left Stepstone for NeXT to add su…
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Comment #44300901
Not necessarily, you don’t need to know the answer, the fabulation might: * give an error * return the wrong result * not be internally consistent with the rest of the content * be…
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Comment #44197444
Totally irrelevant, Anthropic isn’t cutting off OpenAI, it is cutting off Windsurf users.
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Comment #43944685
Burroughs was also one of the great comic monologuists, in March 1975 he was asked by Harper’s Magazine (along with others including Ronald Reagan, who had just finished his last t…
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Comment #43894628
“Substantially less inhabitable than Antarctica” is true of every single place that we know of outside our planet.