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justarandomname

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    Comment #46829039

    Also children probably don't care.

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    Comment #46804492

    yeah, but zero chance of that happening unfortunately.

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    Comment #46804479

    Now that I've read that link (well... a bit, I just couldn't at a certain point) I totally understand this comment.

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    Comment #46775365

    Sadly, I'm seeing a LOT of this kinda of usage. So much so, I know a couple people that brag about how many they have running at time same time, pretty much all the time.

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    Comment #46775351

    THIS, I can barely remember a time with lifetimes or the borrow checker caused me undue suffering but can recall countless times that abstractions (often in the async world) did an…

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    Comment #46608433

    Hell yes, I love this and bandcamp so much more for this stance! So many creator platforms are becoming slop factories.

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    Comment #46565930

    Insert: "You were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them!" meme here...

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    Comment #46540295

    I agree with you here, it feels like management said: "well, we have to do SOMETHING!" and this is what they chose: push more of the burden on to the developers giving away stuff f…

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    Comment #46476415

    I used Codex and Claude with Obsidian recently for two tasks: 1. To migrate my hand-rolled HTML site over so I could publish it with Quartz. 2. To research a large multi-hundred gi…

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    Comment #46476378

    SAME, I thought there was a bit flip in the files or something.

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    Comment #46461198

    > We eliminated download cards a while ago because the redemption rate was so low. Oh. my. gosh. This has been driving me NUTS recently. Please please please here me out. The first…

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    Comment #46449060

    I listen to FLAC's mostly (high quality, loseless audio files - CD quality or better) most of my collection has come from ripping CDs I owned or checked out from the library or alb…

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    Comment #46443511

    I don't smoke or consume nicotine usually, but a few times over the past decade or so I have picked up a pack of nicotine gum to help boost focus for long days. I never got addicte…

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    Comment #46393238

    > Chatgpt as a teacher is seriously a super power. I think this is by far, my favorite thing about LLMs. As a person who prefers self-learning I can significantly increase depth, b…

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    Comment #46384108

    I worked on an legacy application that did this as a stop-gap as CSRF tokens were being implemented and it just kept both approaches.

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    Comment #46384008

    Things have come a long way! For years after I would only buy Atheros WiFi cards, these days its usually Intel ones.

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    Comment #46384003

    Yeah, 2 decades! I was just enjoying a bit of nostalgia for that old clunky grey laptop.

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    Comment #46377612

    My first laptop back in 2005ish or so was a Dell Latitude. Ran XP until Vista came out and I switch to Linux which it ran for a couple years until it was stolen from my car. I reca…

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    Comment #46377566

    I've had a Framework 13 for nearly a year, been very happy with it, I've taken it on international work trips but it mostly sits on my desk with external displays attached. I ran W…

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    Comment #46259852

    > This is the future that AI companies are pitching, to “give the boring work to the computer so that you can do the interesting work.” The thing is, I usually don't find the work …

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    Comment #46254250

    Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Reading this: > State-by-State regulation by definition creates a patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes Like... isn't that the whole point…

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    Comment #45950202

    I was searching a specific niche on Youtube today, and scrolled endlessly trying to find something that wasn't AI generated. Youtube is being completely spammed.

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    Comment #45950185

    This is kinda how I've felt for months. I don't have any interest in continuing existing open source projects and don't want to create any new ones. What's the point? All of my per…