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kej

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    Comment #49251103

    > We all know parents are far more likely to tap "OK" for "Allow personalized social feeds?" than they are to knowingly falsify their kids' age. I know lots of parents and lots of …

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    Comment #49250460

    Right, I'm saying that if the goal is to keep kids off of addictive social feeds, it would be better to have social media have to say "this site implements addictive feeds" and the…

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    Comment #49249786

    I feel like all of these laws are being designed backwards. Content providers, like MPAA films, should have to identify what sort of content they are providing. Then I can give my …

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    Comment #49009475

    If you put your unified watchlist on JustWatch, they will even notify you when something you want to watch becomes available.

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    Comment #48994843

    A decent amount of recent issues follow the pattern where someone's credentials are compromised, those compromised credentials are used to release a malicious package, and then the…

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    Comment #48909585

    The "Lyttle Lytton" contest seems to still be going strong, for what it's worth: https://adamcadre.ac/lyttle/2026.html

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    Comment #48862681

    The main page has a better introduction, but it would still be improved by a video of a person using. https://scrollpods.app/

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    Comment #48734944

    I love how well this comment works as a vexillology joke, even if it wasn't intended.

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    Comment #48662341

    The sorites paradox says that removing a grain of sand from a heap doesn't stop it from being a heap, and yet we can do that until we are left with a single grain of sand which is …

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    Comment #48560784

    The combination of straightforward explanations and clear diagrams reminds me of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work which is one of my favorite books.

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    Comment #48316733

    Oh, no, I'm with you. The fewer connector types we have to use, the better. My comment was meant as an FYI for you or anyone else who wasn't aware and not as a dismissal of your va…

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    Comment #48314161

    For what it's worth there are third-party rp2350 boards with USB-C connectors if that's important to you. Heck, WaveShare has one with two USB-C connectors: https://www.waveshare.c…

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    Comment #48280306

    There was an interesting paper on how the newer equation editor handles math using just Unicode math symbols: https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....

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    Comment #47707783

    This kind of analysis sounds far more interesting than a lot of the "just do what I did!" startup writing that's out there. Do you have any recommendations for further reading from…

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    Comment #47532672

    I really like that VIA produced a CPU with integrated graphics, prominently labeled "VIA GRA", the same year that the FDA approved sildenafil.

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    Comment #47482626

    I think some small adjustments could reduce friction to new users. Let people scan and read comments anonymously, group similar product discussions together until volume increases,…

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    Comment #47471895

    Sure, as something parents opt into and where the local OS is the place where age and content rating are compared it could be a useful parenting tool. As something that lets big so…

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    Comment #47441127

    >interpersonal violence has overtaken accidents as the leading cause of police on the job deaths. Do you have a source for this? Not trying to argue, I would genuinely like to read…

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    Comment #47371006

    An update to the Logitech software last year added a fast way to access some kind of Logitech AI, but made it so the combination of mouse and dongle I was using no longer worked to…

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    Comment #47143280

    From the About page: >SBCL derives most of its code from CMU CL, created at Carnegie Mellon University. Radical changes have been made to some parts of the system (particularly boo…

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    Comment #46996419

    (Jared) Polis is the current governor of Colorado, so I was also confused but in a different direction.

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    Comment #46981907

    The habana-quic link is unavailable in GitHub. Is that possibly a private repo that you meant to make public?

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    Comment #46977710

    No, I'm not saying "it's obviously a father and a son", I'm saying "it's not obviously sexual or gay and it's weird that you were so concerned about that interpretation that you we…