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kingds

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    it does seem to be very much bottlenecked by performance, yes. very slow to start up, for example.

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    Comment #48814068

    I'd argue PayPal was a successful business, not a successful piece of software.

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    Comment #45430384

    sorry but it's funny that you mention "heart and soul" while sharing some of the most soulless videos i've ever seen.

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    Comment #43259175

    > I was resigned to playing under Ibuprofen until I heard of fastDOOM i don't get the ibuprofen reference ?

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    Comment #43250371

    it's comically bad. the UI is a mess, the search functionality is broken, you can't resize the window horizontally. it's feels like a hello world first project in a new language ty…

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    Comment #43168940

    apple’s software is shockingly awful across the board these days.

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    Comment #43002016

    2200 would improperly add an extra significant figure, "about 2000" would be okay.

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    Comment #39734887

    right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.

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    Comment #39701102

    > My recommendation is that you don’t look at blog writing as just something people do to work on their “personal brand”. It can definitely help with that, but first and foremost i…

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    Comment #39625177

    the simpler explanation is that speeding just isn’t as dangerous to pedestrians as distracted driving and sketchy intersections are, which certainly tracks with my experience as a …

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    Comment #39298333

    it’s insane to argue that the iPhone 15 isn’t radically different from the iPhone 1. since 2007 smartphones have become capable of replacing so many of the separate gadgets people …

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    Comment #38138916

    doctors are all completely insane and should never be trusted. the process of getting into and through medical school has a selection bias towards type-a sociopaths. and whoever ma…

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    Comment #37808345

    [flagged]

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    Comment #37729771

    in what ways have we not already returned to normality?

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    Comment #37333411

    what does “to be very clear” mean in this context? your article doesn’t clarify anything lol

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    Comment #37332191

    yes! try to learn anything related to home maintenance and it feels like youtube is your only option. and you are stuck trying to scrub through a 20 minute video to find the 10 sec…

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    Comment #36943206

    i think you’re misunderstanding what GDP (gross domestic product) means. it’s basically a measure of the total revenue in a country’s economy. it has nothing to do with “productivi…

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    Comment #36863688

    no cumin mentioned though. that seems to be the highest volume spice in most Indian curry recipes I've seen.

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    Comment #36787177

    seems very odd. the issue was that when Git marked lines in a file as being in conflict then the file was no longer a valid Jupyter file. and their solution was... to change the la…

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    Comment #35361228

    i tried to add a lil laughing emoji to indicate that my comment was in jest but apparently those get stripped out of comments? my bad.

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    Comment #35360092

    what's a pull request?