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leeches

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    Comment #34725988

    Let's imagine a scenario: There is a state of emergency presidential address. In Video A, the politician says X Y Z. In Video B, the politician says A B C. Both videos have equal c…

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    Comment #34723790

    I would say, at least it’s not as predatory and unethical as crypto, where the people involved are knowingly harming others. But it seems like the current trendline for “AI” is goi…

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    Comment #34696530

    Search is losing the arms race. I think we'll need to revert back to the model of manually curated and moderated listings, a human-approved island, surrounded by an endless sea of …

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    Comment #34694139

    All of that multimedia experimentation was a good time. I remember kirupa.com being the destination for tutorials and actionscript snippets, I built dozens of Flash sites. It was a…

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    Comment #34689281

    I prefer the higher information density of earlier designs. The surface-level styles make them seem old, but structurally, these sites provided a lot more utility. When I hit your …

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    Comment #34679427

    I think GitHub Discussions* strikes a nice balance between hierarchical and chronological comments. The main comments are chronological, but you can also inline reply to a main com…

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    Comment #34461197

    Same here. First time order, and it was poor quality so I requested a return. They refunded and didn’t even want it back. It was $200 but I guess they knew it was junk and not wort…

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    Comment #34453332

    When there are little to no consequences, it will keep happening. We need severe penalties for losing sensitive data, as in, an actual threat to the survival of a company, not some…

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    Comment #34324181

    Solved with company name or product name prefixes, like “discord-routing-service”

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    Comment #34133779

    Totally killed the Taskbar. Funny that they’ve gradually been transforming the best part of Windows UI into the worst part of MacOS UI.

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    Comment #33910951

    I wonder how having evidence of fraudulent transactions publicly accessible on the blockchain will affect the investigation time. It seems like once they figure out exactly which a…

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    Comment #33898456

    I also used Modo from version 101 to 501. Maybe it’s because of baby duck syndrome, but I have never found anything that even comes close to Modo, in terms of ease of use and workf…

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    Comment #33784001

    Oh wow. Thanks for sharing the Q&A.

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    Comment #33580784

    If you select a command and press 'Control+Command+?' it will open the man page in a new window. You can also customize the theme by editing the 'Man Page' profile in the settings.…

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    Comment #33562141

    There aren't technical decisions driving this, they are in the business of advertising. But yeah, pretty much this. We have access to billions of hours of video, but without advanc…

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    Comment #33552356

    Hm I guess it depends on use cases, and machine configurations. I encounter many, many bugs. Off the top of my head: - On reboot, sometimes the Menu Bar fails to load entirely, and…

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    Comment #33533596

    I also migrated a few years ago, after having used Photoshop and Illustrator professionally for a long time. The underlying features are there, but the lack of “flow” is the main s…

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    Comment #33495702

    Apple needs to stop pushing annual upgrades. Please spend 2 years polishing the core system. No features. We need to rebase onto a more stable and reliable platform.