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lotu

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    Comment #49074699

    There's a reason the three most important things in real estate are "Location, location, location"

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    Comment #49072431

    I think it could also be used outside of making a part. For example you want to setup sensor on a surface but it's important not to damage the surface, like the outside of a boat. …

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    Comment #49065354

    His mistake was giving a passcode he knew would destroy the data on the phone. Instead leave the destruct passcode written on a scarp of paper inside your phone case.

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    Comment #48800335

    Maybe leaving it to professionals would make more sense, but the majority of people aren’t in favor of it. I’m not even in favor of it and I had a couple fireworks bursting right o…

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    Comment #48714755

    Doesn’t imply that the cops should be involved in prevention.

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    Comment #48646822

    Using existing parental controls parents could set their kids age and that could be used for the age controls. Could the parents let the kids around the age gate? Sure but they cou…

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    Comment #48639403

    They said the extra time ment they would be able to do additional verification. I’ll bet checking what games you purchased and play time are a part of that.

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    Comment #48352662

    This decision almost certainly came about because of people thinking what action was least likely to get them fired. Any rational person would realize the odds of an actual bomb ar…

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    Comment #48350367

    It treating every BomBeat RT-SF16 radio as if it contained a bomb would be a moronic reaction to that

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    Comment #48058442

    Yes but critically none of this money is actually given to the homeless person. So we aren't giving them anything for free we are just dealing with the consequences of them not hav…

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    Comment #47838951

    I'd say it was bad legislation because this was a foreseeable outcome. I actually worked on cookie banners, and we did user testing, a full 80% of people closed it before reading s…

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    Comment #47806909

    My job was building cookie walls in response to GDPR. It might not have been the “intent” but it certainly was the consequence of that law.

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    Comment #47252691

    Just because you aren't charging money doesn't give you the ability to act as an attorney, doctor, or civil engineer.

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    Comment #47095659

    I remember when I found Flux (third party predecessor to night shift) sometime in 2013. It worked in a week, I'd been staying up until 3am for most of the year and a started going …

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    Comment #46759260

    Yes thieves do, research on which phones to steal. Just not online more in personal talking with their network of lawbreakers. In short a thief is going to have a fence, and that p…

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    Comment #46701125

    Sounds very profitable for whoever is selling solutions, I wonder if perhaps they also provide wisdom as a loss leader.

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    Comment #46661261

    Yes very much so, if they could make their product do the things they claim they would be focused on doing that, not telling people to stop being naysayers.

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    Comment #46661229

    Yes there totally are web development, shovel ware app development, are two that I can think of off the top of my head.

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    Comment #46661211

    You say that like someone that has been coding for so long you have forgotten what it's like to not know how to code. The customer will have little idea what is even possible and w…

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    Comment #46583432

    Yes this is exactly what I feel. I disconnect enough that if it’s really taking its time I will pull up Reddit and now that single prompt cost me half an hour.

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    Comment #45396179

    I disagree while, there is an Linux icon that would fit in here. This is not it. It might be a starting point, I don't think the design works. despite how simple the windows and ap…

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    Comment #44102949

    Thank fuck for saying this

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    Comment #44102940

    Those higher level questions are likely outside the scope of the class. Like write a novel or something like that.

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    Comment #44102928

    Because it is necessary, think about toilet training a toddler.

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    Comment #43965924

    Marking the road at its engineered speed is ineffective. People overwhelmingly do not use speed limits to decide how fast they drive. They look at how wide and straight the road is…