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mattmerr

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    Comment #48795915

    Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do, and that seems like a reasonable tradeoff to reduce visual clutter

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    Comment #47915919

    What does "a domain that was making about $9k/year in ad revenue" look like? Is this domain one where people randomly stumble upon it and give ad views to a parking page? A website…

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    Comment #43974232

    How much is that? A finger? A foot?

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    Comment #42394453

    I read parent comment "grew 35% last quarter" as (income on 2024-09-30) is 1.35 * (income on 2024-07-01) The balance sheet shows (income on days from 2024-07-01 through 09-30) is 1…

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    Comment #41831369

    ASCII already has designated bytes for unit, group, and record separators. That aside, a big drawback of using unprintable bytes like these is they're more difficult for humans to …

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    Comment #40501899

    I am not a Trump supporter but the headline is completely incorrect and disingenuous. It seems like there's a game of telephone happening for the quote "you're not going to be able…

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    Comment #40372812

    Does watching a video pause the timeout? If so, hypothetically one could stream or locally create a video with no contents but long duration.

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    Comment #39954492

    I am curious to see benchmark results for the same use cases but with 10ms and 100ms latency added between the client and server. It looks like the bench currently just stays withi…

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    Comment #38847109

    Sent you an email. Could you provide context what that email is associated with? It's unclear whether this is for the athletic program, the evolution and ecology group, a recruiter…

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    Comment #37696635

    My understanding is that the "disabled" radio option just means the Gnome Tweaks program won't override anything. Caps Lock behavior will be the system default, instead of being ch…

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    Comment #34755841

    The variance in the 10^i number generation graphs stands out to me. Is number generation really so periodic in performance? I've seen bumpy graphs from O(log2) algorithms recursing…

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    Comment #30571480

    Sounds like hiding IP is going to be opt-in? I'm not sure what the implications are of TURN but what would be the downside of making IP-hiding the default?