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mccorrinall

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    In all honesty, Mastodon feels like a bigger echo chamber than Twitter. At least for me. The people on the server are somehow all like minded people. There is rarely any disagreein…

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    Comment #34394117

    The current handling is what I’d like to call a Selbstverständlichkeit.

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    Comment #34341229

    I actually say „Herr/Frau Professor Doktor Agolio“ irl when I want something from that person.

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    Comment #34317229

    JSON5 makers apparently didn’t even know about prototype pollution until this week.

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    Comment #34317207

    I thought about doing this when I was a teen. :)

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    Comment #34289287

    My Audi has a knob which I can rotate in order to navigate through the menus without taking my eyes off the street. It also has a touch screen, but I only use it when standing stil…

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    Comment #34267190

    > internal developments that match (maybe exceed) GPT3 Had a funny google prompt today which echoed wrong results by their ML model: https://www.google.com/search?q=single%20neighb…

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    Comment #34266948

    It’s easier to train on all github repos if you own github. There is no real alternative to codex. Stuff like GPT3 is trying to be recreated, but even the eleuther AI guys only col…

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    Comment #34256761

    Or maybe they write on an iphone. I had to turn auto capitalization off because it would capitalize emoticons after a full stop: turning xD into Xd

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    Comment #34256662

    They have, but it’s just not interesting. Similar to how the p2p scene doesn’t give a damn about software DRM. Regarding WV: There is actually lots of open source software and even…

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    Comment #34256517

    > You must be on some garbage trackers if you're getting away with multiple accounts Idk, I just always cheated when I was close to coming to my DL limit. https://github.com/Nikola…

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    Comment #34256461

    Javabeans give me nightmares too

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    Comment #34210845

    Would be interesting to know how his BTC were stolen. Because he is a BTC core developer, I believe he followed the best practices, like not writing down his password. So infection…

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    Comment #34210084

    Isn’t a recession necessary to curb inflation? Powell said that economy needs to cool down: When rates are hiked, a home with a mortgage, using credit cards or seeking loans to sta…

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    Comment #34202420

    I used this in firefox on ios and the zooming bugs are awful: https://streamable.com/qnxz2z

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    Comment #34195154

    Braingenious is not doing a pitchfork campaign but is actually right: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/twitter-buyout-loans-get-bid-at-...

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    Comment #34195146

    Morgan Stanley has tried to sell some of their twitter shares for sixty cents on the dollar a few weeks ago.

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    Comment #34183055

    What results does have it to echo in order to not be mediocre for you?

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    Comment #34137142

    To me it seems like it’s the same anti-globalization thing that’s going on everywhere. Suddenly no one wants to have any dependency on anyone. Everyone sees possible levers which o…

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    Comment #34137107

    If my company only reaches break even every year, it only takes one bad year and I’m bankrupt. Profits are important for every company.

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    Comment #34117120

    > One bad crop (which could be because of no fault of your own) can mean financial ruin. You can hedge crop in many ways. Give Terry Duffy a call.

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    Comment #34113031

    I found lightning worse than USB-C. So far none of my USB-C cables broke, however I already broke one lighting cable and my current one is only charging from one side. I sometimes …

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    Comment #34045260

    I only tested insta, which worked fine for me. Also, it looks like you can trash my post above, Graham got suspended. I really did not expect this.