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mcstafford

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    Comment #46393299

    There may be room to improve in describing the undefinable?

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    Comment #44702294

    https://www.iroh.computer/docs works

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    Comment #44145136

    I took a peek at the terms of service[1] when considering signing up for an account. It seemed unusual to have them in a separate language from the rest of the site. Presuming the …

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    Comment #44145007

    The personal plan[1] repeatedly emphasizes the word free and makes no mention of the $30+/year optional fees or what features differentiate the levels of service. [1] https://www.c…

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    Comment #43628984

    I prefer heredoc[1] syntax. I find it more readable and portable. [1] https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...

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    Comment #43605673

    Whose popularity do you champion, and what sorts of motive bring deservedness in to the discussion?

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    Comment #38410982

    :-) Delicious irony

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    Comment #38395913

    I suspect science has had more to do with the reduction than superstitions like jinxes.

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    Comment #37484850

    > Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov Useful discussion is an interesting scope for someone with the broad, in-…

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    Comment #36089651

    You make a decent point. There's a clear limitation... but a clearly worded prompt often produces more valuable content than an SEO optimized guess article.

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    Comment #36089224

    The vulnerability sounds like it's inherent to SQL Server, and that cloud providers haven't been successful in blocking the underlying problem due to its proprietary nature. Presen…

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    Comment #35826395

    [flagged]

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    Comment #35549452

    I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful. Do you have a link that …

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    Comment #35412956

    One thing we seem to have discovered is that absolute randomness is harder than it might first seem. Your idea combines what feels like a significant percentage of randomness while…

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    Comment #34688193

    Apple reminding me why I don't buy their hardware.

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    Comment #34687729

    The Cliff comparison is a good one in that it very confident declares its every answer was though it is well-founded fact.

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    Comment #34102785

    Hi, I'm Bob... welcome to ideators anonymous. If you can't stop incentivizing perspectives, and monetizing paradigms this may be the place for you.

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    Comment #33286022

    TL;DR "Using IP Address Instead of Domain Name" Everything else remains pretty much the same...

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    Comment #29865270

    At first glance, the headline sounded likely to be a conspiracy theory from the other side, not something from NPR.

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    Comment #28152652

    I'm unable to use mosh after switching VPN clients, though ssh works. What should I discuss and/or request with the security+network folks?

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    Comment #28124536

    Lecture notes available: http://timroughgarden.org/notes.html

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    Comment #27410862

    > people complained that [my microphone] was taking up all their bandwidth That's not how I expect your choice of mic to affect anyone else's experience. It would surprise me if ad…

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    Comment #26814901

    Google's pytype seems to be better deployed within the standard PyPi ecosphere. The Microsoft packages you're using aren't.

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    Comment #26587314

    I see download options for Mac and Windows. Is Linux support in the works? Slack and Teams have us covered.