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mitjak

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    Comment #28360513

    this needs to be one of the highest rated comments squarely due to how much luck (or gruelling prep) is involved in effectively memorizing answers, i.e. the issue with technical in…

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    Comment #28360239

    why did you get downvoted? it seems a plausible theory that's at least worth discussing / is a reasonable contribution to this thread.

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    Comment #28076112

    Affinity Photo has already been my go to for performance reasons (how is it so usable and snappy on an old iPad???). exciting to see it get faster yet. inappropriate feature reques…

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    Comment #27984123

    nothing conclusive. we should lock down harder, could be one of the conclusions.

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    Comment #27973959

    i think "evolution" is not some purely natural process that plays out separately from how we think. e.g. forming societies where we support and elevate each other instead of compet…

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    Comment #27973231

    right, i'm not making a new claim. i'm saying, that's one of the few conclusions we can draw from this data. it doesn't say anything about e.g. catching covid at the hospital, whet…

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    Comment #27973104

    this seems to suggest there's a lot more undiagnosed cases walking around in the wild than we know about.

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    Comment #27824212

    > sitting in the back seat, with nothing to do but continually recalculating if / how long your nest egg will last this problem doesn't exist if you correctly math out your existen…

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    Comment #27824176

    why should we compete? what does "victory" amount to? i'd gladly give up winning in favour of some form of survival guarantee and freedom to choose work rather than require it for …

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    Comment #27750241

    Criterion is available in Canada...

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    Comment #27750208

    agreed. shortage of comedies like Hangover and Borat is to me progress on a societal level.

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    Comment #27693609

    i'd argue the danger is even greater with tests bc the entire point of tests is to provide certainty. wrong tests are a false sense of safety that's unquantifiable without understa…

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    Comment #27681131

    the main argument against Copilot for me. it takes longer to grok existing code than just write it from ground up.

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    Comment #27610377

    or did he take drugs bc his life was shit? why did you decide to establish this direction of causality?

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    Comment #27426501

    ignorant q: does Messenger still hold much of market share? over the last few years almost all of my contacts transitioned to WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. Messenger is just way to…

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    Comment #26874716

    jesus, seriously. a prolific human.

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    Comment #26704199

    how is babby formed

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    Comment #26441037

    im providing a counter-example to the OP's point, and saying that people choosing not to remain farmers is not a sufficient explanation for decline in the number of small farms. th…

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    Comment #26438738

    apologies if i'm coming across condescending or am missing your point but i'm having difficulty comprehending how the author staying on the farm would've fixed anything about the t…

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    Comment #26438520

    that conclusion doesn't necessarily follow though. the proposed thesis by the article author is difficulty of having enough cattle to break even. you need to make enough to grow yo…

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    Comment #26438204

    what a strange point. "the obvious" is not that there's concentration of power but that farming is hard? what about small farms where many people are happy to continue working beca…

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    Comment #26305495

    i work with MF too. im just saying the argument of "digital came and made analog irrelevant" doesn't really apply for me where I personally prefer 35mm over digital, let alone MF w…

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    Comment #26304413

    > But then digital happened and both lenses and sensors outgrew anything analog. maybe if you can afford an 80MP digital back with MF lenses? i still prefer 35mm compared to full-f…

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    Comment #26198068

    Internet Explorer on mars gogogo

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    Comment #26106344

    really cool resource for learning but a lot of these have nothing to do with k8s, beyond the company in question having k8s as part of their stack (i'm addressing the possible perc…