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nightfly

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    Comment #49106204

    > so it took a few Amazon returns until I found the right one This a pet peeve of mine. If you buy the wrong $2 part don't return it. If you don't eat the loss the seller will and …

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    Comment #48890911

    But it's always been at a faster pace and a higher quantity than whatever decade preceded it

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    Comment #48802342

    > You can also visit our site on your mobile phone!

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    Comment #48641125

    > since it's the only package manager that I know of that allows for package authors to essentially run arbitrary post-install scripts silently package install Are you sure? I'm pr…

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    Comment #48577240

    I want it to arrive at the hospital. Claude

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    Comment #48354525

    vira28: It looks like nearly all of your responses to comments/questions here are flagged/dead. Probably because they all look AI written. Are you actually responding or do you hav…

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    Comment #48331017

    I'd love to do this for Mario Golf 64 but would run out of steam in like a week T_T

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    Comment #48277667

    People seem to think it tries and do too much. As a sysadmin I love systemd, especially way more than the init scripts it replaced

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    Comment #48277647

    > From what I understand from Vovk, they were intending to be “super considerate” of distributions and people not using systemd, which I take to mean we’d eventually end up in a si…

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    Comment #48228966

    > The question is...why do you care that much? Not the OP, but I support Ubuntu as desktop and server OS for an engineering collage and have for 10ish years. Some LTS upgrades don'…

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    Comment #47970764

    Most people have no safety net and if the money stops rolling in their life is effectively ruined for several years

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    Comment #47287136

    I think you're massively misreading the tone of the comment you're relying to

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    Comment #47163896

    > The medium is freer than Free Software $$$$$ for supplies, you could probably take up oil painting for cheaper.

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    Comment #47136725

    It "only" doubles performance so the overheads aren't that heavy

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    Comment #46522266

    windows update just doing a normal write causing the active chunk of flash memory being used to hold something in the boot loader to a different failed/failing section

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    Comment #46460747

    PSU (Oregon) uses C++ as just "c with classes" and ignores the rest of C++ for intro to programming courses. It frustrates people who already use C++ but otherwise works pretty wel…

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    Comment #46082687

    What issues on Linux would this actually solve?

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    Comment #46073971

    If you bought something from a physical store and lose it doesn't entitle you to go get another one for free...

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    Comment #45548240

    I wonder if we'll ever get truly round objects in my lifetime though

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    Comment #45436456

    The (a?) problem is that only the largest / most profitable players can afford to implement these systems. So while well intentioned they just shut out any company/service without …

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    Comment #45341675

    I work in an org with 8ish FTEs, a handful of student workers, and like 200 volunteers. Almost every service wants $5 or more per user per month, that's $1,140 per month per servic…

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    Comment #45269914

    "re"-writable

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    Comment #45133403

    You get a lot more detailed information out of a CT scan

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    Comment #44944816

    More like selling when and where you got on and off the bus