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orbital223

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    > So now I think to myself: if I want to remain portable, I'll just write a python script How can you know that your Python implementation won't send your credit card details to an…

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    Comment #44110468

    I don't need my car's airbags 99.99% of the time.

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    Comment #41753771

    I got more of a Ratatat - Tacobel Canon vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use8dcTn4tI

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    Comment #41647682

    > Leading comma ensures one line diffs It does not. It just moves the edge case to a different position: trailing comma has the "issue" when adding an argument to the end of the li…

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    Comment #38539987

    This has been my exact journey, been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox, finally got fed up a couple of years ago and switched to Vivaldi. It's such a breath of fresh…

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    Comment #38539799

    > and thus neglect their main product Neglect would be a step up. It feels like they are actively trying to antagonize existing users.

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    Comment #36897982

    > All that's required to be a naturalized US citizen is to be physically born in the U.S. Or to be born to U.S. citizen parents. A naturalized citizen is someone who was not born a…

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    Comment #36131006

    > That's the intent of the policy they oppose, so... /shrug There is a world of difference between "intent" and reality.

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    Comment #35895874

    The rule of thumb according to youtubers is that 1000 video views is worth about $1 of ad share. Youtube's ad share is about 50%, so 1000 video views should be worth about $2 of ad…

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    Comment #35790857

    You can define a one-to-one mapping between the sets {1 2} and {3 4}, but I don't think anyone would say they are equal.

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    Comment #35126944

    - Ted Woodford ( https://www.youtube.com/@twoodfrd ): Stringed instrument repair, mostly old accoustic and electric guitars. - Artisan Makes ( https://www.youtube.com/@artisanmakes…

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    Comment #35104462

    Because if you're an executive that signs off on a project spinning out, and that project then becomes wildly successful, you're going to be blamed for letting that super lucrative…

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    Comment #34983131

    > Why do you say this is wrong? Exposing uninitialized memory as valid values tends to be a really bad idea.

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    Comment #34973830

    DYN_ARR_RESET should probably be called DYN_ARR_INIT instead, as calling it more than once will leak memory. The handling of endptr in DYN_ARR_RESIZE seems to be incorrect. If I ha…

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    Comment #34902486

    > Children do have rights. Some of them are restricted. Exactly, therefore the claim in OP that "They can't claim a fucking fetus is a person and then not give it rights." isn't re…

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    Comment #34900610

    > They can't claim a fucking fetus is a person and then not give it rights. Of course they can, we do it all the time. Children, for example, are people and they have very limited …

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    Comment #34849206

    > Or, you know, we could just stop trying to tell others what targets to use. If it's not ok to tell others what targets to use, then it's also not ok to tell others what targets t…

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    Comment #34815354

    > come up with the cleanest, easiest-for-humans syntax as possible, and tell browser vendors to fix their damn engines W3C has zero leverage over the browser vendors. If they tried…

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    Comment #34789439

    > keep China out of "trivially easy to prove that the West is better for its own citizens" China has concentration camps.

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    Comment #34768290

    Doctors without borders provide free labor to needy children in war torn countries. Programmers provide free labor to first world corporations worth millions of dolars.

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    Comment #34754315

    > Where did children get breakfast before capitalism? Historically speaking the vast majority of them just didn't.

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    Comment #34753589

    > This is very uninteresting data to Google. It's not about how interesting the data is to them, it's about the hubris of believing they are entitled to every last bit of our data.…

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    Comment #34740068

    > The reason people say binding is because the words “immutable variable” are an oxymoron. Mathematics has had immutable variables since long before computers.

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    Comment #34734152

    > Getting new blood thus may entail getting rid of the Old School interface and going with whatever is 'current'. Reminds me of the arguments for Firefox getting rid of the "Old Sc…