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pixelbath

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    Comment #43539721

    It was simply "Ghost" before Norton bought it and made it more terrible and bloated over time. We (at a computer shop I worked at) used Ghost to build a pre-OOBE image for several …

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    Comment #43362885

    TFA addresses this directly: > For the crows, the spikes seem purely structural, a material used to fashion a solid foundation. In both crow nests, the wires were incorporated into…

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    Comment #39592681

    It's not interesting in a "wow, Macbooks can finally support two external displays" as much as "this does make this intentionally-small form factor slightly more tolerable." Compar…

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    Comment #39109984

    And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multip…

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    Comment #38935952

    It seems to me that one of the strengths of LLMs is their ability to _not_ differentiate between (human) languages, because to a statistical model, (for lack of a better term) peop…

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    Comment #38685270

    Figma's press release doesn't mention it, but they've now got an extra $1bn from the merger termination fee to bank, so presumably they could reinvest that into the company and sta…

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    Comment #38481926

    You appear to be linking to heat shrink tubing for the printer, rather than the printer itself.

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    Comment #38325152

    Holy crap, I tried to read this article but could not get over the constant motion in the corner. Can you please add a way to suppress this?

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    Comment #38303722

    > One happens to be heavily used This does not matter in the slightest; your only obligations to other entities are self-imposed. Using a developer's piece of code does not confer …

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    Comment #37840770

    It is less processed, but TFA points out that it is definitely not RAW, particularly in the section titled "Log is Half Baked."

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    Comment #37769865

    So if aces are considered "1", how do you think a Royal Flush works? It wraps back around to 1?

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    Comment #36803188

    And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!

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    Comment #36636343

    > it is an issue, and a waste for people to maintain multiple iCloud accounts, purchase multiple machines, and have notes and other materials scattered across machines and accounts…

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    Comment #36542032

    And sharing the link with other people (a desire stated on the website itself) makes it wrong...how?

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    Comment #36538070

    Your presumption is correct. Valve was working directly with id Software after licensing the (still closed-source at the time) Quake engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc

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    Comment #36227832

    Author has not tried the product, and their main points seem to be: 1. Meta makes VR headsets and failed. 2. Vision has a lot of fancy tech, but I don't understand how that helps A…

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    Comment #36088727

    Ah, yes. The closed-source, single-platform, invite-only browser made by a company nobody's ever heard of outside the startup ecosystem.

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    Comment #35852281

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Giraffed...

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    Comment #35831345

    That article is stunningly light on actual substance, other than "you can generate QR codes with this repo" with a link to a repository that doesn't exist anymore. The best case th…

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    Comment #35808384

    Ok, taking this story at face value _despite_ it being from the Daily Mail...if your phone can "instantly download malware onto your device, stealing your location and personal inf…

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    Comment #35791200

    > Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that some staff had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT. Which, honestly, is a better article and states the issue outright: https://www.bloomberg.co…

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    Comment #35561774

    Oh, man, thanks for this. I've been lamenting that Cmd is essentially dead without remapping it, and this is the last blocker for me adopting TheCore.

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    Comment #35484160

    From the link you posted: > our French lawyers (for a French company, and a French account) > PayPal Luxembourg is now claiming that the CSSF has no jurisdiction over them, because…

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    Comment #35476002

    How is the future bad data different from the current bad data?