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pragmatic8

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    This has been bothering me for a few days; I’m 99% sure that my parent is a bot. If you take a look his profile, _all_ of his comments share a remarkably similar structure.

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    Comment #43484303

    Why do you presume that the intelligence gap would converge to zero?

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    Comment #42617938

    I looked at the Star Machine repository and it looks like its using SDL_gpu [1,2], so I am a little confused about where the 'CPU' rasteriser designation comes from. [1] https://gi…

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    Comment #37026665

    The dental and vision “care” industry is rife with fraudsters to the extent that they are more akin to rackets.

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    Comment #36500787

    Thanks for letting us know that you don’t waste your precious time with such frivolities as Wordle.

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    Comment #35981801

    If I were a university student, how might I protect myself from being falsely accused of using ChatGPT?

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    Comment #34727005

    Interesting way to fuzz web rendering engines

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    Comment #34497947

    Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?

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    Comment #34395710

    Wait what? KDE & Gnome are only desktop environments and have no bearing on gpu / kb rgb drivers.

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    Comment #34143380

    Link to the actual source code: https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods/

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    Comment #32063618

    Thanks for writing this article. I tried to implement this algorithm a few years ago, but had trouble wrapping my head around the quad edge data structure.

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    Comment #30994335

    Did you bother to read the post? This does not work in Windows 11. Furthermore, I suspect grandparent is either similarly confused or using registry hacks.

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    Comment #30956641

    This should not have been downvoted; parent’s criticism is not unfounded. Take a look at the second section of this Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metaphor…

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    Comment #30291500

    …but Arduino code IS c++ code. I don’t believe a distinction would make much sense.

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    Comment #29939460

    I wouldn’t consider the rates here [1] low at all. Parent PLUS loans are sky high at 6.28%. I suppose you are talking about private loans but they have their own set of downsides. …

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    Comment #29618091

    Surely the same can be said about religions. People start believing stories made by and they become facts all of a sudden.

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    Comment #27986541

    It was just an email, no? I’d feel a little weird if people that took down entire services were telling me that it’s “ok”.

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    Comment #27833919

    It’s a plain bug expected of beta quality software. No need for any drama. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/ogchx7/volume_ba...

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    Comment #27624427

    Is it just me or has Reddit been down much more frequently than any other social media?

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    Comment #27545562

    There is no actual weather app. This is a satirical article.

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    Comment #27315010

    Why would a smartphone CPU preclude the use of an RTOS?