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quinndexter

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    Comment #48716023

    Coin pocket.

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    Comment #47993403

    Just here to say yeah, I've seen this more of this lately- "The do-not-track signal has been followed" or somesuch.

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    Comment #47109529

    I'm a little bit old. When I ordered my first M.2 drive, I had never seen one IRL. I'd assumed about RAM-stick size. Nope! Thumb-sized! The future is amazing! So... give it enough …

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    Comment #46911567

    Going straight to theft of, and therefore denial of, physical property as an analogy here suggests you do not actually understand the topic at hand.

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    Comment #46678007

    The way deportations were calculated by the administration was changed to include certain types of border rejections, IIRC.

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    Comment #46585798

    Five people are voting on what to have for dinner. Three people vote for pizza. Two people vote for "You three." Pizza has won, but there is still a massive problem in that room.

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    Comment #46573830

    Or maybe the AI could puke up some bland, middle-of-the-road trite pap while putting actual human talent out of work!

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    Comment #46483302

    "The US wants peace" You don't read the news much, huh?

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    Comment #46225859

    On mobile, there's a small menu to different site sections at the bottom of the screen. You'll never guess what that menu includes.

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    Comment #46085390

    Okey doke. Still not wrong.

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    Comment #46084823

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46014433

    I think "secret nuclear device" and "license renewal" are kind of conceptually incongruous, even if only at a surface level.

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    Comment #45943732

    Your second comment describes the market as it currently is. Your original hypothetical posits a vastly different market.

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    Comment #45909014

    Heh. “At this point, to be blunt, any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud”

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    Comment #45757580

    It's not available in Home editions.

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    Comment #45641495

    I would like to know more.

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    Comment #45633309

    No you can't always prevent stupidity. But you can lessen the chances of any given stupidity necessarily being fatal.

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    Comment #45556950

    guys when you invent fictional alternate realities, you're allowed to leave people out of them completely. Anyone you like.

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    Comment #45537456

    Or you could accept that sometimes fields contain terms-of-art that are non-intuitive to outsiders. Go ask an astromer what their working definition of a metal is.

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    Comment #44862560

    Pre/post 47.

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    Comment #44853573

    Great work. That's very good stuff, and yes there is.

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    Comment #44720743

    The good folks here have absolutely demonstrated intellectual curiosity - that's what all the requests for prompt details and links are. Your refusal to simply provide them, especi…

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    Comment #44470926

    The definition of humility is not "doing the bare minimum."

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    Comment #44281191

    -Why mathematicians are three points? Possibly based on this ranking. Everything sub-mathematician is 2 points? Maybe there's subdivision of points. https://xkcd.com/435/