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reaperducer

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About reaperducer

No social media account, sorry. The real world is too interesting to waste time in a hyper-optimized version of Q-Link.

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    Comment #49265602

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    Comment #49262879

    Out of curiosity; how come? Speed. Efficiency. UI consistency. Cross-program features that nearly every "framework" fails at. On my macOS machines, I make an effort to only use nat…

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    Comment #49261529

    will expect an Electron app. Whoops! Thanks for the warning. I'm out. Shame, too. I've been looking for a new text editor. Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll tak…

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    Comment #49261510

    i don't think all that many people outside linux/tech use that term, The term is quite a bit older than today's tech bubble. It came out of hotrod car modification clubs that speci…

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    Comment #49257040

    What country are you in that it doesn't work in? Maybe he's in France, since this article is about France having to ban all telemarketing calls since the block lists apparently don…

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    Comment #49256983

    How is this possible? We have been chided over and over and over again on HN by the fine citizens of the E.U. that unsolicited telemarketing calls are purely an American problem, a…

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    Comment #49249283

    I wish there was a way to do it without all the problems of having cameras on people's faces. Just make it obvious that they're not ordinary glasses, but recording devices. Not jus…

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    Comment #49246999

    EVEN if the AI is a little rough around the edges with relational calls, just solving for transactional calls with no hold is a massive win. You keep saying that reducing call time…

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    Comment #49246973

    We have hundreds of pharmacies with us now and they mostly successful and happy. Is your pharmacy one of your customers? Do you use your own product regularly?

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    Comment #49246635

    Eh? Pringles cans aren't mostly air, except in a technical sense due to the spaces between the chips. Different products in different stores, I guess. Here, and in every other Amer…

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    Comment #49245693

    Bag of chips started to fill up with more air and less chips, candy bars got smaller, airlines started reducing seat sizes. The phrase you're looking for is "value engineering." Th…

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    Comment #49245636

    Mars Bar from 1991 found Is that some kind of achievement? Just look in the ads/coupons in the newspaper archive if you want to see the size of foods in the past. In the United Sta…

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    Comment #49233289

    Yes, you can see the hardware we tested here: https://www.os8088.com/hardware How are we supposed to trust that photo, when you've already demonstrated that you're happy to use AI …

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    Comment #49233279

    but it's still all going to be written "through" AI for now. Why the hedge? Why not just be honest say it was written "by" AI, since it was? You sound like when a company pays to s…

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    Comment #49223396

    I'm not a fan of domains becoming the new kind of real estate. Welcome to 2003.

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    Comment #49223379

    Sounds good to me. I have a particularly valuable domain name that would be perfect for a museum that later opened with the same name. I'd love to sell or even give it to the museu…

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    Comment #49210135

    It is more money for the courts. In the United States, fines don't go to the courts. Also, the article specifies where the money goes, so clearly your invented outrage trumped your…

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    Comment #49196048

    Someone needs a hug.

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    Comment #49190243

    It ought to be extremely easy now to use LLMs to transpile cobol and do the necessary reverse engineering to migrate off mainframes and aix servers. I think IBM will lose many cust…

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    Comment #49189236

    Human moderators? Sure, but Meta products have approximately half the worlds population using them. It doesn't matter how many people are consuming the ads, it matters how many com…

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    Comment #49188850

    People have been saying that for over a decade now, and their business is still going. So is IBM. There was a pretty interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks back…

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    Comment #49188550

    it seems to have been a way to communicate to an editor that a story was so far incomplete When the story was complete, the notification varied from newspaper to newspaper, but ver…