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robomc

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    Comment #49162158

    My favourite aspect of DK, which isn't changed by this argument really, is that people who reference it very often believe it said that low skill people are MORE confident in their…

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    Comment #49149187

    i don't even understand the benefit of cheating on a college course, unless you think you're going to fail

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    Comment #49148364

    Yeah that seems like an enormous problem with this example.

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    Comment #48827100

    yeah imagine thinking biden was too old and infirm

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    Comment #48015490

    "I have a vague concern, so I'm now using a shittier toolchain. You shouldn't do it though." is a weird post format.

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    Comment #46580910

    Yeah the really misleading part of the screenshots in this article is that it doesn't show the "resize cursor", which basically makes this a non issue. Also, for anyone reading thi…

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    Comment #46266498

    > If the cloud service you’re using doesn’t support OIDC or any other ephemeral access keys, then you should store them encrypted. There’s numerous ways you can do this, from passw…

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    Comment #46188078

    He's using it correctly, in its secondary sense of "belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned or outdated."

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    Comment #45985267

    It's not a deal breaker for me , but it doesn't sound like a recipe for "winning the console generation".

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    Comment #45985203

    no but the headline is "valve is about to win the console generation"

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    Comment #45909942

    Yeah I mean... can I play Fortnite, BF6 or the upcoming GTA on steamOS?

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    Comment #45649035

    This. And when a service goes down it's a lot easier to explain to your client/boss that "half the internet is down" than "our boutique solution is broken so it's just us actually"…

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    Comment #45520517

    To me this kind of sounds like the other side of the same thing. Lunchpail scientists accumulate data within an area of research made interesting by a landmark work by a big name. …

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    Comment #45379388

    I found out recently that I've been paying for Prime Video since 2020. I think I did legitimately sign up for it. That's not my complaint. But it's fairly scummy how it doesn't see…

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    Comment #45358428

    You're right, it could be the sensible most likely thing AND the far-fetched thing.

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    Comment #44957837

    > because researchers from Kudelski Security most likely tried different static analysis tools and they didn't work the way Rubocop did. Yes but that's kind of the point - they say…

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    Comment #44956402

    From the CEO's response: > On January 24, 2025, security researchers from Kudelski Security disclosed a vulnerability to us through our Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP). The …

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    Comment #44264358

    The tennis example is weird though. I don't think people who are bad at tennis go around claiming they're great at tennis, do they?

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    Comment #44264330

    So we're just posting third party blind item gossip on here huh.

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    Comment #43018154

    > It’s all part of the sharp decline in vocational education — shop class — in this nation that began in the 1980s as blue collars became unfashionable and the emphasis shifted to …

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    Comment #42188999

    Maybe this is misguided, but it feels a bit to me (comparing the ruby and js versions for example) that this is using the same code examples in both, and neither are really typical…

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    Comment #41430909

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41028227

    I wonder if there's a concern that staggering the malware signatures would open them up to lawsuits if somebody was hacked in between other customers getting the data and them gett…

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    Comment #40852074

    I have a silly question I guess... why does it print everything out twice? ~ doggo google.com NAME TYPE CLASS TTL ADDRESS NAMESERVER google.com. A IN 296s 142.250.67.14 127.0.2.2:5…

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    Comment #40580991

    yeah the way he described it it's like... well who would ever do that. but foreign keying to emails or usernames is much easier to "accidentally" do and is a classic source of long…