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scoot

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    Comment #49156184

    It's a quote from Dante's Inferno

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    Comment #49149172

    > I was surrounded by students who were religious but didn’t have much curiosity That seems like a given. If you're curious, you'll soon see through any ideology you were spoon-fed…

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    Comment #49149101

    > I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets Season and weekly are different things (obviously). If you narrow your claim down enough, of …

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    Comment #49062931

    Ifound Palmiers interface dense, cluttered, and confusing - just take the panel top left (to the right of chat) for example. So much going on in one small space. Donkey Cut offers …

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    Comment #49061856

    That isn't how this works. It doesn't transport your car to a more distant car park - it simply "parks" your car in an available space.

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    Comment #49046767

    Donkey is slick. Love the minimal UI. Edit: Having played with both a bit, and with no disrespect to OP, yours is a significantly better product.

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    Comment #49046593

    > Donkey Vision — a screen-understanding API that turns any screenshot into structured, clickable UI, so you can build computer-use tools of your own. Not faulting your (necessary …

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    Comment #49045614

    The four dot ellipses is for use in quoted text, although how it's used (if at all) depends on the style guide. As you weren't quoting anyone but simply indicating an incomplete th…

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    Comment #49035683

    > … while available as a special character, it is often better to construct this using suitably sized non-breaking spaces I'm curious why? Kerning? Regardless, it sounds like a lot…

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    Comment #48939351

    Not sure if there's something wrong with the player, or if it's just me, but they both sound like noise. I guess the first sounds vaguely kick drum-like (but distorted), the second…

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    Comment #48929011

    That seems a bit of non-argument. You can choose to keep or remove any components from your codebase, styled or unstyled, composable or monolithic. What Shadcn gives you is a layer…

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    Comment #48928298

    > ShadCN components have you copy the component code into your codebase, you own it That’s a common misconception/myth/lie that doesn’t seem to want to go away even though Shadcn i…

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    Comment #48803290

    I live next to a railway line so I'm in the (not particularly unique, and definitely not enviable) position to compare what's on the map to "IRL" trains, and I can tell you it's as…

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    Comment #48802605

    I really must learn to quote the full context of a reply. OP said: > just due to lower oxygen levels in your blood So my comment is in response to that. PS. The downvote button isn…

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    Comment #48784063

    > producing the statistically most "correct" output That isn't quite how they work - there's a degree of randomness depending on so called "temperature". And it isn't the output th…

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    Comment #48783962

    > it’s not good immersion when every character is a chatbot that can inadvertently give you story beats you shouldn’t be aware of yet or you missed some crucial bit of information …

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    Comment #48783515

    > I don't want to consume "art" that has been generated out the distillation of stealing all of the world's current art It seems that you've fundamentally misunderstood art. I woul…

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    Comment #48783449

    > It's terrible and you'll find out quite fast you're not interested in everyone's background and scream to most NPC's to shut the fuck up and get to the point. Many of the interac…

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    Comment #48783396

    Apple watches already have a blood-oxygen sensor so it's covered, albeit indirectly.

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    Comment #48746577

    Doesn’t that simply make this blog spam?

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    Comment #48687610

    Exactly this (when nitpicking the phrasing). Is putting the finished unit in the box "assembly" of the delivered product? OTOH, I'm not sure how much it matters. Apple products are…

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    Comment #48684421

    The trouble with long-term contracts is that they have an end date. Looking at my 5 year fixed mortgage which will end in just over a year, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Apple d…

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    Comment #48607138

    Would have been more fun if the blogpost was rendered from the favicon.

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    Comment #48579227

    Funny, because my LG TV had Google Assistant (whatever that is) when I bought it, but it was removed. It was never in your face though, just a button on the remote. It still has Al…