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sfoley

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    Comment #47390364

    That's not what fraud is.

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    Comment #45875311

    Near the end of the article, under Motivation: > The BASIC language eliminated much of the complexity of FORTRAN by having a single number type. This simplified the programming mod…

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    Comment #45548717

    > But there's no way to tone down the new animations Does Reduce Motion (under Accessibility) not work? I haven't updated to 26 yet, and probably won't for a while.

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    Comment #45548678

    > In iOS 26, controls insist on animating themselves, whether or not the user benefits. Carousel dots quietly morph into the word Search after a few seconds. This has been the case…

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    Comment #45395430

    No it isn't. This line of comments is explicitly in response to your claim: > Isn't a larger issue the number of immigrants who are NOT contributing to the economy, living at taxpa…

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    Comment #44744225

    SIGINT, not SIGTERM.

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    Comment #44615726

    Yeah I consider that one to be a trick question. I knew same-quote-style nested f-strings were coming, I just didn't know which version, and I still use the `f'{f"{}"}'` trick beca…

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    Comment #44471882

    leftpad was 2016

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    Comment #43794084

    I cannot reproduce this.

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    Comment #43523112

    It's a clickbait title that needs to be changed to stop spreading misinformation.

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    Comment #42908437

    > > If after the above I created an array like so `char str[n]` and then assigned such that it pointed to the same region of memory that malloc() returned, then would the provenanc…

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    Comment #36865450

    > With Safari providing this, it can be used by some providers, but nobody can block or behave differently with unattested clients. What mechanism prevents websites from blocking o…

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    Comment #34441872

    That's not what the word "need" means.

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    Comment #31861093

    Brilliant feature, but this is the sort of thing that reinforces the idea that CLIs have awful discoverability compared to GUIs.

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    Comment #30811565

    > This failed, b/c bash can't represent an empty array! It absolutely can, I have no idea where you’re getting this idea.

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    Comment #30331449

    Wtf is a “blockchain-based VPN”?

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    Comment #29718226

    Base64 costs 1.3x space, not 4x.

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    Comment #29660363

    Who says this? I have literally never once seen this.