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Comment #49132806
In summer it's non stop work, in winter you do fuck all.
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Comment #48409313
No, this was true in USSR so like even 40 years ago, I grew up exposed to that a lot and believe me no one can say for sure which is which. To keep things fun, USSR was not communi…
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Comment #48409158
> Everyone in China has to and will accept cash in practice False. If you say this as advice to anyone you are putting them in danger. Cash is a no go for most vendors and you may …
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Comment #48409150
PRC is way more capitalist than Norway or some other European countries. Approximately, one is capitalist dictatorship and the other socialist democracy. Yes PRC government was ori…
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Comment #48409051
Smells like "no true scotsman" fallacy because they are nearly synonyms. Nobody in USSR could tell the exact difference or at least there was no consensus, and you are expecting mo…
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Comment #48365845
Where cash is stigmatized? I haven't seen such a place except PRC. Most people want government to be able to seize assets of baddies. It is possible with cash, it is possible with …
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Comment #47813217
From my experience and what I heard in China you will get a super clean airport train and metro but if you go away from urban centers you encounter crazier and crazier stuff, the l…
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Comment #47813191
Yeah, with tmux it sucks that switching window size ruins pane layout. But it happens so rarely I don't really care
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Comment #47812087
False, just updated one a day or two ago, it keeps suggesting iOS 26 but below that was 18.7.7 the amount of people not updating anyway is less than .1%
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Comment #47807833
> what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties which LLMs are doing this?
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Comment #47807821
Ask the makers of this site (cloudflare)... they are successfully blocking their own scanner after all:)
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Comment #47805958
You aware that iOS 18 is patched right and "old" means 17 and before?
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Comment #47805184
Blacksky and other instances of bluesky are not affected, what are you talking about?
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Comment #47804727
You mean those three people who refuse to apply ios 18 security patches because they think it'll give them liquid glass?)
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Comment #47804113
You mean the one for old ios versions?
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Comment #47803646
wasnt ai supposed to get us post-scarcity?
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Comment #47797091
It's American company... unlikely.
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Comment #47797033
An anonymous account isn't the same as bot account. Number of obvious bot accounts jumped 1000% in the last 4 years or so.
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Comment #47790862
> the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard The username is macOS26. The name is "Agent!". As in "Agentic AI for your entire Mac Desktop…
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Comment #47790820
OK, I take it back. What can I say, even knowing he is working on this LLM stuff that's becoming the curse of humanity I still wish him beat cancer.
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Comment #47790775
> In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google. I remember a bunch of spam and fishing emails from weird Outlook addresses. Don't remember any from Google.
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Comment #47788905
I don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood…
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Comment #47749857
I feel stupid, thank you got explaining!
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Comment #47749573
But this means it's a tiny balloon? Almost hand sized already?