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throwaway290

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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?