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throwaway519

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    Comment #44020803

    I can't even watch anything anymore. It tells me to sign in, but I don't want to sign in. The great YouTube uubiquitous video host of the web appears to be dying.

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    Comment #44019018

    For Javascript, is that resources or sane dependencies? Can one have two?

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    Comment #44018281

    It can teach your child but can't tell the time. AI, the ultimate grifter.

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    Comment #44007066

    I can touch type. But I don't get why it's a skill in itself. I get the physio part, but not te typing 8n itself. Could you explain beyond using A for B would allow people to use A…

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    Comment #44006887

    'Day' as a subscription service. If you don't pay, you will not get the new day. It'll be crept in through a Total Recall style augmented sleep where a week long holiday seems teal…

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    Comment #44006831

    Why is typing educational? How to sit, adjust a desk and chair for keyboard, touchscreen, stretching and mobility exercises, yes. But why typing?

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    Comment #44006629

    Victim to Google indeed if I email someone at GMail. I do not use Apple devices, and I do not use Google services. While certainly not the majority, I don't this is that an unusual…

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    Comment #44004079

    > This is like the early days when people didn’t trust buying things over the internet If you like bad analogies, why not do car analogies? For example, at least this one's accurat…

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    Comment #43984123

    You weren't available all the time then. It was perfectly natural to assume someone wasn't at their computer and that was perfectly ok. It wasn't necessary to give status updates t…

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    Comment #43973223

    It's power laws all the way down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science

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    Comment #43973201

    10 million requests per month for $5 is about 4 requests per second, correct? Which is about 3 orders of magnitude less than nginx serving static html. As a comparison, that's akin…

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    Comment #43953849

    Management is more technical fallacied than it's ever been: HR believe they are fine tunng for good.

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    Comment #43951546

    Wasn't Cloudflare supposed to prevent DDOSing? It seems only a privacy leak tool now. 1000 requests / min @ 10ms limit / request. That's 16 requests per second. Any reasonable CMS,…

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    Comment #43950506

    Teams. Chat is not chat. Office Communicator and Skype for Business were chat apps. Teams is not. Not on desktop and doubly not on mobile. Collaborative sites. SharePoint was a col…

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    Comment #43944545

    > if you’re involved in something that has poor consequences Designer of the iPhone admits iPhone use, and presumably smartphone use (?) has negative consequences? And he's teaming…

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    Comment #43944012

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    Comment #43935328

    This time it's different , that phrase uttered by so many every time it is not different.

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    Comment #43935315

    You could just not used a locked down platform. Or not use the app and use the website * . Or protest why you're happyto pay an Apple Tax for your use of your own device. Or not us…

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    Comment #43924845

    [flagged]

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    Comment #43895417

    One day, I'm going to credit my entire department, deli and everyone in the park at 2pm as contributors too.

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    Comment #43879509

    For a similar reason, blog posts should have no words as these can become SOE and the purpose of blogging become intrinsic SEO. Personally, I blog in my head but am concerned still…

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    Comment #43868312

    I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Do you publish in RSS?

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    Comment #43867282

    That's a relief. While it seems a great waste of resources to have to have AI watch adverts for me, it's worth it the way online has become.