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Pretty frustrating when you find a word, but it's not THE word. Pretty fun otherwise.

In 95 localization was scarce. Also, the partial "inst" would have matched "install" translated to several languages (about 15 by my quick count, could be more).

X.400 is still in use today for things like sending invoices and orders through EDI. Yes, it is a pain to manage. Yes, it is all still mostly running on 20+-year-old hardware and s…

In addition to all the sensible reasons others have pointed out, if you crash at a high enough speed without a seatbelt you become a projectile. If you are in the back seat when th…

Atheism would fit the definition of absence of a belief system.

In the incident case, it's a post-mortem on the incident. The incident itself is (hopefully) resolved and can now be dissected to learn about what went wrong and how things can imp…

Sorry, what do you mean by this? Back button seems to work normally for me.

Wouldn't the obvious solution to this problem to stop using agents that don't respect your usage limits instead of trying to build sketchy containers around misbehaving software?

The downside to doing this is that you'll sound like an LLM. LLM-generated text is very obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension and once detected will cause some people …

I tried "show me Portugal" and it showed me Madeira, which is an island that is indeed part of Portugal, but I was expecting it to go for the mainland. Repeating the prompt alterna…

The thing I don't understand is the concept "majority" in the crypto space. There is no way to prove that one person doesn't control the majority of the voting power. If I own a la…

The whole argument falls apart for me when it's acceptable to 404 when an api version isn't found, while it's not acceptable to 404 when an employee isn't found. Why would we handl…

Instead of regulating whatever social media platform happens to be trendy at the time, your anecdote suggests we should regulate companies so that they offer direct support through…

When you're unable to "just eat less", it's important to figure out what to eat. One trick I've learned is to substitute all of your snacking with Lupin beans. Every time I get tho…

Same thing I've always used it for, talking to people I play games with. Teamspeak never stopped working so there was never a reason to switch to anything else.

A multi-select box for this would be nice. Select2 should be easy enough to implement, as you're already using jquery.

I tested this by taking a screenshot of the introduction blurb. This is what it came up with: Tesseract s is 2 pure Javascript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine. This librar…