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tylercrompton
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Comment #37414375
Out of curiosity, in what context has IoT telemetry been meaningful to the consumer? In other words, what data has been gathered that can be sold or otherwise abused? I personally …
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Comment #37388027
> Not integrating so well with other open source licenses is one of the cons. That depends on what you want. If you want a license that will play well with closed source software, …
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Comment #37227295
It doesn't matter that you don't take on debt. The point is to protect yourself from unscrupulous individuals who want you to take on debt on their behalf.
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Comment #37199801
Something about injecting HTML from an API, even from a controlled server, feels wrong.
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Comment #37184903
You so well describe why I played RS back in those days. I tried getting back into it a few years ago and it just didn't feel the same without my friends. But I never realized why …
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Comment #37111417
I think that it can be both. Yes, weird code will produce weird results but in my opinion, the language should at least help one find the weird code.
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Comment #37068677
Out of lazy curiosity, what change in particular prompted this?
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Comment #37031276
Now they're just showing off.
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Comment #36986884
I would avoid Chromium-based browsers entirely as it still allows Google to strongarm their way into standards that few others want.
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Comment #36811257
In LaTeX, the open quote is denoted by a grave accent and the close quote is denoted by the apostrophe. Look back at the article and you'll find that the author consistently uses t…
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Comment #36759616
Stack Overflow, surely
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Comment #36559421
Doesn't ChatGPT excel at providing step-by-step instructions? That's kind of what Brainfuck is with only eight options for each step. I'd imagine that it could reach the end result…
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Comment #36559384
Wouldn't it be easier to convert VB6 to VB.NET and then convert that to C#? The latter conversion is mostly just a find-and-replace operation, as I understand it.
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Comment #36559360
That's a take.
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Comment #36414573
What exactly makes Electron better for speed than say popular cross-platform GUI library X?
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Comment #36041020
I don't see how your point negates my answer to your question. For the vast majority of topics that one would take to ChatGPT, two year old information is fine. You should already …
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Comment #36040387
Because useful information two years ago is often still useful.
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Comment #32907764
Fun fact, floats are easier than `int` because `float` has a predictable size.
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Comment #29221556
I really enjoyed that. Thank you. This is great! I have some suggestions, if you don't mind: - Biggest feature that I'd like to see is a leaderboard. While it wouldn't be fair to a…
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Comment #28480237
> We should consider restricting the registration of .org domains to actual non-profit organizations Too late for that > We should consider […] restricting the use of words like "s…
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Comment #28254161
Sometimes I use a debugger. Sometimes I use print statements. It depends on the task. If it's a loop that runs multiple times, I lean toward using a debugger. If stepping through t…
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Comment #28254140
Both links work for me.
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Comment #24234319
That works on multiple platforms! I'm able to do that on Arch.