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ubercow13

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    Comment #48768120

    Would 192khz audio result in less sizzle and distortion? Or more audible band IMD from the sound >22khz

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    Comment #48597326

    What types of social interaction should be permitted in society?

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    Comment #48424433

    Not really because the latency of, say, clicking a web link and the website showing on screen depends on throughput, not just ping latency.

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    Comment #48373390

    Tabs and breadcrumbs are both useful features though, that almost every other OS/DE file manager has supported since forever

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    Comment #48082954

    You could use Mos, which also has the advantage that smooth scrolling works the same in every app (speed, acceleration etc) https://mos.caldis.me/

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    Comment #47904034

    It is mentioned

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    Comment #47892538

    What artificial sweetener is in regular Coke?

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    Comment #47553811

    Apart from just running Linux apps, you can use this to run graphical applications remotely on a Linux server, like X11 forwarding.

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    Comment #47553797

    Maybe try this: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#pc_shortcuts

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    Comment #47478720

    See also https://github.com/Sportinger/MasterSelects

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    Comment #47253470

    The "Email Image..." one is infuriating. Who right clicks an image to email it to someone in 2026? And if it's you, could you help me understand why??

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    Comment #47207327

    Or the manual, which describes the features for automatically handling it.

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    Comment #46912247

    >Sure, if you think calculators or bicycles are "superhuman technology". Uh, yes they are? That's why they were revolutionary technologies! It's hard to see why a bike that isn't s…

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    Comment #46666753

    Those icons were incredibly visually distinct, despite being meaningless. I still know exactly what they are for instantly, in my peripheral vision, years after using many of them.…

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    Comment #46610100

    It seems like just such a weird and rigid way to evaluate it? I am a somewhat reasonable human coder, but I can't copy and paste a bunch of code without alterations from memory eit…

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    >feature that was essentially text manipulation That seems like the kind of feature where the LLM would already have the domain knowledge needed to write reasonable tests, though. …

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    Sure if you just leave all the code there. But if it's churning out iterations, incrementally improving stuff, it seems ok? That's pretty much what we do as humans, at least IME.