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Comment #49127017
And there's still no adequate explanation for what "Korean lunch mode" is!
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Comment #48949706
> I got a 20K bill once and it was actually drafted from my bank account. Service provider lesson #1: Never ever ever enable auto-pay! The convenience (and even the savings, if app…
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Comment #48862347
In which case the Gmail user knows to mark mail without any dots in the address as spam.
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Comment #48823258
Different people want different things, because they are different.
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Comment #48823213
Almost! The common term is "glass cliff": > The glass cliff is a phenomenon described by psychologists Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam, in which women are more likely to b…
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Comment #48815263
Some specifics from George Broussard: https://x.com/georgebsocial/status/2074282537946386833 > I've seen comments like "the MS layoffs weren't so bad". > re: id software. > Reports…
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Comment #48814871
Please, pretty please, link some pre-generated examples.
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Comment #48813370
Entire post text: > This post was about the insider news I got this morning that a majority of Id's studio is being laid off, including most (if not all) coders.
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Comment #48790656
> Allocate one magic number for "start line with space" another for "start line with asterisk" then any other number means this many of the current character and then swap characte…
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Comment #48790251
Software defects are the #3 cause of medical device failures, and growing: https://meddeviceguide.com/blog/medical-device-recall-trends... > ETA: Admittedly the above is getting of…
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Comment #48779373
> They're venting their anger on social media apps "Heh. Gotcha." https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ >
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Comment #48769821
"Somebody else needs to pay for" warmongering, too, yet there's nowhere near as much hand-wringing about how "somebody else needs to pay for them".
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Comment #48712580
Here's my working and cheap alternative that respects privacy: Don't do it! Seriously now, if you give in to demanding people, they will just demand more. Appeasement does not work…
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Comment #48701768
Not OP but I suspect the answer is "I didn't stop it, eventually I moved out on my own."
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Comment #48666023
Seems to me Carmack's saying that Romero had a better grasp of visuals than Sandy Petersen, and that Petersen was needlessly disparaged for this.
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Comment #48638263
If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. If you are paying for the product, you're still the product. Indeed, if you're a paying customer, there's more incentive …
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Comment #48635864
> It's all caused by a Meta lobbying initiative... Is it really, though? As commenters on JWZ's blog pointed out (once you get around his HN link blocker, hah), the project contain…
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Comment #48593005
1. No way in heaven or earth I'm using my real name with this. 2. Alfred E. Neuman https://www.intheweights.com/p/alfred-e~2e~-neuman > is either "Mad magazine mascot" (11 response…
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Comment #48592522
> Which decentralised instance? any of them all of them
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Comment #48544347
> Hmm nah, I'm thinking beyond that, like a full wipe and reset back to primordial ooze stage. That's ecofascism, yes.
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Comment #48532312
See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371
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Comment #48528444
Mmm, ecofascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
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Comment #48521571
GLM 5 and 5.1 models were released openly, so there's a good chance 5.2 will be eventually. Complaining about censorship isn't very constructive with models that can be self-hosted…
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Comment #48509991
Another day, another Warner Bros. acquisition! Will the next person to come through the revolving door be more competent than David "tax write-off" Zaslav? Hope springs eternal.