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victorp13

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    Comment #46764398

    All is fair in love and dealing with car dealers.

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    Comment #44910341

    Small nuance, but the term ワープロ馬鹿 actually is unrelated to software like MS Word, and refers to the at one point ubiquitous ワープロ (Word Pro) dedicated hardware device that many Japa…

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    Comment #43972768

    Also Google the "Sin of riba". Islam was really on to something if you ask me (disclaimer: not a religious person).

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    Comment #43362744

    > Last thing I'll say is, you know your API is good when "S3 compatable API" is a selling point of your competitors. Counter-point: You know that you're the dominant player. See: .…

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    Comment #40672679

    Does anyone happen to know if ChatGPT's voice feature uses audio compression similar to Opus? Especially the "heavy 30 percent receiver-side packet loss" example sounds a LOT like …

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    Comment #37738657

    You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/

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    Comment #36945715

    Was going to post the exact same here. Economics major. Making this comparison shows lack of insight into what a central bank actually does, or the power it yields.

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    Comment #36612356

    Tried both for quite some time, Obsidian has better community plugin support, better sync (paid) and stores plain text files instead of using a DB. Most importantly the mobile app …

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    Comment #36272647

    No eggplant, and no peach. What happened to the internet?

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    Comment #35914025

    Bit harsh, could have worded that less blunt than "pathetic".

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    Comment #34925822

    $ Write an opinion article entitled 'AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment'

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    Comment #34879563

    Did you... just quote my favourite car of all times, the GT-Four?!

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    Comment #34833781

    Narita (New Tokyo Airport) is exactly the same distance away, in the exact opposite direction.

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    Comment #33148989

    Could you put the name of the shop on each search result? That way people can better pick their shop of choice (and avoid the ones they do not want to buy from).

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    Comment #32680055

    Note how these folks are moving to the next slide using a barcode scanner. Like an absolute boss!

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    Comment #31789520

    I didn't laugh in exactly the same way I didn't laugh at actual Seinfeld jokes. In that sense, it was absolutely uncanny.

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    Comment #30763720

    Self-driving cars will be popularized by people not having to pay (increasingly expensive) accident insurance. Once human driving becomes prohibitively expensive, it'll be reserved…

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    Comment #27366797

    I'm curious as to what the movie/tv industry's role is in this increase in solitary drinking. I was an active 'solo' drinker as well, who recently stopped altogether. Since I stopp…

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    Comment #26923556

    As the storage cost is very low, why not use both? Not trying to be obtuse, but I genuinely typically have separate columns in my schema design for booleans and the timestamps of t…

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    Comment #26501549

    Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that subreddit? If so it's m…

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    Comment #26185848

    Found in the Skyline FAQ that you can turn on anonymously sharing private repo contributions: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...

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    Comment #21058116

    I sometimes have thoughts like these. Mostly, before coffee in the morning. I never actually feel the need though to actually go ahead and post them. Kindly reflect on what you did…

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    Comment #20093170

    This is not at all "the accepted way" in Germany.

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    Comment #19796128

    EE? Electrical Engineer?