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vkgfx

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    It seems that it tests both free will and sense of humor.

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    Comment #36262923

    It sucks that she had to be fired rather than moved to a different role, but getting rid of her role as a QA proxy led to a HUGE improvement of AMAs. During her tenure there, they …

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    Comment #35407099

    I've been WFH since around 2017 or so. After a while, it starts to feel like I ship code into the void. Like I'm a freelancer who happens to be working for a company rather than an…

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    Comment #29479073

    >Facepalm in the form of $100Ms in service credits. Part of me wonders how much they're actually going to pay out, given that their own status page has only indicated five services…

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    Comment #25262914

    It's definitely a face detection thing for some of them. My spouse had to deal with all of her black students being hectored nonstop by the software because it had a hard time read…

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    Comment #24946652

    I see the same thing in CS:GO. Then people wonder why no women stick with it long enough to go pro.

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    Comment #24366706

    > At some point I feel uncomfortable using a free plan that is obviously unsustainable. This describes how I've felt about Discord for years.

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    Comment #24344219

    Their benefits outweigh these anecdotal downsides.

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    Comment #23778593

    Yep. Check out r/redditminusmods On average, 80-100% of the content of the frontpage is removed by mods every day.

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    Comment #23776841

    Didn't Digg v4 happen in 2010?

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    Comment #23776837

    The paradox of tolerance. Gets em every time. It's exceptionally hard to thread the needle like reddit mostly dude pre-2013/2014 or so. It's incredibly easy to be another Voat.

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    Comment #23776828

    It's like pulling teeth to browse it anon on mobile even on the old design. They're all but putting a gun to your head and saying "USE THE FUCKIN APP"

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    Comment #23776818

    I'm not even sure it's malice. New reddit drops my user session once every few days it seems like. It would also forget my "default to markdown" option as well, regularly. So I jus…

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    Comment #23776803

    Sadly, there are a number of replacement sites and almost without exception they're most of the way towards being Voat 2.0

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    Comment #23147222

    imageboard culture's progression summed up in two links. good god.

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    Comment #22999197

    The whole "env is figured out behind the scenes and work is done to autofetch the correct values to load into the CONSTANT_CASE variables you import all in one line" thing seems to…