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wankle

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    Comment #35696428

    Agreed, it seems bizarre to me that any company especially Google would roll out something like this.

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    Comment #35696406

    I keep my codes on an encrypted thumb drive I store in a fire proof box along with important documents. As for the OP, it sounds really convenient but convenience is what led to Co…

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    Comment #35683521

    No 50+ gamers I know either use smart phones or consoles for gaming, well some use consoles. Smart phones suck for gaming, no tactile feel from virtual buttons.

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    Comment #35667828

    When someone brings up Turing complete in a discussion about AI, refer them to "Turing machines aren't used in practice for several reasons.".

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    Comment #35667707

    Stack Overflow can do that for me too, and no Bill Gates negative karma is involved.

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    Comment #35667689

    > To be sure, what the technology does is unmistakably a form intelligence. > Computers playing chess is AI. Computers doing anything are following the programming of their program…

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    Comment #35635112

    Let it wobble.

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    Comment #35624114

    I'm loving Proton on Ubuntu.

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    Comment #35595931

    Is it a cover, is the US expecting any impending major actions or disasters.

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    Tell HN: I've typed vi over 6000 times last 8 months

    One one machine, in one account on it, I've typed the letters vi over 6000 times in the past 8 months. If I checked all my accounts on all my machines, I'm sure it would be well ov…

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    Comment #35520075

    Someone diverged the thread into Linux vs Mac. The point is, how did the evil Microsoft monolopy get away with not fixing this bug for so long.

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    Comment #35520062

    Windows can't be hibernated without issue. My wife had issues the past week already on Windows. She wants me to put Ubuntu back on the machine.

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    Comment #35520056

    You seem to be confused, Linux is the most stable OS available for desktop or servers.

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    Comment #35494066

    It seems unusual to me that self-hosters are encouraged to waste resources to avoid having their VM's reclaimed when using the free Oracle Cloud tier.

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    Comment #35423580

    Because Windows at >90% of the world's entire personal computing market is totally OK.

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    Comment #35411278

    I like that it looks like a starship dreamed up in the 1950's.

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    Comment #35407114

    I'm not sure what you're asking? I'm happy to try and oblige, do you have a command I can run to answer your questions?

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    Comment #35401504

    I was thinking the same thing but I tend to create a large compressed backup file and upload that instead. My backup file is currently under 100 gigs, the most critical files not m…

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    Comment #35401372

    > Having a limit of 5 million files is perfectly reasonable. Is it? On this desktop I have 1.5 million files, "df -i" says I've used 1.1 million inodes and I have 61 million inodes…

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    Comment #35393519

    > So ChatGPT tells him what he wants to hear. He's using it as an extra engineer who always agrees with him. I chuckled, it sounds like the plot from a B Sci-Fi movie.

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    Comment #35390003

    Dice lists 10 times more Perl jobs than Rust jobs and almost 3 times more than Kotlin.