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    Comment #39628399

    > It also links to a Telegram exporter. Telegram has this natively already

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    Comment #39588553

    For what it's worth I do the exact same thing (although not on Mac so I haven't encountered this bug), so not too niche I suppose!

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    Comment #38031395

    Bemoaning people maximizing terminals - what a weird hill to die on.

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    Comment #37915914

    Nobody ever talked about beginnings. The question is, even if the universe always was, why does it exist? It wouldn't be impossible for there to be nothing and never have been anyt…

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    Comment #37879613

    Why does this only talk about lyrics?

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    Comment #37845096

    Well that's probably because Indian accents are not present as a category and everyone is forced into the US/UK/AU categories?

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    Comment #37842961

    > To be able to predict accurately sentences that make sense, GPT-4 must have a internal way of representing concepts, such as "objects', "time", "family" and everything else under…

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    Comment #37826828

    Reminder that Replit's CEO bullied an open-source maintainer into killing his independent project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

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    Comment #37810261

    Fun fact: the unusual way of saying eighty in French ("four twenties") actually came about through the local contact with Celtic languages! I'm linguistic terms this is called "sub…

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    Comment #37789461

    You can use https://www.composerize.com/ to see what a `docker run` command would look like as a docker-compose file

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    Comment #37672920

    Not men, businesses. And businesses can and should be coerced to serve the people.

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    Comment #37489841

    You do in some countries

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    Comment #37478872

    If getting access to your email is all it takes for someone to empty your bank account, you need to find a different bank.

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    Comment #37333912

    > Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fi…

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    Comment #37333794

    I can tell you that in my passport, my name appears in two different places and it's spelled differently been them. Also, a lot of people in the world don't have passports.

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    Comment #37247236

    What does time horizon mean?

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    Comment #37240958

    Your description had me curious, the picture had me laughing out loud

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    Comment #37200082

    I especially liked the section about notifications in this article: > In their article The Psychology of Notifications, Ximena Vengochea and Nir Eyal call notifications “the Pavlov…

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    Comment #36876175

    WhatsApp and Chrome is apples and oranges - not using WhatsApp comes at a social cost (especially in countries like Germany and India where almost everyone uses it) because you can…

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    Comment #36860750

    This particular attack is actually not a concern if you're using fish (or zsh for that matter I think), as it will not execute pasted content without an additional pressing of the …

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    Comment #36803601

    Not everyone lives in C world either

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    Comment #36742017

    Even just removing it from that country's app store would mean 99% of people who might have used it otherwise won't use it. It doesn't need to be Impossible for the policy to be su…

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    Comment #36741991

    *citizens and residents