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whydid

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    Comment #45594744

    The EU requires a 1 year warranty on electronics, where in the US it's only 90 days. The higher cost of electronics reflects this.

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    Comment #45573616

    Read the header here for an explanation, it's not going away. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/introdu...

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    Comment #45082201

    When the founders are also the lead engineers, incentives are aligned. I asked the Ableton CEO at multiple events and expos to fix repeatable bugs, and add proper PDC, and he mocke…

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    Comment #43854426

    This is an example of the False Equivalency logical fallacy.

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    Comment #43717987

    Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

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    Comment #43588993

    Because businesses always support their software better than individuals?

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    Comment #43123653

    I can imagine a possible future of 100% Rust takeover of the kernel.

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    Comment #42884705

    Grass is always greener my friend. Many jobs in finance are updating 20 year old Java code, or figuring out new ways to load data in and out of Excel files for custom reporting.

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    Comment #42360156

    Recording good audio remains more difficult than artificial intelligence.

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    Comment #42360053

    Why do JavaScript programmers call ini files "environment variables" ?

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    Comment #40793692

    Anyone else getting some Elden Ring vibes on this?

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    Comment #40745653

    A heuristic that I use when judging code quality is a search for "datas" or "metadatas".

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    Comment #40494854

    Rare perspective, and I totally agree. Building more homes is like expanding roads. It doesn't solve the root problem.

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    Comment #40320099

    It has the vibe of something made by a team who have never created only for the pure love of art.

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    Comment #40317487

    I'm a mix/master engineer, and I just skimmed the paper to look for attenuation potential of this new material. It looks like they only tested above 100 HZ, which is still alright …

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    Comment #40265525

    De-Incentivize the landlord market

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    Comment #40242307

    Louis is great at everything except brevity. Not my app, here's a summary: https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/dqTYg6vnQvw?si=PLdzW5-ew...

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    Comment #34971590

    Is it possible to process my own videos with this? Is there a python/cuda API?

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    Comment #34943835

    The best Airbnb advice is to never use it.

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    Comment #34791486

    Sundar Pichai was working at Google via McKinsey

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    Comment #34476933

    Attacking critical infrastructure in order to perform a robbery is the plot of several of the Die Hard movies. In those films, the group of antagonists performing the attack are ge…

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    Comment #34476910

    Notifications about printing photos are simple to configure. As are the "AI" battery charging options. Google uses AI in most of their products transparently, and we seldom realize…

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    Comment #34473833

    The 2019 MacPro with Xeon has ECC RAM.

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    Comment #34363652

    It's a bit judgmental to call their UEFI "garbage" just because it didn't work correctly for you. I agree it's frustrating they don't support booting other operating systems, but p…

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    Comment #34339591

    Microsoft's refusal to deprecate old APIs is definitely a reason for many of their security problems. However, the old theory that "windows has a bigger install base, therefore it'…