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winwhiz

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    Comment #39616807

    It is also a very Dadaism thing to do. Da!

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    Comment #39222429

    Yeah, I think I conflated a git specific question from the GP and a more general CLI question, my bad. The argument can be made the interfacing with git is bad whether with mouse o…

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    Comment #39221969

    Yes, I think we agree that abstraction is great (with or without "scair" quotes.) My point is that CLIs are valued as tools of explication, repeatable explication. I have actually …

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    Comment #39221589

    Thanks! This is what I was secretly hoping for. I am doing this a lot lately.

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    Comment #39219722

    Really simple answer: Repeatability. I am not saying it is the only one right blessed answer, but if you really want to know why people haven't moved to pure GUI interfaces, imagin…

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    Comment #38106593

    I'm not trying to be snarky and now I can't even remember where I heard it... but aren't all of Microsoft's keys still flapping in the wind themselves? Thanks to the work of some s…

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    Comment #37589363

    I hope this experiment fails. It is one cherry picked do-what-I-mean feature that muddies the Go1 Promise and will almost always be covering up a subtle logic error. It also adds a…

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    Comment #36227667

    Bad headline.

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    Comment #36152181

    Doesn't Mozilla get most of its money from that filthy Google ad revenue though because Google Search is the default when you install Firefox?

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    Comment #35806402

    I like Cloudflare's docs as a good starting place.

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    Comment #35779363

    I have this problem too! I have been trained to roll away from my desk before I stand up. I assumed it was static, and my hat's off to you who tracked this down. Steelcase Criterio…

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    Comment #35597673

    I bet farmers use waaay more algebra than I do as a fullstack web programmer. I love it I just don't use it. On the other hand farmers are thinking about slopes all day, every day:…

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    Comment #35558615

    Wave was what Slack became years later. They had tons of runway to transform it into an actual product before any competition caught up.

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    Comment #35402907

    I don't know what it is called I just know the sound it makes when it goes down a man's throat.

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    Comment #34643892

    I had read that somewhere else and this is as far as I got https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1241219019681792010

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    Comment #32903838

    3rd lowest in the country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

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    Comment #32434047

    I recall seeing Sid Meier say in a talk that he liked to scale his AI to give players the sense of being on a knife's edge and then scaling it back near the end of a game to give a…

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    Comment #31671363

    All of the id Software code was release to open source essentially sunsett'ed. That was never a problem.

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    Comment #30434887

    Sure they say: > The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit. But there is a whole lot of •shit.

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    Comment #29877895

    > Why do so many here seem to be so proud of their lack of understanding of the value of NFTs? We have codified our lack of understanding into a digital token and attached it to an…

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    Comment #28648821

    It is not insulting, its science fiction[0][1]. Many humans self identify as such[2]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=meatbag&tbm=bks [1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Meatb…

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    Comment #28246635

    No but seriously, (excuse my American ignorance), are there not European banks and payment processors? No European alternative to OnlyFans?

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    Comment #26702450

    I think the point is that if this case had gone the other way this kind of open licensing would happen a lot less. Companies would be obliged to enforce API copyright to protect th…

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    Comment #26702349

    Is intellectual surprise caused by anything other than bias? I noticed this when I started rereading the dissent with a s/Oracle/Sun Microsystems/g. I felt a bit more swayed when I…

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    Comment #26188474

    Came here to say this. It is a really old feature.