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witrak

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    Comment #49082609

    Russian bot detected?

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    Comment #49082263

    Lol! Does it matter? Using an unclear acronym in the first reference to an object, besides adding energy waste (for the execution of unnecessary searches by users unfamiliar with t…

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    Comment #49011872

    [citation needed]

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    Comment #48972192

    You dare to compare a Wikipedia article (even a short one) to an SE "article," which is, according to SE's own rules, narrowly and up-to-the-point concentrated on an equally narrow…

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    Comment #48962339

    Exactly. It allows for a consistent pattern: cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... | cmdn

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    Comment #47281040

    >A product can be both LOL... A tent is a single product. What about a car? Do you expect to pay separately for the aluminum in the motor and gearbox, as well as for the entire car…

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    Comment #46786240

    Is the described method good for Enterprise and IoT Windows versions?

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    Comment #46172652

    >They just want you to log in. This costs nothing. You pay with your data...

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    Comment #45455748

    >> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC. >Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unab…

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    Comment #45419768

    Perhaps, but if you set your browser language to US English you have dates displayed as MM.DD.YYYY and there's no way to change it neither to European nor ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) format.

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    Comment #45419633

    Your concept appears to have coherence until you consider that numbers are not necessarily expressed in decimal notation. What about hexadecimal numbers in filenames? Should they b…

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    Comment #45272739

    It seems nobody remembers the reason for the F-key assignment in the original i.e. Norton Commander... The assignment was very logical and easy to remember (and use) on the origina…

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    Comment #45239966

    Until there are no unified, standard solutions this is too difficult to be achieved in practice.

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    Comment #45002992

    What the hell is gpf? I don't like to be forced to search the web to find each locally used unit. And when will Americans finally learn that instead of the imperial system of units…

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    Comment #45002476

    Hmm... In all the cases I saw the prices were mentioned in EUR not USD as the unit. I consider it a clear indication that the discussion participants are mainly non-Americans ;-)

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    Comment #45002324

    >most car manufacturers have 3-10% gross margins. I remember some analysis saying that it is true for classic versions like sedan. But on SUVs it is a couple of times bigger...

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    Comment #44509185

    It is used in all European countries (I don't know any European country that doesn't use it). I know the long scale under the name "European" and the short scale as "American".

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    Comment #44484301

    If you substitute subliminal messaging with any other technique allowing: - to influence human behavior, - to prevent an effective countermeasure, - to be controlled by a single is…

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    Comment #43590855

    As a result there always be a company accepting messages with false sender identity so scammers can operate easily...

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    Comment #43590783

    Because to check email your active participation is needed so you must start an application while to accept texting no such action is needed. Thus for short information (read-and-f…

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    Comment #43491856

    >You are categorically mistaken and lack a true understanding of these things. >If you lack the expertise and context, you have no business dictating how things ought to be, and ra…

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    Comment #43481530

    >The literature is a way of adding cost to those that would send spam, it also adds cost in other ways. It is an oversimplified way of evaluating of consequences of overwhelming co…

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    Comment #42740158

    Taking into account how thoroughly you explain all the intricate details of memory handling it's strange that in the example you haven't clearly commented on the fact of oversimpli…

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    Comment #42630736

    This scenario is a solution only in simplest cases. It doesn't work when someone routinely uses a VPN on the phone (when often uses free public wi-fi in airports, railway stations,…

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    Comment #42477953

    >Its really hard to say just how clever AI is getting IMO (as a non-expert in the field). >But then when you give a LLM a completely new problem, not similar to anything they have …