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woof

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    Comment #46718203

    Summary using Claude 3.7 Sonnet: "Your Brain On Chat GPT" Paper Analysis In this transcript, neuroscientist Ashley and psychologist Cat critically analyze a controversial paper tit…

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    Comment #46703391

    "1) Python is unreadable." Would you prefer C or C++? "2) AI companies are content with slop and do not even bother with clear problem statements." It's a filter. If you don't get …

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    Comment #46692523

    sandbox-exec on MacOS (ie. https://github.com/neko-kai/claude-code-sandbox ) seems like the perfect solution to me. Missing FreeBSD jails in 2026 is kind of weird (hello 1999)...

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    Comment #45980687

    It was never about Perl, it was the plethora of alternatives. Python evolved, PHP had 1000 times more "how to get started" articles, Node happened. And LAMP became the default for …

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    Comment #44087205

    Nothing beats Maccy.app for clipboard management, but DoubleMemory does look great. For me, DoubleMemory falls between the cracks: - bookmarks in multiple browsers on multiple devi…

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    Comment #38899492

    "Made" or "designed"? Our Tesla Model 3 was made in China…

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    Comment #37671041

    Seems like the bias is on your part… Which is ironic, given the articles content…. Or do you have _evidence_?

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    Comment #26333418

    After using the 8GB M1 MacBook Pro, my new job gave me a 16" 32GB MacBook Pro 2,6GHz i7 - and I actually miss my M1! Battery life and fan is rather annoying now :(

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    Comment #26178623

    "While 98 percent of households had a television and 69 percent had a mobile phone, only 19 percent had a computer." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-unicef/tacklin...…

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    Comment #25921931

    I loved mine at least a year and was quite happy for another year. Some sites worked awesome, others sucked hard due to crazy pay loads. I blame shitty sites more than Apples archi…

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    Comment #25846813

    Amazon, Google, Microsoft is not a duopoly :) And while there are probably some services on AWS you can’t find at a competitor - that’s mostly a choice (aka profit margin) made by …

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    Comment #25834093

    Apache Solr? Maybe not "better", but useful and with a Apache 2.0 license :)

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    Comment #25748463

    She wasn't "forced out"?

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    Comment #25748296

    She was fired for this: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...

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    Comment #25218384

    "hCaptcha now ruins fifteen percent of the internet" I loathe captchas, especially Googles who seems to punish my use of privacy extensions (ie ublock origin, Ghostery Lite). Captc…

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    Comment #25148230

    Old fart here too. I have the exact same experience as you, and even after using Linux om multiple machines for 20+ years (desktops, laptops and servers) I still prefer Macs and Ma…

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    Comment #16177468

    Utilizing javascript on browser, the server can detect it's headless. The server can then block, redirect or feed the browser erroneous data.

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    Comment #15814519

    "Not safe" and YWNRU? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/14/marine-kicked-out-corps...

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    Comment #15814439

    The missing guidelines: * Please read submissions before commenting on them

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    Comment #15661783

    Guess you missed the important part: "Federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and then demanding payment."

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    Comment #15318711

    It's currently at AWS, where was it 42 minutes ago?

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    Comment #15292282

    Please don't call this "oversight". He was (made) aware of the problem and chose to keep the default.

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    Comment #14940454

    Your "personal attack" is text from https://www.airmule.com/about/ under "Meet the Cofounders". Makes you confident about Airmule?

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    Comment #14422941

    "You can never comment to early", on the other hand... He clarifies the provocative title in the section titled "How long should you give people a chance?"

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    Comment #14422934

    Read the first two paragraphs again, please.