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porridgeraisin

1,979karma·1,375submissions·March 26, 2023
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That's funny
8mo ago·view thread
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Ah ok so just to confirm the providers charge the store per user entry? That gives me a good idea of who would go for it. Thanks
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> special Many of us see that as an important feature, and a smaller set of people aren't too happy with the generics introduction for example. Or the recent iterators stuff they have added. I…
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There is a way to show profile pictures to only contacts. It's a setting.
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That's so cursed. I suppose since the source of the money here is the manufacturer, this only happens in major retailers with large shops? Do you know if smaller shops in india/asia also mak…
9mo ago·view thread
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From what I hear, many doctors pass X-ray and MRI scans to Chatgpt for a ...second opinion :-)
9mo ago·view thread
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> loss prevention So preventing theft?
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> it certainly works Not for this guy: https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/3896 …
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This is true. But unfortunately the exact same process is used even for critical stuff (the crowdstrike thing for example). Maybe there needs to be a separate swe process for those things as well, jus…
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Not too much window to see anyway
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Yeah noticed it too. I wonder why
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I don't know why iOS share vs Android is relevant? Any company that's making a mobile app will not ignore (a very affluent) 30% of the market. So all consumer apps _will_ have an iOS version…
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Steam machine is x86
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There's also another way to interpret that. For me for example, I have the same PC for 5 years now, and before that I had the same one for 10 years. Basically, I run it till I really really can&#…
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I've heard this for many years now, can you give me a concrete example or two? Note: I'm just curious, not even from the US
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Not bringing it back is crazy though! In India too many colleges didn't keep their entrance exams and used 12th standard marks to admit people that year. But the next year it was back to normal.…
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TIL that in the python REPL `_` automatically has the previous expr's result. That's cool
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Yeah. And in general, not taking a potshot at who you replied to, the only people who place citations/peer review on that weird faux-intellectual pedestal are people that don't work in acade…
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First of all, consider asking "why's that?" if you don't know what is a fairly basic fact, no need to go all reddit-pretentious "citation needed" as if we are deeply and …
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What's fex? I wasn't able to google search it (didn't try too hard admittedly)
9mo ago·view thread
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Now you're thinking like a *real investigative journalist*
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Yep. This is the way. Even if you don't want to/are not able to have a daily routine and such, detaching as many activities as possible from volatile things like motivation,mood,etc is extre…
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> access they shouldn't have It does, quotes from https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/a... below: > A highly-privileged user (able to …
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Oh you meant the friends. I thought you were talking about MS the company being screwed. But yes that makes sense for the former interpretation.
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Ok, not asking in the context of this thread but in general: why do you think so? With their stake in openai especially and github being a good place to sell AI code assistants (one of the clear reven…
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True! And for those curious, you can enable disable this shadowing per command, like so: enable test enable -n test # disable enable -n [ You can also use command test -f file.txt To…
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Interesting. Well, hope my friends get into GAYMAN companies then... whats the Y in there anyway? And is microsoft still excluded from the acronym? lol.
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nit: while test and [ are binaries, [[ is a bash keyword.
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> The brutal reality is, if you didn't attend a target CS program for your Bachelors (Stanford, Cal, MIT, UIUC, CMU, UT Austin, GT, UMich, UW, Cornell, Harvard, Columbia), at this point you pr…
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