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The rallying cry of the Linux desktop enthusiast: “well, it works for me!”
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If you know you know. If you don’t, it’s lobsters
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It’s easier to run your own binaries on an Xbox than it is an iPhone.
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That’s a false dichotomy. There is a third possibly: He is an extremely talented and skilled chess player, who will resort to cheating to beat people at his level, using it sparingly.
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So what? It’s still a billion dollars and it has been steadily growing every year.
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It’s amounted to a lot, actually. One of the stated goals of Bitcoin was to reduce government control. And it has, magnificently: in the drug trade. Seriously, online drug marketplaces have become massive and highly lucrative. Estimates var
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> more efficient, cost effective, and reliable than anything prebuilt due to their nature Absolutely untrue, and I’ve run the numbers to prove it. Prebuilt PCs have lower TCO because they extensively test configurations and have aggressi
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“AI” is not a scam, but it’s a very wide term that people abuse. The self driving software packages that work, the Cruze and Waymos and Mercedes of the world, are in limited careful rollout. These companies and teams want to make sure it’s
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It’s because it makes it accessible, which is important.
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Yes, the Turks also put their hands in the boiling pot, but only the British were arrogant enough to try to turn these regions into countries with neat, straight borders and also with western style governments. Which destroyed local allianc
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That doesn’t excuse the actions and behaviors of the invaders who stole these artifacts dozens or hundreds of years before isis was even a thing. Btw things like isis are a direct consequence of actions taken by the English colonialists whe
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Unlike Covid, which is a relatively new family of virus to us, humans have hundreds of years with this family of disease We have a much firmer foundation of understanding monkeypox and it’s long term effects
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That’s a bit of a willful misinterpretation Native is more about replanting things into a stable ecosystem, versus non native, which can become invasive and detrimental to that ecosystem
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Except, Tesla removed radar from their cars, a relatively inexpensive and simple mechanism that significantly reduce their fatality rate. It’s a false dichotomy here it’s frustrating, especially when they had implemented a check to their so
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No, they don’t. And you won’t find many watch enthusiasts who agree with you either about this class of watch.
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First of all, training users to copy stuff into a terminal is just a bad idea. Also, youre basically suggested that users use a GUI (a web browser) to get instructions on how to use a command line. It makes a lot more sense for there to be
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It’s complicated. AFAIK there is no official ban. It’s not so much that time travel itself is banned, it’s that the Chinese government has a bunch of rules that make time travel movies impossible to execute. For example, the Chinese governm
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This article makes some incredible leaps. Marijuana addiction is an under-recognized problem, but the implication that a kid killed himself because he had a weed addiction is incredibly misleading. > After several stays at mental hospita
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4y ago
I can buy an array of chemical substances on the internet with cryptocurrency
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While I’m not a fan of cryptocurrency… cash is just colored paper, why don’t you give it all to me :)
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It is, of the new young far right https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren
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Thank you to both of you for your responses, I admit I had some confusion - I hadn’t looked at your product since the last time I used it. And, I wouldn’t say that it had gone well last time. I have amended my post to refer to yours, for c
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Well, I had to pass an extensive interview process in which said friend was not involved. So I wouldn’t consider it nepotism.
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Edit: it looks like I was wrong about some things. The team at Triplebyte has also answered my questions. In the interest of fairness, if you read this post, I encourage you to read their responses as well. ————- At this point, if you (Tri
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Eliminating the same boring foo bar baz coding test is a great concept. Being able to skip an hour or two out of a full interview across many companies is a great concept. Having a 3rd party verified that allows you to be quickly matched wi
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I went through their process, passed in their top cohort (or so they told me, probably it was to massage my ego). And then they dropped that public profile bomb the first time around. I’d say I cost them a lot of money when I deleted my acc
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Stop reading pop science articles
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I don’t see anyone mentioning the latest South Park “movie”, but they presented this in a very humorous, yet grim, way.
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I’m not going to say it’s broken, but it sure is rough.
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I’m still on KeePass. I keep meaning to get off of it but it more or less works okay (not great) I use windows, Debian, iOS, and Firefox as the browser on desktop. Any recommendations?
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