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by beej71 1mo ago
It's just a monetary conversion and it's in their style guides. How much is "millions of euros" in dollars? Answer: "millions of dollars". If they'd said "it's estimated to cost 1.5 million euros
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by beej71 1mo ago
Yes, but this exchange is in the context of cookies, as you brought up in your comment. And we're talking about companies maliciously complying with the cookie pop-up mechanism, are we not?
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by beej71 1mo ago
I use it as a very effective learning tool, as well. To test my learning, I make sure I can code it myself after that.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Maybe I'm ignorant of the gdpr, but does it ban tracking cookies?
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by beej71 1mo ago
Old habits die hard, especially when the topic is twitterwebviewer. Sorry.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Do you have an example of a maliciously-complying website? Virtually all remotely popular websites deliberately use unnecessary cookies.
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by beej71 1mo ago
All those groups that use Twitter for announcements need to consider the negative connotations of being seen there, IMHO.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Honestly, they should be keyboard first . Yes, let all the mouse stuff work as normal, but choose keys so that the fastest way to navigate the app is with the keyboard whenever possible.
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by beej71 1mo ago
And political neutrality isn't going to save anyone. Political alignment with the US government is what they're after.
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by beej71 1mo ago
In Seattle airport there's one of those McDonald's that has you order from the touch-screen booth and then pick up at the counter. (Maybe they're all like that now?) Just so dystopian to my eye. It didn't help that I was
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by beej71 1mo ago
Trump's working on global unification as we speak. ;)
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by beej71 1mo ago
What if the creation of such robots destroys the economic incentive for doing so?
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by beej71 1mo ago
I don't get the use of "abstraction" in this context, I must admit. Programming abstractions offer interfaces to functionality that are both simplified in use and restricted in capability. (e.g. any API or compiler.) I don&#x
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by beej71 1mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm an older dev out of the game. I could definitely see the bigger picture faster than I could type it (except for challenging tasks), but that typing time was also synergistic thinking time. Not unfrequently, I'd fin
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by beej71 1mo ago
> because it sounds like weak credibility in search of social support And it works!
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by beej71 1mo ago
"Floodwaters reached settlements as high as 270 feet (80 m) above the river level." :( :( :( No way to run 80 m up-slope in seconds.
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by beej71 1mo ago
I figure once it collapses I'll transition into being a tutor for some billionaire's kids at roughly triple my current salary. :)
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by beej71 1mo ago
I do like that they're open to reconsidering the grading paradigm wholesale. I taught at a boot camp for a while and our highest-placed cohorts were the ones to whom we gave neither grades nor certificates. They plainly understood the
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by beej71 1mo ago
More information on the collapse itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nepal_floods
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by beej71 1mo ago
Who needs C-suites?
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by beej71 1mo ago
> Whether it's using the output of AI models or downloading a book on Anna's Archive, you are ultimately robbing the creator of profits. You're correct in the above, or at least I'm willing to accept the premise for t
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by beej71 1mo ago
The almighty buck wins at the end of the day. But how long the day is, that's political.
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by beej71 1mo ago
Man, I just posted this same comment. 'Vette was the first thing I thought of. Ever since playing it way back then, I wanted a better SF open world game.
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by beej71 1mo ago
It depends on what you consider to be a moral good. Some people feel that the world's information is getting locked down in the name of profit to the detriment of humankind. AA is providing knowledge to people who would otherwise not b
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by beej71 1mo ago
> Business will accept 99.99 at fraction of cost of 99.999. In my experience, there are far too many 9s in that sentence. But the sentiment absolutely holds.
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by beej71 1mo ago
I bought an Xteink X4 a few months ago and it's constantly stuck to the back of my phone. I've really picked up my reading pace since then. If I have 5 minutes, I'm in a book. I did read on my phone a bit before that, but som
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by beej71 1mo ago
Yeah, it's gotta be both, I agree.
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by beej71 2mo ago
Seriously. The median number of new movies I watch each year has fallen to zero. And if I want to watch one, I just make some popcorn and watch the preview. Big time-saver.
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by beej71 2mo ago
As a constitutionalist American, I really wish I had an answer for you. The best I have is that two-thirds of the country thinks he's off-base. But I can only agree that's an alarming figure. It seems like a lot of the governmenta
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by beej71 2mo ago
For the same reasons, too. Software is buggy and slow because you impact the bottom line when you make it better. Same thing with LLMs and token expenses.

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