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by throwaway277432 3y ago
Honestly Reddit has never been that great for me. In my experience a lot of content even in niche hobby subreddits is regurgitated opinions presented as authorative facts or baseless speculation disguised as professional insight. In the few
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by throwaway277432 3y ago
StackOverflow has the same problem, prioritizing question askers instead of answerers. As a result, the site is now "welcoming" to new users asking low-quality questions, but actively hostile to what the answerers and mods would l
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by throwaway277432 3y ago
Is the author still adding the "cite me or pay 10000€" notice to the output? And calling that GPL? And still answering every xargs Stackoverflow question with "you should use GNU Parallel" instead of answering the questi
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by throwaway277432 3y ago
The exact opposite happened, contrary to this often repeated meme. Both SO and Wikipedia became what they were because of their strict moderation and RTFM-implied attitude. It's what drove professionals like me to the site. I'm ju
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by throwaway277432 4y ago
YouTube is very easy to cancel and not at all scummy, you just need to click one button and it works. Easy 4$ saved per month. I cancelled and then resubscribed at least 5 times this year and it was never an issue (I'm trying to cut do
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by throwaway277432 4y ago
That's very generous. Yes they're moving faster than before, but for a while it seemed like they didn't have any developers at all. Instead they spend an insane amount of money on marketing. And for a long time (I'm an e
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by throwaway277432 4y ago
> who do I give it to? No one, you do it yourself. Here's what works for personal devices. - Hard drives: Open them up with a screwdriver, then physically smash the platters with the pointy end of a hammer. The platters easily shatt
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
He wrote a great response. Not many people I know would stand in front of a online mob and say "It's code that I wrote". And then fix it on Christmas! While I'm glad this got resolved so quickly, I'm slightly ashame
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
Thank you. So these are in fact all mistakes. I looked at some of the other forked repos (95 out of 4.5K repos) and all the human commits from MS I saw seem to care about getting the licenses right. So it really is just a broken bot. I hope
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
You're right. Saw the reviewer on that PR but you were too quick and I couldn't delete my comment anymore.
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
This is their process. Very hard to argue these are all mistakes: ippsample (Apache -> MIT) https://github.com/microsoft/ippsample/commit/938bff17c72868... huggingface-transformers (Apache -> MIT): h
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by throwaway277432 5y ago
I requested my data back in March 2020 when they were on HN, never got an answer. They wanted me to upload a photo ID to verify my identity and I was stupid enough to comply. One commenter said: This is a case of 'never click &quot