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For me, disqus feels like the wildwest days sometimes. Sites like mediaite using disqus can be a real goldmine/minefield of back and forth on politics
Re:Dracula author's lost story unearthed after 134 years on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:46PM (#41906480)
The term 'nerd' needs to complete its rehabilitation like 'geek' has the last 20 years. It's the most concise term I can think of when describing someone who is enthusiastic, focused, and knowledgable on a subject. I think it's a badge of honor
Sorry to be that guy. But the UI is more Windows 95/2000 (minus the Icon in the leftmost side of the title bar).

Win3.1x just had a little dash at the far left, and simply an Min/Max on the right.

I love the look btw

Am I not smart, or what about the "Subscribe" page won't allow me to get past the "Name" field? I tried a few combos and even an email addresses and it doesn't validate:

https://buttondown.com/inkandswitch

>reboot up to 15 times

I see my orgs SCCM admins have been consulted

Re:Panic at the Job Market on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:40PM (#40987709)
The inflation from the covid money-fountain came back to bite well after the pandemic. Central Bank sets the rates higher to purposefully chill the economy by triggering a recession, or ideally recession-lite. Making people unemployed is a key goal
I noticed years ago while feeding my newborn that she would chug some delicious warm milk and fill up that diaper. Since then I always figured the coffee phenomenon was related.

Drinking plain warm/hot water can trigger the same response so it is arguably not just coffee.

I use get-video-properties python library for metadata harvesting. Works great
Re:Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:08PM (#39432800)
I asked it "What is the oldest known written recipe" and then asked for that recipe. It seemed to repeat the same response a bunch of times (very quickly!) before stopping. Is this abnormal behavior?
Re:The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob (2005) on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:57AM (#19535331)
Gave me chills. That's storytelling!