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Re:Cookie Consent Speed Running Game on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:38PM (#26516900)
I made a tool-assisted speedrun to complete this in 00:00.00 which has been confirmed by the dev as the TAS world record, paste this into your browser console after clicking on "let's do this" https://pastebin.com/NZQGSxhL
Can't wait to see what scummy monetization tactic brave is found to be using next.

Here's a question for any employees of brave who happen to be reading this: how did this get out the door? It's not like this is the first time the company has been found doing something that most people disagree with, and the fact that it keeps happening means that the process is still very much broken. I have not yet seen any response from brave that gives me confidence that the company has changed from when they were taking youtube donations of creations not signed up to the BAT program

because it's the default on most operating systems
I hope no woman ever has to work for you
Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal on Thursday November 22, 2018 @06:45AM (#18509408)
being written in rust might make it more appealing to develop, but it doesn't give any benefit to the user and I can't see it being a reason for someone to use this over vim
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#17221919)
Changing the remote doesn't migrate anything in the issue tracker, merge requests, webhooks, pages or wiki
Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:37AM (#16755096)
It seems to follow the 4th year/masters course of the same name taught by one of the authors (Dr Marc Deisenroth) at Imperial College London: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/current-students/courses...

The course requires a 1st year linear algebra course and a 2nd year statistics course, which might explain why this book doesn't cover some of the basic concepts

Re:Hetzner Cloud on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:20AM (#16214214)
the [EX51-SSD-GPU](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu) is the only GPU plan they offer
Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) on Sunday May 25, 2014 @05:43AM (#7795953)
I appreciate the transparency of the author including links to negative reviews on the page. Kudos for that.
Re:Guide to Landing Page Optimization on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @03:08PM (#7780116)
I can't comment much on the subject for my lack on knowledge, but that was a very well written, entertaining article that I enjoyed reading.
Re:The next version of DuckDuckGo on Monday May 05, 2014 @04:46PM (#7701113)
Just wanted to say, had heard a lot about ddg, but I never really gave it a fair shot until now, and it's awesome, before you even get to the privacy stuff!. Thanks.