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Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:46AM (#49479330)
I only meant the artful term is 'goodwill' and not 'good will'.
Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:41AM (#49479245)
You mean some kind of perceived personal convenience through the uneven-handed profit of others and at the expense of everyone else.

Trying to check why your card was declined at a checkout—while still standing at said checkout? Troubleshooting "PIN issues" (meaning your bad)? Is everyone still standing behind you at this point? LOL. Exactly.

Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:18AM (#49466264)
Lawyers (and bean counters) call it 'goodwill'. One word.
Re:Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:46AM (#49465750)
Reddit is a cesspool of mediocrity and groupthink. Hope that helps.
Larry Sanger once called me "butthurt" just before welcoming me to his e-mail "killfile". I forget the context completely, but to this day it stands as one of my proudest young Internet troll moments.
You're right, it's not ambiguous. It's literally incorrect.
Yeah, no.
> But what made this summer's episode unusual was its persistence.

But, but—it's not summer in the Nothern Hemisphere yet.

Re:IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:47PM (#48406216)
If it ain't broke!
Re:IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:42PM (#48406179)
More strange. Stranger. This is strange. Stranger? Who are you?
Re:The desperation of NYTimes on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:50PM (#48403729)
So subscribing to NYT somehow changed your stance on online privacy? Color me confused...
Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:19AM (#48384493)
Ah, great! I 'took a shot in the dark' there. Glad it 'panned out'. ;)
Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:15AM (#48383568)
'Bread *and butter'. The English expression requires the second part—but otherwise fits perfectly in your well-stated point, with which I wholeheartedly agree.

Source: AAL.

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> You think there might be some sort of interaction between both facets there?

With the exception of one trying to extract currency from the other, in exchange for something of dubious value—no.

Re:SpaceX S-1 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:04PM (#48228882)
But, but—convection!
Anyone not already using KeePass (or KeePassXC) has been doing it wrong for at least a decade.

KeePass2Android Offline and KeePassium on mobile.

Re:SpaceX S-1 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:14AM (#48222956)
So basically—you get your physics knowledge from YouTube. Got it.
Re:SpaceX S-1 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:46PM (#48217633)
This thread contains a significantly higher concentration of dumb than the typical front page post. Gee, I wonder why.
Re:SpaceX S-1 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:43PM (#48217613)
You know 'space' is a vacuum, right?
> Does lifting weights count as vigorous though?

In my own experience, no. Strictly cardio. The number of squats you'd have to do to constitue even five minutes of vigorous activity is practicably impossible.

Lifting weights could certainly count/classify as moderate activity though, just without as much 'bang for your buck' as dedicated aerobic exercise.

Calling it 'the gym' sort of conflates its two distinct sections: the one containing cardio equipment, and the other containing strength training/bodybuilding equipment. So-called 'work capacity' aside, there's almost zero overlap between the two sections.

Whether someone's effectively strength training/bodybuilding or not, which is the section I think you refer to—nobody reasonably believes that does anything significant for cardiovascular health, which is the topic being dicussed here.

Consider the speed/vigor with which one does something, whatever it might be. It can be quite the range.
Can you elaborate on "basic competency issues", either in the case of Boudin's office and/or other high profile reformist prosecutors? Is that just a polite way of calling them dumb, à la what the kids are calling a 'skill issue' nowadays?
Re:Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:26PM (#48150573)
Okay, okay... *enables JavaScript for explorer.samismith.com*
Re:Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:01PM (#48150277)
You identified as Swedish, and then shifted the goal post to the country where you (apparently) currently reside.

What's your point again? Something about all Americans whether they live in the US or not? Are you trying to be incoherent? Daft? Representative of all Swedes by origin?

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