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Re:Floss Before Brushing on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:41PM (#45750362)
There's the argument that flossing afterwards would drag some fluoride/nHAP to the space between your teeth which wouldn't be reachable by the toothbrush.

So I floss during brushing. One pass with the toothbrush, floss, second pass with toothbrush, rinse.

Re:"ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:50PM (#45700241)
Indeed. On the other hand, there's a difference between "I one-prompted some mini LLM" and "A deep-thinking LLM aided me through research with fact-checking, agents, tools and lots of input from me." While both can be phrased with “I asked ChatGPT and it says…” or “According to AI…”, the latter would not annoy me.
Re:Brave Search beta on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:45PM (#27597622)
you can easily create a command for it (and bind to key(s)):

  command ddgGoogleBang composite js (new URLSearchParams(window.location.search)).get('q') + ' !g' | urlmodify_js -q q | open
> Do you know if you can carry that loss forward in Canada, or do you need to use it in the same year?

"You can use a net capital loss to reduce your taxable capital gain in any of the three preceding years or in any future year."

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/t4037/t4037-e.html#P2313_1...