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monotypicalon Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

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

monotypicalon Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes

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

monotypicalon The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza

because it's the default on most operating systems

monotypicalon Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them

I hope no woman ever has to work for you

monotypicalon Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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

monotypicalon Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Changing the remote doesn't migrate anything in the issue tracker, merge requests, webhooks, pages or wiki

monotypicalon Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

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

monotypicalon Hetzner Cloud

the [EX51-SSD-GPU](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu) is the only GPU plan they offer

monotypicalon The Art of Unix Programming (2008)

I appreciate the transparency of the author including links to negative reviews on the page. Kudos for that.

monotypicalon Guide to Landing Page Optimization

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.

monotypicalon The next version of DuckDuckGo

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.

monotypicalon Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happen to Humanity

Link to the actual article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-tr...