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packersville··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Shame I get. There is healthy shame, though difficult to achieve sometimes. Malice you lose me. I see Malice as the intent to hurt retributively. Why do you think malice is needed?
packersville··on Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows
Gross
packersville··on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”
“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”

- Bruce Lee

packersville··on A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting
What she endured is hard for me to comprehend. Humans like Phyllis are treasures of the human capacity.
packersville··on Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
Your last few sentences really hit. This is what occurred to World of Warcraft. I've been playing the re-release of Classic WoW, Season of Mastery, and I find the experience much more compelling than any common day mass multi-player online experience.
packersville··on Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
+1 Worked for me. Beautiful
packersville··on Italy Blocks Users on TikTok After 10-Year-Old Girl Died in a Blackout Challenge
No, they are wondering if this type of activity has been going on all along but now the internet just informs us of the case by case.
packersville··on Larry King has died
Thank you for this response. I logged in for the first time in a long time just to thank you!
packersville··on MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
The MBP with the new keyboard has been a bad experience for as well as a few of my co-workers. I switched back to a 2015 version we had laying around.

When I am forced to move to a new machine I am strongly considering grabbing a Dell or Lenovo and throwing Ubuntu on it. Experience has been that bad.

packersville··on NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'
> We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.

I signed in (been years) to comment. Bravo! I could not agree more. People can change.

packersville··on 95 years after disappearance, the USS Conestoga is found
What also surprised me is that from 1858 to 1907 there were 5 wrecks in that area. I wonder what the reasoning is?
packersville··on How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
I don't understand his hesitancy in releasing his crawler code. I imagine there are plenty for people to access and alter for malicious use if they desired, so why does releasing his such a big deal?
packersville··on Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
> couldn’t figure out how an ‘All Files’ category was useful when browsing finder windows

To this day I still don't see or find how it is useful.

packersville··on DC appeals court lifts injunction against NSA phone records program
> In order for plaintiffs to ultimately succeed, they have to convince the court that they have actually suffered an injury by having their own call records collected.

Are you able to demonstrate the breaching of the 4th Amendment ? Or there just has to be some sustained injury presented before the courts?

packersville··on The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
Thanks so much for posting this youtube. It is fantastic!
packersville··on How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1
If Crash Bandicoot was so hard to squeeze in 2MB, I imagine other guys like Solid Snake (can't remember its name) would be incredibly hard.
packersville··on Capybara: Acceptance test framework for web applications
Very good point. I do this when I can so my suit runs much faster.