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Comment · 2 months ago
I got this same email about an hour ago.

About two weeks ago I received a notification from Dropbox that somebody signed in that I did not recognize. I immediately changed my password and enabled 2FA. There were no open unknown sessions or any activity that seemed suspicious other than that one login.

One odd thing at the time: the Dropbox login page had started offering 'Continue with SSO' for my email even though I never created a Lenovo ID.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
chess.com has different "AI players" with personalities that you can play against.
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting, for me it happens sometimes if I'm badly hungover. Instantly after closing my eyes, I start seeing cartoon-like shapes that rapidly mutate to something different. Usually it's faces of people. The shapes are very dim, and black and white. But I really do "see" them as they were there.

Now I want to attempt using the technique in TFA to improve this "skill", also interested in using this for falling asleep faster and maybe even to successfully using the WILD technique for lucid dreaming, which I was never able to do.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think they mean peloton. It's not English, I believe it is French, meaning a group of bicyclers. In this context it refers to the peloton leading the race.+-
Comment · 3 years ago
>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlighted with blue color. In this mode you can just click on the roads to go to street view.

Comment · 3 years ago
Oh you were able to google the exact thing after reading what it was? Great job!
Comment · 3 years ago
I saw once a support person from $COMPANY_I_WORK_IN ask a client to send their private key in email, so they could troubleshoot something. I pressed "Reply all" and called it out, and was yelled at later.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said the Floor name is misleading:

The given code is a C-style implementation of the "fast inverse square root" algorithm. This algorithm computes an approximation of the inverse square root of a given number (1/sqrt(x)). The code does not actually compute the floor of a floating-point number, so the function name "Floor" is misleading.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
The Windows key is a tragic misstep in computer evolution. It should not exist.
Comment · 7 years ago
At least they got Hallucinogen up there.
Comment · 7 years ago
I completely disagree. When I see embedded Google Map I always try to zoom it by scrolling, but then get frustrated when it scrolls the page instead and I'm supposed to press control for zooming.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm sorry if I sound rude. I don't mean to be. I'm just saying that backing up your git workspace to recover from rebases or merges gone wrong is not necessary. Those are not "surgical tools", they don't modify existing commits. (edit: yes you can "edit commits", but they only create new commits, the old commits are not deleted in the process and they can still be found easily)

When you commit in git, that saves the whole project as a "snapshot". If you find yourself lost in some rebase hell or whatever, just reset HEAD back to a previous commit. It's simple as that! (git reset --hard <commit>)

Why I decided to reply to your comment was because this is a very crucial part of learning git. When you realize that you can always go back to what was before, you can start experimenting more freely.

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