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Who likes solving riddles? i love those ones in which when you find the correct answer you just feel soo stupid... lol why don't we try each other with some? here you go with the first one: [quote]Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In an adjacent room …

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[castpuzzle.net](https://hanayama-toys.com/product-category/puzzles/) My brother just brought me one from Munchen and I went crazy about it :P This is mine: [Cast Radix](https://hanayama-toys.com/product/cast-radix/). I found it to be a little more difficult than I thought at first (it's level 4) but I managed to take it apart and then assemble it again …

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I just thought it would help us get to know each other a lot better if we each just gave 1-2 sentences about what we do for work. I'll start :) For the past 24 years, I have owned and written the code for DaniWeb. For the majority of that …

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I have a detached house in the overpopulated city where I live. I also own a small detached house near the beach, which I want to sell so I can buy something smaller on an island with no tourists (I dream). I pay taxes on these properties every year, along …

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Vatican City has a density of 5.88 popes per square mile.

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For me, it's a forum for forum owners called Forum Promotion, which gave me the idea to start this thread.

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Hello dear form members. In which area gmail account purchase and sale transactions are made here

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I'm trying to tackle Reddit, and getting nowhere. Apart from the fact that it's complete chaos, they don't operate like any other forum I've ever seen. I've had one sign-up that immediately got me a shadow-ban for no apparent reason, and one where my posts just don't show up. I've …

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I know rproffitt is a moderator on the Tech Republic forums. Does anyone else participate in any other online forums / communities / subreddits / etc? Just curious :)

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"Is DaniWeb under a grand attack or just suffering from many small cuts with no purpose?" I’ve written about this before. Many AI-driven accounts here post once, share a brief sentence, and disappear without any ads or clear purpose, only to return to obscurity. I’ve been trying to understand their …

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How can you maintain ethical practices and client confidentiality during psychic readings to create a safe and respectful environment for clients?

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Hello everyone I have joined DaniWeb specifically to interact with any members who may be involved in designing, building and/or operating commercial astrology and/or numerology websites. I am just about to start building a website for these two modalities in Joomla and would be interested to be friends with, support …

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LMs are great , but if you don't know how to ask the right questions , break your thoughts in manageable pieces they can't do it for you. Even when you do , you must have a level of experience to distinguish a wrong or crappy response from a legitimate …

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A big problem today is that people have forgotten the purpose of language. In my day (cue Seth Meyers routine) language was intended to convey ideas from one person to another. Similarly to data transmission, we want to get the information from one person to another as quickly and as …

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Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the …

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I don't get it. It is different answering a thread to quote an answer that you got from an LLM and it is completely different to post it as your own. I don't understand why people do that ? Don't they understand that it is obvious what they did ? …

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I asked ChatGPT for some interesting conversation starters and it suggested this. However, the more I think about it, the less I can come up with something! I enjoy walks on nature trails, but hiking is *huge* amongst techies in the Bay Area. My husband plays DDR regularly for exercise, …

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I'm in my 50's and my IT credentials have lapsed. Pre-cancer I was a consultant in software licensing, but my background is more dominantly hardware and developing. I am self-taught in a couple of old irrelevant-to-today languages, and hold a certification for VB6. Hardware I'm certified A+ and some Toshiba …

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Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a …

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Gents & Gentle Women, What features would you like in a searchengine as a: Searcher (buyer/shopper/consumer). Website (vendor/seller).fed-up of the searchengines. They have not changed since 1998. Let's brainstorm a new way of searching websites via searchengines. Meaning, we used to find links via link directories first whewre we had …

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OK -- You take the LAST word of the sentence and make a new sentence. EX: A man lived by the water. The Result: [b]Water[/b] the grass.

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Has anyone tried [Mastodon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)) yet? For those who don't know it's a federated, distributed and (currently) technology-orientated social network (well, rather a group of interoperable social networks) that's fully open source and ad-free. I've been impressed so far but as with every new network, whether it flies or not will …

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Now a days surviving without technology is really tough, let me know how will be travel without technology.

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Dear Forum Fellows, I do not like paypal. Thinking of adding BitCoin instead. Do you know of any BitCoin wallet/service where the transactions are free ? I do not like the middleman services as they hold onto your BitCoins in their servers and if they get hacked then you have …

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I just noticed that Dani surpassed Ancient Dragon on the Post Count rank to number 1! He held this position for years, wow.

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I just recently finished the first season of The Winchesters, and was unfortunately a bit disappointed by how it ended. It felt incredibly predictable. Currently my husband and I are watching Orphan Black (We are on season 2). May I recommend Severance on Apple TV+. I really loved the season …

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Pardon me if this is not allowed here, you can remove this if this is not allowed. I’ve finished learning basics of HTML and CSS indvidually. I.e topic by topic w/o creating a project. If you want to know the topics that I’ve learnt, I’ve learnt around everything contained in …

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There's a list of advertisers that put ads on hold. But given the talent bleed, can it survive both problems of ad revenue and talent bleed? It really doesn't matter as something else will take its place. Let nature take its course such as Darwin would say. The last message …

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I have not used Stack Overflow for some time now unless really necessary or I cannot find an answer anywhere else. My decision were based on the "arrogance" of some moderators, it seemed that the entire site moved away from being a community service to a "I am the boss, …

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Well I just started eating dinner and thought this would be a neat topic. Everyone knows we love to eat while on the computer; two birds, one chair. I'll start it off: Deli Sandwiches, macaroni salad, potato salad and a Pepsi :)

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What kind of places or situations to you find the people to be best friends with? Is there a good reason why one place works better than others? A small poll of suggestion is attached. I should have added Sports, the Internet and Travel to the poll.

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Mouse Elbow or Lateral Epicondylitis, a big elephant in the room. Anyone else ? My first computers didn't had any mouse so this wasn't an issue. Since the early 90's I worked in various settings at the same era , some times sitting some times on the floor some times …

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Hi...I want to play one of the most violent computer game.Please let me know one of them

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We haven't had any really silly discussions going on here for some time so let me start one with these two items: Is it just me, or does Lauren Boebert (at least in the outrage/rant photos) look like Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz? and speaking of green things... …

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Hey there, Have you ever considered the idea of working at your computer while standing up? It might sound unusual, but it's a trend that's gaining popularity for some reasons! I recently tried this new approach, and I must say, the results have been surprisingly positive. Not only does working …

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I live in Boston and here I moved many times to different areas where I lived. But of course it was hard to move independently for the first time. Then I used cargo transportation services for the second time. But I gave extra money for additional services. Now I want …

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As every coin has two sides, making this the situation with each and every aspect in our life - having both pros and cons. With regards to playing games online, there were different opinions from people around the world, rooting with either the positive side or the pessimistic of it. …

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This is the continuation of a conversation resulting when a thread about crypto currencies went off the rails. I'll start by quoting the relevant parts of the previous thread... from borobhaisab >Any currency that is no value of itself or is not backed by some physical objects, like Metal, that …

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Tech Gurus, I am interested top learn more about these AIs. ChatGPT and the like. I have been seeing youtube videos about ChatGPT3 but the link was not working few weeks ago and so I quit it. Now checking them out again. I am only interested in those that have …

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Hello There, I am searching for a vps host that will give me unlimited bandwidth as I want to run a searchengine from scratch after I build it and I do not want to get any monthly limits and find I have gone over the limit and my website has …

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The game is as follows: You may change [I]up to two[/I] (2) letters in the given example by either: [LIST] [*]adding one\two letters [*]removing one\two letters [*]adding one letter, removing one letter[/LIST]Example: [LIST=1] [*]Ruin [*]Rain[/LIST]I will begin: [B]Flume[/B]

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"New Bing" claims it would be unethical. ChatGPT wins this round. I'll add that the old Embrace and Extend mantra appears to be making a comeback as well. Some may not remember those days but it feels like it's back. Hopefully I will be able to try out the Bard …

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I'll skip the intro and mention haveibeentrained com so you can look into it yourself so here we go again with AI unleashed without restraint or any rules such as Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Even Asimov's laws are now being violated with lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs). Much like textual …

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So I've been plagued by things like this for almost three years now. Anything I do online. If its related to money or employment, I cannot do it. Why? Because of things like these (screenshots). https://ibb.co/dkX08gN https://ibb.co/nnQQc3b Lets see if I can explain whats going on. Anything employment related inevitably …

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Or just phishing. Here's the message I received from another Daniweb member. I redacted their name: > It is my pleasure to contact you discreetly as to discuss a mutually beneficial business, I will want to have your trust and to go into partnership investment with you which must be …

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