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Well it's official, I'm now enrolled and am registered in my first semester of classes and will be a college student by the end of August...again. I had thought about taking a simple class to try to slip back into the thought process of being a student, but it seems …

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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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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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Do we really need accrediated education to effectivly have the expected experience and/or knowledge in a chosen field? For instance can we learn more from doing a course in programming than we can from learning ourselves? I see the benefits in both: **Accerdited course** - Have an experienced tutor - …

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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. -- Homer

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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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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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It used to be that google maps satellite images had pretty good resolution, at least over cities. I haven't checked in some time, but today I noticed that the resolution is barely equivalent to Donkey Kong when it first came out. When did it get so bad?

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