trick
Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
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99% success rate. what's your best debugging trick?
My line of thought with solar Got sun? Got space that's otherwise useless? Time for solar! Solar heating too, swell trick things getting hot under direct sun. I got the idea from sun loving leafy plants. Lol
I think I want to build the Reply Golem the trick is that I need the sophistication of Opus 4.7 to do it and I don't want to pay per-token
Now Playing on Hit Music 80s, Cheap Trick - The Flame. Tune in at https://hitmusic80s.radioplayer.live and listen now!
At the time, I just assumed that somehow there was some magical legal trick they knew where they could more guarantee prison time if they waited somehow. That was clearly not the case.
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Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced.
“99% success rate. what's your best debugging trick?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I think I want to build the Reply Golem the trick is that I need the sophistication of Opus 4.7 to do it and I don't want to pay per-token”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Now Playing on Hit Music 80s, Cheap Trick - The Flame. Tune in at https://hitmusic80s.radioplayer.live and listen now!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“At the time, I just assumed that somehow there was some magical legal trick they knew where they could more guarantee prison time if they waited somehow. That was clearly not the case.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Stop over-engineering your physics. I stripped collision from 80% of my environment and gained 40 FPS instantly. Players don't need physics-enabled trash cans; they need a stable frame rate. What’s your favorite "dirty" optimization trick? ⚙️ #gamedev #indiedev”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
He played a trick on his sister as April Fool's Day.
“My line of thought with solar Got sun? Got space that's otherwise useless? Time for solar! Solar heating too, swell trick things getting hot under direct sun. I got the idea from sun loving leafy plants. Lol”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Silica based thickener does the trick.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hoffenheim heartache after Schick hat-trick lifts Leverkusen to fourth | Andy Brassell”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Anytime Scotty - slow & easy does the trick 😜”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"Aerial Spin" https://sutosufo.com/l/218-kickflip-kings [Kickflip Kings :: Flip, slide, show-off.] Concrete ramps are conquered one trick at a time, each one a chance to showcase speed, skill, and raw youthful energy. 🛹”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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An entertaining difficult physical action.
And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.
“Can y'all use these selfies to trick the Roblox AI system? If you want to bypass the Roblox clanker age verification system but don't want to leak your own face? Then use this selfie and see the results. The person on the selfie was Bruno Powroznik btw”
— r/GenAlpha· Apr 2026
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