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>On don’t worry, they also show PC LOAD LETTER in the US even when the correct paper size is loaded :) Only if there is an issue with the rollers or something and it can't feed the paper from the paper cassette. No one ever wants to
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The 'PC' part is paper cassette, it's the printer literally telling you to load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, but everyone acts like it's some mysterious message that's impossible to figure out.
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>you're just expected to line text up on your own correctly. It only has to be lined up well enough to be read by a human, they don't reject them just because it's sloppy or not lined up correctly.
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>12. Went to another USPS to drop the package You have a USPS drop box for tiny boxes in front of your house.
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that honestly seems more complicated and likely to fail than just buying the correct stamps on ebay.
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>As someone born in 2003, I did this just last week when filing my tax returns. Why didn't you efile like a normal person? The only time you need to do it the hard way is if you are under 16 and filing for the first time.
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>Parking lots are not mandated for bars in the US, at least not everywhere. This, they are making the mistake that all the people on /r/askamerican do over on reddit. Laws like this mostly aren't nationwide or even statewi
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>Usually parking minimums are WAY too high in required parking spaces to make sense in most cases. That hasn't been my experience. Anytime I've wanted to go somewhere halfway popular the lot is usually full or nearly full. On t
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>at a high enough level of abstraction, all creative work is derivative. Sure, but with fonts you have basically one level between the font they are 'developing' and the one they are copying from. There is work involved, but ve
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> that's a lot of memory used up to record a vector for every letter 'c'. only if you do things in the dumbest way possible.
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>All law is a fiction, by that argument. sure but some can claim more of a moral basis than others.
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I'm only really familiar with the 'tenant admin' concept from microsoft administration, it's commonly used otherwise?
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So you understand the issue, it's derivative works all the way down.
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They are still mostly derivative works in basically every sense.
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Trying to gain paying users seems like the wrong reason to open source something but seems like the only reason you're considering it.
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Like every title ending in a question mark, the answer is no.
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>And what a shame that is. I was with you until this. Copyright is a legal fiction, if it's no longer working the world will adapt. No need for shame to be involved.
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>Sure! But what else are you going to do if your document uses a super-special font for displaying mathematical symbols or sanskrit or the glyphs of a language understood by fifty people on the planet and Unicode isn't widely adopte
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>shrug I guess these folks never sold something they made completely by themselves maybe. Not saying font designers shouldn't get paid, but they mostly aren't making things "completely by themselves", they are mostly
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>What saddens me is that a lot of people are so ignorant that they don't even realize a font is something that takes creativity, tradecraft and a lot of work/time/effort to design. Except most of the creative part was done
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Being the inspiration for a bunch of better products don't mean that it was inherently good itself.
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My company uses guildeducation.com and we can use basically $5k a year (I think, it might be semester), a lot of if it is just individual classes, but there are also some degree programs. I don't know if they preselect which courses ar
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Try something in the medical field, my company will pay for a bunch of medical related stuff when I just want to further my CS background.
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>I would love to do something like this but simply cannot afford it. Work for a company that will pay for it.
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>They are quite different. Are they? I'm pretty sure several of them are just stolen straight from older versions of Windows.
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>NeXTSTEP was widely regarded as visually striking and innovative for its time Widely? You seem like the only one carrying the water for nextstep. I'm sure they had some advances but overall it's a very ugly UI.
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>"nicer" is very subjective. To me it looks like a train wreck. This, it looks like the most generic x-windows client ever.
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>My mom always asks me if she’s supposed to double or single click. But she can use a smartphone UI without my help. That's honestly just an old person thing to do, usually coupled with a huge helping of learned helplessness "I
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>Otherwise, this doesn't make sense from a physics standpoint. A temporarily lower temperature differential means less kWh of heat lost. This topic comes up anytime thermostats and heating are mentioned. The physics arguments only m
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>I guess I’d be happier with a more programmable thermostat that I could set to behave like an old school dial thermostat. I honestly prefer the older type. Ours is programable, but we just don't program it and always just set it to
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