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> Policing the inner thoughts of youtube celebrities It could be good in the long turn if they extend it to clickbait titles. PewDiePie has a lot of such videos. It's all done to attract attention, including this article apparently.
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> quality Yeah, that feature is a must. /s Saying "quality" doesn't actually mean anything. What exactly is "quality" in this case?
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What about Qt? Doesn't it have something similar? As a cross-platform C++ Builder replacement, I have been using wxFormBuilder and wxWidgets in the past. There are some manual steps, but it let's you build a GUI quickly, hook up e
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Poison for one species, food for other.
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Works fine in my town (population around 100k). 50kmph (around 31mph) and it's all green for some 20+ crossroads.
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It's more like traffic lights being turned off.
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> Taking your hands off the steering wheel involves... Taking your hands off the steering wheel has never been a problem. Taking your eyes off the road is. That being said, if you want to set a certain temperature with analog controls, y
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I don't know about other cars, but on my 2014 Passat it works flawlessly. I don't remember ever having to manually touch it.
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> Wherever you need to read the ID card, you cannot use anything other than IE. You can. In fact, you don't need a browser at all to read an ID card. You can download the CELIK application from Ministry of Internal Affairs and simpl
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> Every ... bank ... MUST use IE to be able to read the card That is not true. Raiffeisen has their own e-banking solution that works with all major browsers. It even supports macOS. It used to support Linux before, but I haven't te
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Automattic Plans to Acquire Tumblr
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> One common recommendation for annual energy growth rate is 1.4% Where does this come from? Does it even hold water when compared to past data? Looking at some Wikipedia data for the past 20-30 years, it seems that the increase in speed
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I wasn't aware of this. Thanks.
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I tried entering a bunch of major websites. Looks like ibm.com is full of holes that need patching.
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> Those aren't Chinese punctuation characters. I know, I meant the actual ones you wrote above. > I'm confused why SDL_TTF would go out of its way to avoid breaking there. SDL_TTF doesn't break at all. If you have a lon
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> Imagine writing a game. Everything works nice and dandy with your ASCII format and now your boss approaches you and wants to distribute the game for the asian market! You just make sure all translated text is in UTF-8, and use Google N
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> I'd rather pay for the content then People like you are a minority. Most people expect Internet content to be free.
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> You can ... get trainers and coaches...but in the end the ONLY thing that works > it's really great to do a group class where the instructor tells you what to do So, trainers and coaches are useless, but "instructors"
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> Brandy is a spirit made out of wine. Fruit brandy just uses things besides grapes. Not really. "Fruit brandy" that people traditionally make and drink in this region is made directly from fruit, without the vine step. There i
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If you mean fat usage for cooking, etc. in Serbia it was mainly lard. Olives don't grow here and fat from milk is traditionally used to make "kaymak": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak
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Serbia is also not in Wine belt. The traditional drink is rakija - which is the same as pálinka in Hungary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakia The "belts" seems like made up thing, bending the actual facts t
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Reactive Hypoglycemia
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From the wikipedia article: > This was especially useful in the 1990s because simple shell accounts were less expensive and/or more widely available than full SLIP/PPP accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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> could do stuff it could not do I have trouble parsing this. Did you mean "could do stuff it couldn't have done" perhaps?
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I have yet to find a game that absolutely requires Galaxy. Could you share which game was it?
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> Their client is an insecure, slow, instable piece of shit And yet, it's still the best client out there. If you want slow and instable(sic!) try competition. Steam client is actually fast and stable compared to what else is on off
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> I hope GOG and HumbleBundle get a nice boost in sales. While there are some DRM-free games, majority of games on HumbleBundle are sold as Steam keys, so you still need Steam to launch them.
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If you don't need it, why did you have it installed in the first place?
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In Serbian "nedelja" is a homonym - both "Sunday" and "week".
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Very cool. I'm Serbian and I can understand this text: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/umetny_ili_prirodny.html I have to read it much slower than regular Serbian text, but there were only a few words I couldn&#x
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