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by bregma 1y ago
There is no ambiguity in the pronunciation of "GIF". The "g" is pronounced just like the the "g" in "garage".
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If you wait a little it will go down on its own.
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I swear there would be nothing but heaps of smoking machinery and mangled human limbs and entrails in the operating theatre in my wake and they'd find me cowering in some far corner of the building curled up in a foetal position. I can
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If you're looking for something like QNX you could use... QNX. It's still around and free for hobbyists [0]. You can use it knowing you're using the same OS as your car, or train, or medical device, or spacecraft. [0] https:
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> Of course the legal and ethical way to perform a tax protest is to simply have so little income that you don't owe them a thing That's the way it works. If you're really wealthy your team of accountants can find all sort
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Or if Bob Barker has opened door number 3 and there's a goat behind it.
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It's not just a computer, it's a stored program computer . What it's not is a general purpose computer .
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When I was younger I worked with a lot of prototype devices. The lab always had the smell of rosin core and ozone and, from time to time, something worse that resulted in the requirement for a new board. And once, a new desk. So I guess the
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From a computer-science theoretic view, any any recursively enumerable transform is computing. It's pretty easy to see the translation between a Jaquard loom and an abstract Turing machine. Just because it smells of machine oil and lan
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Yes and no. The both involve implementing a sequence of instructions to perform mechanical motions on fiber to form textiles. It might be moving frames to open the shed for weaving, or it might be opening hooks to chain for knitting. The fi
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One cup vinegar and three cups olive oil will give you four cups salad dressing.
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> all of mid/late 2010s online politics was colored by one reviewer giving a favourable game review to a game that some people disliked That's kind of a twisted interpretation of events. It was coloured by one incel who though
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You can always choose to believe free choice does exist. In fact it's almost mandatory to do so just to get by.
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Serendipity favours the prepared mind.
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Thank goodness SI units are power-of-ten based so converting between watt hours and joules is just a matter of moving the decimal place. Oh, and throwing in an ancient Sumerian constant approximating the number of Earth rotations as it revo
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We choose to go to the Moon ... and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one th
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What are "developing" countries developing into? Nice white western ones like the global north? Nope. That one is the worst of the choices.
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RAII. It's the major C++ feature I miss in C, and the one that fixes most memory leak problems in C. Also, std::vector, which solves the remaining memory leak (and most bounds problems) in C. And std::string, which solves the remaining
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Capable of curing everything with the right resource leveling and milestone scheduling.
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Which pronoun to use is very much a problem introduced by the last couple of generations. How someone or something identifies is irrelevant to almost everything. The antecedent can almost always be identified by context without resorting to
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Your understanding does not match the broadly accepted idiomatic meaning of the expression. The humour comes from the implied inversion of sacrifice, a kind of irony.
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The 250 g half-bricks are very common. It's how the foo-foo frilly butter is sold ("cultured" butter, imported French butter with 94% fat content, butter made exclusively from milk squeezed from grass-fed cows, etc) because n
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You wrote "incidentally" but I think you meant "intentionally". There is no evidence it's a coincidence, but there is a great deal of evidence that it is not.
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There are a handful of commercial offerings of C++ conformance test suites. They're all generally around 40000 euro for an evaluation copy (more for an actual full licensed copy), none are 100% complete, and we continually find bugs in
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We always leave our harvested frames outside until after dark because (a) the bees go to "sleep" at night and (2) at the time of year we're usually harvesting the temperature drops into the single digits (Celsius). But the pr
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Honeybees are domestic animals that have been selectively bred over millennia to overproduce. It's like dairy cows. If a dairy cow produced that much milk naturally, either her udders or her calf would explode. The rest I can agree wit
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Your misplaced confidence that Type II diabetes is a lifestyle disease for which you can just judge the victim is questionable. I have never been overweight, I eat healthy (mostly plants, very little refined carbs), and I am active and run
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As surveillance increases the definition of crime will expand. Consider the incentives. Surveillance is costly. The only way to justify increasing surveillance costs is to demonstrate increasing intervention in criminal activity. If traditi
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Most cancer can be prevented and if caught early treated with surgery, chemo, or radiation. No need to look for a cure, those people will probably just keep smoking or eating or exposing themselves to the environment and die anyway.
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I disagree. Fully justified text was the norm for narrow-column media such as newspapers and some magazines. Ragged-right was the norm for wider media such as printed books because, for physiological reasons discovered over centuries, it&#x

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