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ecpottinger
4y ago
The difference, an engineer is told what to build and tries to do that. A programmer is told what to do, and half way thru development they have the boss show up and say 'I just read of this brilliant idea in BusinessWeek, lets add
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4y ago
It is the default I wish in all de-allocations no matter what OS you are talking about. That way there is no 'dead' data to be probed for.
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4y ago
That is not a fridge, unless you are very north it does not take down to 4C. This is closer to a root or wine cellar. It will let you store perishables longer but as good a proper fridge does. Big plus, no external power needed.
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4y ago
Sorry, the booster had a problem in it's engine, not explosion. Also the capsule blasted free, the plume of the escape rocket made the booster look like it exploded, but later the telemetry say the booster was in one piece as it fell d
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4y ago
Which requires lots of electric power.
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4y ago
Looked at my scales this morning, boy are you right.
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4y ago
And if you must have the phone in case you need to call for help, take the battery out or turn it completely off so they can't call you.
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4y ago
Please note I have not cruised the last two years, but I remember there was something like a $5 a day option on Carnival for email only, no web browse just email.
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4y ago
I go on cruises with my computer full of videos. I will relax on deck while watching a movie (usually something funny) and time and time have someone how I get should good internet streaming. Then I get weird looks because I say I have no i
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4y ago
What a load of garbage. The fact is there are plenty of manmade light sources in the sky already. And as for the exhaust of putting up the Starlinks how about subtracting all the exhaust fumes from the cars from people who now work at home
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4y ago
Interestingly enough, the people at Tesla are using a CFloat 8 format to get the most speed. Sometimes what you need is speed in processing.
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4y ago
Or, some people will never learn from the past and give out money.
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4y ago
What a load of bulls---. For removing chemicals activated charcoal does a better job, also if the clay filter stops the chemicals they must build up inside the clay until the clay can no longer absorb more just like the charcoal filter. Als
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4y ago
I wrote a different program called SAM - Simulated Artificial Mentality. It looked for common strings inside a sentence and responded with one of 5 random choose sentences. It had the ability to add new sentences as it was used so over time
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4y ago
I have a friend who stopped eating gummies for the same reason. They found the chocolate bars easier to break into the smaller pieces since they are grooved that way.
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4y ago
Yes, the first thing I thought of was FORTH.
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4y ago
I wrote XModem on a Pet-2001 in BASIC. It worked fine at 300 Baud. At the time you wanted simple and small code.
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4y ago
But as I use my internet, I never worry about what the CEO looks like, I never worry about if there is a male or female controlling matters. All I am concern with is the speed of my connection and the uptime. Keep the costs in check and th
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4y ago
Have tried to buy paper maps lately? I have and was surprise how hard they are to get for many places. On the other hand I had copies to google screen shots for most places I want.
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4y ago
Trump and his people are always trying to claim credit.
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Why did they double down on hi,? The first time he went into the car, but is the following meeting was unneeded.
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4y ago
Excuses, Beer and Wife problems. 3,200 years and we still have the same complaints. :)
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All I can say, if they have a working system, just make power and sell the power. Seems every time something like this comes up they can`t produce power and sell it for money, but they want you to invest money in them. If they are anything
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Looks like an attempt to get suckers to come in and supply personal information. Both Shark Tank and Dragon's Den release their rules before you tried to join them. Here they want you to register without telling anything about themselv
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And still they delay Starship because it would make they look bad.
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5y ago
All I see is CGI, not flying motorbike.
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5y ago
Could the Amiga file type use of Hunks be used here? Your code sections were in Hunks with each Hunk having a relative section that tells where offsets need to be updated to match the position in memory the Hunk was written to.
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Idiots, like every one of these type of attacks you first have to install the right software into the computer before you get any communications. The only time I seen where you do not have to have access to the computer was when someone fig
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The problem is the amount of time it will take to improve Mars using just this method.
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5y ago
I am sure he mention the engaging a 38 tooth gear that meant a 19 year cycle was done at half the speed first thought was needed.
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