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jtvjan
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>And here in the Netherlands it is with many a sin to have the TV on in the background Yes. Background noise is the radio's job. Why waste energy keeping a panel on if nobody's gonna look at it?
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Then again, it says you get a free 30-day trial for the enterprise version, so it's more like a shutdown in a month.
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I like how the little w and 人 make a big W in negative space.
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NPM expects packages to follow semantic versioning. If a package contained a breaking change like that, there would be a major version bump, and you'd have to upgrade manually. If the maintainers wasn't acting maliciously, they co
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5y ago
Conversely, the old desktop skin has been updated to work well on mobile. I really like how they carried the "pixel art" icon aesthetic over to retina displays. (When you zoom in, you'll see that they're actually vectors
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I don't think it's practical. The lossy compression that GSM uses is incompatible with the protocol used with modems, which assume the analog characteristics of real phone lines. If you want to reach a BBS on your phone, you could
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5y ago
Oh darn, you're right! They look so similar.
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The real problem in the screenshot is that none of the options are the correct answer. It should be たべ, but the buttons say フル, ユウベ and ユキ.
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5y ago
At least for Firefox, you can look at the browser error console (Ctrl+Shift+J) to always see error messages, even if the script failed to inject.
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Probably. I used that add-on a while ago, and it also modifies your form submissions. Learnt that the hard way.
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Is there a flag to disable tilde escapes, or a similar command that doesn't have this feature? The mail command is a really convenient way of sending mail in scripts.
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Looks like the OP accidentally linked directly to the captcha challenge page. Solving it takes you to the home page. They probably meant to link here: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/Gordon%20Linoff
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5y ago
That's a 2016 meme. Much too recent.
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But, of course, bigsite.coms tend to have the funds required to not have to ask people for free labour.
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> but is the 5G for cellphone mini towers the same as the 5G for wifi networks Nah. "5G" in Wi-Fi refers to transmitting around 5 GHz instead of the usual 2.4 GHz. "5G" in mobile refers to the fifth generation of cell
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Oh yeah I assumed the T stood for tera. ~> units '1.5 teraJPY' gigaEUR * 11.511012
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1.5T JPY ⩯ 11.5G EUR ⩯ 13.6G USD ⩯ 9.9G GBP ⩯ 18.4G AUD
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Now all that's left is for Microsoft to add EXT support to NT.
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Perhaps they're trying to avoid a situation where banned people get a better experience because they don't have to deal with the social features.
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This doesn't seem to be implemented. `pctt.c' is an empty file.
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Not really. I don't know in advance which symbols I want to type, and even then I'd have to learn where I put the symbols on the custom layout, while the compose sequences I can usually guess. Considering the amount of background
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How would you know at "compile time" whether a library failed to load?
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I recently tried that with my Epson Ecotank, but instead of rendering the document, it just printed out the literal source code. It then held the paper halfway through the machine until I sent enough newlines. I was only half disappointed.
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But unfortunately, the KHTML engine behind it is no longer being developed. Most people use it with the Qt WebEngine backend, which is Chromium-based.
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I'd get it if it was Goatse, but this is just regular porn. If they simply wanted to earn money from ads, serving something more milquetoast would make more sense, because now there's a rush to remove old embeds. Why?!
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Matthias Ettrich, the founder of KDE, called it that in this post: https://groups.google.com/g/de.comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Ia...
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The K stands for kool!
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In 1974, the UK government abandoned the long scale (million, milliard, billion, billiard) in favor of the short scale (million, billion, trillion, quadrillion) used in the US. The long scale is still used in languages like Dutch, German, a
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>the cyclist bad humor slecht humeur? That's "bad mood".
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>but was subsequently removed The given deletion reason was pretty funny, too: “Offensive; Derogatory naming. (short for "special need"; a person who acts like a complete retard.)”[1] ‘Sneed’ is a joke from The Simpsons.[2] [1]
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