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by kurtisc 8y ago
Similar the rental market, I'd guess. Mostly done by those who couldn't afford to buy new but at a greater long-term cost. I've seen people commenting that the money you save on buying new just goes on repairs instead: I don&
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by kurtisc 8y ago
How selfless.
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by kurtisc 8y ago
Some don't look at the sticker cost as how much it will cost to them, but the cost of a few years of financing it (on good rates) + the money they lose to depreciation before they trade it in for a new car.
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by kurtisc 8y ago
Nothing in the linked article is about using AI in court.
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Assuming you only lose employees to firing.
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by kurtisc 8y ago
But then you're falling for the myth that average is synonymous with mean. Median is an average, too.
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Those are all problems with implementations, not the paradigm.
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That's a non-sequitur. One modification not being legal in your jurisdiction means nothing for other modifications. If you want to get more than a few thousand miles out of a car, you'd better be willing to modify safety-critical
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by kurtisc 8y ago
The author praises the package manager as a positive, not a negative as I usually see from people used to downloading *.exe installers. He's used other distros, plus a Mac, in the past, but I wonder if phone app stores (plus Windows&#x
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For any accidents I can think of where this modification would cause an accident, the driver would have to sit back and let the autopilot do the driving: that's irresponsible in any car. Is there something else, like severing a drive-b
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by kurtisc 8y ago
Microsoft aren't the ones supplying the tools to fake a licence, though.
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To be pedantic (of course), most of the contributions to Linux are from people paid to do it.
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From your friendly neighborhood enterprise B2B volume sales team? Or from an illegally shared copy of questionable integrity?
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I like seeing how removing the latest unwanted feature requires 'just' a few settings changes. Poetic.
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Something to do with acquiring a P45 as a noun, yes. P45 isn't itself a verb that means firing as I infer the OP to be saying.
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You seem to be telling someone who lives in London how British slang is used because you read about it a few minutes before on Wikipedia.
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You can't replace them but you can read them, copy them, and swap to the copy upon reboot.
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by kurtisc 8y ago
I've never understood why the end users of these free and libre kernels feel the need to fight so much.
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Trust me, you aren't going to solve this political battle in this comment section.
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And Americans tend to assume you have a state...
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Conversely, no other industry places so much focus on making sure that tools for professionals are easy for beginners to use, often at the expense of features.
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It's very close, the only thing left to do is solve the Travelling Salesman problem in polynomial time.
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And if you want the models that get pre-allocated, you'd better get an Instagram following.
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The BBC often congratulates itself on not showing ads. Instead, every radio show is 50% 'trailers' for other BBC things which you'll hear half a dozen times by the end of a workday.
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>Still, you need to be able to fall back and know when to fall back to more basic behavior. If the user’s stdout isn’t connected to a tty (usually this means their piping to a file), then don’t display colors on stdout. (likewise with st
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>That is where the loading bays are, so they keep the fridges nearby so cold items have less chance to heat up. The distance from bay to fridge plus fridge to the exit is the same wherever it goes.
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My frustration with a personal PC is just turning one on the morning after doing updates and having to wait an hour before I could go back to work. For silly reasons, though, I've had to update a lot of OEM Windows Home installations t
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by kurtisc 8y ago
Are they security patches, though? The difference between a critical safety update and the update that adds new things to Candy Crush is imperceptible to the casual user who just wants to get work done and will foster an unfair distrust of
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If it's anything like the UK, the wine selection will have variation. The craft beers will be 300 hoppy IPAs.
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If you tell it directly what the meaning of the text is then I disagree, you've done the hard part. Then it's not beating Pokemon, it's beating the next task on your list, e.g. 'Go and get this thing from this city and b

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