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Yes this article is about orphans, not widows. However some people use the terms interchangeably. Widows don't exist without page or column divisions.
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It would be interesting to see how this mode handles foreground objects such as an aeroplane or clouds. Does it just overdraw it (i.e. erase it), apply texture over the foreground element, or fail altogether? This scenario is probably why o
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This couldn't be the same Huawei who has been caught repeatedly using DSLR stock photography in their marketing materials, while claiming the images were taken by their smartphones. https://petapixel.com/2020/04&#x
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I'm thinking that perhaps in time it could be something like an IUD and not a parasite. That said leeches are also a parasitic worm that is successfully used in medicine - so maybe we just need to change our viewpoint for the short ter
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Shh, they'll send Big Eraser to rub you out.
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Even if the goal isn't to learn handwriting. Learning handwriting is an excellent means to develop fine motor movement. Many of our modern tools utilise the precision we learned in handwriting to perform other functions. Whether that&#
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"Also, I personally find that I have much greater retention for handwritten vs typed information." Studies support your anecdote: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/taking-notes-by-hand-c...
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Not the commenter, but as far as unconventional anecdotes for autoimmune disorders go, how does intestinal worms whet your appetite? https://www.healthline.com/health-news/patients-resorting-to... Study from the articl
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"As a matter of fact, I carry a pair of earplugs in my pocket, just in case I encounter anything loud that would damage my hearing." Fun fact: Frequently using earplugs is also a cause of tinnitus (through at least 6 identified ro
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Dear home-owner, I like the flowers in your front garden. Please be cool and never change them. I like them there when I drive by from time to time. No I won't just take a photo of them, or plant my own. I need you to maintain them, ne
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I can't claim to be this clever, but I do remember a friend telling me at least two decades ago that all he gives the taxi is the postcode + house number. Seems this is also not some special knowledge as all of his friends did the same
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This is one of those things which sounds great on the surface, but isn't going to work out like they assume it will. It just seems like it'll end up being SMS 2.0. For example Meta's Instagram chat doesn't even have feat
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Anecdotally (i.e. the children around me and clients who have approached me with specific problems because they're not well versed with social media). - 1. Spending a long amount of time interacting online, obviously means that what ha
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A similar issue: finding a photo relevant to the discussion. Photo searching has come a long way but it's often not fast enough to keep up a discussion. It really blunts the flow. I just say "I'll send it later", and oft
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Also an overlooked point is diversification: Apple's chip aspirations have allowed functionality that isn't trivially/inexpensively possible with standard parts. This also makes copying any unique ideas much more difficult, s
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Sounds like we should just rename encryption to "child protection". So politicians need to "remove child protection" in order to get their way. (Yes I'm being glib, but it's possible to short circuit this kind
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>As opposed to what, them normally not trying to increase profits? I didn't imply or state that: strawman. >Had the pandemic not happened, would we expect CEOs to be like "meh, the last few years were pretty good so I'm
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I think the core issue is that most people don't think of it as logically as you do. As you stated the right thing to do is to look at interest rates and not overexpose oneself to the effects of inevitable rate changes. How most people
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Every company I work with is trying to make up for profit lost over the covid years. Surprise surprise company after company are now posting record profits.
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Something which developers have widely refused to embrace despite being pushed by Steve Jobs himself during the iPhone keynote. Yet somehow it's always Apple holding it back with their magical minority market share.
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I dare say that "actual storage less" (and other equivalent phrases) are now past the point of covering for the discrepancy. 5%+ of missing capacity is definitely large enough for the actual expected capacity to be used for market
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I did read the article. Did you? Are you upset that my opinion doesn't agree with the tone of the article? It doesn't define my opinion on the matter. Actually looking at the bottles did. The flavourings written directly on the la
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Style 2 is either broken or my doctor. Full legibility results in scribbles.
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They both contain alcohol. The one that is labelled "whiskey" contains whiskey, the one that is not labelled "whiskey" doesn't contain whiskey. Should a rational consumer find this to be deceptive?
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One probably doesn't need to be too generous with a devil's advocate: There are two kinds of scannable identification placed on luggage. The first is the more obvious loop tag, and the second are 2 secondary smaller barcode sticke
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Similar to Dall-e: It's output looks impressive and revolutionary if that's not your field of expertise. If it is, it looks closer to Clippy rather that HAL. Thus it's not the UnemploymentMaker5000™. There's a number of
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You raise an excellent point about Googling. By the way sites like Pinterest, dominate Google results, a stranger would incorrectly believe that it is some kind of key "go to" website of the internet. Instead it's the reason
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Interestingly it shows the tenuous nature of the plaintiffs case, even before getting into the plaintiff's large errors. Since reasonably simplified information about SD is available and/or the plaintiff could have involved an exp
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It's actually worse, because automatic and invoke will let you chain up GANs to fix faces and the like, and both have trivial installation procedures. This offering is like going back to August 2022.
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There may also be an element of self-selection here. I follow the tech news loosely and from my experience Meta have received significantly more high-level news coverage, including a lot of doom-sayer pieces. The Google news tends to be loc
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