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>I'm just going to leave these here: "Cute girl wearing a Free BSD costume" Please leave your nonsense elsewhere , and don't pollute this forum with cliches devoid of thought. If you have a point to make, do so, an
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>What is the issue with disabled persons ? If you missed the offensive part, look up "gimp suit" for many more interesting results.
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Rrrrrright, because observing that something is offensive to 330 million people is "imperialist" and "forcing language standards". Nobody is forcing anything, it's just that if you want people in the US to use this
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DuckDuckGo, the #1 search engine that most people use, sure. Why don't you get off your kink-shaming horse and use Google, from a private window or friend's machine (because I don't know what's going on with your searc
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>I just did and all the results are related to this software, so what is your point? My point in this case would be that you're either blind or lying if you don't get any BDSM costume pictures mixed in. Or, at best, that Goog
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>More like about 15 percent as of Feb 2024, per the UNHCR. Please, do some due diligence before making comments like this. You are incorrect. Your link counts refugees . It does not count: - people who left Ukraine and permanently se
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>I recommend not being so bothered about trivialities like names being misinterpreted. I'd recommend looking up "gimp" in an image search, and not dismissing valid concerns as trivialities. On the note of mis interpreta
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>And you only have to connect to their servers once every 30 days. You don't even need a 4G connection for that, it's just a few kilobytes exchanged to renew the offline period. So, if I have a playlist in Spotify to listen to
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That's not being worked on at all. The problem isn't lack of data service on ships. It's things stopping to work offline.
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>I suspect there's a cost associated with licensing the Ukrainian version that will not be recouped in markets outside Ukraine. About a third of Ukrainians are currently outside Ukraine due to war. Even setting that aside, [citati
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>Frequently subtitles are available for every language except the original on many services... which seems insane. I didn't even bother bringing up accessibility, since it's so laughably broken (if not outright ignored) with
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>I also am drawn to piracy just so i can get a high enough bitrate to look good on a modern display! Then there's languages and subtitles, and publishers still don't get that shit right. FFS, I can't watch a Ukrainian
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>I don’t know a single person who pirates music anymore. It’s way too convenient to pay $5-10/month for unlimited access to nearly every record ever created. Do you know any single person who travels outside of 4G coverage? Becaus
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Sure, but I remember pirating La Maman Et La Putain specifically because it was yet-to-be-released by Criterion in any form - and it was Jean Eustache's masterpiece that made a splash at the Cannes back in 1972, not an obscure film b
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>Democrats insisted on COVID restrictions that were more like religion than science and then they just stopped and everyone was fine. You... You missed out on the whole vaccines part here. Amazing. >What would have changed if the re
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Yes, and it has the path independence property, as well as the ability to arrive at any orientation with a single drag. But hey, most implementations talk about using quaternions , which scare people. And so the author of the article (..
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>Under the Biden/Harris administration even software engineers were hurting and couldn't find work. Unprecedented Sure. And why do you think that might be? In other words, do you think policy changes have instantaneous effect
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>But when people feel like their struggling to afford diapers and cereal most other issues become secondary. Not entirely unreasonable. Now, if only they had the brains to realize that the economy during the current term was shaped by
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How about "performs as fast as C++, compiles as fast as Java"?
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Pascal = Turbo Pascal if we're taking late 80s/early 90s. Everything else is blasphemy. After that, Pascal = Delphi (for quite a while). The fact that both are commercial, closed-source (and, in case of Delphi, quite pricey) packa
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You say this as if fast compilation speed somehow means bad performance. This is a false dichotomy. Pascal compiles fast and runs fast. Then there's the fact that performance of a program depends on far more things than the language
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I'm disagreeing with everything you're saying here. Not because you're wrong. But because I'm in this picture and I don't like it, and I just found out that "boomer millennial" is a fitting descriptor. God
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Narrator: it did not, in fact, save the day.
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>"Discovery" can mean revealing knowledge that was previously known to insiders, eg. if I say "I discovered an underground smuggling ring and reported it to the police", you probably wouldn't argue that "yo
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> Are any major sites using this method, or at least providing a way to combine sort with a filter items with under X ratings 1. Reddit's default sorting algorithm was (and perhaps still is) based on this 2. Google's internal Q
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Thank you for this comment! Sometimes I wonder whether it's worth to write anything of this sort, or am I screaming into the void. Your comment makes it absolutely worth it.
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>Computational photography uses AI a lot (next to parametric approaches), and without these algorithms, smartphone cameras would be quite shitty Nah. Smartphone cameras stopped being shitty a while ago, long before AI and computational p
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>Why do you think I presented those questions side by side? Perhaps because cowardice prevented you from stating your point clearly, so instead you resorted to vague implications in the form of a question. A fine tactic which gives the
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The conversation involving " most modern BF implementations" is always a great one.
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Came here to note that this seem to accomplish little that's not already there.
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