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by snerbles 10y ago
It was really for physical education...the question posed by my parents was "Tee-ball or karate?" Needless to say that most six and seven-year-old boys have ninja aspirations. It was a source of discipline, and the dojo was one o
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Transitioning from a home schooled to an institutional education setting at the age of 11 was quite brutal. At least I had martial arts training.
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Having rotated through public, private and home-schooling I'd say that you weren't missing much. I can obviously only speak from my experience and anecdotes from peers. The transition from a respectful homeschooled peer group to
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How diverse is a block of students with an age variance of 12 months, with little exposure outside of that band? As an aside, before charter schools the only way to legally homeschool in California was through declaring one's home a pr
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I found socializing in institutional school settings is mostly with other students of the same age, with less consideration for tact. My socialization as a (partly) home-schooled student involved interaction with a much wider band of ages,
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C also allows for inline assembly.
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Not that it answers your question, but JS dialects can be found in other strange embedded places such as Cognex's DataMan industrial barcode readers.
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They add a reminder of history, for those of you who are quick to forget.
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> And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Ubuntu userland, with no Linux kernel. It could be more appropriately named GNU/Windows, amusingly enough.
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The line between the two varies, and is subject to the whims of whoever controls the platform.
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For a determined user, rolling burner/VOIP phone numbers is not much of a hassle.
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Courts are known to throw out the occasional pre-nup, depending on jurisdiction.
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Scenario 2 describes Europe shortly before World War I. In some ways the world is quite different now, with nuclear deterrent...but it's still worth considering history.
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Also drumming up fear about Trump supporters. Deplorable or not, consistently insulting large swathes of your voters is ill-advised.
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> The biggest complaint I regularly see about it is that people are used to the screen keybindings. That's my problem with Tmux. Ctrl-a,d is already burned into muscle memory, and for my applications Screen is "good enough&quo
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How did you get started?
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They did develop the SGR-A1 sentry turret about a decade ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azQzwI9-GHU
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> The [old] Microsoft was not able to see mobile as anything other than another way to sell outlook. This is best evidenced by their pre-iPhone smartphones, most of which were little more than PocketPCs with keyboards and cellular hardwa
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Status signalling.
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Along with all of the prior generation consoles - Xbox 360, PS3, Wii.
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YouTube normally keeps a recording of the stream available after it's finished.
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by snerbles 10y ago
If it's anything like the 9343 model from 2015, a T5 Torx driver and a wedge tool can pop it open. I swapped the Broadcom card for an Intel 7620 in mine. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell+XPS+13+Teardown/3
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by snerbles 10y ago
I'll reconsider when ad networks stop bloating websites, autoplaying videos and shore up their security. Until then, you can pry my adblocker out of my cold, dead hands.
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Blocked by company firewall, probably because of the word "tittie" in the URL.
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Maybe I just need to leave California, then.
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Support from the American populace consists of flag-waving and slapping "Support our Troops" yellow ribbon magnets on their cars. Unless they're personally related to someone in the military, servicemembers and veterans are
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It won't yield long-term happiness for most of them, but knowing that doesn't deal with the hazards these men have observed in marriage. I've seen enough of my peers (male and female, to be fair) be put through the divorce r
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After what happened to Microsoft's Tay, I'm sure that's one of their top concerns.
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In many developed countries, humans are the apex predator. Hunting is strictly regulated to positively impact wildlife and fund conservation efforts.
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It would be more accurate to say that most of Star Trek depicts life in Starfleet, a pseudo-military institution (Roddenberry insisted that it isn't, while war isn't Starfleet's main purpose it shares enough traits with moder

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