stormdennis

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by stormdennis 4y ago
Mine's a B&W samsung laser. I print a decent amount but sporadically, No issues, fast and reliable and generic replacement toner cartridges are cheap on Amazon (which was where I bought the printer for about 50 quid).
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by stormdennis 4y ago
We made and used quills in primary school, in a sort of arts and crafts/history crossover, I suppose. Didn't hold us back any, hopefully.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I think five shillings (20 shillings in a pound) was sometimes called a dollar because for a long time there were four US dollars to the pound.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I'm amazed at your pricing but it looks from your community forum activity that you have a market. Well done in an era where everyone expects stuff for free.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
"The proposed Chat control EU law will" If it's a proposed law then it should read "The proposed Chat control EU law would"
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Yes, I didn't know what it was so I had looked it up before I saw yours. The definition I got is below: A common table expression, or CTE, is a temporary named result set created from a simple SQL statement that can be used in subseque
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by stormdennis 4y ago
>And that valuation is created entirely due to IP law. In that case, the value of land is created entirely by property law. A farmer has the exclusive right to land from the existing fixed supply that the entire world has available to it
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Meaning you don't value the time that someone puts into building software as highly as the time a farmer puts into paying his mortgage.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
If you're implying that the farmer would still have an income then it's not a valid analogy. If I open sourced my software that I've been continuously developing for more than 20 years my income would drop to almost zero, imm
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by stormdennis 4y ago
After 10 years should farmers have to give away their land for free too?
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by stormdennis 4y ago
K A Stroud Engineering Mathematics is probably the book that helped me most. 31 chapters each composed of about 60 problems. The problems are progressive and contain explanations of the new concepts that they contain. All the answers are a
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Good post. Are there any downsides? I use alcohol to excess, a habit I developed in the days when socialising was something I wanted/needed to do but needed help with it.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I hope you're not being serious
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I do the wordle and if you asked me ten minutes later what the word was, I haven't a clue.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Firstly I'd say that although there are 180 dental practices, there is only one patient, I think a study would need a lot more than that. I cannot read the article but at how many practices did this person have x-rays taken? I doubt it
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Unless would drive me insane. I do use IF NOT but when reading code my brain understands this format most clearly: IF some-expression ELSE Do-something
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Indeed. In our prefab classroom in winter, sitting on the class storage heater before classes started was the prime real estate.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
The fact that it's been in beta since forever means even the developers don't trust it themselves.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
On a tangent. I used to be able play youtube videos on firefox on my old android phone with the screen turned off. It was some setting in firefox that I can't seem to remember or else is no longer there. It was great because you could
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I knew someone who was hired as a carpenter with no training or experience. It happens in a housing bubble.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
To cap it all you'll feel guilty for feeling this way in later years when they're gone.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
The author was a veteran of WW2. In 1989 he was 65. He died in 2012, aged 88.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Years back we rented a flat in a building that housed a lot of retired people. A regulation we weren't aware of was that you weren't allowed to hang anything on the railings of your balcony. On a day off we were cleaning and left
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I'm pretty certain that the advertising of women's things using beautiful, scantily dressed, women must work, it's being going on for long enough.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Should it not be Bakers' Math?
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by stormdennis 4y ago
She's a genius[1]. Took me an age to figure out what the rules were and then a fair while to actually get it done. [1]Well compared to me anyway
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by stormdennis 4y ago
Thanks. I feel myself that l am too influenced by critics. Years ago I used to go to Blockbuster and come away with random movies based on blurb on the back of the dvd case. Nowadays I'm wary of watching a movie unless it has a great s
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I use firefox mainly because it feels less creepy than chrome and works great with uBlock Origin.
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by stormdennis 4y ago
How many users does a browser need to break even? 4% of a billion is still 40 million
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by stormdennis 4y ago
I always felt slightly ashamed for the fact that I don't use foreign keys. I feel better having read this thread!

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