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by to3m 11y ago
Which certain easily offended religion is this?
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by to3m 11y ago
Yes - this is also with the phone right next to me the whole time, so it's not a case of me missing something. I assume it's possible for the phone to go into some kind of sleep mode whereby timers are checked much less frequently
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by to3m 11y ago
I'm confident in saying the countdown timer is not 100% reliable, because several times the screen has very obviously said something like "-2'15" when the alarm has gone off. I didn't really pay this much mind this
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by to3m 11y ago
Here are three of mine: (defun tom/insert-sterling-symbol () (interactive) (insert "£")) (defun tom/set-buffer-modified () (interactive) (set-buffer-modified-p 't)) (defun tom
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by to3m 11y ago
Judging by the self-consciously elliptic writing I assume the poster means you can use it to search for PORNOGRAPHY. By which I mean, videos of people fucking. EDIT: look like I was correct! https://www.reddit.com/r/Out
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by to3m 11y ago
Can this specific ecosystem please stop being a massive pile of crap? Then maybe we can have something nice to say about it :) Perhaps the new ECMAScript standard will help. I have my doubts (but as with any statement about the future it is
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by to3m 11y ago
Thor Heyerdahl made various sea voyages using pre-modern sailing technology in order to demonstrate that this sort of journey would have been feasible in ancient times. Morocco to Barbados was one such journey: https://en.wikiped
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by to3m 11y ago
This isn't supported at all in emacs by default - or, if it is, I never figured out how. You can try my pmacs script to get something sort-of-like: https://github.com/tom-seddon/bin/blob/master/pmacs
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by to3m 11y ago
Winmerge is Windows only. I imagine this means this strategy can't be followed at all unless you use Windows? ;) The approach is an alternative, as in: you can do it. I used to work that way before I used version control, and I know I&
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by to3m 11y ago
Obviously there are no plausible confounding factors, and this is the only possible rational conclusion.
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by to3m 11y ago
640x400 - since 640*400/8=32000. The ST always had 32,000 bytes of display memory. (edit: I dawdled over my reply while doing multiple nostalgic google searches, and my correction is now redundant) I don't know what they did to ma
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by to3m 11y ago
It sounds like you didn't get enough sleep last night...
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by to3m 11y ago
Nobody ever asked me about my education either. So last time I made a CV, I left my degree out, because it was just taking up space... and I got asked at the interview whether I had a degree or not. They looked at me a bit funny when I said
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by to3m 11y ago
The NTFS limit is 32768 wchars, though the standard Win32 API doesn't really expose it very well... fingers crossed they used it!
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by to3m 11y ago
"cmd.exe console" means (presumably...) a standard Windows console subsystem window. This is independent of cmd.exe, but it's common to conflate the two. Unix users often get this mixed up, presumably because they don't
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by to3m 11y ago
That's quite poetic. But I assume you mean "amoral"?
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by to3m 11y ago
You could compare them to something like the Psion Series 3 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 ), released in 1991. Possibly not common in America, though, as Psion was a UK company. Prior to the Series 3, Ps
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by to3m 11y ago
It used to be common in magazines (a magazine is like a Moleskine with a bit of blog post on each page - maybe ask your great-grandparents).
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by to3m 11y ago
I found Visual Studio a lot more reliable once I took to disabling Minimal Rebuild. (Don't ask me why I thought to try this... it's possible I read about it somewhere.) People always seemed to leave this switched on, because it so
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by to3m 11y ago
Letsby Avenue - http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/12/martinwainwright
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by to3m 11y ago
That's a great idea and I'm glad I thought of it.
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by to3m 11y ago
https://archive.is/BaZlv - "the SHA-1 hash of revision #102 of pagfault.c is 0cb82a9525a2158e2a87f5eb53d41e5936cee5a2" (this link came from the Reddit thread in which this article was discussed the other day - ht
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by to3m 11y ago
The article seemed pretty transparent to me: the author thinks NDT is dumb.
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by to3m 11y ago
It was used by its owner for FTP and email, apparently: http://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/547889.htm
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by to3m 11y ago
This is pretty standard in the UK. Your new full-time job is commonly effectively at-will for the first 3 months, and possibly more. See, e.g., http://www.jobsite.co.uk/worklife/probation-periods-19677/
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by to3m 11y ago
Talk about using C++ rather than C for embedded code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDSvjwJ2M80 (code::dive conference 2015 - Bartosz Szurgot - C++ vs C the embedded perspective)
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by to3m 11y ago
sitzpinkler ! I had no idea this was actually a word. 15 years ago, when I was a young man in my early 20s, I lived in the top floor of a house, sharing that floor (and that floor's bathroom) with two other people: a German chap, and
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by to3m 11y ago
At my old office we had a mini Xbox360 with a touch-(over-)sensitive disc eject button. Suppose somebody was playing a game and they invited you to join as player 2: you might then naturally reach for the second joypad that was on the same
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by to3m 11y ago
One of my friends went to America and didn't realise you should tip bar staff. (Rather uncommon in the UK.) At some point during one evening the topic came up, for whatever reason - and he was forced to admit that he hadn't been l
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by to3m 11y ago
Presumably young people would rather use a service that doesn't have any boring old people on it. (As to why young people rather than old ones - the value of young people to advertisers is well known.)

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