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by tom_ 9y ago
But he didn't poison the food.
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by tom_ 9y ago
Call it what you will. I think the distinction is valid, as working animals have a job, and treatment standards for pets don't apply. Working dogs need to be able to hold it in and/or stand up to a bit of being jerked around at th
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by tom_ 9y ago
A guide dog isn't a pet.
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by tom_ 9y ago
I like portrait mode too, so much in fact that I've got 2 x Dell 27" U2715H monitors (2560x1440 eIPS) set up that way. I've been using this setup for about 18 months now, and I really rate it. 1440x2560 is a very usable resol
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by tom_ 9y ago
America uses the US Customary "system" - it's similar to Imperial, but some of the liquid measurements are different.
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by tom_ 9y ago
Short-term CGT in the US is around the 40-50% mark, something like that. Our hero bought 8 BTC for $7,200, or so goes their story, then sold it for $120,000-worth of altcoins, making a taxable gain of $113,800. 45% of that taxable gain = ~$
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by tom_ 9y ago
There's an entry point in the BBC Micro's OS that's routine that prints a character, or LF+CR if the character is CR (13). This routine prints the CR second, so that when it was called with 13 originally it can fall through i
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by tom_ 9y ago
I wonder if this would have been a big concern for home computer vendors at the time. How many of them would have used Unix? Even if they had, would Unix even have been popular enough to really matter?
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by tom_ 9y ago
If they’re making their own CPUs, they can presumably add whatever additional functionality and/or instructions are necessary to make emulation or JIT translation work effectively. But even if flat-out performance isn’t as good, what a
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by tom_ 9y ago
Not sure how it would be in other dialects, but I expect most British English speakers would think it a bit shit.