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zabzonk
1y ago
So near and yet so far.
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zabzonk
1y ago
Why darkened glass?
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zabzonk
1y ago
> anyone who likes puzzles on their phone it's also available on windows and android - very good.
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zabzonk
1y ago
In Fortran, it is a do-loop :)
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zabzonk
1y ago
I've never heard of a library being called anything else - look at the common file extension .lib, for example.
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zabzonk
1y ago
C++, depending on compiler and other stuff.
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zabzonk
1y ago
which countries?
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zabzonk
1y ago
I like Eilmer: > Eilmer said he had "forgotten to provide himself with a tail."
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zabzonk
1y ago
sleeping, surely?
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zabzonk
1y ago
I think you probably have to be dead (apart from the current monarch) for this, so much as I love Sir David (and wish him to carry on), I guess it has to be the late and much lamented Sir Terry. Though if we want to honour Sir David, perhap
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Who to be on next UK banknotes?
(theguardian.com)
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1y ago
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1y ago
Understand what you are saying - we are not fatty or flavoursome enough. But you have to ask - how do they know that? I can understand why (for example) big cats are scared of guys carrying AK47s (or even a pointed stick - hello, Maasai), a
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zabzonk
1y ago
If only they didn't live in the sea, and had developed frying pan technology, they could cook shark liver and kelp! But to me, the interesting question is how the orcas worked out how the great whites had livers in the first place, and
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zabzonk
1y ago
how about illegally deporting people?
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1y ago
Only if you are lucky enough to only use one compiler, or only one version of the same one.
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zabzonk
1y ago
There is no one "the C compiler".
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zabzonk
1y ago
Templates in C++ require language support - you can't simply implement them with "a few hoops" in C.
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zabzonk
1y ago
And where are you going to get a cfront compiler these days?
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zabzonk
1y ago
Um, Mossad is one of the most efficient intelligence organisations in the world. But I have no idea why they didn't get him. And: > Mengele reportedly worked as a veterinary surgeon under the alias of 'Francisco Fischer' w
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1y ago
A little OT, but the funniest sub movie has got to be "Operation Petticoat", with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis at their best. And it does have a real (though pink) WW2 sub in it.
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zabzonk
1y ago
Because of course no Iranian people work at those bombed sites.
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zabzonk
1y ago
You can pass arguments via the command line (it is, after all, a CLI tool): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2826029/passing-addition...
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zabzonk
1y ago
Possibly. But I really like their more up-market color laser printers. They have always worked flawlessly for me. Their inkjets (and everyone else's inkjets) on the other hand ...
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1y ago
Why we can't do it: https://www.popsci.com/newts-toads-regrow-limbs-humans-evolu...
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1y ago
And they are mostly sociopaths.
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zabzonk
1y ago
Yep, the last HP LaserJet Color printer I bought came with fax. I must admit, I kind of wondered why.
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1y ago
> The purpose of a language is to encode the programmers’ contributions Where did this "contribution" stuff come from? Does anyone know here it originated (is this the origin)? It even seems that now what we used to be known as
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Bad Cyclists Being Bad
(theguardian.com)
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1y ago
Strange thing is that none of the aliens in the intro appear in the game! Not that I mind - completed it twice. Also done Enemy Unknown. Stuck on XCom 2, though.
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1y ago
I think you misunderstood my post - probably my fault. I am certainly not in favour of cryptocrap and was trying to suggest that the OP stressed he was neither.
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