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2zcon
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Comment #22557214
>His two front teeth (red box) are different shapes and sizes. The teeth on the right side of his mouth have not been rendered properly at all. An analysis of Max’s facial features…
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Comment #22556855
I know it's useful because I used it every day during a holiday in Japan. Menus, tickets, signs.
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Comment #22504835
>you have to trudge through two decades of websites to discover anything >type :help or for on-line help This is not for show!
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Comment #22502833
I do understand it but, for my colleagues and friends who don't have English as their first language, it adds another caveat to learn and remember without a logical basis. That's a…
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Comment #22495443
>the people who needed it more and were willing to pay more got it And there the idealism breaks down. Willing to pay more - which you always are if it becomes a life-or-death situ…
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Comment #22486067
Where have you seen this?
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Comment #22485192
I only know not to write things so complex because either I have made the mistake or some generation of someone I've learned from has made the mistake. It's not a logic problem, wh…
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Comment #22476047
Isn't that the same for most open-source software[1]? To a Wikipedia editor going into a programming project to correct documentation, it might seem absurd that we want them to 'pa…
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Comment #22474578
I didn't interpret the letter as laying out a plan that must work. I understood: - If governments stop funding coal, coal goes down. - Governments are likely to stop funding coal. …
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Comment #22474563
That's out-of-scope for an email to bank leaders.
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Comment #22473340
If you don't know already: we (in the UK) have our own NRA. It's much more like CAMRA than the US NRA.
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Comment #22436379
Then you spend the whole movie obsessing about if it's true or not, making it even worse.
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Comment #22435802
If there are multiple ways of achieving the same result (e.g. assignment) and you want to be consistent, you have to choose a subset. If there are features that time has shown to b…
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Comment #22435685
Much as I didn't mean to insult anyone with my post, I'm sure you meant to add value by calling it petty and fallacious. Picking up features in a language you already use is easier…
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Comment #22432478
OK but if you're a competent, adult software engineer it should be fairly easy to overcome that problem.
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Comment #22422304
Having been in a taxi with a driver who bragged about staying up all night on stimulants, I disagree.
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Comment #22422038
>I always thought the only way forward with IoT was if it a big tech player offered an SDK / IoT platform that allowed developers to focus on the widgety part of their widget witho…
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Comment #22415163
I don't see Singapore's public housing system coming to the Western world any time soon
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Comment #22403757
The intro screen tells you exactly how to open help and exit. Man gives you even clearer instructions.
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Comment #22382804
It's over 50% at £50k if you have a plan 2 student loan
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Comment #22382251
Do you know a rough percentage for how many wind-turbines in use are modern turbines like these?
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Comment #22374246
But we're not intuitively familiar with what happens when those stars get really big and start being black holes and exhibiting relativity. Fortunately, like waves, we can manage t…
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Comment #22367429
If you get pulled over and have your fake plates ran you've already lost any gains from skipping tolls. If they're using ANPR, they don't even need to pull you over.
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Comment #22325864
I had this exact discussion at work. Say you have test(X). X is a random number in range A to B. Say someone else has test_range(A, B). Instead of running for one input, it runs te…
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Comment #22325512
There have been multiple other UK cities with proposals for congestion charges which have been rejected. Transport doesn't really work the same way outside of the M25.