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Jam0864

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    Comment #8485891

    Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.

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    Comment #8018161

    Better cross-platform support. In my experience .NET works fine in Mono anyway, so by extension F# is likely fine on Linux/OSX, but your mileage may vary.

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    Comment #7942486

    How much swap space should you allocate for e.g. 16GB RAM? Every reference I've read suggests there's no need for swap space once you have more than ~2GB of RAM, but I find that ex…

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    Comment #7942302

    Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.

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    Comment #6366133

    Apple has overcharged both in Australia and Europe for decades, even when the currency has been strong. It's simply because they believe that people who live there will stomach a l…

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    Comment #6366005

    What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.

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    Comment #6067850

    Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?

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    Comment #5982270

    not in neutral

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    Comment #5925796

    Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.

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    Comment #5630131

    Opera Mini has a proxy server it uses to compress data before it reaches your device. This is extremely useful when using mobile data because it's both faster and cheaper. (At leas…

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    Comment #5329697

    ...no it doesn't

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    Comment #5269176

    Hopefully this one day becomes the case with UML.

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    Comment #5268883

    This makes perfect sense; we think of programming languages changing the way solutions are designed all the time. That's why we learn so many different ones. Unfortunately I doubt …

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    Comment #5268832

    This trend towards ridiculously large font sizes is becoming exceedingly annoying. There's been so many articles about it, and many pseudo-techy (trendy) blogs are adopting the lar…

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    Comment #5268497

    This is an amazing website, cheers!

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    Comment #5081416

    The heat causes the brittle solder joints to crack; applying more heat melts the solder and "reflows" it. This is a common fix for PC video cards too.