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Slow_Dog

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    Comment #48458376

    Indeed. Pick any two of Ticketmaster, Dice, AXS, Skiddle and seetickets. There are so many it's not straightforward to track down where your ticket is when you're off to the gig.

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    Comment #48413630

    Maybe there are reasons Europe is pulling away from the US? The current US president has threatened to invade European territory, is attempting to impose Russia's preferred "peace"…

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    Comment #48034312

    So you're saying you can spot AI generated bullshit, but not spot a deliberate and hilarious contrivance that the author uses to reinforce their point?

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    Comment #47860893

    A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build and A Monster's Expedition are games in the same genre with much better presentation than Sausage Roll.

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    Comment #47752240

    It's 30 years since I visited Zion. So beautiful. The best part of a trip that included Lake Powell, Yosemite and the Grand Cannyon, though those were all great. Being British, bas…

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    Comment #38249364

    This explains the naff "Captain Crunch" section of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon". Not that you can get it where I live; it would have made sense to do a "Weetabix" section with…

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    Comment #37416641

    The document's initial example of diagonalization doesn't explain it properly. It shows how you can find a binary string that's not in the list; fine. But it's conveniently a list …

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    Comment #36862130

    It's got several 4x7 pixel displays.

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    Comment #36139966

    It's not even that. Plenty of everyday people "swanned around having a lovely time" too; or at least, didn't think the restrictions should apply to them. Sure, in some of the cases…

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    Comment #36057692

    Venus has the smallest average distance from each point of the Earth's orbit to the nearest point on the other planet's orbit. I.e. whenever we're shown a diagram of the solar syst…

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    Comment #35195767

    I have Glaucoma. The software seems on a par with the other automated fields tests I have regularly at hospital, and the output looks similar, showing approximately the same areas …

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    Comment #34955104

    It's made clear from the context that "good" is "a good match". There's nothing wrong with most of those other men, but they're not going to be people that she will want to spend t…

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    Comment #34488422

    "the member whose value is closest to zero" is described by those 14 symbols within the speech marks. As you say, the definition is contradictory.

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    Comment #34366864

    One seeks to find a clear and beautiful double-negative-free rendition of the same sentence, written by thy own fair hand. Alas, one seeks in vain, as the critic fails this test of…

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    Comment #33529679

    I'm in my mid 50's. The software group I'm part of has a spread of ages with people older than me all the way down to new graduates. I was new graduate once. For the vast majority …