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a_gopher

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    Comment #48945438

    If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can …

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    Comment #43845727

    apart from blind users, who are also now completely unable to use their screenreaders with your site

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    Comment #42277913

    my thoughts exactly - crazy to know all these arcane SIMD opcodes but not know basic maths!!

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    Comment #40840497

    So the butterflies flew 2600 miles only to be killed for study by some curious entomologists?

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    Comment #39191069

    An old BASIC program, with full explanation

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    Comment #27431903

    Looks dead. No release for +3 years

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    Comment #25454435

    aka Sinclair ZX81. There was such a program in Your Computer that would toggle between fast and slow mode to generate tones. It was a actually a trivial 8 or 16 step tracker, so yo…

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    Comment #25297388

    OneTick, Kx, and QuasarDB

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    Comment #14745775

    Paper doesn't address what measures the aliens might use to disguise any obvious signature of the starshade. You'd think that the aliens might not be too keen to create huge beacon…

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    Comment #13332679

    Using a yellow whiteboard marker, simply colour in the LED's face. Problem solved.

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    Comment #13075600

    fair. not quite so pretty now... perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for ;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for }' .

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    Comment #13067222

    perl -E 'sub x{say;for( ){&x;unlink}};x for@ARGV' * perl -E 'push@ARGV, for@ARGV;say,unlink for@ARGV' *