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b409ba0801cd21

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    Comment #35681833

    What surprises me the most about these decompilation projects is that they post the whole decompiled code instead of just a list of directives to feed into a given (hopefully open …

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    Comment #32894191

    https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/910.3B.pdf Perhaps there is a concern that the croudfunds could be considered a third party payment under subsection 4. The only explanation th…

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    Comment #32672451

    When I first learned about how privileged ports worked, I thought a better system would be to have per port security that resembles filesystem security. That is, each port would ha…

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    Comment #29766407

    Ground source heat pump systems can handle colder climates well. Underground, the temperature is rather stable through the year. This is especially true when the loops are installe…

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    Comment #29567499

    I wonder if there have been any efforts to sabotage crowdsourced AI training and content moderation by signing up on crowdworking platforms and intentionally providing false respon…

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    Comment #19704721

    In February, Arkansas eased restrictions on municipal broadband. I had a quick look at the text of the bill, and it appears that municipalities must get grant funding as opposed to…

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    Comment #14173824

    That was true of the DSP-1, but not true of the SuperFX or SA1. The DSP-1 was a preprogrammed microcontroller that preformed certain calculations that would have been inefficient t…

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    Comment #12964036

    The first thing I thought of when I saw the headline: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/ktoast.html

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    Comment #9469392

    Is anyone else having the video stop with a buffering spinner and little or no network activity a few seconds after starting the stream? EDIT: I ended up working around it by switc…

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    Comment #8858642

    This reminded me of a toy I had as a kid: the Tomy Tutor Play Computer. The screen was a lenticular lens over a paper scroll, and pressing the space bar caused the lens to move ver…

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    Comment #8797027

    I was able to get back with the back/forward pulldown(on Firefox).

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    Comment #8679563

    My parents bought a second hand Tandy 1000TX in the early 90s, largely for my use. I remember being excited playing with the Deskmate music software, but that did not last long. Af…

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    Comment #8673014

    Common emulator features ranging from game specific hacks to cheat injectors that detect the game being played have been around a long time. If that is all that is left, the patent…

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    Comment #8144904

    I checked on the status of Lime Text recently, and it is clearly not ready for prime time.

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    Comment #6796484

    Actually the encoding is UTF-8 but the server is not telling clients, so clients are often guessing it is something like Windows-1252.

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    Comment #6655878

    When I entered my zip code, the site stated that my state, Arkansas, is running its own exchange. In fact, Arkansas defaulted to the federal exchange.

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    Comment #6648407

    The PC speaker does not have much of a DAC. Before the common use of ASIC chipsets, the PC speaker was connected to one of the channels of a clock divider chip. The other channel w…

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    Comment #5735773

    The single page format would be even better. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/world/asia/exposes-of-chin...

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    Comment #5366494

    No paywall: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100546342

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    Comment #5157582

    I have a feeling that it is going to appear at https://github.com/paulrosenzweig/hipstersnake in the near future.

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    Comment #4800974

    The copyright holder of a program can legally license their program under the terms of the GPL along with extra terms of their choosing. Of course, the program's overall license ma…

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    Comment #4789663

    I think that it appears for users that are not logged in.