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ballmerspeak

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    Comment #40707961

    Helium is used to pressurize hydrogen and other gases to move them through the plumbing. This link says "before takeoff" but its also used after. https://www.uky.edu/~garose/helium…

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    Comment #29248965

    Welp. I ruined emojis for everyone. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Comment #29121325

    Like others have said: great job. Usually there is a tradeoff of functional, aesthetics, and open source/no tracking where we only get 2 of the 3. EZ 5-star review for me.

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    Comment #28124348

    It's Mercury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU

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    Comment #27382243

    If those buttons are appealing, I recognize them from this blog post by Josh Comeau https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button/

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    Comment #26662932

    As someone who began programming in undergrad, Java was the university's language of choice for the "introduction to programming" course. My first internship was in Java SE 6 and p…

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    Comment #26468264

    This is fantastic. I'll be using on a new project and will happily provide feedback.

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    Comment #26401369

    > I don't. Programmers are retards. That's my answer to everything. And the only evidence I need is that C++ exists. > (Literally, people lack imagination. They're satisfied with t…

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    Comment #26138624

    I really hope Cave Jackson is Cave Johnson in a mustache holding a lemon

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    Comment #25280158

    If its a scanned PDF (essentially a collection of 1 image per page), there would need to be an OCR step to get some text out first. Tesseract would work for this. Once that's done,…

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    Comment #25155066

    It had to have started there right? But I think this could also be valuable before hitting the peak. But then again, unraveling a drunkenly produced chunk of LISP doesn't exactly s…