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chb

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    Comment #48997996

    The "Hardware" link indicates that the BoM specifies a "24-pin SPI e-paper for GoodDisplay panels (3.97″, 4.26″, 7.5″ and up)." A search turns up this: https://www.good-display.com…

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    Comment #48967703

    It seems to be a typo, unless the criteria for the award have changed: https://www.arrl.org/was

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    Comment #48907321

    Am I the only one who thinks the ending is a non-sequitur? How is the hackneyed, "the kids are allright" [sic] related to the preceding content?

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    Comment #48907228

    >Click here to see the "how this was made" feature ^ at the bottom of the article

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    Comment #48733860

    This. And the "individual with technical savvy saving his child-like clients" scenario described earlier in this thread is delusional and Dilbertian.

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    Comment #48664547

    Reminiscent of Steve Friedl's excellent work: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html

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    Comment #48258727

    What “modern platform” would you suggest?

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    Comment #47975775

    First I saw that it's written in Perl. Then I realized that the last release was 11 years ago and that the repository domains are hardcoded in the one-file script.

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    Comment #47520396

    So was Trump being inclusive or exclusive when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

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    Comment #47315874

    Is it possible that the supply of used GPUs available to home builders will somehow increase as the result of this?

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    Comment #47087703

    How does dot.bs make money? The about page and FAQ don’t explain what they’re monetizing.

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    Comment #46775513

    A gross mischaracterization of the author's point (the word "type" doesn't even appear in the article). The author focuses on the cost of interpreted languages, which he describes …

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    Comment #46495042

    There are many young, economically disenfranchised Americans that see the military as a way out of poverty. The military understands this and positions recruitment centers in poore…

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    Comment #46415775

    I'm in the same position and understand your complaints about the lack of uniformity across applications in Linux DEs. But I use the Linux desktop as a daily driver because I absol…

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    Comment #46415691

    Did you buy this from system76, or did you just install Pop!_OS on hardware you already owned?

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    Comment #46167331

    Ha! I've been using tmux for years and I didn't realize one could do this.

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    Comment #45972549

    Yeah, he'd spit it out because it tastes like corn-fed, feed-lot crap.

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    Comment #45965792

    "No one gets fired for buying IBM!"

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    Comment #45955175

    Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH. Edit: then account for the fact that this rare br…

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    Comment #45595833

    Would love to see Spaceward Ho! (Delta Tao Software, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho !) in this list.

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    Comment #45573581

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45496263

    Of possible interest: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html