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dan_hawkins
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Comment #49023449
You don't need a fake brand: use Philips.
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Comment #48935393
> the door doesn't stay cracked open Whoever installed your device didn't properly adjust tension springs that keep the door open. You can do it by yourself with user's manual (tha…
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Comment #47414557
My layman guess would be that shortly after formation Earth was just a ball of lava that destroyed every organic component so when the surface solidified it was sterile.
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Comment #46691713
XL/XE means any xxxxXL and xxxXE.
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Comment #46243801
Like pineapple?
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Comment #45979580
No Intel Mac support! :(((((
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Comment #45669039
Absolutely not. It's like opening a hood of your car, taking picture of what you see and then try to build replica of the engine based on that.
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Comment #45304329
Add audio buffer on top of that when you don't hear changes instantly but with a delay...
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Comment #45012666
European Amigas got Power LED dimmed instead of being completely off.
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Comment #44961301
You can just use "branch always" but to the next instruction (:
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Comment #44887803
Like this? Apple joins Blender Development Fund: https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-developmen...
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Comment #44875106
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that shorter line limits (80, 120) make my life easier for non-trivial merge conflicts and diffing changes.
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Comment #44319057
That the cell phone networks went down is a criminal negligence and should be prosecuted.
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Comment #44076515
Yeah, I can't reach out their website from Denmark for some unknown reasons. On top of that the most recent update of their RSS feed server fxxxd up my news reader so I'm even less…
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Comment #42813676
I was using Metrowerks C++ compiler suite to develop code for Dragonball (68000) embedded system 22 years ago!
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Comment #40849143
I know all of that. I wanted to provoke parent commenter to let them see that the Bernoulli effect doesn't explain my two examples.
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Comment #40849108
I think you wanted to respond to the parent comment. My questions have been a lead to debunk myth that the major contributor to the lift is the Bernoulli effect.
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Comment #40849085
Explanation based on Bernoulli effect requires longer path of air taking on top than on the bottom of the airfoil to create speed/pressure difference. With symmetrical airfoil both…
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Comment #40847181
> No. What causes lift is the differential in pressure between the top and the bottom surface of the wing. How do you explain airplanes that can fly with wing with symmetrical cros…
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Comment #39984291
"The main goal is to make everything as easy as possible, says Kristina Behr, Google’s VP of product management for the Workspace collaboration apps." Looking up Kristina Behr on L…
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Comment #39767633
Regular LEGO sets are not intended for small kids, Duplo sets are. Every LEGO set comes with suggested age range or suggested minimum age on the box.
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Comment #39130151
"The image was captured by the small baseball-sized robot called Sora-Q that was ejected from Slim moments before touchdown last Saturday." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environ…