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donarb

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    Comment #32477306

    You should've just changed the address to 'spamsung'.

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    Comment #32439161

    Or horseradish mustard, pretty good stuff.

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    Comment #32432082

    "The fix is temporary, unless it works" -- Red Green

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    Comment #32269233

    What? Republicans in Congress will routinely vote against funding legislation and then show up at ribbon cuttings bragging how they fought to get the funding for their district. Ju…

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    Comment #32245102

    Link to one story is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32244975

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    Comment #32244975

    Yep, here's the article about it. https://electrek.co/2020/02/07/tesla-takes-away-autopilot-us...

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    Comment #32239032

    AAA has offered mobile charging for electric vehicles for over 10 years. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel...

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    Comment #32225257

    Const variables are traditionally initialized at compiled time. In Swift, let may be initialized at runtime and then becomes immutable.

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    Comment #32192591

    "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln

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    Comment #32166726

    Years ago, I was a second-shift operator in a computer center for an insurance company. We ran production jobs on an IBM mainframe. When jobs would crash we would write up the erro…

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    Comment #32118888

    I've started to get away from virtual environments and just use Docker containers where all the pip dependencies can live as first class citizens. Also eliminates having to source …

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    Comment #32114223

    And if SpaceX was available with a larger payload, engineers would have built the same folding telescope, only much larger and more costly.

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    Comment #32045442

    Which is why "Prime Minister's Questions" time is so valuable and entertaining.

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    Comment #32028822

    But for Musk's machinations, said stock price would not be down 40%. He caused the stock to drop.

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    Comment #31879539

    Limit? The US federal government has over 100 million acres of public land for animal grazing.

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    Comment #31879433

    I recall that Microsoft's Visual C++ user license had a clause that forbid you from creating a C++ compiler with it.

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    Comment #31790304

    > not being able to dock the task bar to the side, though you can't do that on macOS either In System Preferences > General you can set the dock to the left, right or bottom of the…

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    Comment #31648642

    There's nothing to backup/import. If you have an iPhone, you use your fingerprint or Face ID. If you sell your iPhone and buy an Android, you use your fingerprint or face recogniti…

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    Comment #31648626

    It eliminates phishing since there is no password to share and the authorization is locked to a specific domain.

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    Comment #31574790

    I had a Newton back then. Most of those who joked about the handwriting recognition were tech reporters who played with it for all of five minutes. Once you used the device on a re…

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    Comment #31468182

    And the common response to self checkout is that you are putting a checker out of work. Never mind the fact that most of the shelves are not stocked by store employees, but by dist…

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    Comment #31398748

    If I were the hiring manager, the first question I'd asked is, what were the results of that redesign?

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    Comment #31368086

    $50.00 + "$4.20" is a theatrical bid.

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    Comment #31274880

    iOS has a nice magnifying glass, accessible using a three-finger tap to bring up and dismiss. The little white button at the bottom of the glass allows you to change the zoom value…

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    Comment #31261490

    Regulation is another red herring. People who are against abortion are not interested in regulating doctors, they are for 100% outright bans on any form of the procedure.