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endgame

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About endgame

I care a lot about build systems, because nobody else seems to.

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    Comment #48975637

    >> Can we use AI to get a cure for cancer yet? Yes-ish. Custom mRNA treatment used to reverse the progress of a dog's cancer. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/t…

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    Comment #48974980

    The talk page about the conjecture clarifies WP:RSSELF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Sel... > Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable w…

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    Comment #48770719

    How do we know this is real? Most online form providers will host all forms on their own domain, so it could just be a great way to get some data harvesting going on the .microsoft…

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    Comment #48405553

    Ashley is the canonical list of knots, so it's good for people who haven't heard of ABOK to hear about it since we're talking knots today. Probably time to drop another coin in Ian…

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    Comment #48263552

    Yeah, I spent more time than I cared to admit fiddling with DEVICE(HIGH) lines, tweaking FILES= and BUFFERS=, running MEMMAKER.EXE over and over as if that would do something, but …

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    Comment #47995583

    No. It shouldn't be an opt-out, and it is bad practice to write conditional settings in the negative.

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    Comment #47761188

    I cannot even reliably press [Space] any more to page down through sites that are meant to be all about content!

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    Comment #47662170

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47573523

    Why is a C++ project being distributed on PyPi at all?

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    Comment #47542159

    The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?

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    Comment #47483945

    Making each one implement input handling was also a dazzlingly bizarre design choice.

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    Comment #47256091

    The Australians have some incredible anti-war music. Redgum's /I was only 19/ is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYDKxxQ50o

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    Comment #46969583

    And the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security definitely gave the literal thousands of submissions due consultation before recommending the original, un-split …

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    Comment #46953801

    Nobody. Nobody at all could have seen it. Microsoft is cool now, haven't you seen VSCode? They do Open Source, they run Linux, they've joined the fold, the tiger shed its stripes.

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    Comment #46867411

    You might have some luck applying isohybrid(1) to the period-correct .iso image, making it bootable by other means: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/syslinux-utils/isohybrid...

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    Comment #46852936

    So are your guides, by the way. Thank you for writing them.

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    Comment #46793931

    That's not the intention , but how do you stop it from being the effect ?

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    Comment #46731716

    The command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD ". Probably because they already had "NEW". https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...

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    Comment #46715403

    Yes. Here's a 2014 BBC article about that: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26487418 The article quotes one Mr Richard Mawrey QC: > "Postal voting on demand, however many safeg…

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    Comment #46715380

    There are some really clever systems that let you prove that you voted without leaking how you voted. Unfortunately, explaining them to Joe Q. Public in such a way that he's going …

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    Comment #46713077

    The best-designed website on the internet.

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    Comment #46349879

    https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans po…

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    Comment #46348875

    Which other VPN providers support the range of payment methods that Mullvad does?

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    Comment #46297411

    That's not an argument when the Mozilla Foundation makes it structurally impossible to fund Firefox.