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jbb67

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    Comment #48206184

    Oh dear they made a terrible mistake right from the start. > The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind No. The goal of search is to find webs…

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    Comment #47430139

    It's very much easier to ignore ads in a newspaper. It's not so easy when you are forced to listen to them before the thing you paid for. It's not the same.

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    Comment #47136211

    Yes, my dedicated server is going up by 3% this year. That doesn't seem bad at all. It's still cheap!

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    Comment #46601667

    I wanted to create something for my daughter that could just play a particular one of a curated set of programs on demand, but there are so many apps for different services, it;s s…

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    Comment #46013512

    Vulkan is definitely a major pain and very difficult to learn... But once you've created an init function, a create buffer function, a create material function etc which you do onc…

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    Comment #45913617

    > his will allow you to distribute your creations to a limited number of devices without going through the full verification requirements. Sorry, *allow*? ALLOW? I'm sorry. My devi…

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    Comment #45259616

    Sometimes it's just wrong. An old one :- "It is now safe to turn off your computer" Awesome I'll go turn it off then, it's just across the room from this one that isn't mine that I…

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    Comment #42970770

    My answer is usually I think your product is great but I'm not going to recommend it to anyone. So you get a zero even though you're product is great. Ask the right question!

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    Comment #42409351

    But it's not usual to have an anesthetic for a colonoscopy is it? I've had two without. I was offered a light sedation but then I couldn't have driven home afterwards. It wasn't pa…

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    Comment #42295483

    I understand why the presumption was there. If it's not then every single case of tax evasion people would claim that they had paid and the computer must have lost the payment. Eve…

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    Comment #38548564

    I may not have read the release notes etc properly but I'd been using this with the most recent updates of clion and assumed it was just a new feature being added. I recently renew…

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    Comment #37276541

    when I see the words "forever chemicals" in some writing I assume the use of emotive language is simply there to try to manipulate me and so whatever the opposite of what the artic…

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    Comment #33864566

    I have one of their cheapest dedicated servers and a Sunday evening a few weeks ago the hard drive died. I put in a ticket and within about half an hour they had installed a replac…

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    Comment #33179811

    I use signal as my SMS program and a few people who have signal. if I can't use it as my SMS program I'm not going to keep using it for the handful of people who have signal and wi…

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    Comment #33105983

    I really like zig and think it is potentially a great language. I also used D a little in the past too, but somehow drifted away but some of the comments here make me want to revis…

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    Comment #30198177

    it didn't. it's just a fad amongst young programmers that will slowly dissipate

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    Comment #29251805

    I have a visa credit card and received this email. I don't want to use my debit card with amazon particularly. You get a few added protections by purchasing with a credit card, and…

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    Comment #27883526

    but also the reverse applies. If you want to make alterations or improvements to your house, better not rent

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    Comment #27356649

    I quit my job at least partly because of this. I made sure I had a new job lined up first of course...

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    Comment #25580090

    it also seems that it prevented close to 100% of deaths and very serious illness too though, which is a big win in itself.

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    Comment #25537182

    Yeah it has a few mildly interesting points, and then starts going on about lab grown meat as if that's a thing anyone wants. Proper food please for me.

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    Comment #25481743

    I agree. I would estimate about 90% both on the tube and supermarkets. Perhaps if varies by area somewhat?

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    Comment #25185561

    This is if everyone is equally likely to spread the virus. Probably 20% of people are responsible for 80% of infections. (People who work in shops or public places, people in large…

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    Comment #25149238

    i hope this can be disabled because why would you ever run tasks you don't trust on your computer at all, let alone sharing a core

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    Comment #24978692

    first if all GitHub is nobodies "résumé" and secondly you can put a git repo anywhere you like there are any number of hosting sites or easy ways to just host it yourself. I mean r…