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killaken2000

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    Comment #25954972

    >I suspect they lost you as a customer either way. yes

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    Comment #22255556

    That's great and all but how was their work?

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    Comment #20651534

    I'll have to look into this. In some limited cases verbosity that leads to a more obvious and understandable presentation is preferable, at least to me.

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    Comment #19519928

    Factoid is is used correctly here. There are two meanings though strangely they are opposite in terms of truthiness

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    Comment #19476491

    These two stuck out as well. I wonder if the issue is with their coding practices and not necessarily a fault with the language. If the issue is one of fundamentals it will only fo…

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    Comment #19447472

    They might not even know the answer themselves and have a solution in front of them that they are comparing yours to. Then they just said the first thing that came to their mind ra…

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    Comment #19433031

    I would prefer it be more explicit and say, "each digit can only be used once". Different can be interpreted in multiple ways. Reminds me of a physics test where the question is so…

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    Comment #19423183

    What is the scientific method used in physics

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    Comment #19423164

    An alternative idea is that the pope is only saying that so the science-minded folks don't leave.

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    Comment #19386382

    I know it hides similar parts of a series of emails because it cuts off my email salutation and sometimes people think that I'm being disrespectful. I wish I could stop it from doi…

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    Comment #19293503

    I hate to say it but after reading all of your comments this on in particular think I'm sold on the idea and I was really against it when I read your first comment. I don't know if…

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    Comment #19287663

    Is it the is/are issue? Maybe they are using it as a mass noun or speaking specifically about the the phrase itself or the idea of data structures. Could stem from a cultural or ES…

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    Comment #19239238

    I take commercial to mean lian-li (who made their old cases), cooler aster, antec, etc. Large volume manufacturers. It's probably easier for them to vertically integrate the case i…

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    Comment #19234225

    You can change the indexing method if you want but that can introduce its own issues https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/

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    Comment #19228095

    I have the same issues with rules like that. Like not ending a sentence with a preposition. It is a thing for which I will not stand Ralph Waldo Emerson, A foolish consistency is t…

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    Comment #19085636

    Then A disputes the claim a YouTube asks B if the they are sure its infringing on their copyright. B lies and says yes, then YouTube sides with B while A gets a copyright strike, 3…

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    Comment #19013711

    A youtuber that I follow recently finished his PhD and used FORTRAN extensively. He said that he started with python and it was incredibly slow so he rewrote everything in FORTRAN.…

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    Comment #18995660

    Does it _harm_ security?

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    Comment #18966090

    Hopefully something will be done about the nuclear waste before the ice melts and exposes it.

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    Comment #18946729

    Indirect (negative) correlation is used when something goes up but the thing under discussion goes down. I think you were thinking of inversely proportional. Searching Wikipedia, i…

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    Comment #18907924

    Francis Rawls is still in jail after 2 years for not decrypting his hard drive. He's in contempt indefinitely until he decrypts the drive.

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    Comment #18799775

    PE is required in the US but the article is specifically talking about the software engineering PE.

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    Comment #18799767

    The whole 8 hour exam in under 3 hours?

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    Comment #18760780

    I'm not a fan of the VLC icon change but I use something else because of it. It's their choice to include it an my choice not to use it. Disabling it is easy enough but I have othe…

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    Comment #18744843

    I do this as well. I started doing it in college mainly as a citation but I find it helpful to do a similar thing for this reason as well as for any of the less mainstream algorith…