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knodi123
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Comment #49226758
wow, that was a pretty fast copyright takedown.
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Comment #49226753
toss a raw tree trunk to distract him, and run in the opposite direction.
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Comment #49226747
A møøse once bit my sister.
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Comment #49226596
LCMS and ELCA are practically different religions, IMO. In fact, my pastor at the time had a long angry rant about one of his peers who gave a speech at an event where ELCA pastors…
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Comment #49207360
I know dozens. I'm sure I've met thousands. I used to be active in a lutheran (LCMS) church. If that's where you form your social network, you're likely to be _primarily_ around pe…
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Comment #48902548
there are plenty of text-based digital music notation systems. Then, you commit periodically as your composition evolves, and you can have all the history/fork/undo whatever that y…
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Comment #48898553
The DOS version has a special place in my heart. I memorized the opening text and thought it was an eerie and cool bit of original poetry, before learning much later that it was a …
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Comment #48695225
This is technically true, but not helpful. These online services have buttons that say "rent" and "buy", they don't say "rent for a little while" and "rent for a longer but unknown…
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Comment #47872544
Not unless your noise is louder at certain dominant frequencies than the source. The article gives examples, but the algorithm basically throws away everything except frequency pea…
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Comment #47843802
Don't be silly. There's a third option, neither side gives up for a while.
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Comment #47361124
> the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key. Fun trick not a lot of people know - In a web browser, links which are normally clickable become UN-clickable if …
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Comment #47361113
lol, that's the stupidest thing that I've ever watched all the way through with a grin the whole time.
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Comment #47338229
Why would they film a demo video of it spewing out barely-coherent rambling repetitive drivel? If your model sucks at writing essays, maybe just tell us that, and film a demo of it…
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Comment #47257444
> even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude. But then they'd look the same! :-P You're reminding me of the old story about the leprechaun, comm…
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Comment #46372984
I guess that makes sense. Thanks.
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Comment #46372115
> "would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors..." It's a dumb law, but, devil's advocate - isn't that how porn shops work? And po…
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Comment #45843094
but what about my senile mice? please, won't somebody think of them??
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Comment #45715473
I chuckled, but presumably it's useful for applications where you want data types to take up the same amount of space, like for matrices or database columns? Or maybe where you coe…
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Comment #45458319
"But what if black people really _are_ subhuman?" No thanks. Not biting. I disagree, but arguing that topic just makes me sad and angry, and I've never changed a racist's mind.
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Comment #45458212
> The judge is an incarnation of evil and a pedophile so I don't think that's his Mary sue Although... he did rather famously have a thing for underage girls... https://medium.com/…
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Comment #45454577
holy racist dogwhistle, batman. chimpanzees are animals, and the only people who think differently are the straw men in the imaginations of people I prefer not to spend time talkin…
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Comment #45308257
he's been moaning loudly and histrionically about how london is doomed because there's not enough white natives.
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Comment #45308233
her followup post: Deleted my post, which I published before Ruby central released their blog explaining things. It’s ultimately not my place to say or speculate about what’s going…
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Comment #45307531
Try looking at the giraffe's recurrent laryngeal nerve. What isn't beneficial is sometimes retained as long as the cost isn't bad enough to impair reproduction. https://en.wikipedi…
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Comment #45198666
> and then sort out everyone's status after the fact. Did they do that? Or did they throw out the ones with valid visas too? (hint: It was the latter. Details are in the article.) …