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mrcarrot

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    I've started using Linux recently after not touching a desktop distro for 20-odd years, and I was surprised how good both Gnome and KDE look these days. It certainly doesn't feel l…

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    Comment #47061816

    It's available on Prime Video (at least on amazon.de). For a long while they would only sell access to season 1, but I've just checked now and all 4 seasons are available at the mo…

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    In a similar space, I'm pretty sure the recent remake & remaster of the two System Shock games were really well received, so that's hardly a given.

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    Yeah, I've been trying it recently and I'm not entirely convinced I want to keep using it. My biggest annoyance at the moment (and this may be me missing something), is that I have…

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    Thanks - this does make sense in isolation. I think my actual issue is that the "most package managers do something like this" example code snippet at the start of [1] doesn't seem…

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    The "Optimized Tarball Extraction" confuses me a bit. It begins by illustrating how other package managers have to repeatedly copy the received, compressed data into larger and lar…

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    Comment #44797145

    Also not available in Austria

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    Or alternatively (assuming that's true) he fired the people who thought about what they commit and kept those whose commit logs look like: "push feature WiP", "fix", "more fixes", …

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    > The POST in the README is going to send the params in the request body "url form encoded" like a form in a web page. Is there a different POST request in the readme or are you sa…

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    Comment #41488655

    I really enjoyed watching Jon Gjengset work through this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VotuGzD_w

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    I think the parent was agreeing with you. If the “local” SSDs _weren’t_ actually local, then presumably they wouldn’t need to be ephemeral since they could be connected over the ne…

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    “And management’s priority for Q4 is feature Y, so we’re just going to leave feature X like it is for now”

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    Comment #36631861

    None of those places are especially sunny in the winter though!

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    > And what if I don't want to have my constructor parameters as properties, maybe because I process them somehow in the constructor, and set some other properties instead? Then you…

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    Comment #32542573

    Only if you're using a US keyboard layout.

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    Comment #29340789

    Not since PHP 7.3![1] If you indent the closing identifier, then the corresponding indentation will be removed from the content of the heredoc string. [1]: https://www.php.net/manu…

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    Comment #25967872

    https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/88

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    Comment #24386616

    Also not on iPad, but they do load, on a stand-alone page, if you click on them.

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    Comment #24249839

    You could just sign up for a month of Game Pass and get the game for 1 £/€/$.

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    Also the default controller profiles don’t include any dead zone, so at least on my setup, the control inputs were way too sensitive. Once I added some dead zone, and reduced the s…