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ogdoad

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    Comment #16470278

    Also in some corners it means "for f*ck's sake", cut down for effing effect. Which echoes my thoughts after the first para of the post.

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    Comment #16470271

    Obvious troll post, innit?

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    Comment #16470252

    SDF.org doesn't need a phone number.

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    Comment #16333329

    Picked: Because UTC is hardly 'U', and imposes a rampant heliocentricitism. If anything, it can purport to be at most GTC, which would be good enough for a while longer I suppose.

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    Comment #16333303

    To be precise: the European Union doesn't welcome you, it welcomes your petition to be welcomed by it. Lest we fail to avoid making things needlessly forth-right.

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    Comment #16332038

    When I read the source and started on the comments, I thought: won't be long until someone drops in TCC. But yes, TCC does limit you in this regard a bit.

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    Comment #16330133

    Presumably because people were buying once every four years?

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    Comment #16330029

    The requirements were practically negligible for its era, and the leap it represented. I have installed and used it at length on 386 with 8MB on a 210MB disk. It wasn't pretty, but…

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    Comment #16329996

    Link still won't work...

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    Comment #16329102

    I think the point is that your life doesn't reach the point where you steal $1m worth of gold without a few ripples of insanity appearing here or there. It appears it takes a confl…

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    Comment #16323558

    Link won't work...

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    Comment #16323546

    NB, this is regarding OneDrive for Business only.

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    Comment #16323485

    There is a point behind prohibiting "just about everyone" from having access to easy gunpowder. Consider how "just about everyone" includes anything from anti-social prankers to ve…

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    Comment #16323438

    After this catches on, you should also make an askadev.out.

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    Comment #16323424

    Have we actually reached the point where we idolize something that was equally mainstream to bash when it came out? Remember "Winblows" &c? Suddenly, faced with hyper-spy mega-corp…

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    Comment #16289921

    https://pirateproxylist.com/

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    Comment #16289919

    This didn't quite turn out as expected, did it?

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    Comment #16289897

    This is awesome, I think I will give it the thumbs up and share it with all my nonconformist friends.

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    Comment #16277051

    Stepping up to crowd-sourcing movement data and constructing robotic/AI replacements? The AI scare is becoming wider and wider, and this time because of what corporations actually …

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    Comment #16273242

    Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `ine…

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    Comment #16269103

    Knees are jerking like leaves in a gust, it seems?

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    Comment #16266050

    It demonstrates poor exercise of judgment, which would render them partially unreliable. Then there's the question of whether they're your "peers".

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    Comment #16256678

    In C, everything rhymes in ';'.

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