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pbalau

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About pbalau

I want to build a snowman

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    Comment #49141976

    Meanwhile, here I am posting this using Google Chrome, with Lightroom Classic, InDesign, Sublime Text, Steam bla bla all opened in the background. You posted a 6 years old link.

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    Comment #49122278

    > Union of European Football Associations

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    Comment #49122255

    While I agree the extra CL games are not a great idea, they are not a very bad one either. The Nations League is a good idea, for a number of reasons: 1. It gives smaller teams, li…

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    Comment #49058722

    If you divide a Path by another Path, you get a Path. If you compare two Paths, you get a Boolean. It is not really the same.

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    Comment #49057369

    If you change an operation that is meant to return a Boolean to return anything else, you are insta fired.

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    Comment #49056889

    if self._midnight(today) returns a datetime object, than: self.filter(end__gt=self._midnight(today)) will evaluate to: self.filter(end__gt= ) While self.filter(Field.end > self._mi…

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    Comment #48505784

    I disagree. I don't read because I like to read books, I don't listen to audiobooks because I like listening to audiobooks, I don't talk to people because I like talking with peopl…

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    Comment #48504144

    Well, scenario contains the letters s, c and n, while behavior doesn't.

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    Comment #48482273

    The short and sad answer is that most people that work in web development do not understand how the web works or how web apps work.

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    Comment #48428248

    That's my understanding, or, maybe a better word would be "guess". The CPU telling the GPU: this is your memory now.

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    Comment #48427829

    What is the difference between unified memory and shared memory? Shared memory existed since the first CPU with an embedded GPU came to market and you could set in BIOS how much me…

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    Comment #48285482

    Story time. Around 2005, I was hired by a company that was building software for USB drives, to build a porn site. Turns out, they wanted me to build a poc for an authentication so…

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    Comment #48281057

    Android https://imgbox.com/EiovsE5b https://imgbox.com/A4Fl9lE9

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    Comment #48281043

    For some reason I though the GP was talking about browsing on mobile, where I have the issue: https://imgbox.com/EiovsE5b https://imgbox.com/A4Fl9lE9

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    Comment #48281038

    For some reason I though the GP was talking about browsing on mobile, where I have the issue: https://imgbox.com/EiovsE5b https://imgbox.com/A4Fl9lE9

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    Comment #48279016

    > I’d say perhaps once per day I’ll encounter a website that has never had zoom in/out (ctl +/-) tested because if you zoom up even one level from 100%, everything breaks Just test…

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    Comment #48277473

    > this thing is never seeing seawater anyway I can definitely see these used as lighting devices on luxury boats.

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    Comment #48212761

    How do you know where the first string ends and the second starts? Did you miss the "stdin" part? This is not ./program first_number second_number

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    Comment #48199136

    Gimp will never be able to pull a Blender because they are operating on hugely different conditions. Blender never had to play catch up with a proprietary file format. In Blender's…

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    Comment #48178625

    Why do you need the AI to write a script? Why not have the AI do the work without a "script"?

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    Comment #48041781

    You are not supposed to offload your users table, you are supposed to offload your password field.

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    Comment #47706061

    While not related to penguins, [0] is the saddest thing I ever saw. [0] https://youtu.be/qVJzQc9ELTE?si=R8K7ow2cuSuAOfex

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    Comment #47412072

    > while the customers were still asking for 1880's style 'brown' cloth sails for the traditional Dutch fleet That is missing the point a bit. For quite a lot of fleets, keeping the…

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    Comment #47018736

    I am planning to use the extension route to... bypass the imgur UK block. Just need to use imgur for more than once in a while.