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pekim

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    Comment #49221877

    The torus.c file start with this include directive. #include I'm not sure what that header file is, but commenting it out allowed for a clean compile for me

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    Comment #49201138

    And for me in Chrome.

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    Comment #48856739

    > I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong. You're right, it changed a few months ago. I find it more enjoyable now that you can continue to the end.

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    Comment #48847635

    https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18). Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within…

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    Comment #47795179

    It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem". https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD

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    Comment #47795057

    I love singing, but I'm not very good at it. About 6 months ago I started attending a local Tuneless Choir[1]. It's just what I needed, and great fun. [1] https://www.tunelesschoir…

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    Comment #47275612

    I posted about this last week [1], but it didn't get any traction. Although I used a link to the release page rather than the blog announcement, so maybe that was why. ho hum [1] h…

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    Comment #47138689

    I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releas…

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    Comment #46634332

    Looking at https://github.com/stepandel/chroma-explorer/blob/master/pac... it looks like it's using Electron.

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    Comment #46511277

    As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.

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    Comment #46193784

    > Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11. Just the lines from the files are wanted, not the files names. It took me a little while to cotton on to that. Semi-spo…

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    Comment #45936537

    Inserting elements in to a slice can be done quite easily since the introduction of the slices package to the standard library. https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Insert

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    Comment #45859673

    I'm in the UK too. So I read the article courtesy of archive.is. https://archive.is/X33oQ

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    Comment #45858266

    Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years. [1…

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    Comment #45647099

    > and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.

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    Comment #45412286

    So if I'm understanding it correctly, it applies an xor operation on the pairs of cells. For example, click column A then column B. For each of the pairs of cells in the two column…

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    Comment #45321650

    As the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes…

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    Comment #44766610

    The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB. But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice lig…

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    Comment #44524425

    I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo

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    Comment #44247528

    I do https://wordnerd.co/secretword/ most days. It has a similar interface to alphaguess, and I prefer both of them to midword's interface.

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    Comment #44247491

    It appears to highlight the letters that your guesses have narrowed it down to. For example if you had narrowed it down to after 'sudden' and before 'super', it would highlight 'su…