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ptek

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    Comment #49199011

    Make c5 great again <3

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    Comment #48357960

    Enjoy paying for your yearly Adobe subscription as your shrink wrap software won’t work.

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    Comment #48351364

    Ahhh Arstechnica, I wonder if the technical article is by Dan Goodin. (It is) I enjoyed his C Programming books for dummies series.

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    Comment #48309851

    Internet streamers will need to know basic math unless they are clowns.

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    Comment #48309812

    Depends on the sport. I don’t think the Olympic equestrian competitors would be dirt poor.

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    Comment #48309764

    Yes it is cheaper and who will steal or rob a student of pencil and paper compared to a iPad also pencil and paper doesn’t require age verification.

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    Comment #48305184

    it's easier for people to use slurs then to contribute to the source and make it better.

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    Comment #48305171

    haha what a fun site :D. Two dance sections to the rave site, will you be adding a Psytrance section?

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    Comment #48274638

    If only Amiga assembler books hit those type of numbers.

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    Comment #48274633

    Are you thinking of getting in to NeXTSTEP 3.3/OpenStep 4.2?

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    Comment #48274630

    Yes I have both copies, prefer the ANSI C second edition my self. I brought another second hand C programming book and when I was working through the exercises in the mid 2000s the…

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    Comment #47422182

    If you make 20 billion and the fine is 0.2 billion…. I don’t think they care about their users mental health.

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    Comment #47422157

    Try switching to desktop mode

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    Comment #47422149

    Www.neocities.org is waiting. It’s a small fun site to practice with :)

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    Comment #47270085

    So does this mean bool true = 3 or should bool true = 5? This will bloat the code a bit.

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    Comment #46558938

    Ahhh Devs:system-configuration or SYS:system-configuration at 232 bytes. I remember being 11 and trying to make my own compilation disks and trying to figure out what file kept the…

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    Comment #46228300

    I thought you had to use your real name when posting on USENET back in the day before spoofing.

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    Comment #46065075

    Was contracted to a New Zealand government department and all the Edge browsers had AdBlock installed by default. I guess the New Zealand government that I worked for is a terroris…

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    Comment #45651997

    AutoCAD R12 here I come

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    Comment #45383402

    Would have been good if the license doesn't allow training in commercial LLMs :/

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    Comment #45369312

    I wonder if Retro washing machines and refrigerators (non-IOT) will go up in price because of this?

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    Comment #45147840

    There were a lot of global crews during c64 days and a few crews on the Amiga. In New Zealand on the Amiga a lot of the warez and compilations had importros on them. So was a small…

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    Comment #45111220

    You are correct with fast followers: Google to Alta vista, Apple to Nokia.

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    Comment #45111193

    I’m still waiting for Patrick Rothfuss to finish his third book as well in the kingkiller chronicles.

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    Comment #44701965

    When you couldn’t afford a ps1 or your DOS pc was shit. https://16colo.rs/pack/fire-43/AVG-LARA.ANS