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    Comment #44003089

    Here's an example. This is the PR they created in lodash's GitHub repo: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980

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    Comment #37155712

    I don't think she meant her girlfriend is under house arrest (though possibly too), I guess she meant she can leave the country but her girlfriend can't. Uyghur are systematically …

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    Comment #35687336

    ResMed AirSense user here. Do take note that the water reservoir in the recent versions is prone to leakage after around a year of use, and replacing it is pretty expensive. I seal…

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    Comment #35637034

    Oh my gosh. That screenshot of the Calculator alone brought back memories from my childhood.

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    Comment #33370373

    > - basic constructs like the arg array are broken once you have special chars and spaces and want to pass those args to other commands. and UNICODE? Ha. Any example with this? The…

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    Comment #32287139

    There is a documentary named "Falling from the Sky"[1] from 2009, which depicts how scared and helpless people in a Hunan village were, every time a rocket wss launched from Xichan…

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    Comment #32036283

    Two suggestions: 1. Prefer sftp over scp whenever it's available. The scp protocol is pretty obsoleted. Just substitute `scp` with `sftp` in the command. 2. Turn on ssh multiplexin…

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    Comment #31663710

    There's too much cognitive overhead if you do this. For example, to change a word we use `ciw`, which roughly means "Change Inner Word" as a mnemonic. There are quite a lot of simi…

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    Comment #30840153

    Not from the UK, I don't actually get why calling a local/in-country number could incur high cost. How could one identify a paid/free/local number without trial-and-error? In my co…

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    Comment #29873148

    I'm guessing this is 表妹. In English, your male siblings are "brothers", and female siblings are "sisters", regardless of age. In Chinese, we differentiate between younger and elder…

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    Comment #29389587

    Let's hope we can someday program it to find the answer to life, the universe and everything, and subsequently the ultimate question, just so we can render all philosophers jobless…

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    Comment #29008940

    Startpage was my preferred search engine for the past two years, however in the past half year, I get many of my searches blocked when they contain "site:" param. The situation got…

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    Comment #28096709

    Syncthing now supports untrusted device sync[0] (i.e. storing an encrypted copy on an untrusted device) in a recent version, though this is still on beta. [0]: https://docs.syncthi…

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    Comment #27600223

    IIRC, this may also leak when `priority()` throws due to evaluation order. (Not exactly sure now, as I now always use `make_shared` whenever possible.) However in the Effective C++…

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    Comment #27538471

    If you are using Firefox Nightly, you can install arbitrary add-ons (though quite a number of them don't work due to UI difference, container doesn't work too) now after going thou…

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    Comment #26522157

    That common character is called a generation name, as it is shared among the same generation in a family. This practice is seen much less commonly in recent times. For example, non…

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    Comment #25981171

    One of the origin story of the term links to a once-popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip[1], who was known for her cup size and sexy appearances in movies. The "nickname" 波霸, roughly …

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    Comment #17035958

    As released by the the Department of Commerce, ZTE has a document detailing: 1. how they evaded the sanction against Iran (destroying documents, re-export through a third country, …

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    Comment #16138516

    The first syllable in charcoal reads "tʃɑ:" in IPA. I was referring to the "ʃ" sound, formally the "voiceless palato-alveolar fricative" according to Wikipedia.

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    Comment #16132172

    Interesting! Never heard anyone use "tea" to describe the evening meal. Tea refers to the light meal at late afternoon, after lunch and before the evening meal (dinner) at my place…