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rpns

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    Comment #47633508

    If they're someone else's words, they'll put them in quotation marks. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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    Comment #46951178

    Not quite, that one is an earlier outage while this one started at (or a bit before) 19:01 UTC. The history for today is a bit of a mess really: https://www.githubstatus.com/histor…

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    Comment #46203446

    This is what the Windows Vista/7-era UX guidelines say/said on on the matter: Consider providing menu item icons for: - The most commonly used menu items. - Menu items whose icon i…

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    Comment #45431231

    There is a bit more detail on these pages: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs... https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... No full d…

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    Comment #38182130

    I think there is something going on, as the BE200 is E keyed rather than A+E keyed like the AX210. It physically won't fit in the slot in my AMD laptop where I previously installed…

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    Comment #37977551

    You can reopen closed tabs and windows from the History menu. It will restore the state of forms, so that form state is retained somewhere (presumably memory).

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    Comment #23107692

    FWIW, as the comment in the source hints at, it's needed for Bluetooth low energy scanning: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...

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    Comment #19104752

    Traditionally (in the UK), it was reserved for large, varied shops like department stores. However, the American usage to mean any shop has certainly been spreading in business-spe…

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    Comment #16084887

    The two knowledge base articles linked are also interesting: Speculative Execution Exploit Performance Impacts - Describing the performance impacts to security patches for CVE-2017…

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    Comment #16064817

    It comes across as fairly defensive. Presumably the statement was hastily put together, but it's not really the tone you want to strike when you have a lot of worried customers won…

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    Comment #16055929

    Slightly better link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10133447/

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    Comment #15958028

    It required turning on via an about:config preference, the code on GitHub seems to have changed since then for the separately installed version. If you look into the repo history y…

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    Comment #14891088

    I don't think you'll find 'easy' as a definition of trivial in a mainstream dictionary (rather things like 'of little value or importance'). It probably is just computing jargon, t…