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    Comment #48788517

    Small defensive suggestion: I’d usually define both the enabled and disabled versions as statement-like macros: #ifdef MGBALOG #define mgbalog(level, format, ...) \ do { _mgbalog(l…

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    Comment #48450198

    PSA: don't run random commands people on the internet tell you to run, it turns out those people haven't even run those commands themselves..

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    Comment #48450177

    This software doesn't work on an Android phone.

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    Comment #48247288

    But this process, including sending smaller items first etc sounds like it would have taken longer than what the OP did? And the OP was trying to do it quickly to tie in with the b…

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    Comment #48020334

    I saw similar engraved and then inked onto wooden boards at a restaurant, sadly, despite the error handling, 3 out of 4 I tried were not scannable, the 1 I did manage to scan to me…

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    Comment #47932690

    The last time I used anything similar to this was circa 1995 at secondary school, using Windows 3.11 computers, that has been set up so you could only launch a small number of auth…

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    Comment #45626141

    On the PS2 there was a very small memory area, called the scratchpad, that was very quick to access, the rough idea on the PS2 was to DMA data in and out of the scratch pad, and th…

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    Comment #44329170

    Actually, in special relativity, if you could somehow travel at light speed, your own proper time wouldn’t pass at all. The journey would be instant from your perspective. You’d ex…

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    Comment #44268004

    Well, if you were traveling at light speed you could move anywhere in the universe instantly. If you are an observer on earth, watching an object move away from you at the speed of…

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    Comment #36588615

    > if i am not writing or editing a file, just doing nothing, then why FS breaks? For a few reasons, but the most common is that when you write a file, you 'fwrite' operation doesn'…

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    Comment #33652081

    What if the nondestructive thing you are querying GPT3 for returns a bad result which is destructive?

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    Comment #32320779

    I use Copy Me That (website/app), I am not sure if it has all the features you want, but I use it for storing recipes in a "no nonsense" format and can share recipes with friends/f…

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    Comment #31178975

    I heard this £30 saving stuff on the radio this morning, and it made me shake my head a little. I remember when I got a socket adapter that measures power consumption, and I went a…

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    Comment #29712347

    I used Keepass + Dropbox (to sync database). This set up was suggested to me when I joined a company that requires complex unique passwords for all sign ups. At the time I didn't t…

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    Comment #29134170

    Remove the drive from the external casing and be able to use the drive in ones machine.

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    Comment #27226402

    It surprises me that people think that it isn't possible to make money selling emulators. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.dras... Over one million downloads…

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    Comment #26412210

    Budgeted £42k ended up costing £60k for us both. I know some people which did it for a lot less (like half) but we didn't want to miss out on various things as we went. We stayed i…

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    Comment #26410224

    It took a while to plan, not just the trip stuff but finishing a job, packing up a house, signing cars off the road, cancelling bills etc. We got a round the world flight ticket, w…

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    Comment #26409609

    My partner and I took a year out for all of 2018 and travelled for 365 days, aged 34. We went to 21 countries during that time, the route: UK India Hong Kong Vietnam Cambodia Laos …

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    Comment #26058670

    This doesn't reflect my experience from the UK. In the UK a club to people I know is thought of roughly as: - Late (22:00 - 03:00 probably been core hours) - Music/dancing being th…

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    Comment #25745199

    Just a little FWIW, I am with Hyperoptic in the UK (pretty common if you live in an apartment in a big city centre). They provide nice fast, cheap, fibre broadband (1Gbit/sec in bo…

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    Comment #25499406

    This feels like a fun lightweight version of one of our products, vTime XR https://vtime.net/vtimexr which lets you chat with people both in VR and on mobile. It is amazing how muc…

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    Comment #25359155

    1 in 1,000 people in the UK have died after contracting COVID (this number is rising). 2 people out of thousands vaccinated yesterday had an allergic reaction that they recovered f…

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    Comment #25326015

    I and a huge amount of other people are living in a flat which currently has a value of £0 and am currently waiting to find out how much remediation works are going to cost to make…

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    Comment #24798736

    Colour me amazed! I saw a video of some buskers which someone shared a week ago and the tune I know but couldn't remember where it was from, it is a waltz and I thought maybe Swan …