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swhitt
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Comment #48714167
I love this, and I wanted to use it when I was suffering from a bit of sleeplessness in the past month or so. Unfortunately, my brain gets stuck in a loop trying to figure out when…
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Comment #45960664
I’m pretty sure this is because they don’t want Gemini saying things like, “based on my stored context from our previous chat, you said you were highly proficient in Alembic.” It’s…
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Comment #29430618
There's typically a button to toggle it on/off somewhere near the steering wheel. I got a new car a couple of months ago that has this, and was experiencing similar issues on rural…
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Comment #20923774
New internal email from President Reif: To the members of the MIT community, After recent events centered on the Media Lab, I know there is a tremendous sense of pain, sadness and …
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Comment #20156710
All services except for AWS.
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Comment #20151458
The main rumor these days (well, it's been a rumor for quite a few years) is that they'll be dropping Intel and switching to house-designed ARM chips across the board.
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Comment #19577793
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/stabilizer-trim-loads-and-ra... does a pretty good job of summarizing it I think. It sounds incredibly difficult to do.
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Comment #19577541
Manual Stabilizer Trim Excessive airloads on the stabilizer may require effort by both pilots to correct the mis-trim. In extreme cases it may be necessary to aerodynamically relie…
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Comment #17941158
Unfortunately they no longer offer a free month of Prime for a late delivery - I believe too many people were taking advantage of that perk. The last few times I've bothered to com…
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Comment #13885220
Here's the scene from Selena, it's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5bA8cVF-E
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Comment #13179047
His real name is Leonard so probably not.
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Comment #9519138
http://typedrummer.com/6haxm2
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Comment #9370686
> 1 second launch window Why is it so precise?
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Comment #9154982
Now we just need ShareX for OS X (and have it deal with the damn hidpi screenshots correctly).
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Comment #8530101
You don't have permission to access /ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pdf on this server.
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Comment #7817921
Can you print your own cheques? All you need to know is your account and routing numbers.
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Comment #7330796
Oh great. I have the TetriNET theme song midi stuck in my head now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j02bbkyuYw#t=6
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Comment #5680504
When this was posted on reddit there was a bit of confusion as the title lead people to believe this was about an alternate cryptocurrency (like litecoin, feathercoin, etc). It's a…
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Comment #5410452
Didn't GitHub's progress-bar screen while you were waiting for a fork used to say "Hardcore forking action!" or something like that? I think I have a shirt that says something alon…
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Comment #5361835
It was great to see in action, but given the way the system is right now it wasn't that incredible. The maintainers of the biggest pools are all very active in the community; it wo…
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Comment #5361822
The choice was made for backwards compatibility. People are still running version 0.3-0.7 of bitcoind and up to this point that was not a problem. If we decided the 0.8 fork was ca…
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Comment #5361810
Most pools don't distribute funds to their users until 120 confirmations have been reached so none of the coin that they mined will show up in their users' accounts. The only way t…