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xyzzy3000
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Comment #49230983
No, I disagree with you here - it isn't one user and certainly not an abuser. This is reputationally damaging, and doubling down is not helping. Arguably, the doubling down is the …
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Comment #48542045
The wheel in the photo is on the left, which is wrong in Japan. Domestic Japanese vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.
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Comment #48542019
The car in the article has the steering wheel on the left, which is the wrong side for vehicles driving on the left-hand side of the road. Domestically-produced cars in both the UK…
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Comment #46947743
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
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Comment #46176265
RISC OS has the concept of "OS units" which don't map directly onto pixels 1:1, and it was possible to fiddle with the ratio on the RiscPC from 1994 onwards, giving reasonably-scal…
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Comment #46175056
That's only RISC OS 2 though. RISC OS 3 was 2MB, and even 3.7 didn't have everything in ROM as Acorn had introduced the !Boot directory for softloading a large amount of 'stuff' at…
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Comment #46005443
Is there a copy of this dataset available for download, or held at the Internet Archive?
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Comment #45821431
An influential architect whose ideas form the basis of 'design patterns' in software development.
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Comment #45667336
Also this associated toolkit: https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/Publications/M...
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Comment #45569256
Some inside stories here, from the writer: https://allowe.com/games/larry.html
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Comment #45500735
What's the patent encumberment status of this algorithm?
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