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Jam0864
12y ago
Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.
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12y ago
Better cross-platform support. In my experience .NET works fine in Mono anyway, so by extension F# is likely fine on Linux/OSX, but your mileage may vary.
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12y ago
How much swap space should you allocate for e.g. 16GB RAM? Every reference I've read suggests there's no need for swap space once you have more than ~2GB of RAM, but I find that extremely hard to believe.
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12y ago
Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.
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13y ago
Apple has overcharged both in Australia and Europe for decades, even when the currency has been strong. It's simply because they believe that people who live there will stomach a larger price. It's probably true. It's still i
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13y ago
What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.
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13y ago
Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?
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13y ago
not in neutral
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13y ago
Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.
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13y ago
Opera Mini has a proxy server it uses to compress data before it reaches your device. This is extremely useful when using mobile data because it's both faster and cheaper. (At least, in Australia, where mobile Internet is both slow and expe
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14y ago
...no it doesn't
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14y ago
Hopefully this one day becomes the case with UML.
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14y ago
This makes perfect sense; we think of programming languages changing the way solutions are designed all the time. That's why we learn so many different ones. Unfortunately I doubt this will be proven at any time in the near future... it is
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14y ago
This trend towards ridiculously large font sizes is becoming exceedingly annoying. There's been so many articles about it, and many pseudo-techy (trendy) blogs are adopting the large size. 16pt minimum? Really? There's a reason that so few
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14y ago
This is an amazing website, cheers!
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14y ago
The heat causes the brittle solder joints to crack; applying more heat melts the solder and "reflows" it. This is a common fix for PC video cards too.