abdulhaq

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by abdulhaq 4mo ago
I'm with the Tal Shiar on this one
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by abdulhaq 5mo ago
If you run a statistical sample on modern maths books, it becomes clear that maths is usually about 6cm x 5cm.
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by abdulhaq 5mo ago
I found Showstopper! even more compelling
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by abdulhaq 6mo ago
> Sometimes the interpolated detail is wrong you just (correctly) negated your own claim
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by abdulhaq 7mo ago
Israel _creates_ extreme right Islamist ideology as a reaction to its genocidal and expansionist behavior.
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by abdulhaq 8mo ago
Yes she's fine thanks, one of the docs kindly dragged himself to the unit and plucked the thing out with some forceps :-)
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by abdulhaq 8mo ago
When she was 4 my daughter managed to shove one of those trackpad caps up her nose. At first she was going for the clown look but ended up in frantic tears and a visit to A&E at 2am
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by abdulhaq 8mo ago
You might be right but the gallery owner has probably learnt that disputing the authenticity of his pieces with walk in punters rarely leads to a fruitful discussion
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by abdulhaq 10mo ago
Actually, back in the day Andersens (and EDS) were some of the few companies that could deliver really big systems (for all their faults) e.g. https://accountancyage.com/2000/03/16/andersen-consulting-to... .
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by abdulhaq 10mo ago
For anyone who has read about this period, such as The Soul Of A New Machine, there's some great stories on this site.
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by abdulhaq 10mo ago
That's a fair question, for one thing white space is often important and sometimes very important, so we need spacing to be very clear. Also it can be useful to have vertical alignment to indicate a pattern in the code or data.
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by abdulhaq 10mo ago
lol
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by abdulhaq 11mo ago
Sn act of Providence means an act of God expressed in this way so as not to disturb those who don't like to talk about God
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by abdulhaq 11mo ago
To me, in the UK, it sounds like there is an opportunity here for some sort of centralised representation and/or app that can fight claims for people
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by abdulhaq 11mo ago
When I was a physics student at Oxford in 1983-86 I was a voracious reader and the Beats figured in that. Ginsberg travelled through Oxford for a day or two and gave some street performances. His nephew (Vincent?) was travelling with him, p
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by abdulhaq 11mo ago
Tie that kidney off for me would you please nurse, my date is waiting for me. Two bowlines and a sheepshank should suffice.
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by abdulhaq 11mo ago
I loved the Quarterdeck stuff especially Desqview
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
Fortunately the world has woken up and the coming generation sees the truth.
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
Ethnic cleansing is deeply wrong, starvation as a tactic of war is horribly wrong, we all know what's happening, please have some respect for peoples' intelligence.
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
even if it was true, and the charities say it is not, would that make it OK to starve the people of Gaza?
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
The www was a fairly obvious idea that was just waiting for the right technology to power It. It would not have been possible to keep it to yourself and charge for it.
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
ta
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
Can anyone tell me why numbers in this article are being rendered higgledy-piggledy on my browser, Firefox / Windows 11?
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
Then again, plenty of people pickle themselves while alive
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
it doesn't need to dominate run times when it's being called by hundreds of millions of pages every day. The power saving worldwide will be considerable.
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
In the UK they let us keep 50%
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
If men and women are the same, then why transition from one to the other? Men and women are different and there are many examples of when they should be treated differently.
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
they also restrict major roads like the M4 for the benefit of the Olympic committee
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
Here in HN it's accepted practice to copy copyrighted newspaper articles
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by abdulhaq 1y ago
this is a really good take

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