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Why is it called "Astronomy" when it could have been "Skience"?
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Where should I star-t? I could luner thing or two about that discipline but interest was eclipsed by coding.
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Because Skience didn't fit the meter.
Astronomy (song)[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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What the <blank>?
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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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His funfair will be hello on Sundial.
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I keep it turned off. Five reasons:
1) I divovered thst eveb if I mistake threee words contiguoslt thr resuly is more or less understandable. With predictive text it would be gibberish with random meaning, especially if instead of a mistyped character there is a different number of characters in the words.
2) Farker sends statistics and keeps a database of words typed in proximity of one another. Privacy much?
3) If I spoke a single language I could work with it. Two languages means a lot of back and forth (because apparently managing a single database with two languages merged together is for dummies) and since I switch seamlessly between Italian and International groups/forums/friends I just hate that.
4) It works perfectly fine for people with limited vocabulary. My English vocabulary may be limited but my Italian one is definitely not, and I always end up fighting against the predictive text rather than exploiting its power.
5) Italian has a lot of verbal tenses, 21 for the record, verbs ending also change (but may not) depending on the number and gender of the subject, and every word is gendered. That makes for a large number of combinations for the same word which make the prediction algorithm give up fairly quickly.
I used T9 and Predictive text for 15 years but I fare much better now that I disabled it. My only common problem on the phone is the spacebar ridiculously narrow, I often hit "n", "b" or "." instead of spacem makingnfor.terriblebspelling that.looksblike.hownmy dad writes texts.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Mey he rust in piss! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I said I'd be up for it.
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You mean there are people who actually sleep by choice.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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... but I couldn't catch them! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I needed a new pair of dancing shoes but they were always one step ahead of me.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 5-Jun-20 9:40am.
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I needed a new pair of dancing shoes but they always wanted to lead.
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I wear Brooks Beast[^] myself. It's a great shoe for 'bigger' runners (I'm 6'1 and 220 lbs) who overpronate.
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and due to virus lock-downs I was left with no choice but to buy them from a drug dealer.
I have no idea what he laced them with, but I was tripping all day.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Good one!
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Should I comment on this? I've searched my sole and decided I don't wanna go there...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I was expecting a dull post and I got a joke instead. and a good one to boot.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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tap brought water to hogs turbulently (6)
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Spigot - I still think your way of setting clues is strange 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It may be strange, but evidently you've gotten the hang of it. You're up on Monday!
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Yes I've not seen this style before where you have to solve half of the clue to give you the remainder or all of an anagram to give you the answer . Conventionally to hogs would be the anagram.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hmm, I thought I'd seen others recently that did this kind of thing, although maybe not for anagrams. I wasn't that happy with this one, but if I'd written pigs instead of hogs, you'd have solved it before it was posted!
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Keep doing what you’re doing - nothing wrong with it
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Used to see a lot of that style in the Telegraph and Guardian Crosswords
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I disagree. It seems to work just fine - I can't figure out the old style...
and I can't figure out the new style!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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