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4,006karma·736submissions·October 9, 2014
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cool visualisation of electricity generation source per country https://app.electricitymaps.com
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Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett is usually well regarded, although I have not read it
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the roads are really great, they're kept in great shape. The train, although Madrid centric is amazing as well, stupidly fast and not that expensive anymore.
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that's great that you were able to do all of that, but that's not true for everyone. You can't deny that for a lot of people these networks are their day to day, and have become a neces…
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The Harry Potter movies are not directed by an American. They have different directors, 2 out of 8 movies are directed by an American, the others British and one Mexican
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Unfortunately, internally it was a mess. They had several versions of the engine floating around for each game that would diverge and be a pain to merge all together. Later on it got way better but it…
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Not countries producing but there's huge oil companies based in Europe (BP, Shell, Total) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_oil_and_gas_... …
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> At some point communication is critical and you need to be able to write up a design document before making major changes or additions to code or infrastructure. Not sure I've ever had to do…
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> can talk through their thought process as they problem solve Why? Why can't I have a moment to think and focus without talking?
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> In France about 63% of the final energy is produced thanks to fossil fuel have you go a source for that? the parent comment seems to contradict that fact
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> recent requirements to label foods containing sesame as an allergen led to more foods having sesame intentionally added, since it’s cheaper to add it intentionally and then label it than to prove…
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Yeah, it was CryEngine 3.6. CryEngine 5 came after the Amazon fork with a whole new editor, a VR focus and a bunch of other things.
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Glad to know I'm not the only one! I keep wondering if I'm misunderstanding something in git since I couldn't find something like the timelapse view. I've even considered trying to…
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Another +1 for Perforce from me, it's just so much simpler for non dev users. It's of course a no-go if you really need the distributed nature of git, but as you say, for the majority of use…
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But in Perforce you can have your own private branch, in practice it feels not much different than having a local git one. You can then merge to main as you want.
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Not OP but I had the same problem as you, too many options. My advice is to just pick one and try it, you'll have a much better understanding of what you need/want after you've talked t…
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Would Michael Collins (Apollo 11) be the person that has been furthest from any other human ever? (or potentially someone else from one of the Apollo missions?)
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Yeah, BBC iPlayer is UK only since it's funded by UK residents
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> in such an economy the majority of workers will be glad to take a bribe > gesturing to our cameras, making a meaningful pat of his wallet inside his pocket > It might have been the presence…
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I'm curious now, did we develop our dental structure after mastering fire?