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Can I download files with it yet without the download failing?


Were you unable to download files which required authentication?

That seems to have been fixed in a previous release.


Works for me on firefox preview.


Yes, they fixed that soon


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Presumably its pronounced cock?


It's pronounced like the French word "coq": https://forvo.com/word/coq/#fr (because it is the French word "coq")


In brazilian portuguese cock means "galo", it's the same animal so no surprise to me here.


In French, yes.


How is it pronounce it in English lol


Yes, Coq is pronounced like "cock" in English. C'est la vie


Goodness, I had no idea the power consumption of that Xeon was so high!


I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say that it's not very good and anyway it's provided some good discussion here, so I've enjoyed that.


A recent example of this for me is using Abaqus (an FE solver). When using it to set up models I usually set all of the boundary conditions and contact interactions in a script. It wasn't until I was helping a colleague (who was using the gui) with a problem that I realised some of the options just aren't available through the gui.


TIL what a Veblen Good is. Thanks


To save others the googling

> Veblen goods are types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases, an apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.


TIL what TIL means (also Veblen Good). So today I learned 2 things.


Huh?


Maybe the above was sarcasm?


Or you could just get a thinkpad, right?


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