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      <p ns="0" title="Operating Agreement" snippet="...he following terms shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; set forth as follows:&#10;" size="33979" wordcount="5280" timestamp="2009-02-17T05:47:28Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Dreamwidth Timeline" snippet="...g/support/highscores Support High Scores Board] spills onto a second page, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that more than 100 different volunteers have answered support requests sinc&#10;" size="34078" wordcount="4768" timestamp="2024-01-04T16:29:02Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Default Userprop Values" snippet="...e is you&#039;re only setting the prop value if the value given and the derived &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of the current prop value are different.  So, if the value being set here w&#10;" size="5736" wordcount="1016" timestamp="2009-02-28T05:24:16Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="Command line tutorial" snippet="...for deleting files. You&#039;re probably used to &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; on your home machine &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; &amp;quot;move to Trash&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;move to the Recycle Bin&amp;quot;, so if you screw up and delete&#10;" size="23695" wordcount="3890" timestamp="2024-01-30T00:38:22Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="S2 Guide: Language Tutorial" snippet="The conditional operator is the only &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;ternary&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; operator, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that it uses three items!  It is very similar to if/else; in fact, you can &#10;" size="20563" wordcount="3150" timestamp="2019-07-09T19:30:51Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Github Issues" snippet="...n the day-to-day functioning of the site. Minor is by far the most common, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; the site is still functioning just fine for most users and the proposed cha&#10;" size="10854" wordcount="1796" timestamp="2015-11-07T14:15:31Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Screen" snippet="(Yes, this is totally a bunch of gibberish.  Its &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; is in the screen docs, which I will one day read through so I can explain t&#10;" size="2579" wordcount="419" timestamp="2018-12-11T02:51:38Z" />
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