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  • My kernel's been thrashing on this for months - too many variables!

    Sunday morning miscellany mangosteen 2009

  • Most operating system portability layers use a batch compiler - almost always gcc - to convert the OS kernel's source code to a platform-specific native code file that is installed somewhere a boot process can get at it.

    Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Code generation 2009

  • Terry B-- Heh, it is a bit dangerous, not to mention the kernel's can catch on fire and pop as well.

    A light in August: | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • The Linux kernel's already great module system makes even a custom kernel just unneeded for most distributions.

    Linux: Too Much of a Good Thing? glyn moody 2008

  • It's used during nixtamalization, in which corn is cooked and then steeped in a calcium hydroxide solution to loosen the corn kernel's pericarp and modify the starch granules and protein structure.

    a molcajete, a clay comal, and some cal. 2004

  • But Purdue University researchers found that the key to a kernel's explosive success lies in the composition of its hull.

    From On High 2005

  • But Purdue University researchers found the key to a kernel's explosive success lies in the composition of its hull.

    so that's why! melcircus 2005

  • Keep in mind that physiologic maturity is not reached until all the kernel's milky starch has solidified.

    Chapter 11 1981

  • I hope that you will be among those who will not "stick to break the shell of the nut for the kernel's sake," and that although the "sense be somewhat dark" you will some day read the book for yourselves.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • The rind's very bitter, though the kernel's sweet.

    The Road to Damascus August Strindberg 1880

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