WhyCause

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by WhyCause 5y ago
I fell asleep in Thermo 1 on the day the professor taught us to read steam tables. I never did get many of those problems right, even though I did my engineering co-ops at power plants.
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by WhyCause 5y ago
From another article[0], it appears that they are not going to be able to weasel out of actually complying with the court order to turn over records, as was my initial fear. [0]: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cyber-
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by WhyCause 5y ago
I'm not the person you were asking, but I, too, use mostly Python for ETL tasks as a good chunk of my job. Python's speed, or lack thereof, is rarely an issue. Most tasks that I write/run finish in less than a minute, includ
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by WhyCause 5y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I've got a bunch of books (including quite of few of Montroll's) that I've collected over the years. I just the old man who hates seeing interesting creations being posted on /r/origami
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by WhyCause 5y ago
I get so frustrated nowadays looking for origami instructions; everything seems to be a video when all I want are the diagrams that used to get posted.
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by WhyCause 5y ago
All of them. The data still needs to be downloaded to be rendered.
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by WhyCause 5y ago
You do know about `.get()`, right? if `a = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}`, and I do `cval = a.get('c', 3)`, `cval` will contain 3. If I do `cval = a['c']`, I get an exception
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by WhyCause 5y ago
Oddly enough, I did the same thing with my Es when I was first learning to write my letters. I didn't have a special name for them, though.
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by WhyCause 6y ago
Every single cable company tries the same scam. The only difference being that it's slightly easier to get to a human in the first place.
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by WhyCause 6y ago
Promises aren't available in IE11, and as the last "true" IE, I imagine it'll be around a bit longer than it should be. I recently had to rewrite a bunch of vanilla promise-based code to use jQuery promises once I realiz
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by WhyCause 6y ago
Monetization. You can't use an ad blocker (easily) in an app, so they get to show you ads. If you decide to buy reddit gold (or whatever they're calling it now), then they get the money from that instead.
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by WhyCause 6y ago
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." - Michael Pollan
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by WhyCause 6y ago
I use the ellipsis at the start of an IM sentence primarily when I've accidentally hit enter mid-thought.
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by WhyCause 6y ago
I find that the images in galleries are hidden in old, until you click the Play or Plus button (or whatever the subreddit css defines for that) that's under the title on the comments page, just to the right of the up/down vote but
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by WhyCause 6y ago
Firefox Focus is on iOS; I use it as an ad-blocker in Safari, and to view the occasional Instagram or FB page. It does a pretty good job of blocking ads, even though it's restricted to using WebKit.