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acomjean
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Processing is working on a python port, though it seems to lack some of the features of the other versions it seems functional. https://py.processing.org/tutorials/ https://processingfoundation.org/proj
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acomjean
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They’re pretty amazing. Looks like it it’s processing (not processings JavaScript cousin p5js). There is a tutorials section where the workflow is discussed. And how to create the infinite style loops. https://bleuje.com/tut
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my understanding is it’s for people with symptoms but no known diagnosis. Often because the condition is so rare it’s unknown. “At the Clinical Sites, doctors and healthcare providers, like neurologists, immunologists, nephrologists, endoc
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acomjean
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There also is the Undiagnosed Disease Network which is NIH funded. https://undiagnosed.hms.harvard.edu/about-us/ I heard a talk from Hugo Bellen which was interesting about this research. And using model organisms to i
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In music it sometimes isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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>"The output represents the model’s understanding of what is useful, aesthetic, pleasing, etc. and that, together with data filtering and cleaning that general image generating AI companies do,2 is what the companies consider most v
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acomjean
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A great solution for messing with people. Much like the “smart quotes”
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My partner tried to recycle to apple her old mac mini. It was a nightmare of two trips to the apple store and all sorts of machinations. This was a machine she bought direct from apple. They acknowledged this. There are certainly some is
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acomjean
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I had a similar experience. Though for me it turns out the reason Firefox wasn’t working for me for some sites was that some sites didn’t work with ublock origin which wasn’t installed on my chromium. Turning it off for non working sites in
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I disliked R until I took a bio statistics course. It then made a lot of sense. For graphing and analysis it's great, as a general computing language it's wanting.
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its a 60's hippy pun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
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I think it can be done. Automated liquid handling and microscopes do exist. We had a confocal microscope in our lab with a robotic arm attached and can automatically image samples. I'm not of the details but the samples are big compa
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I had a used late 80s VW GTI with a starter disable switch. It was actually a circular key that would pop out under the steering wheel. The lock did a couple of things I eventually figured out… The engine would turn if it was Locked but it
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But when walking around you aren't cruising at 10+ miles and hour in an area with multi thousand pound vehicles going a multiple of your speed.
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I wear one. One day when I was you, in the spring I slipped on some sand and went down. the helmet hit first basically saving my nose. I've also been hit on the head by an acorn. Thats mild, but it could be startling enough to loose
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No, it likely won't pass the senate. And get the president to not veto it should it pass the senate. These kinds of bills often get passed just to make a point. Even when they have little chance of passing. Though control of the go
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The language is valuable and a good choice because it’s easy to read and your codebase Be(when used with a framework) are very maintainable. We have Java Perl and python and php has been the easiest to get people working on existing code
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I think the point being made was Fortnite tends to have a wider breadth of gamer than other games (casual to hard core). My partner has a group that plays, but it’s more about crazy fun For them. They’ve tried other games but found they j
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Two people at my old company got fired for time theft. though in that case the story was it was one person using the others badge to make it look like they both went in for overtime when only one showed up. They'd alternate doing this
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The only use of the "turbo" button on some PCs in the 90s I found was to slow the machine down for the few older games that didn't have code to deal with the various speeds.
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Or put that point thing on a mouse. So much better than a scroll wheel. I still miss that mouse.
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I don't know. I think most machines are pretty well supported. 4 years ago when I first bought one reading through the forums it seemed kinda hit or miss with wifi and sound. especially since my initial machine had nvidia graphics i
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I have one (the previous one with AMD Ryzen 5700u). I've been using it for work the last 6 months coming from an 2015 macbook. Its been great for developing. The battery lasts pretty well (forgetting my power supply when working fro
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You can. Its for people like me who want a linux laptop, but don't want to go through the hassle of installing it. While I could, I just didn't want to spend the time on it, plus setting up some drivers here and there. Thats th
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If you can figure out which symbol it is. (My mom in the US bought a german oven, and each nob is a symbol, which means something fan, line, squigly line...). Once you know it makes sense, and this is a case where the internet helps. (symbo
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Our nonprofit host provider has a git repo option on their control panel. They use this for access: https://gitlist.org/ (somewhat ironicaly code hosted on github. Not sure its still being updated..) we currently don'
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These are fun. I have a real "ultimate" disc I bought as a fundraiser for a university team. Its amazing how well it flies compared to the cheap light disks. (Its heavy but really goes). My other favorite is the aerobie "sup
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I’ve only made a couple bug fixes I found to open source things. One was a pull request (the other was a jist so I left a comment and it was fixed). I was respectful and things went well. They were minor fixes but I felt they’d be useful t
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We had that in helocopter form. You started it (of course hand spinning the prop). It took off, ran out of gas and came back down. There were large blades that slowed it decent. I remember we first started it, we had no idea what to expe
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They have "smart" power strips that have this functionality, they watch a "TV outlet" and when that stops drawing significant power (Tv turned off) they shut off the other outlets (I think it was designed for dvd players
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