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bosie
8y ago
While I agree that PDFs are at times cumbersome to use, I can't think of a valid solution to replace them. - Fixed layout seems much easier to handle than dynamic layouts. I.e. I can't recall any website that resizes the content
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8y ago
Also uk based, I stopped buying clothing as it just doesn't seem reliable. Ordered the same shirt with quantity 3 and got 3 (slightly) different shirts. pair of Levis jeans also feels very different than the same pair bought at House o
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8y ago
Not sure why it wouldn't work for "fast" changing fields like programming as well. The basics are the basics. Learn the basics at school and the day-to-day activities through the apprenticeship? Not sure what else would be be
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8y ago
why can't a note have tables and equations? Both seem quite useful (equations especially as that's just a compressed sentence in a way)
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8y ago
https://www.schwalbe.com/en-GB/spike-reader/marathon-winter.... That's what me and my mother are using. No issue whatsoever. The only problem are cars who can't handle the snow/ice as well as you ca
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8y ago
Sleep? ;)
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9y ago
At 50k you are paying between 10-15% income tax.
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9y ago
> It seems that such people can't possibly deal with legal problems, medical problems, car problems... 230 times a year? they probably can't.
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9y ago
Ah, that is great news, thank you.
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9y ago
what's the non-government solution for an implementation of the EPA?
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9y ago
When did they add the sync feature? I asked the audible support about sync two months ago and they said that the notes are only stored on the device you are using. Indeed i couldn't see it anywhere else and when i switched phones the n
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9y ago
I have been using an evoluent with my kinesis for the last 10 years. Great ergonomic setup.
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9y ago
Can you use it to clean something like the counter top of the kitchen and non-tile floors (i.e. wood or laminated floors)?
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9y ago
apologies if this is a silly question but you said "per bar" a few times. i just checked your spouse's shop and a bar is 1.4oz (38g). That is quite tiny and equals roughly USD18 per 100g. In Europe I am more used to people co
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9y ago
> I prefer the approach of link grammar / relex which are based on dictionaries / grammars, it seems easier and less error prone. Can you link to something open source that outperforms spacy on the basic NLP tasks (NER, POS, de
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9y ago
i installed it now (v0.31.8) via pip on centos7 with python 3.6. Switching to a notebook tab takes about two seconds (notebook has 45 python code cells), saving a texteditor with python code in it takes about 1 second. Chrome Version 63.0.3
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9y ago
What do you do during your break?
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9y ago
did you find that the timings of the work hours and workouts make no difference? I.e. working out at 7am with workhours from 9-5 are suboptimal but workhours from 4am to 8am with an hour of workout between 8 and 9 gives you a boost for the
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9y ago
> Apple encourages people to take their phones into Apple stores/authorized dealers to get the battery replaced. Not in my experience. Bring your iphone to an apple shop and ask for the battery to be replaced. Apple will most likel
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9y ago
If you don't mind me asking, when do you go to bed?
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9y ago
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Cheryl-a...
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9y ago
What scale are you using for weighing your tea leaves?
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9y ago
Genuine question but what would you do after the battery of your watch is dead at 1pm?
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9y ago
"One-minute averages": I thought Fitbits provide a data point/recording for every second?
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9y ago
Not being from SF, how long is that ride and how many share the ride?
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9y ago
i don't follow your math. can you expand on the increase. $125 / 12 hour means it is around 12 bucks an hour. if you have 3 rides an hour (don't know if doable), it would increase a single ride by 4 bucks. that doesn't s
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9y ago
> If the chocolate was so terrible, then why is it the most popular chocolate in the UK? Why would Nestlé have bought Cadbury's? I am not sure the first is a reasonable question considering that popularity and quality hardly ever go
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9y ago
What do you do in tablet mode? I bought a surface pro 4 and returned it after a few weeks. Reading a PDF was just straight up horrible as I couldn't a single app that was touch friendly with appropriate features. I.e. highlighting thin
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9y ago
How do you know engineers were involved in writing the software? If there were engineers involved they should have said something if it does endanger the public. After all, it is in their responsibility/regulation to uphold the safety
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9y ago
look into Witch ( https://manytricks.com/witch/ ). it let's you switch to windows rather than apps
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