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"Feature creep" is hard to characterize. If the project needs and uses it, is it really "feature creep"? Or, from Wikipedia, "The definition of what qualifies as "feature creep" varies among end users, whe
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He deliberately planned to travel via countries which were unlikely to extradite him to the US on his way to a country which offered him permanent asylum. Do you have a suggestion for a better routing? I surely can't. How should he hav
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PyPI is already centralized. Back when I started with PyPI, manual upload through the web interface was the only possibility. Have they gotten rid of that? My understanding is that "trusted publishing"[0] was meant as an additiona
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According to their docs, they have a "have high standards for overall reliability and security in the operation of a supported Identity Provider: in practice, this means that a home-grown or personal use IdP will not be eligible."
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There are two large pharmaceutical companies named Merck, because of WWI. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_%26_Co . > In 1887 a German-born, long-time Merck employee, Theodore Weicker, went to the United Stat
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And underwater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_cycling
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Yup. Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile. That's a couple of apples.
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A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles".
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Also, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-hap... > In 2008, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert decided to restructure the company according to [Ayn] Rand's principles. > Lampert broke the comp
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FWIW, I dropped my phone in the Chicago River. Crossing a drawbridge, I pulled out my phone to check the time. It slipped and fell - right into the gap in the middle. I peered through the gap to see if was there, and was able to see the spl
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Sure. Very few distributions have lovely square edges, which otherwise indicate some very high frequencies in the distribution, or quantized values. But that also means we are used to seeing histograms and their bin count and widths in orde
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Because pip contains decades of built-up code and lacks the people willing to work on updating it.
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Are you referring to the violin plot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot and in Matplotlib as https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.... It's in essence
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I believe that "trained" is also not the correct characterization. He got his degree in CS at a time when CS at the University of Amsterdam was part of the math department. He also took CS classes at Vrije Universiteit, under an a
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Guido van Rossum was not an accomplished mathematician. He has a master's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and got a bronze medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, but the former is because that's where CS was
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missing = object() data = collection.get("key", missing) if data is missing: ... else: ....
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As I understand it, it's a US thing. In areas with snow the local military branch had a drill hall as part of the armory, to carry out drills in winter. These were large open interior spaces. The military moved away from using urban ar
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What they could do is get funding from sovereign tech funds. I don't think the rest of the world likes their dependencies on US companies and their love for surveillance. Of course, to do it right means ensuring there's enough non
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From the text: > as you're reading this, there are approximately 20,000 different types of proteins working inside your body. From https://biologyinsights.com/how-many-human-proteins-are-ther... "The human geno
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It's in pretty wide use, like at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209515 "Harris outspent Trump 3:1. Hillary outspent Trump 2:1. It's not that easy to buy an election."
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> I encourage that you write a better refereed article on tide prediction Why don't you do that? I'm apparently very ill-informed of Muslim scientific history, so you already have a step ahead. I've pointed you to the enti
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Nothing like a snakeoil-monger bemoaning pesky government regulations with misguided exaggerating of the dangers of Big Government. I'm shocked the same government which supports global warming and mass species extinction, and which t
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May I interest you in my ReVitaleZ water? Every bottle is energized with radium! I've got a marketing campaign ready that will sweep the nation and convince millions to ReVitaleZ!
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There are also not 53 states.
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According to the very citations you link to. I note you haven't pointed to additional supporting evidence for your arguments. Nor have you said what's missing from the article that would be relevant to the reader, other than provi
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Named after, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia#Taxonomy > The first to be scientifically described, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Re
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Also English. ("In English, the ability to ...")
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> I'm not sure why you keep replying to my post Because I want to encourage you to read your sources in more detail. Good scholarship is important, and yet so very hard. And because I want to know new things, and this exchange has l
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Don't use the term "Dark Ages". The article does not. Use "early European medieval period". Repeating it perpetuates the myth. If you must use it, say "European Dark Ages", and be aware that you are still
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> Thanks for pointing that out but there's must some mistakes on the website. You were the one who suggested that web site. > Al-Kindi contribution is on the experiment in showing that tides are caused by the expansion of water d

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