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> Then they started to plead poverty and demanding a rise in the price cap It would be fair to say that academics demanded increases to their salaries (to limit how far they fell below inflation), but not that they demanded tuition fees
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> faced with a tidal wave of new money, the academics that had been claiming they needed it to benefit students immediately went on "strike" > the "strike" was ended by the simple expedient of allocating nearly all
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Ferdium [1] will at least cover Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Teams, if not Signal, iMessage and IRC. "Ferdi is a hard-fork of Franz, and Ferdium is a hard-fork of Ferdi" [2]. The available services are listed here [3].
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Very loosely, a number/vector/matrix/tensor can be considered to be objects where specifying the values of 0/1/2/3 indexes will give a number. (A mathematician might object to this on several grounds, such as t
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If you don't want to trust Bitwarden with your data, you can self-host a server yourself (either running the official server [1] or the compatible Vaultwarden [2]). [1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server [2]: h
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I don't know. For people who want a React wrapper around pdf.js, there are open source alternatives such as react-pdf: https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf
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I'm not sure why this currently links to the PDF of the article [0], rather than the webpage, which includes an embedded animation of an interaction, and embedded YouTube videos: https://numinous.productions/ttft/
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arwhatever made a specific comment about the use of "less mistakes" vs "fewer mistakes", not a broader claim about the use of fewer/less for countable/uncountable amounts. I think the relevant part of the &quot
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> I won't even bother asking about the 404 errors to listed GitHub repos Usually this is because the repo is private (rather than because it doesn't exist). Sometimes this is a genuine mistake: people may use a private repo bec
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The key part of the Secretary Problem is that you know the number of applicants, and use this to determine how many candidates to examine (1/e of the total under the optimal policy) to determine the selection threshold. Instead, it sou
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For copying data to/from cloud providers there is rclone [1]. This can copy from Google Drive, but for Google Photos it supports downloading files only at reduced (rather than original) resolution [2]. For backing up email, there is mb
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To be slightly more explicit, tmux is not a replacement for a terminal emulator, but rather an application that is run inside one: you can open Terminal/iTerm/Kitty/whatever you prefer, then run "tmux new" [1]. [1
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The Open Syllabus Explorer? https://opensyllabus.org/ The search results for "astrodynamics" [1] include several of ht ebooks listed above; clicking on the entry for Bate shows the co-assigned books, which inlcude
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It's now extended far beyond France - the linked article says there are now "400 Emmaüs organisations in 44 countries", though their website lists "410 organisations in 41 countries" [1]. There are quite a few shops
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> However, a PA earns £39,766.76 - far more than the juniors with none of the responsibility "far more than the juniors" is quite misleading: junior doctors only make less than £40k during the two Foundation Years immediately
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> The BBC as a public broadcaster isn't in the business of hosting contrarians In the past, the BBC certainly has been in the business of "hosting contrarians", though perhaps with the misguided intention of providing bala
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> I recommend checking out the chebfun family of packages. There's also an introductory textbook about ODEs ("Exploring ODEs") that uses chebfun [2] throughout. As well as the original MATLAB implementation, there are now
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> I saw the HP Dev one and it's a really tough choice For me it's an easy choice, as the Dev One is "Available for purchase in the U.S. only." [1] The HP Dev One also has a webcam that is 720p (whereas the one in the
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I think the only solution is to have the triage process rely less on people strictly following conservative decision trees or clinical algorithms, and more on experienced clinicians who are prepared to use their judgement and assume some in
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> 2. Are there any (recent) examples of research engineers transitioning into a tenured position? Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas were appointed as professors at Harvard [1], but they had been working in industrial labs that publis
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This is the recording: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/software-doldr...
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There are general file tagging tools like TagSpaces [1] and TagFlow [2] (though this seems to no longer be being maintained [3]). [1]: https://www.tagspaces.org/ [2]: https://www.tagflow.ch/en/ [3]: h
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There is also the GUIdebook Graphical User Interface Gallery: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots (the panel on the right lets you select a "component" like "Notepad" and see how it looked in each s
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I think the intended use is for people who need to organise photos of historical documents that they took when visiting archives or libraries, rather than for people who need to organise plots or figures that they have produced. The project
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For anyone else who is curious, the past exam papers are available here: https://www.upsc.gov.in/examinations/previous-question-paper...
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Calling these "Smart Cards" is misleading, as that is a very well-established term for something else (cards containing an embedded IC used for authorization) [1]. The role of "one link" to a page with links to accounts&
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Ireland seems the natural choice, and wouldn't require you to use a language other than English for anything.
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This looks useful. I have some UI/UX suggestions. Clicking on an image to view the detail feels like opening a modal, and I expected to be able to quickly go back to the initial canvas view by pressing the Esc key or clicking on the wh
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bs4 is able to parse some malformed documents that libxml2 chokes on. For these cases it can be useful to do the reverse, and use the BeautifulSoup HTML parser as an alternative parser backend for the lxml package: https://lxml.d
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500 Lines or less [1,2] might be of interest: it doesn't build up a single complex project from scratch, but it several show the core implementation of various complex types of software. [1]: https://aosabook.org/en&#x2

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