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...such as visual and performing arts, communication or athletic endeavors. The lack of emphasis on STEM in the examples is apparent.
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Meanwhile in India, The Reserve Bank rolled out a new policy (from Oct-1 this year) for recurring transactions on credit cards that requires the cardholder to provide an "e-mandate" for subscriptions with an additional factor of a
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Like I said in my comment, forms.office.com doesn't work. Going to forms.office.com redirects you to login.live.com where you cannot login with a business account. But outlook.office.com works. That inconsistency is the problem.
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> Domains: Respectfully, you don't need to know all the permutations, just the ones that get you what you need. That's a bit of a problem, because the sign-up mail they sent me, had a link to onmicrosoft.com, and the billing wa
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Everything about Microsoft cloud and its ecosystem is broken. I recently signed up for onedrive (microsoft business basic, actually), and I didn't even know which domain to navigate to. They have a gazillion different URLs, and each of
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Not directly Azure, but related: OneDrive Business (which is built atop Azure, I think) I recently moved off Amazon Cloud storage to OneDrive because Amazon didn't support rclone. Microsoft's OneDrive is quite a bit less expensive
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It should be fixable by running your own personal "server" that is always online and has a good amount of storage, isn't it? The mobile app can sync to your personal server and fetch a limited history whenever needed.
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India crosses 22M vaccine doses in single day, 790M total
(dashboard.cowin.gov.in)
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My setup is the following: 1. Multiple laptos get rsync'd to a WD MyBookLive network drive every 4 hrs (Yes, I know about the recent WD issue - see note at the end) 2. The WD MyBookLive data gets rclone'd to Microsoft OneDrive Bu
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> Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan writes that "our goal should go beyond merely putting truthful information in front of the public. We should also do our best to make sure it’s widely accepted." This attitude
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Nice specs. I wonder why they don't offer 1x16G (instead of 2x8G) or 1x32G (instead of 2x16G) RAM options though - that would leave the other slot free for a future upgrade.
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Yes, I did try PyCharm for python with the somewhat-vi keybindings. But it didn't feel very responsive, and I didn't see too much that I was missing. It's possible that I didn't try it long enough. Haven't tried the
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This is tangential, but I still use vim with UltiSnips, cscope, and ctags for coding (C/C++, python, julia), and it works very well. I've just not been able to move to an IDE, although I briefly played with some - I think I'm
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I've found it best to use GeoGebra to draw what you want, and then export as PGF/TikZ. You can then edit the code to make any modifications rather than writing TikZ from scratch.
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None of the experiments in the article seem indicative of animals/crows understanding the concept of zero as a symbol for nothing. All animals understand the concept of "none" or "not present", and can possibly coun
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Actually, no. Neeraj Chopra trained with Uwe Hohn until 2019, but then (Chopra) asked for a change. His coach over the last 2 years in the run up to the Olympics has been Klaus Bartonietz. 1. https://sportstar.thehindu.com/o
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I made Linux Mint the primary OS on my son's first laptop some 3-years ago when he was around 12, and he's taken to it like a fish to water. He's even taken to using regolith as his (tiling) window manager now, and prefers to
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Pfizer Manufacturing and Supply Agreement – Albania
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I use nb https://github.com/xwmx/nb for both bookmarks and notetaking. nb <link> downloads a copy of the link and stores it along with the bookmark. All notes (and consequently bookmarks and their contents) are s
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In the same vein: The Barometer Question and Calandra's account https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question
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The Guardian's Headlines: Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests UAE linked to listing of hundreds of
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> Is this a reliable source? "The group also publishes Yedioth Ahronoth, the country's most widely circulated newspaper. The founder and publisher is Yoel Esteron, formerly the managing editor for Yedioth Ahronoth, and its edit
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However, Amnesty is now clarifying, this is not the meaning of the list. "Amnesty International has never presented this list as a 'NSO Pegasus Spyware List', although some of the world's media may have done so," th
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Amnesty clarifies: The list of 50000 phone numbers not directly related to NSO
(m-calcalist-co-il.translate.goog)
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The syntax is a lot more intuitive in Julia: julia> point = (x=1, y=2) (x = 1, y = 2) julia> point.x 1 julia> point.y 2 julia> dump(point) NamedTuple{(:x, :y), Tuple{Int64, Int64}} x: Int64 1 y: Int64 2
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Even if you were to abolish the national governments you would still need a local government that can always be at odds with the central government, right? But if you abolish these local governments as well, then you're basically impos
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Is there a link to the technical details of this whole Pegasus thing? I see a lot of results of the investigation but can't seem to find technical details of what was accessed and how the investigators came to the conclusions in the
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When I got my Bachelor's degree, we had a microprocessor lab that had a microprocessor kit with a keyboard that had hex numbers 0-9,A-F, and a few control keys such as load, reset, etc. To program the device, we wrote the program in as
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> But you were saying the farmers where indulging in murder. I said no such thing.
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> Also can you give be some proof that this was happening? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Farmers'_Republic_Day_pro... The agitating protestors vandalised a DTC bus and police vehicles. According to the pol
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