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by nephanth 3y ago
Depends on where you're living. The US is the only country I've been to where automatic transmission are so ubiquitous
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by nephanth 3y ago
Excel has programming capabilities (VBA) that are used a lot, and I don't think they're available in the online version (are they?)
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by nephanth 3y ago
My middle school's computers (desktop pcs with windows at the time) fidn't have passwords on the bios We would bring linux "live users to boot on and play minecraft A loss for the school, but definitely a win for our educatio
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by nephanth 3y ago
Do regular users `curl|bash`? From my experience that's a pretty rare occurence: stuff users need is generally in the repos
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by nephanth 3y ago
Iirc there's a software to do that if you have root, it's called Xposed/Xprivacy Dunno if it's still maintained though
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by nephanth 3y ago
> There's a large difference in energy and entropy between seawater and drinkable "fresh" water I agree with the entropy part, but isn't the energy practically the same for similar quantities/ temperature?
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by nephanth 3y ago
Are those supposed to be user- facing though?
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by nephanth 3y ago
That functionality looks pretty nice, anyone knows of an extension to do that in vim/nvim ?
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by nephanth 3y ago
Medium is a prime example of monetization leading to poor content
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by nephanth 3y ago
This question makes little sense, Algeria had been under french occupation since 1830. Before the 2 industrial revolutions, and before a lot of current democraties were established. Its situation then is a very bad predictor of an hypotheti
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by nephanth 3y ago
I remember what.cd had interviews like that. Tried and failed as a kid, that was a pain There are definitely private trackers that don't have anything like that though (iirc they're called "semi-private trackers"). One i
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by nephanth 3y ago
0ad is always the first listed package of linux distro repos (in alphabetical order). That might have helped with discoverability
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by nephanth 3y ago
What is there to parallelize in a latex build? Isn't it incremental?
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by nephanth 3y ago
I wonder what are the incentives/ reasons for producing all those fake papers It's not like paper authors get any kind of royalties. Some journals even make you pay to publish. So why are they doing that? Maybe that's what w
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by nephanth 3y ago
Btw, why do transformers have a limit input size in the first place? I'm pretty sure the self-attention mechanisms scale (although with bad complexity) to arbitrary sizes
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by nephanth 3y ago
Poetry does a good job for package management
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by nephanth 3y ago
Python is absolutely not a "no-frills" language. It is loaded with features, I'd be willing to bet that 99% of python programmers don't know all language features (even relatively old and frequently used ones like metacl
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by nephanth 3y ago
Yay, figure out some way to contain it, then task it with manipulating thousands of people. Could never go wrong
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by nephanth 4y ago
But not when compared to nuclear power (same source)
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by nephanth 4y ago
Because this is not the approach they're taking? If you read the whole article, you learn this project is AOSP-based So it runs android apps In the hypothetical situation that it was needed though, PWAs are probably more common now tha
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by nephanth 4y ago
> Twitter has a billion custom clients for it as well Not anymore
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by nephanth 4y ago
Optional ordinal? Afaik for some reason day 1 is always ordinal (1er mai) and the others are always cardinal (25 mars)
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by nephanth 4y ago
> SVB successfully lobbied to be exempt from both Ow the irony
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by nephanth 4y ago
An unbreakable half-space, to be pedantic (though in this case the pedantry makes sense: you don't want your punctuation mark to end up on the next line)
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by nephanth 4y ago
> In French the em-dash is almost inexistant; we use parenthesis instead usually. French uses em-dashes ("tiret cadratin") or en-dashes ("tiret semi-cadratin") for dialogue. Like so: – bonjour, dit-elle, comment allez
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by nephanth 4y ago
There's also good old i3, which has vim-inspired key maps by default iirc
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by nephanth 4y ago
Ow you're right I wasn't aware of that
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by nephanth 4y ago
Sci-hub is your friend
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by nephanth 4y ago
In terms of energy, you'll always need more to recapture than burning that fuel will give you (cuz entropy) So if money = energy (which is a wrong assumption), buying that barrel would always be a loss
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Wait do you have sources for those stories?

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