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> Merge commits have more than one parent, and Git doesn’t automatically know which parent was the trunk, and which parent was the branch you want to un-merge. Yes git knows: The first parent is the trunk.
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"You" is the formal version. But as the answers explain, English did also have the informal version.
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Be a verified (by phone number, no need to pay) twitter user. Apply to be a Community notes contributor. Wait. If accepted, you start with 0 points. Twitter will start to show you proposed (as opposed to published) community notes. You can
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> The phrase, which in Arabic isn’t “from the river to the sea” but rather translates to “from the water to the water” Full chant is: من الميه للميه – فلسطين عربيه (Min al-mayya lil-mayya, Filasteen Arrabiya) "From the Water to the
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https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/community-notes
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When will they (or anyone) be able to run Shor's algorithm to factor the number 35? There was a failed attempt in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Physical_im...
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> not python Pandas has a global option to turn on copy-on-write. https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/user_guide/copy_on_write....
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> vector room Is Swedish, "rum" means both space, and a room. In English, "vector space" is used.
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> If union membership is really the way of life in Sweden, is there anything preventing the government from a legislative solution? Nordic countries actually have relatively weak labour laws. What might be handled in legislation in US (e
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> asked for the funding fewer than five months before the event The Python Software Foundation says that they need less than 6 weeks for processing grant applications: https://www.python.org/psf/grants/
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> C++ is a pain Fortran would be less painful than C++, for math-heavy code.
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> Restraint is not necessarily a show of weakness. But that is how those people read it, nevertheless.
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Direct link to table: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAQ2nQUW0AAqPI6?format=jpg&name=... Direct link to tweet: https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1730568207700771279
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> People drive horrible now. Running lights, crazy lane changes, excessive speeding etc. No longer bothering to turn off long beam headlights, when there is oncoming traffic. And with the new bright led lights, the long beams are really
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According to this 2011 Stackoverflow answer, the remote machine needs to have `git-receive-pack` available. If not the whole of git. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5533912/what-is-a-simple...
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Bazaar (and probably Breezy also) is able to push over ssh or sftp into the remote file system without needing Bazaar to be installed on the remote computer. Whereas with git and mercurial you need to have git or mercurial installed on the
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> Remember, about a month ago Sam posted a comment along the lines of "AI will be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to very strange outcomes". Superhuman persu
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Pick out the even (i,j where both even) elements from a matrix m[0::2, 0::2] // Numpy m(0::2, 0::2) // Fortran [1] m(seq(0, last, 2), seq(0, last, 2)) /&#
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Every weather prediction model, and every climate model, is in Fortran. Caltech has a project attempting to write a new climate model in Julia: https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaCore.jl https://clima.caltech.edu
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> If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't you try to slow things down a bit? In the 1990s and the 00s, it was no too uncommon for anti-GMO environmental activist / ecoterrorist gro
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Up until about World War II and use in cryptography, number theory was pretty much an un-applicable field of mathematics.
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How do you get your child into one of those public shcool? Do you need money, or connections, or does the child need be talented? (The Wikipedia article didn't tell.)
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Wikipedia translates the Swedish friskola as charter school in English. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friskola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden "A charter school is a s
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> what are MOND and lambda-CDM? MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) is a minority (not mainstream) theory in physics, that maybe Newton's law of gravity doesn't work the same over galactic distances. After all, we have only test
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> Can you link to a certificate of "passing peer review". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10990763/home
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I live in Finland in a modern apartment building. Walls have good sound insulation, and triple pane windows insulate for both heat and sound. I am next to a busy road, but can not hear it inside, unless I open some windows.
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> The issue they raise is that the switch causes problems. The scientific position is that permanent standard time is the most healthy option. And that permanent daylight saving time might be even less healthy, than the current switching
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> HEAD is pointing to the commit you're currently looking at HEAD pointer is pointing to the branch pointer (e.g. my-branch) which is pointing to the commit. (Except in a detached HEAD state.) > Every time that you make a commit
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> Given the political climate surrounding COVID I find it difficult to trust any numbers from any source Just look at all-cause mortality, and assume that the observed excess mortality is because of covid.
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Here is how to do it with Gimp: http://hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?request=9 http://hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?request=10 http://hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?reque

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