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I wonder how Paddle handles additional languages. Tesseract versions 4+ (when they started supporting LTSM) is pretty easy to train on obscure fonts and rare languages. The downside is that you need labeling...a lot of labeling. We used abo
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Age factor is absolutely real in well studied skills such as chess. There are no instances of people starting to play chess after say age 25 and becoming a grandmaster say after 20 years at 45. Plenty of people who start at 10 or earlier an
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Unlikely it is not as bad as St Peterburg but again it is still a misleading practice. These names are put in a middle of the list (meaning they have low priority for actual parliament seats). If you are an uneducated and undecided voter, y
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Agreed the practice is not as despicable as the St. Petersburg case. (amazing city btw) Still the question is would this person be running in the election were their name not a match or similar to someone publicly known. These names usually
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Every election in Latvia if you check the Russian oriented ballots you will find some familiar last names in unexpected fringe parties. Unused ballots are good for bathroom reading :) When I say fringe these parties get less than 1% and are
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This is endemic in eastern European politics. It is especially prevalent among parties oriented towards Russian speaking populace in the Baltics. I've never seen it work, but maybe there is a bit of Ross Perot(not that Clinton/Bus
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The price of Playdate also fits with Teenage Engineering model - well designed but priced above the standard 5x BOM model. Not a critique (since it is surely a better pricing model for longevity than underpricing). Also with 20k units I am
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A little bit of feedback on namy.ai Small improvement: filter by type of domain (.com, .ai, etc) Big improvement: filter false positives, it showed some sites as available, but they were taken (those were sites with English dictionary names
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Plotly is a fantastic library if you want interactive graphs/visualizations. It has good documentation and support. It fits my definition of easy to do simple things and possible to do hard things. You can also easily move your graphs
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My sympathies to the OP. As others said the authority that the Google misknowledge panel implies is the most worrying of all. Can one claim and opt out of knowledge panel at all? My knowledge panel is bare except for my birth date which is
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I stopped going to /r/AskHistorians because often the only allowed answers were badly sourced. This is especially prevalent on events that are still relatively recent (last 40-50 years). Second, it really is /r/AskHistor
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Looks fantastic! A bit of apples and oranges but I am looking for alternatives to Moodle which is the granddaddy of LMS - learning management systems. I have to integrate youtube videos, quizzes, interactive learning materials, etc.
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There are many here who have seen crypto to overpromise and underdeliver for over 10 years. PS Mined some BTC in 2011 and some LTC in 2012-2013. The original promise (per Satoshi) was that it could be used as electronic money. That goalpost
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This particular story comes from German author Heinrich Boll (Nobel prize winner): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbei...
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I paid 5 Euros for a HP 4050N from a bankrupt bank back in 2008. I still have not changed the cartridge 13 years later! I am starting to get worried that all the cartridge refill shops will go out of business before I get a chance to do a r
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Sofia is the middle daughter - reportedly the most talented. Judith being the youngest had that kill instinct at an early age. The sibling dynamic is something I did not appreciate until I had kids of my own.
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For a beginner Labview can be a great step up. Back in 1991 I worked on Labview at a university lab. It seemed amazing for the time. For a teenager migrating from Basic - Labview seemed a fantastic improvement. It felt incredibly powerful
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What kind of legwork would be required for a European to set up LLC via Atlas? I thought the idea was to let Atlas do everything?
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Unsurprising a nice dark pattern on cookies at the job site: "Some cookies are required to use our services. To continue to Facebook, review the available cookie controls and make any optional changes you'd like before selecting a
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As Gibson wrote in 1984 (a few years earlier actually): "`Jesus,' Molly said, her own plate empty, `gimme that. You know what this costs?' She took his plate. `They gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it.
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This is a nice hacker alternative to professional product: https://www.digitalgametechnology.com/index.php/products/ele...
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The chapters look good! How would you compare this book to "Fluent Python"? Similar level? I like "Fluent Python" and it is the recommendation I currently give to my students who want something intermediate.
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Probably the most famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ru... Not my cup of tea (loved the current Kafka one) I prefer when books for learning use a consistent art style.
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Nice option for building Python+Qt applications! Buying the Pro version still leaves one to deal with Qt licensing does it not?
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I have RM2 and use it less than I would like to. RM2 is fine as a note taking device but is suboptimal for reading. As many other have said the Remarkable 2 hardware is impressive but the default software is weak for basic reading tasks. Wi
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Brilliant workflow! Today I learned about Fire AND Gooey Sometimes I get bogged down in writing proper argparse when it really is not needed. Are there any edge cases where Fire does not work too well, like some strange parameters (for exam
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Very cool! Reading https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey#how-does-it-work One simply attaches a decorator to whichever function/method your argparse uses. I have dozens of argparse based programs that could use Gooe
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This was a nice porting job! https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ - could use some new content. Next level would be finding the cheapest modern mass produced device that can run Doom with no hardware modification
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Thank you! A bit more clear, but still seems really messy. So if there are limits I assume you collect 150 transactions a year from California, you have to keep the tax collected until you reach 200 and send the tax for all 200? Presumably
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So how does one pay tax with this? Let's say you and your server are in Singapore. You are selling a digital product - PDF book on dynamically typed Rust... You have customers from all 50 US states and all European countries. You have

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