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Giroflex
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Comment #19964023
It is, actually. Sometimes it's not visible but it's available in a neat JSON format if you view page source.
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Comment #19885816
> The results speak for themselves. The team set up the new camera on the 20th floor of a building on Chongming Island in Shanghai and pointed it at the Pudong Civil Aviation Build…
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Comment #18550989
As a bit of a layman, is there even any legitimate reason at all (other than a user installing it in their own machine for reverse engineering purposes) for anyone to install a roo…
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Comment #17925100
Yup, I was reading through thinking there was some major update to Kitty and was a bit confused when the page said it was only available for Linux and Mac.
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Comment #17908207
The key here is that this becomes easier as you do it. It's hard fighting off those few first thoughts, but I personally find that once I do, my brain is put into slow gear and few…
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Comment #17739434
Well, sometimes the average is 0, e.g. (-2 + 2)/2. And the whole point is that this is meant to catch unforeseen interactions as soon as possible. If you add a check it's no longer…
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Comment #17537637
> You can think of it probabilistically. But probabilistically doesn't it make sense to skip insurance altogether? If insurance manages to turn a profit despite having overhead exp…
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Comment #17355735
What about good old scp? scp file.txt user@host:/dest/dir/
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Comment #17335043
> * If I make some claim during class that is not accurate, the students - who, again, are all professional engineers in the work force - will eat me alive. This is interesting. I …
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Comment #17308519
Never had any trouble with `pip install --upgrade library`. Not sure if there's support for upgrading all packages at once, though.
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Comment #17308498
>pip install library needs root Hmm, not really. It's actually advised against [1]. [1] - https://askubuntu.com/questions/802544/is-sudo-pip-install-s...
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Comment #17307380
> Even something as simple as installing a library is a conceptual leap for these people (why wouldn't the software just come with everything needed to work?). > Have you ever trie…
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Comment #17294590
It's interesting how lifeforms can mold materials into shapes and states we'd otherwise never think of, or that maybe would even be impossible to produce. The strong silk some spid…
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Comment #16945159
It is both terrifying and comical at the same time. This made it click for me about why the most productive times I have are also the busiest ones. I thought it was due to "inertia…
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Comment #16944887
So the perpetrator's thread has a lot of deleted posts which are invisible now. This link makes them show up again: https://www.removeddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8825e8/thr...
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Comment #16893252
> If I could have a guided experience from an agnostic and trained professional I would consider trying them That would be the dream. I personally got curious about it and talked i…
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Comment #16518497
Was about to post the same. Ghostery for me reports 22 trackers on the website, 3 of which are from facebook, including the "pixel" tracker that is mentioned in the article.
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Comment #16466242
I actually had the same experience. I was scraping a large number of pages and upon profiling my script, I found out that bs4 was really slow. Changing the parser from the default …
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Comment #16381588
When I first opened up the Netflix mobile app and it asked me if I wanted it to show me notifications I thought "hey, that's nice, most apps just start spamming me without asking".…
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Comment #16244700
Sending to that new address would be public.
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Comment #16149728
It's different to copy/paste code from SO and to copy/paste code from an open-source project with a non-permissive license and remove/ignore the license. The controls to prevent de…
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Comment #16143650
This articule just seems to revolve around some pretty skewed data. > Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg. Became paper riche…
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Comment #16113817
Well, why did you use all your Ether buying pictures of cats instead of a used car?