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afshin

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    Comment #36901083

    Yes. Jupyter kernels all talk over zeromq channels, irrespective of the front-end user interface.

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    Comment #36901072

    There is a little bug icon in the toolbar of your open notebook in both user interfaces. The bug only appears if you have a kernel that supports debugging (e.g., ipykernel). So if …

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    Comment #35739880

    A self-contained solar powered cargo-container-sized box that can create calories with minimal top-ups of material might make some marginal areas habitable.

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    Comment #30688439

    The answer to this is related to the answer of: "would you prefer to be in the lower class of Norwegian society or the lower class of nearby Belarussian society?"

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    Comment #30114339

    This idea has been formalized: https://www.simulation-argument.com/

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    Comment #28817610

    You take two leaps here that don't follow: OP proposed that advertising is psychologically manipulating people into believing their lives are incomplete and asked whether that is a…

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    Comment #27893440

    > The main defense against this situation is that it does not work to improve citizens lives. It only benefits a small part of society and it will make the rest suffer. This patter…

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    Comment #23574630

    mamba feels so much faster than conda, it is awesome.

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    Comment #23067821

    Would publicizing such a donation help him or would you then want to know why he published the details of his donation? Your question is one where both possible outcomes result in …

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    Comment #23067787

    A basic income that truly covers the basic needs of modern life (food, shelter, electricity, running water, heat, healthcare, broadband, education, etc.) would give the lowest paid…

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    Comment #22795832

    Theia runs inside a web browser. VS Code doesn't.

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    Comment #22716099

    There are a few efforts on this front. Here are two that I know of for JupyterLab: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra#notebook-versionin…

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    Comment #22659305

    Part of the calculus for the cost is losing the immediate utility of git blame once every file has been reformatted.

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    Comment #22158413

    I only recently switched to HTTPs. https://darian.af/

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    Comment #22076032

    HN has not entered its Eternal September quite yet. Perhaps you'll be better received in another forum, but this is unwelcome here.

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    Comment #21948828

    It isn't the same challenge because Apple doesn't sell Macs at a loss.

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    Comment #21909588

    Encryption does not fix this completely even if you assume all texts and voice calls are encrypted. The metadata is equally important: - your location in time and space - the numbe…

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    Comment #21301475

    I agree with you. The only universal thing that could be said of any conscious entity is that it is capable of experience. No other aspect of consciousness (e.g. fear of ceasing to…

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    Comment #17860396

    The first ten inventors I see when I search for "US inventors" are: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Nikola Tesla, George Washington Carver, Charles…

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    Comment #16423786

    If you have a notebook open in JupyterLab with a running kernel, you can go to the menu and open File > New > Console. It will prompt you for what sort of kernel to use, including …

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    Comment #16421387

    The closest thing to what you're asking for is the first image in the post, which is a screenshot that has this caption: > JupyterLab is an interactive development environment for …

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    Comment #16421083

    In JupyterLab, under the `Settings` menu, there is a setting you can toggle (Autosave Documents) if you prefer to turn off this behavior.

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    Comment #14777548

    Gotcha. I think that the manual effort of that was what put me off managing passwords myself.

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    Comment #14777227

    One problem I had when using a similar technique is how to change passwords. Some services require regular password changes, security breaches require it, etc. So I needed some add…