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Comment #29873911
I agree and I really hope that in the long term the data proves any side effects are extremely rare and my experience is an outlier. The way the public conversation has unfolded in…
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Comment #29873531
> Well I’m taking a stand against the anecdote then I am not generalising, just providing a single data point about my local health service which is very relevant to my treatment. …
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Comment #29873329
>I’ll take a stand against your claim of there being a tsunami of patients with vaccine injuries in i dating rhumatologies I'm not making that claim. I'm only providing an anecdote…
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Comment #29873307
Thanks you for this thoughtful response. I chose to be vaccinated and unfortunately have suffered serious consequences like a very small number of other people will statistically. …
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Comment #29873081
I'm in this boat. I'm worried I now have a life long disability before 35. I'm waiting for an appointment with a Rheumatology consultant and I have been told by my doctor they have…
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Comment #29686138
It really doesn't explain why they chose a book as their format over a searchable website or why they chose a 2 page layout, with one color inverted. Spreading the content over 2 p…
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Comment #29684075
It looks like a good resource but why distribute it as a PDF and not a searchable webpage? And why put the diagrams and tables on different pages? For more obscure pinouts, I still…
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Comment #29350775
The new Pro model has a significantly better processor. They're using a binned and underclocked 28nm Rockchip RK3399S 64bit SoC – 2x A72 and 4x A53 CPU cores @ 1.5GHz. The They use…
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Comment #29308624
>they believe it will instead be a cataclysm greater than any previous mass extinction event in Earth's history. It is already broadly accepted that we are already experiencing a m…
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Comment #29217768
There are standards they likely have to follow, e.g. IEC 62304.
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Comment #29138668
They don't even need to switch to Plasma. KDE is build on libraries [1] that build on Qt. You can build a custom desktop environment like LXQt [1] from them. [1] https://develop.kd…
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Comment #29132216
I wonder what toolkit they will use. I guess since they will be using Rust, it's easier to use bindings to GTK instead of Qt which is C++. KDE has so many useful libraries [1] that…
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Comment #29108434
I see Brave are interested [1] in reproducible builds but it's not implemented yet. [2] I'm not sure if their CI artifacts are public or not. [1] https://brave.com/building-brave/ …
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Comment #29107821
Once I would have used this, but I can't just can't bring myself to trust forks by small or unknown teams. We trust browsers with passwords to everything in our lives, like our ban…
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Comment #29005887
I doubt it. They have been found to be in violation of the GPL for years, ranging from media codecs to bootloaders. Their response, even after joining the Linux foundation, was to …
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Comment #28934148
Windows is using Amazons Android store? That raises some uncomfortable questions about privacy: > Regardless of whether you choose to apply Amazon DRM, Amazon wraps your app with c…
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Comment #28921875
> exact matches Not exact matches. Hashes. Hashes that were quickly show to have collisions that the company brushed off.
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Comment #28921055
I haven't looked at Nuitka in a long time. Last time I did Windows support was not great and compilation took forever. I'll try it again.
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Comment #28920594
Unfortunately Go does not have an equivalent to Pandas as far as I know. The biggest attraction of Python is the ecosystem.
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Comment #28920546
This is exactly my problem. I have to support Windows (a locked down corporate version) and Linux.
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Comment #28919040
I used to recommend articles with titles like "modern Python package structure and tooling" to graduates. I stopped because the tools (poetry, pipenv etc) were changing so much. I …
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Comment #28918985
Python is such a joy to write and such a nightmare to set up, package and distribute. The Python Foundation needs to adopt or create standard and supported ways of doing things. I …
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Comment #28820649
On a related note, does anyone know of any open source project that could parse the website text and generate a list of tags?
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Comment #28585732
I think you're the one missing the larger picture. One of the main selling points of mass vaccination is herd immunity to protect those that are unvaccinated - including babies and…