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    Comment #48744706

    Definitely opened this thinking it would be a story of handing the keys to AI. Refreshing, simple and to the point

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    Comment #48646000

    Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API

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    Comment #48645969

    Isn't this somewhat the point of python's override capability? You can exactly define what addition means here, just like you have to define what addition means for a matrix or ano…

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    Comment #48643588

    And a side note, R actually includes a pipe operator (as in Unix `|`), and said if they'd know about it at the time, they would have never used the `+` operator

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    Comment #48643556

    It is! And that's kinda the point. Like others mention, this is inspired by ggplot2, a Grammar of Graphics library. The whole idea is graphics are composed by adding "layers", not …

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    Comment #48257805

    Seems hard to give an answer to this that isn't just anecdotal. Certainly some died during COVID, but some came back to life! Perhaps the lesson from seeing a group die is that oft…

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    Comment #47163068

    It's an unpopular opinion, but I swear that cable ties are a far more effective problem solver than Jesus/duct/gaffers tape. I always bring tie, and never tape

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    Comment #46796301

    Like the author says: > Linux is the preferred platform for development Honestly I'm surprised he was using a non unix system this long, I guess it kinda proves his point that swit…

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    Comment #41346743

    As I understand it, it's somewhat the opposite for internal resistance. You need to have current limiting in place because the internal resistance of the cell is turning that curre…

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    Comment #40593899

    At the bottom of the article they mention that this was discouraged because they hadn't covered strings in the course yet

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    Comment #39891669

    Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July

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    Comment #39891494

    Nice list, the but point 2 is a bit ironic, Australians don't celebrate 4th of July at all

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    Comment #39326685

    I first heard of memray last week when Anthony Sottile covered it https://youtu.be/bw5AHdZA7e4?si=HCP1JQKXpkFCh7ul

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    Comment #37307227

    Have you considered moving to the other address? /s

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    Comment #36896434

    Git GUIs are a crutch, perhaps that's what your pupil needs right now, but not forever. Windows novices may not realise that git can be a local program contained in a folder, so ma…

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    Comment #36525527

    Yeah this really doesn't give anything more than the headline.

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    Comment #36307957

    In my poorer student days, I actually used one of these (stye) as my primary writing chair in my home. If it's the right size for your shoulders and arms, it works quite well

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    Comment #35506843

    The fact that in the opening hook the author mistook the state of South Australia for a province just me doubt even more how close to reality this is.

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    Comment #33392969

    > some common geographic mental misplacement for continental United States residents

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    Comment #25902181

    Another interesting analysis of the journey: https://aiimpacts.org/historic-trends-in-transatlantic-passe...