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broken_symlink

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    Comment #35158997

    Yeah I dont understand why people are glad its down. I have an account specifically curated to my interests, where I unsubscribed from all the default subs and only subscribed to t…

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    Comment #31243147

    Thanks! Applied for this.

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    Comment #30865763

    I worked at APL for 3 years (2015 - 2018) and loved my time there. Although, the work got repetitive over time and was no longer challenging, the thing I loved the most was the soc…

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    Comment #29957339

    I tried a pyflow a couple years ago. It was very confusing and not intuitive at all, which is what I think one of the biggest advantages of these types of GUIs is supposed to be. D…

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    Comment #28474305

    There is a language called lean which is popular among mathematicians. Here is an article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-the-mathematical-lib... A more recent article as …

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    Comment #27033303

    Had no idea there was a Rockstar office in Andover! I grew up there.

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    Comment #25542378

    Can you print variables in lldb with the debug information? One compiler that I use which emits llvm ir added support for debug information recently and its now possible to set bre…

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    Comment #25067782

    I never used the streaming part, but why did they kill the app for playing music offline? I liked it for that.

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    Comment #24382085

    I agree. I aas a kid around that time and I loved the puck mouse.

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    Comment #24345336

    There do not seem to be any listings on the site?

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    Comment #23899785

    I've looked at tiledb a few times. I think it would make a lot of sense to use it as a serialization format for legion. https://legion.stanford.edu/ Its been on my todo list to try…

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    Comment #23801152

    Its the same billion they were supposed to invest in Wisconsin.

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    Comment #23649052

    I work in an office that shares space with Zoox. I've never told anyone this but I find them incredibly annoying. Whenever they take their cars out for a test drive, they sit in th…

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    Comment #23234011

    I once wrote a little python script that did something like this in the systray.

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    Comment #22754155

    Is there a specific career site for the space sciences lab or is the only way to find out about openings by looking through all the ucb postings? I have a list of sites I occasiona…

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    Comment #20629158

    What sorts of improvements could you do if you used a stylus instead?

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    Comment #19689025

    I would have tried to explore that option before leaving completely. I know two professors who have switched fields, one was physics professor who did work in string theory, switch…

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    Comment #19685276

    I bet he could get tenure in a CS department if he tried.

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    Comment #19684972

    Since he brought up he may have been in the wrong place being in the math department, did he ever actually try to switch to the CS department?

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    Comment #19496264

    Why do they still allow this though? Its not like the plane can't crash if there are no passengers in it. There is still a risk of the plane crashing in a residential area for exam…

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    Comment #19496130

    I don't know exactly how grounding works, but is there a reason why the plane can't just stay in Orlando?

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    Comment #19272475

    What about ncurses?

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    Comment #18976394

    What about like fake fingerprints that are magnetic? I wonder how thin they can make magnetic sheets? It might be too weak though but you could potentially do all 10 fingers.

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    Comment #18876641

    I've used xournal in the past for signing pdfs on linux.

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    Comment #18472459

    I tried a number of libraries a few years ago. I eventually settled on plotly. Between that and dash ( https://plot.ly/products/dash/ ) i can build some pretty powerful visualizati…