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chaosfox

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    Comment #40617075

    I have been working on bioinformatics for many years now, and I see this question often asked by beginners, people that insist in using just a single language are crippling themsel…

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    Comment #35503864

    I have been using R almost daily for years now and its no hyperbole when I say that if ggplot2/dplyr wasn't a thing I would have never bothered with R.

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    Comment #32225333

    the silver lining, I hope, is that this will highlight how important independent verification and reproduction of results is in academia, people "know" that but funding for it is s…

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    Comment #32003345

    python isn't premature. python is more than 30 years old now, python 3 was released more than 10 years go.

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    Comment #31926188

    that heatmap is just asking to be clustered https://imgur.com/a/lxn4ApA

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    Comment #28300289

    I love xsv, but its been 3 years since last release and the PRs are accumulating.. miller seems much more active.

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    Comment #26054687

    last time I tried ssh does not delete the socket file when the connection closes and complains the file already exists on a new connection.

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    Comment #25416052

    > but there are many artists I can no longer buy this is the most frustrating part of the whole ordeal, many indie artists had their digital albums on GPM and youtube music is not …

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    Comment #25113073

    unfortunately having a competitive card is only half the battle, they also need all the deep learning libraries to support using this card otherwise nobody is going to bother. I ho…

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    Comment #21804580

    rosettacode has plenty of APL and J solutions: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:APL https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:J

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    Comment #21783044

    > whose main source of packages is managed by a single company thats not true today, conda-forge is a community led effort that have open source recipes of the packages built by an…

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    Comment #21781789

    there are almost 700 commits to master since the latest release.

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    Comment #21660003

    I don't think I understand the problem.. to do this search you need to have the target number, and if you already have the target number no search is required.. what am I missing ?…

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    Comment #21275124

    yes, because they are both absolutes in opposite ends. if you want something to be perfect expect to be disappointed.

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    Comment #20920938

    for those wondering, perl has this source filter feature [0] that allows implementation of these things, see also bleach [1] and ook [2] modules. 0. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlfi…

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    Comment #20595090

    you maintain the save button ? thats awesome.

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    Comment #20463112

    I wonder what would happen if the copyright holder of helvetica sent a DMCA notice to github.

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    Comment #20413022

    this is not valid Perl, its Perl 6.

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    Comment #20412757

    ecosia financial reports: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti...

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    Comment #20304210

    yes, and they specifically said: We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum which gives us a 10 y…

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    Comment #20296528

    see also, Perl Regular Expression Matching is NP-Hard: https://perl.plover.com/NPC/

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    Comment #20285333

    cookie autodelete addon.

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    Comment #19329891

    note that alacritty has improved a lot since this, despite being less than a year since the tests were done, I have been using it for many months now its pretty great.