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chriswitts
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About chriswitts
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Comment #38095618
PyGithub has existed for ages, even if it is not official. GitHub only maintains octokit for JS, Ruby, .NET, and Terraform.
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Comment #33460115
From the article “Most of the time in a wedding gallery of 1,000 photos there are only 1 to 3 images that are blurred,” explains Haanstad. “Also, anytime I do a blurry photo I have…
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Comment #33116301
They are. It is stated in the subheading, as well as the article.
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Comment #30647851
Absolutely yes. I would be pretty happy to work 20 hours a week to essentially be a consultant and advisor to a team.
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Comment #29929448
The software was not named in the article, as it has yet to be patched. Colombo provided screenshots and other documents detailing his findings and identifying the maker of the aff…
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Comment #29535735
What the tweet and graph misses is the fact that the NICD systems have a delay in reporting due to some recent IT changes for data security. https://twitter.com/nicd_sa/status/1469…
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Comment #29526690
I hope they correct the Steam regional pricing for Forspoken... $70 is ZAR1,118.53 (R15.98:$1) yet the Steam SA pricing is R1,429 (±R20:$1, or effectively a $90 game). Definitely n…
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Comment #26631656
I'm in South Africa, paying ±$73/month for 100Mbps synchronous uncapped (but with a FUP [Fair Usage Policy]). I would love to double my speed and third my costs :(
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Comment #24302301
As a native English speaker I can attest that we sure as shit don't pronounce it "Rapey".
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Comment #23298783
AMD calls it SMT (Simultaneous MultiThreading).
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Comment #23269588
You can arbitrarily amend the date in git git commit --amend --date="Thu Jan 1 08:00 1970 +0000"
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Comment #23178011
I like this, it suits my needs. I noticed that VOO (Vanguard S&P 500 ETF) has a -10.56% dividend percentage listed (although it is the YTD performance) which causes the expected an…
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Comment #22043985
Yes, the betas get updated along the way, and you'll end up with the final print version when it's done.
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Comment #21988827
You shouldn't be using `#!/bin/bash` but rather `#!/usr/bin/env bash` instead.
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Comment #20860838
Empirically speaking 4/4/9 calories per gram of carb/protein/fat. So generally speaking no, 1lb != 3,000 calories.
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Comment #20332466
You can use Hyperfine [1] instead of time for a nicer CLI benchmark. I'd also be curious to know is pillow-simd [2] gets the Python performance closer to Go/Rust, and if using Rayo…
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Comment #18940297
You could check out Nanolog [1] for inspiration. [1] https://github.com/PlatformLab/NanoLog
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Comment #17713588
I have a little function for generating some random characters ###################################### # Generate a random password from /dev/urandom # pw [length [num_passwords [ch…
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Comment #17653014
As someone who helped organise last years PyConZA, and has been watching this years conference develop, I am super excited to see that we've finally managed to have an entire dedic…
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Comment #17488272
Thanks for that, it's also blocked in South Africa, which is pretty damn far from Europe. I suspect they just block anything non-NA.
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Comment #17364567
We have a shop called Nude Foods [1] in Cape Town that is setup like that. They unfortunately don't do meat, but most everything else is covered. [1] http://nudefoods.co.za/
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Comment #16165671
Just finished in the last week: - What a wonderful world by Marcus Chown - 47 Ronin by Joan D. Vinge - Practical Monitoring by Mike Julian Currently reading: - The Four by Scott Ga…
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Comment #16156187
First off, I'm surprised that the taps don't just go dry after 87 liters; perhaps the tech isn't there. Census data is inaccurate, and you have no concrete figures on the number of…
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Comment #11805017
DigitalOcean does as a droplet. Linode does offer it as well, but currently afaik it's not fully supported so their automated backups don't work, which can be solved with zfs snaps…
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Comment #10900937
`Package: nginx (1.6.2-5)` is there just fine for me in Jessie and `1.9.6-2` in Sid.