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slam the keys hard enough and you get all caps?

Seems unfair to predict with onions, when the onions themselves are exempt from being predicted https://www.good.is/articles/the-great-chicago-onion-ring-wh...

Isn't it sufficient for Sydney to include the URL in chat output? You can always count on some user to click the link

The problem is, how do you navigate a tractor around the panels? Animals are a much better fit in that regard

There seem to be a few companies with this model, e.g. https://en.trucksters.io/

"Generally, MAU [monthly active users] fluctuates over the course of a year, dropping in the summer months and during holidays" That seems to fit what's happening here. Longer term…

Not at all. This is backed by https://digitalcourage.de/ , which is a pretty well-established association

For me, a folding bluetooth keyboard was what made the difference. It really tilts my default time-to-fill behavior from consuming towards producing. I'd also recommend having a ri…

By Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, as in (creators of) RSA

From the article: [Publishers claim sites like Sci-Hub] “have no incentive to ensure the accuracy of scientific articles, no incentive to ensure published papers meet ethical stand…

Book prefaces commonly acknowledge the libraries where the author has done research; sci-hub deserves to go there if they have been using it. It's a shame Elbakyan hasn't written a…

I do something like this, though generally just in the situations where I don't have my notebook. For me, it's a bit more adhoc than the suggested above. Recent uses: jotting down …

Nobody who does not improve the world is a man

A bluetooth keyboard makes a massive difference. Working in a jupyter notebook (hosted elswhere) on Android is a smooth experience for me

In case you want more: the author expanded this article into a book https://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1-2

ꙮ Meet 'multi-ocular o'. This is the fever-dream of some 15th-century Russian scribe. He was writing about 'many-eyed seraphim', and decided that no ordinary O could do justice to …

Nostalgia, really -- I have fond associations of these with childhood train journeys. I could just about imagine a genuine use case in some kind of hostile environment. You could p…

Suppose you are optimizing for the fastest average time to display a complete word/phrase. That means you will be limited by the slowest letter in each word. But the letters are fl…

Similarly, there is an early-90s Russian version of The Wizard Of Oz. Watching it with the help of Youtube's auto-translated subtitles was...quite an experience. https://www.youtub…

The difference is the error handling. Suppose the json includes a dog with no breed specified.

IMO the obvious solution would be to allow a bare dot, like .local_variable But I don't see that, or any other solution for local variables, in the PEP

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"Lawn-mower pattern" is their new phrase for when people skim content left-to-right, then drop down to the next line and go right-to-left, until they get back to the beginning. I L…