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How do you install Firefox via F-droid? (I searched, but don't see it listed in my F-droid store directly.) Do you use the FFupdater app?

From a habit-forming perspective, my household has had a lot of success with gummy multi-vitamins, because they're fun and tasty to take. In the US, drug stores always seem to have…

OP's country of Denmark, for one!: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator See the Examples of Use section of that Wikipedia page for a more extensive list.

Can you convert Latex to Word (or ODT, etc.), perhaps with Pandoc, and then from that to epub (e.g. Google Docs allows you to download a Doc as an epub)? Book looks interesting, bt…

There's a Youtube playlist[1] of recorded lecture videos by Wasserman from his CMU course that uses All of Statistics as a textbook. I haven't watched more than a couple of mins of…

I think the stick outweighs the carrot! Like many of these complicated problems, there are always pros and cons, and the question is how does society weight the importance of achie…

Creating a perverse incentive scheme for more frequent and destructive riots to increase the number of subsequent government clean-up contracts? Be careful what you wish for...

This is great, thanks!

They are in order, and Bond evolves based on his experiences in previous books. I would start with the first, Casino Royale and go from there. Bond of the novels is a more complex …

I've resisted Twitter for a long time, but this would be the only reason I could see myself becoming a user. In the past I've had a hard time finding people to follow with a high e…

This exaggerates the problem. You can enroll in ACA outside of open-enrollment if you have a qualifying event, such as losing coverage through a job. You just have to submit paperw…

For those of you who have taken online classes (MOOCs, at college, etc.), what have been the things that made the best classes stand out? (Or conversely, what made the bad ones bad…

The expert on NYT's The Daily podcast suggested that the load of the infection you are exposed to can influence the severity of the disease, in which case a health worker working w…

At the risk of you being accused of shilling (a risk I'm happy to take ;) ), would you mind sharing the model of the lamp you have found to work well?

That's actually about a different sleep book, Why We Sleep

I would second the Coursera course(s), which is one of the best MOOCs I've ever taken (Algorithms 1 & 2 from Princeton). Watch the videos, then read the relevant section of the tex…

Googling for "Best Business Books of 2009", I'm struck by how few of them I would bother reading today. I remember Shop Class as Soulcraft fondly, although it was a bit of a slog a…

And Martin Kleppman got his PhD based in part on Designing Data Intensive Applications.

I'd love to read those papers if you wouldn't mind recommending them.

Location: Washington, DC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (full-stack: Django, etc.; & ML/Deep learning: Python scientific stack, PyTorch), JavaScript (Vue.…

I have three connected in a Spark cluster.

You could try the Spyder IDE, which has some similarities to Jupyter. It runs code in IPython, but you write in a regular Python file rather than a notebook. I've used it in exactl…