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hewlett

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    odd how it's still the de facto standard python library for plots despite much better libraries like ggplot or plotly

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    Comment #37825414

    I doubt they were fired. sanitation workers have pretty strong unions

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    Comment #37393183

    It's 8 years and even then you'll still be be able to enable updates for Google chrome

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    Comment #37073962

    effectively different languages? no, both the mainland and Taiwan both speak Mandarin, although with distinctive slang and accents. I grew up learning simplified and I can guess a …

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    Comment #36666273

    I also got a prompt to follow accounts that didn't exist yet, but my follow request was approved only after these users joined the platform. There's no proof these accounts were in…

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    Comment #36665212

    > My guess is not, network effect is extremely strong. 100 million users in less than a week

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    Comment #36661530

    then use Lightsail or set a maximum size for your ec2 autoscaling group

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    Comment #36436479

    zoomer here. that's the thing - I use Discord because when chatting casually, shitposting, and sharing memes I don't want my message to show up on Google tomorrow

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    Comment #36434921

    this Canadian engineering student's favourite teachers are Indian YouTubers

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    Comment #35867668

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/07/why-am-i-cuba/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/gu...

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    Comment #35866590

    An Afgan electrical engineer was sent to Guantanamo Bay for wearing it as Al-Qaeda was known to use the F91W in IEDs

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    Comment #35759245

    You can either spend $5 per month for VPS for a webserver for your static blog which you now have to secure properly, or you can just stick it on Cloudflare Pages for free

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    Comment #35662539

    > In any case, someone is going to fall in love with one of their browser processes soon. I'll guess by mid-August. We've already got Blake Lemoine

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    Comment #35620584

    If you reject cookies, the site has no way of knowing you have rejected cookies the next time you visit. You need a cookie in order to store the cookie decision

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    Comment #35310723

    The cow has to produce milk or they go bankrupt

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    Comment #35213313

    You can still use raw pointers and sockets in C++, which the code examples provided in the book do

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    Comment #35063849

    TAs are paid based on how many hours they are expected to work and don't receive additional pay if they work longer. At my uni TAs are paid as if they worked 12 hours a week, but o…

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    Comment #34989496

    They probably mean the use of GPTs to correct OCR errors

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    Comment #34959118

    Pydantic is that for Python

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    Comment #34931440

    > https://research.facebook.com/file/1574548786327032/LLaMA--O... > Dataset Sampling prop. Epochs Disk size > CommonCrawl 67.0% 1.10 3.3 TB > C4 15.0% 1.06 783 GB > Github 4.5% 0.6…

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    Comment #33711029

    You can search tabs on firefox if you add % to the address bar