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mellutussa

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    Comment #39754383

    What do you then do with the contaminated yeast? How do you prevent it from entering the food chain again?

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    Comment #39750377

    Imagine if all our gadgets had a repair manual. Even if it was just schematics and assembly guide. Wow.

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    Comment #39733933

    What a piece of shitty advice.

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    Comment #39732630

    There was this sailor who always did extra knots and shit on his ropes and lines. Because he wanted it to be extra safe. Then in a storm the ship sank because he couldn't undo that…

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    Comment #39732602

    > was 100% sure that I know how the code works and that this can’t happen again. No, no, no and nope.

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    Comment #39724805

    > Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now I really don't like the tone of this article. Author, please change the tone to something more less aggressive.

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    Comment #39713691

    Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.

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    Comment #39688939

    But why don't use the nice smelling IPSEC if that ticks your boxes?

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    Comment #39685620

    > How does that count as a "marketplace"? I'm assuming that Apple is going to profit from that catalogue.

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    Comment #39680259

    $1 per call.

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    Comment #39678718

    Nice! Feature idea: let me open the demos in the editor.

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    Comment #39677836

    Lucky you. I just got iterate answers like "it's just the way it is" and "oh it's too advanced and you wouldn't understand it". Pardon my language, but seriously fuck those teacher…

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    Comment #39674177

    I think a distributed OCR project is needed. Problem is that a lot of books are PDF scans and missing raw text. OcrMyPdf does a pretty good job of is but it's cpu intensive.

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    Comment #39671098

    This is why I can't use AliExpress. Ordering by price+shipping is truly an awful experience. The people in charge of that feature take incompetence to a new level.

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    Comment #39662617

    I'd love to listen to a podcast about this. When I saw "fraud of the century" I thought it was the OneCoin scam (Ruja Ignatova, "The Crypto Queen"). BBC did a very detailed investi…

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    Comment #39662569

    [flagged]

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    Comment #39661641

    Sadly boss says I have to be signed in and interrupted constantly. I'd switch work if this wasn't just the status quo.

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    Comment #39661627

    It's entirely different when you decide solely yourself when to switch.

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    Comment #39661571

    Keep this in mind when you're writing a landing page for your project. Way too often I click on an interesting link only to get confused or repulsed by marketing bs. Also if you wa…

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    Comment #39659878

    We need a negative KPI for parts that fall off and people that die due to negligent shortcuts.

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    Comment #39659838

    I have the truck on standby.

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    Comment #39658209

    Handy for Boeing if they can just stick it as a criminal act to some low level employees and case closed.

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    Comment #39654924

    He sums it up and then he confirms it. But yes, he might have missed out a word.

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    Comment #39654816

    [flagged]

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    Comment #39632101

    Du gamla, Du fria!