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pithon

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    Comment #48485320

    The framerate and latency on this visualization is absolute magic. Hover the mouse around over the sphere: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/

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    Comment #48392519

    I was at a beachhouse north of Boston and I thought someone fell out of bed or dropped something really heavy upstairs. It was loud and the whole house shook. All of us were scouri…

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    Comment #40051187

    These look fantastic. If there's one thing I'd really like to automate with AI instead of hand coding, though, it would be making charts!

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    Comment #37213990

    I sketched something in the first sky and then our started putting up blobs with a single word like "sun" and "banana." I have no idea what's going on.

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    Comment #36779582

    Don't many engineers just use their laptop as a thin client to remote into servers?

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    Comment #36182846

    The value of RTK is partially that they are stationary and can average out noise over time to get an accurate position estimate, but mostly that they're sending you their live sign…

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    Comment #36182831

    The almanac is not needed. The ephemeris is basically just almanac orbital data plus extra terms to make it accurate enough for meter-level positioning or better. I'm not sure what…

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    Comment #36180581

    Discarding assisted GPS where GPS data messages are obtained through about channel such as cellular or Wifi... Almanac gives coarse satellite position information (and some other s…

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    Comment #35708914

    > cannabis-induced I find that hard to believe. You could probably correlate many mental facility intake patients with those that ate yogurt for breakfast. This is ignorant fear mo…

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    Comment #35305646

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    Comment #34865194

    You can take an amplitude-vs-time representation of a signal and via a Fourier Transform instead represent the same information as a sum of weighted complex exponentials in the fre…

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    Comment #34621918

    One is a human, the other is some AI hoovering up everything I say an adding it to their database which can be used in every other instance of Teams in the world. I'd say that's a …

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    Comment #32963009

    I was making an America Goulash recipe once, and thought I'd give the beyond burger or whatever a try; it wasn't patties but was jut a pound of ground "beef." It didn't brown or co…

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    Comment #32492421

    In many ways, sites/tools like sourceforge and github made it much easier to publish and obtain open source software, leading to much more software being created and shared. I'm su…

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    Comment #32492154

    > It feels as if this is about to explode an existing problem, namely, there's too much content in the world already Imagine applying that same perspective to software, pre-github.…

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    Comment #30786169

    (1) not all of them, apparently, and (2) it seems arrogant to claim that.

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    Comment #30774624

    OK then ban them from connecting to your active web services. But don't prevent their PC from booting.

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    Comment #30216617

    See data here: https://displaylag.com/display-database/

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    Comment #30053723

    What about the impact of improved vehicle aerodynamics?

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    Comment #29964267

    What do you mean by "the" standard LaTeX template?

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    Comment #29575609

    I only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.

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    Comment #29573205

    So glad that half my company's internal stuff falls apart when some external service goes down... I couldn't even submit tickets to my company's helpdesk about the other networking…

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    Comment #29376424

    >26 November 2021 Editor's Note: Readers are alerted that concerns have been raised about this Article and are being considered by the Editors. A further editorial response will fo…

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    Comment #28874641

    I've heard people break the design/implement/test phases down to essentially equal parts in terms of cost. It's not a small task if you think about a government agency's testing ca…

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    Comment #28044800

    This isn't even really a GPS thing, it's UTC time that bounces around because it wants to stay synchronized to the day/night cycle. GPS time is continuous.