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The cold call approach is something I've been hearing a lot. It's scary to just start talking to people when you have no experience, but I think that's just life. It was the same w…

I had an idea that came about after a dinner with an acquaintance, where he told me about the time he used to work as a professional chef. An interesting thing I picked up on was a…

In psycopg2 , variables can be inserted into queries using %s placeholders and supplying arguments to cursor.execute , but this does not allow for identifier arguments such as tabl…

>If you are a computer programmer considering a career change you should really take a day off to look into the new genetic technologies on offer. What resources would you recommen…

This would make a great visualization for a bassy music video. Link variables defining the polygon shape with amplitudes for bass frequency ranges and the color to the vocal tone.

I wouldn't mind a shared bathroom or kitchen, but I don't understand the massive living rooms. My guess is it makes the unit more marketable to higher income students that in a low…

You got it. I was lucky to start when it was affordable. The residence fees this year are completely insane. $1000/mo for a single dorm room and even more for a room in a 3-4 bedro…

I lived in university-run student residence and in student-oriented rentals. The amount of wasted space was unbelievable considering everybody spent the vast majority of their time…

Rent definitely affected my choice of school. With identical offers, I opted for a smaller tech-oriented university over the University of Toronto, which is either the top or one o…

>As part of our staged release strategy, our current plan is to release the 1558M parameter model in a few months, but it’s plausible that findings from a partner, or malicious usa…

Why is that?

>The UI is unappealing. I would prefer the default theme to be dark. I made a stylesheet to fix a few of the glaring UI problems, as well as a sheet for dark mode: https://github.c…

A really impressive use of Python for visual graphics design! I wonder what kind of packages you'd need to reduce the amount of work done in external editors, probably something th…

Oh is this the one with the website posted a few weeks back?

There's a good video from Living in a Big Tiny House covering one of these tiny Japanese apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYVJbupG3Xg

>Puzzle 2: The Lying Legislators I believe this is the same question as the Blue Eyes one from XKCD [1], though with a more coherent premise. 1. https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

CSS is still a pain in Web Components. Constructable stylesheets solve that problem, but they're still in the "Worth Prototyping" stage for Firefox. https://mozilla.github.io/stand…

My Sony PS3 3D Display has the well-known problem where its screen shuts off for a few seconds every once in a while. I noticed it got significantly worse this winter, when I opene…