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    Comment #49082007

    Similar idea to the "turbo" button in some old pentiums?

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    Comment #48857517

    not sun protection factor?!

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    Comment #48671260

    Don't you find it funny that when you ask for song lyrics these models suddenly remember copyrighted material?

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    Comment #48233612

    MATLAB was used extensively during my electronics eng degree 20+ years ago. You could do pretty much about anything with it: signal processing, neural networks t, simulations, anyt…

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    Comment #47567123

    Indeed. The joke is that the website itself is vibe coded.

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    Comment #47520283

    That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts: Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i C…

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    Comment #47423517

    Not commenting on the content itself (others have done it better) but anybody getting tired of seeing the same vibe coded websites over and over again?

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    Comment #47348852

    Then came DVD±RW which used the magic pen technology. Each time you write, it changed both the color of the disc and the data. Surprisingly enough if you did it long enough it ende…

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    Comment #47216751

    The EU Commission had an open consultation about "Open Source and Digital Ecosystems" recently and is planing to (more) heavily invest in OSS in the future as a matter of sovereign…

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    Comment #46883586

    https://nocodb.com/ is an open source alternative.

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    Comment #46433511

    Same reason here. It didn't like Florisboard.

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    Comment #45889762

    Cool work, thanks. A bit like https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy in python, if you weren't aware OP.

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    Comment #45629507

    imgur makes me sad these days :( https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...

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    Comment #43397657

    Hetzner might get a lot of love here but it's another service that treats protonmail users as second class citizens since they ask for ID. I would avoid them just because of this.

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    Comment #42772536

    A theory I've heard of why this happens is that Europeans are generally suspicious because there is a lot of international trauma considering Europe was the center of two World War…

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    Comment #40326756

    I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.

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    Comment #36744466

    I see wildcard imports. I'll pass. Also if you want to use R in python why not use the rpy2 library?

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    Comment #36225761

    The Journal Of Open Source Software addresses this problem. Reviewers test the code, submit Reviews as GH issues and PRs are corrections. Code review and coding in the open is what…

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    Comment #35689711

    It's Azure but, Apache Atlas : MS Purview

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    Comment #35627737

    This is exactly (same genetic disease) the subject of the book Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel. It's surprisingly a _fun_ read!