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skowalak

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    Comment #47603900

    Like this? https://www.tooltrace.ai/

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    Comment #46986561

    In case you want to take a look at it, the author has posted a photo of a page of her notebook on her mastodon. https://tietz.social/@nicole/116048644600363842

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    Comment #46202635

    I really tried to get it on my own, but please, what is the connection between the Seinfeld Episode "The Pez Dispenser" and the "Casting Couch Culture of GitHub"?

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    Comment #45411459

    Same for me, the source for the article can be found here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/blob/master/_post...

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    Comment #45362109

    A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good a…

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    Comment #44633845

    At GPN23 there was also Pixelebbe which was much fun! https://pixeleb.be/

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    Comment #44475061

    Seeing Kris Nóva in that list hit hard. It is a beautiful idea, thank you Xe.

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    Comment #44309045

    At the company I work at we manage a lot of historical data with Timescale, but we have also had good results with vanilla PostgreSQL for smaller time-series-data-sets. If you are …

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    Comment #43523283

    While that is true, there are still lots of PyPI packages not yet packaged with nixpkgs, so this is not as universal an approach as uv.

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    Comment #42415873

    It can imply isolation, but not necessarily. It is also possible that there are some precursor languages, of which no evidence could be found (yet). Another good example are the Ko…

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    Comment #42273034

    Really looking forward to see more non-destructive editing. For me this has been one of the major reasons not to use GIMP in the past. The integration of GEGL is a huge milestone f…

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    Comment #41689169

    I have lost too many hours of my life to this game, before finally moving on to Factorio. But then, the creator of Mindustry seems to have lost too many hours of their life to the …

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    Comment #41327452

    I feel the same. I have "only" about 15 years worth of mail in Thunderbird but I am getting increasingly tired of working with the GUI, at least for reading and searching historica…

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    Comment #40900123

    Notice: Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with www.vde.com ("Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik" i.e. the German "Association for E…

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    Comment #40875495

    That is because `curl` is an alias for the builtin Invoke-WebRequest and not the actual curl program. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

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    Comment #39439641

    It is not in the stdlib, but you can use golines for that. https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/wrype/golines

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    Comment #39368741

    I disagree. I have been using Matrix with Element as my main IM with my own homeserver for 3 years now, and the onboarding experience is just bad. You have to read so many texts wh…

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    Comment #39290380

    Thank you for pointing that out! It does make more sense, too. :)

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    Comment #39290310

    You have changed the code snippets in your link. The original link highlighted this snippet: Future insertEmbedding(EmbeddingProto embedding) async { final db = await _database; aw…

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    Comment #38706368

    This would also be a great prompt for a short horror story where someone discovers more people have been living in their house than they believed.

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    Comment #38311985

    Thank you for the explanation.

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    Comment #38287978

    I used the Tex keycaps for a keyboard I built about three years ago. After three years of daily usage I have noticed a lot of wear on the keycaps. Some letters are barely visible, …

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    Comment #38263102

    Maybe EDRi, which also acts as an umbrella for smaller and local orgs. https://edri.org/about-us/who-we-are/

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    Comment #37927701

    I really had force myself not to preorder a SimulaVR back when they first put it online. I am very "in love with the idea of it" as V. Buterin writes. But I am too afraid it will f…