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splittingTimes

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    Comment #41500561

    A more nuanced analysis can be found here https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/08/high-co...

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    Comment #39959444

    I worked in that field doing numerical many-body simulations of electron dynamics interacting with their environment in solid state devices like quantum dots, graphene, photonic wa…

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    Comment #39936933

    Your admin uses cfengine for example https://cfengine.com/

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    Comment #39534530

    Here. Did manage to make it work with AsciiDoclet?

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    Comment #39504141

    Part of a great interview where Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology, Neurology & Neurosurgery at Stanford University explains Toxoplasmosis. https://youtu.be/NroiGfNohPo?si=g…

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    Comment #38917886

    > They locked down the Palestine border at the request of Israel Where did you get the info from that it was on Israel's request and not of their own accord?

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    Comment #38535975

    Asking myself the same question. With the previous layoffs they were around 7500 people. That is mind boggling. What do the all do all day??

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    Comment #38504820

    For writing documentation: AsciiDoc [1] as fileformat. For publishing documentation / to build the web site: Antora [2]. AsciiDoc has a bit more features compared to Markdown which…

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    Comment #38484448

    IBM did research back in the 90s on perceptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of luminescence, saturation and hue [1]…

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    Comment #37903942

    I always enjoyed their weekly Bandcamp radio show. It was a great way to discover new artists, often from genres I would not necessarily listen to. Not sure why they stopped it som…

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    Comment #37041122

    In total, yes it was. Working for some years in a field, having the time afforded to emerse yourself into a subject and deeply think about it, calculating yourself into frustrating…

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    Comment #37027298

    Exactly my experience back in the days doing the mandatory "advanced experimental physics laboratory semester" where you had to do like 14 vastly different experiment of the calibe…

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    Comment #36853585

    Did you try to use https://kroki.io/ as renderer instead?

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    Comment #36681637

    Great article on the topic. Biggest takeaway is how they added linters and link checkers to the toolchain. We currently try to establish something similar on our end using AsciiDoc…

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    Comment #36345072

    Mentioned in the text is IBM, which did research back in the 90s on perceptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of lumi…

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    Comment #35820141

    How as a German could I buy or sell islandic or Hungarian bonds then? Do you need a bank account in those countries? If I take short term 3M bonds and they become due, then I pay t…

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    Comment #35285315

    Could this be extended to video compression? I guess not, but naively thinking a video is just 30 pics a sec...

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    Comment #34973802

    Decreasing the total energy exposure of the complete biosphere to reduce temperature rise sounds risky to me. Yes, it might not become as warm, but especially plants need sunlight …

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    Comment #34940212

    > You can load models from your computer. In this case the model won't be uploaded to any web server, the entire process happens in your browser. Could I somehow embed this as a pr…

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    Comment #34762150

    Roy osherove's naming convention served me well over the years: UnitOfWork_StateUnderTest_ExpectedBehavior https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/3/naming-standards-for-unit...

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    Comment #34758105

    Not trying to take away from it, but it's scope seems elementary. Maybe I missed it, but did not see any more advanced operations. Wider adoption might be in the cards if at least …

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    Comment #34597479

    "So although the researchers believe these eight signals resemble what a technosignature is expected to look like, they can't confidently say any or all of the signals originate fr…

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    Comment #34482171

    > The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far [...] > The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of star…

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    Comment #34305533

    I would add "simple excellence" [1] to the already recommend "personal MBA". Trying to map your companies products first on a "value proposition canvas" and then whole business on …