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vidyava

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    Comment #49239037

    While I agree that the brain can generally block it out once you accept it, I'll add that sometimes (for some people) it goes from a constant tone to intermittent chirping. The fir…

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    Comment #47943405

    I personally would rather show actual data over interpolated data, but I don't know how many unphysical interpolation artifacts you're getting or whether that really matters at a p…

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    Comment #47936029

    I'll add that "raw" is after a bit of postprocessing to make it pretty. When the SDO webserver went down a few months ago I rebuilt the L1 data processing pipeline from JSOC so we …

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    Comment #45511592

    Even having a Gmail address doesn't make you immune from someone putting in the wrong address. I made a throwaway/spam account with a silly name back in ~2007, and then in ~2015 so…

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    Comment #44278569

    Serious question, but what is the best practice for keeping n-dimensional arrays organized/labeled? Pandas? Xarray? Converting everything to netcdf before using it?

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    Comment #42423390

    If you're using a browser with heavy anti-fingerprinting capabilities it will upload a randomized canvas image instead of the intended image, and you'll get a lot of descriptions o…

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    Comment #41469305

    I also switched over a year or so ago and find it a significant improvement with one notable exception: in TST when you hover over a collapsed tab group it would show you a list of…

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    Comment #40487110

    My first thought was gut hook knife, but if it's especially question mark shaped it could be a "rescue knife". They often have a backwards facing cutting edge for seatbelts and the…

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    Comment #40247081

    I've found that WhisperX with the medium model has been amazing at subtitling shows containing English dialects (British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand-ish). It not only nails …

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    Comment #38992021

    What I wish I had, and maybe someone here knows of something that fulfills the role, is a means of providing erroneous information about myself to data brokers. I'd like to insert …