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wdobbels

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About wdobbels

Astophysics PhD fellow

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    Comment #26066325

    If their argument is that their codebase is basically unreadable, then I see why they're scared someone might find some bugs here and there.

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    Comment #25942277

    I mean, GME has value because it is shorted so much. The goal of WSB is to go for a short squeeze (when the short positions have to be closed to avoid going bankrupt, the stock pri…

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    Comment #25727435

    Things that annoy me on mac: - there's no volume mixer (each app having an individual volume slider) - no window snapping (before I bought BetterTouchTool, which includes window sn…

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    Comment #25645644

    I'm hoping they finally bring native tabs to their file explorer. It's annoying to have to open multiple windows if you want to browse multiple directories. In addition, I'm hoping…

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    Comment #25411090

    As discussed in the article, the point is to quickly set up vim on fresh linux installations (e.g. virtual machines). For the vim on your own pc, you would likely use the full vers…

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    Comment #23455016

    Indeed, pip has no dependency resolver as of now, although it is being actively worked on [1], and they did secure some funding [2]. [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 [2] …

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    Comment #23390486

    We should rename North-America to North-West-America and South-America to South-East-America.

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    Comment #22887812

    The people I know who use waze a lot (30+ min drive to work every day) have the notify icon (bottom right) clearly burned into their OLED phone screens.

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    Comment #22503082

    It's not even mentioned in the abstract.

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    Comment #22465222

    I'm probably missing something obvious but... Should white skin not reflect sunlight more, and dark skin absorb it more? I agree that northerners have more need to absorb sunrays a…

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    Comment #22425047

    No mention of dask? So far I haven't really had a need for larger-than-memory arrays, but dask would be my go-to choice.

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    Comment #22412286

    At least in astrophysics, the standard is to let your paper go through peer review first, then post the paper once accepted. In the arXiv comments, you then put "Accepted by ". Bes…

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    Comment #22293076

    AFAIK, it only searches through your apps, not files.

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    Comment #22127020

    Exactly. The browser provides a URL bar that is coupled to a search engine. It makes sense for the browser to provide you with a default option for that search engine. A web browse…