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I didn't comment.
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This is not the post I was referencing. It was a link to this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1... …
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Can't find the hackernews post (probably got removed) but it was a link to this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1... …
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There was a similar post a few days ago where someone did this but instead of changing their name they changed their gender (female names got significantly more responses).
That post got flagged and t…
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> The morals of the community in question. The laws and customs of unrelated countries or communities are immaterial to the decisions of this particular community. So it is OK for me to demand a ho…
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My parent post specifically used the word "crime" my response was to show that "being a crime" is not a good reason.
Also morality is subjective. For example, the government of my …
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What if I was uncomfortable with a homosexual coworker (and homosexuality actualy is a crime in my country). Would that be OK?
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> On the other hand, we also recognise that we can’t force people to work with those they don’t want to. If I don't want to work with a black person, do I have a right to demand they be fired?…
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Sioyek, a PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks. See the website for more info: https://sioyek.info/ And here is an article on how sioyek features help with reading doc…
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No, as I explained in the post, this only happens when I try to TTS entire text pages. If I split sentence by sentence it is OK, but then the speech doesn't flow as well.
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Yes, I have thought of that but that would use a lot of users' bandwidth and also as you said puts unnecessary pressure on scihub servers.
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Google blocks you once you use python to request it multiple times (I explained in the post).
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I already use scihub (I explained in the post). However, it is much much slower than google scholar.
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I do use crossref for bibtex. It is not useful for getting a download link (as far as I know).
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PyPaperBot uses scihub to download papers so there is not problem for that. As for the google scholar, I don't care about non-open access articles. I am content with a download link only for the …
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How is this zoom effect achieved? Do they zoom in a little and then re-imagine the image?
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Really excited for this book. I would also recommend "The Nature of Computation" by Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens if you are interested in these topics. It is really an underrated boo…
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Hi! Recently we released sioyek 1.5 with the major new addition of extensions which I am pretty excited about. See this repository for a sample of what is possible: https://github.com/…
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I am using C++ for sioyek which is a PDF reader designed for reading research papers and textbooks: https://sioyek.info/ Other libraries used: * MuPDF for PDF rendering * Qt5 for UI *…
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I am not knowledgeable in physics, but I think dark matter is supposed to be unaffected by electromagnetic forces (hence why it can't be seen) which is definitely not true for antimatter.
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I mean there are a lot of people (me included) that have to use windows because of program exclusivity (e.g. visual studio, adobe suite, AutoCAD, etc.). Usually switching to linux is not an option in …
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Sorry, my bad. I searched for the word "disjoint" expecting it to be prominent in this section but somehow this word only appears 3 times in this book non of which are in this section! Anywa…
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Is it in an old edition? I just downloaded an extremely legitimate version of Algorithms 4th edition but it has no section on union data structure.