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| Comment | Post #294021 |
Have you already checked if there might be a time machine backup? (more) |
— | 8 days ago |
| Comment | Post #294015 |
x-post https://serverfault.com/questions/1184116/can-one-finetune-a-finetuned-gpt-model-on-azure (more) |
— | 9 days ago |
| Comment | Post #294009 |
x-post https://genai.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/what-restrictions-come-with-using-grok-via-azure-instead-of-x-ai (more) |
— | 10 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293985 |
Someone, who volunteers their free time to help others, shouldn't have to first search in order to see if this is a cross-post. (more) |
— | 12 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293985 |
If the users of a site don't appreciate cross-posts, trying to hide the fact that they are cross-posts seems like a poor solution. This risks wasting the time of volunteers and the time of other users with the same problem. (more) |
— | 12 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293985 |
x-post https://serverfault.com/questions/1181642/whats-the-maximum-hit-rate-if-any-when-using-claude-gemini-llama-and-mistra (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293985 |
If you cross-post the same question on multiple sites, you should include links to all other versions of the question in every post, even in the original one. X-posting without explicit links has the risk of wasting both the time of users who might put time and effort into answering a post, which alr... (more) |
— | 13 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293941 |
Duplicate: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/293813
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— | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293939 |
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— | 19 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293939 | Initial revision | — | 19 days ago |
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A: In the title of a BibTeX entry, is it preferable to write {W}ord{S}tyle or {WordStyle}, or does it make no difference? This will depend on your bibliography style: - for `{InstructAny2Pix}` can lead to incorrect results for styles with all caps titles - `{I}nstruct{A}ny2{P}ix` can result in sub-optimal kerning, see e.g. this example ``` \documentclass{article} \begin{document} {Fo} {F}o \end{doc... (more) |
— | 19 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293928 |
Please include a MWE in your questions. If you get a lowercase title will depend on your bibentry, style etc. (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293928 |
What @#63480 said. That's not a common formatting issue, that's a common user input issue.
See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/386068/36296 for the correct input (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293870 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Starting Genymotion virtual device from the command line First get a list of all the available devices: ``` /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/gmtool admin list ``` This will generate an output like this: ``` State | ADB Serial | UUID | Name +-----------------+------------------------------... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293869 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Starting Genymotion virtual device from the command line I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. Is there a way to start the virtual device from the command line instead of going through the gui? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293868 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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Permanently toggle off side bar in Genymotion I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. After the device has started, I can toggle the right hand sidebar with the shortcut `cmd+T`. However this only persists for the current session. Screenshot of the right hand toolbar of the genymotion player Is there a way to permane... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293826 | Question closed | — | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293803 |
How does your question title and body fit together? (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #293803 |
x-post https://serverfault.com/questions/1179275/what-does-the-warning-when-you-create-this-deployment-the-resource-change-you (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #290276 |
x-post https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/465242/57046 (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293591 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1885749/why-does-copying-an-image-from-chrome-and-pasting-it-into-ms-paint-reduce-its-qu (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293590 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886174/why-does-windows-task-manager-shows-100-for-the-gpu-utilization-for-one-process (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293589 |
X-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886700/why-does-this-powershell-command-first-request-writing-all-bytes-before-uploadin . If you cross-post the same question on multiple sites, please include links to all other versions of the question in every post, even in the original one. X-posting withou... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293528 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293528 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Is there any way to make switching to specific tabs with the keyboard work in Firefox? The firefox keyboard shortcuts to navigate tabs depend on the operating system. An overview can be found at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#wwindows-tabs (the OS and firefox version can be selec... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293527 |
sure, I'm going to write one up.
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— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293527 |
This overview https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#w_windows-tabs lists the linux equivalent as `alt` + `1` etc. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293527 |
With firefox on mac, I can navigate tabs with `cmd` + `1` etc. to go to the nth tab and `cmd` + `9` for the last tab. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293257 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Remove "Erase Disk..." option from right-click context menu in macOS 15 Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Screenshot of the right-click context menu showing the option "Erase Disk..." right next to the option "Eject " Is there any way to remove the erase option from the c... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293251 |
... wondering if running the additional app will actually consume more energy than saved by the "low power" mode. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293251 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode As a workaround, one can use the open source application "stats" (https://github.com/exelban/stats) as a replacement for the mac battery indicator: screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293250 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293250 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the screenshot ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293020 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp If one uses the `--exec` argument, one can access the name of the `.mp4` file via `%(filepath)s` and `%(requestedsubtitles.en.filepath)s` will give the filename of the subtitles: ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZW... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293019 |
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— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293019 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZWUvfEo" ``` the subtitles will be placed at the very bottom of the video:... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292790 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols You could use the site https://www.fileformat.info to find fonts which contain a specific character. For example for the creative commons logo: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F16D/fontsupport.htm the site will suggest these four fonts which contain the symbol: Table with the ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292769 |
Yes, by default it will only show fonts which have all the specified glyphs. One can use `albatross --or a b` to search for each glyph individually. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292769 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292769 |
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