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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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A: Closing "unclear" questions That question seemed to mostly quotes from elsewhere. I can see the point to it having been closed due to being link-only. "Unclear" is probably the nearest handy close reason. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
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A: Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio This is admittedly rather ugly, but you could move the PANDOC program to elsewhere, and replace it with your own script. That script can add command line arguments, then run the real PANDOC. One issue is that you'll have to re-do this every software update. Like I said, it's ugly. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How do I make Xbox stop telling me that I have a free game pass on Windows 10? I have Windows 10 but don't have this problem. That may be because the first thing I did when I got the machine was to go thru all the settings I could find, and shut off anything I didn't want. Go to the main Settings. On my machine at least, there is an option called Gaming. Try going there a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to make git push/pull work again? I fixed the problem by re-installing GIT. I also updated to the latest version instead of re-installing the existing version. I was running version 2.32.0-64 and am now running 2.37.2.2-64. However, the version update was unlikely the fix since the old version worked fine until a few days ago. ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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How to make git push/pull work again? I have a bunch of GIT repositories on my laptop, which have their "origin" set to repositories on GitHub. After a commit in a local repository, I do git push -u origin master to update the remote repository on GitHub. This was all working fine for a long time, up until a few days ago. Accord... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How can I see old photos, so far down a Facebook page that scrolling down freezes the browser? I don't know anything about Facebook or Simple Autoscroll, but the first thing to diagnose this would be to remove the plugin. Remove or disable Simple Autoscroll, then see if it still freezes at the same place. If it doesn't, then you know Simple Autoscroll has a bug and not to use it. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Does embedding an image, in an email, debauch its appearance or quality? This is up to the how the email client displays the images, which is something you as the sender have no control over. For embedded images, the client usually re-sizes them to fit in the preview area. With attached images, the image file is viewed in a separate app, which is presumably optimized fo... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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Android phone, name associated with incoming call? This is regarding the regular phone app that came with my Android phone. Under App Info, it says App installed from Google Play Store and version 78.0.437276706. I haven't done anything deliberate to change the phone app from what came with the phone, although there have surely been automatic updat... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Computer whining (~16khz noise coming from somewhere in the case) This is from a meta-stable oscillation of one of the switching power supplies. The switching speed is almost certainly much higher than this, which is why you don't hear it most of the time. Under just the right conditions of input voltage and load current, the control algorithm of the power supply... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Get unique list of all files in a git repository, which I modified You could take the list you have, then sort it and remove redundant lines. Sorting programs come with the OS nowadays. I've had to do such things occasionally, so I created a program to eliminate adjacent redundant lines from a text file. For example, I copied your GIT output above into the fi... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: How can I heighten the Security window? Unquestionably, I wrote the original links to Microsoft in my post. I thus attributed. This if flat-out wrong. Here is all the text in the post you reference: I actioned all these steps to Take Ownership of my Drive D, like adding Everyone to permissions and choosing "Never notify me when" in ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Can I post this question — now REwritten and citing Super User — similar to one deleted by moderator? No, you should not post that question, at least not in this form. Here are some problems: Can I await Mozilla or Firefox to unearth the awry Add On(s)awry, before attempting myself? How long needs Firefox? That's too long for a title. The title should be a concise summary. More importantly... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Camera USB device in file explorer - why so slow? This is a function of how the device presents itself over the USB, and also possibly what file format it stores pictures in. Some modern cameras can be switched between being a "camera" or "file system" over the USB. Check the user manual. To guarantee you see the pictures in part of your file s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype? This answer is to the question as originally asked, not what it was edited to several days after this answer was written. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? Don't click on the link! Clicking a link without any additional keys or unusual setup in just about any s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size? Due to "compression". The video is highly compressed. Some of that compression makes use of the picture not changing much from one frame to another. When you extracted individual frames, such compression couldn't be applied. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Distinguish like I'm 9 years old — Bit rate vs. Data rate? Very briefly, bit rate is the rate at which individual bits are sent. Data rate is the rate at which data is effectively transferred. Not all bits carry data. Some are used for various out of band signalling purposes, like synchronizing both ends, delimiting bytes, indicating that there is curre... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to handle crossposts Another one just showed up: How can I record 2 simultaneous Teams meetings, on the same computer, without audio cross interference? In this case, a mod found the duplicate and posted the link in a comment. I think the correct action would have been to close the question because of it being a cros... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to handle crossposts This isn't really a license issue. You are assuming that the post was written elsewhere first, then copied here. However, since the same user posted all of them, we should assume that user wrote the post once locally, then copied that to all the sites. In any case, it's the user's IP, and the us... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What should our take be on software recommendation questions? Requesting recommendations for particular apps is not a good fit for this site. These are essentially "shopping questions", which are disallowed on other Q&A sites for good reasons. These reasons have been discussed at great length elsewhere, but briefly, the drawbacks of such questions are: The... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed? There is much confusion in this question. What you call "wireless driver" is apparently the built-in WiFi transceiver in your computer. If so, this has nothing to do with a driver. Whatever device you use to access WiFi will need a software component called a "driver". The thing suggested to yo... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint? What you want to adjust is called the white balance. That's a very common issue, so I expect just about any image editing software has a feature to manipulate the white balance. I'm not familiar with Infranview or Gimp because I have my own image editor. I'll use it to demonstrate. Here is th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A You were probably not logged in. You can sometimes get logged out when something changes on your machine, you get to the site from a different machine, etc. The view is very similar, and often it's not immediately obvious. I usually only notice when features are missing. When this happens, ta... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I command my Lenovo laptop — NOT a ThinkPad — to stop charging the battery, at a maximum cap level of my choice? Two possbilities: A firmware upgrade supports this feature. You can't. I also have a Lenovo laptop, purchased in 2018, and it does allow me to set the limit to charge to. Here is a screen shot of the Lenovo Vantage program: I leave mine set to 70% except when traveling where I mi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it? This isn't a direct answer to your question, but a suggestion. Try specifically disallowing internet access to this program in your firewall. That may cause the program to realize it can't get to the internet at all and to stop trying. It is unlikely that the writers of the software always requi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can I plug in both a microphone and speaker to a laptop with a single 3.5 mm jack? He sees just 2 3.5mm audio jacks — see my green arrows. Correct? No, clearly not. Since both holes are different sizes, at most one of them can be 3.5 mm. It's hard to tell absolute sizes in your picture, but if any of the two holes is 3.5 mm, it would be the left one. The right hole looks to... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What 1. free 2. offline software for 3. Windows 10 converts math in PDFs To MathJax? This is not a direct answer, but you can just copy the pixels. Scale the PDF so that the equation you want is nicely readable on your screen at a size appropriate for the Math site. Do a screen capture (usually something like Shift-PrintScreen), paste into some image editing software (Paint might w... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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How to use GitHub Personal Access Token? I have repositories on GitHub, and have been using a user name and password to access them. All was working great. I could use various GIT commands on the command line, and GIT would automatically supply the password I entered once a long time ago. It saves this in a file in my personal directory.... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why can't I add one line of space between text? Why does Word create useless white space in between, when I hit Enter? This is a guess, but it looks like the paragraph starting with "36" just fits on the page when there is no space above it. When you add the blank line, it doesn't fit anymore. There is probably a rule set somewhere that doesn't allow just a single line of a paragraph to be at the bottom of a page w... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |