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Activity for Franck Dernoncourt
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| Comment | Post #293941 |
@#36396
> Why should anyone answer your question when you've asked it simultaneously to different groups? You are asking multiple independent groups to do the same favor for you. That feels like volunteer abuse to the volunteers, and is worthy of downvotes.
What's the difference between asking... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293941 |
@#36396 Get used to it. Almost nobody uses codidact, and over 90% of my non-meta questions don't get any answers on Codidact so I'm not going to only post on Codidact.
I prefer animations over a long text. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293925 |
@#36396 Get used to it. Almost nobody uses codidact, and over 90% of my non-meta questions don't get any answers on Codidact so I'm not going to only post on Codidact. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293952 | Initial revision | — | 3 days ago |
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A: How am I supposed to join that Slack channel? Is upgrading upgrading my Slack account required? Great answer by Reddit user colabottlesssssss: > This is a common point of confusion. > > You're attempting to join a Slack Connect channel. This is where you join a shared channel where you and the invitee can communicate. This channel is located in the workspace you're normally working from... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293943 |
@#36396
> -1 because this answer is just a copy of something elsewhere.
Makes no difference
> Worse, it doesn't give us any reason why we should believe whoever "davidgo" is.
Why should I believe you and not whoever "davidgo" is?
> I didn't follow the link, and shouldn't have to. An... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293943 | Initial revision | — | 4 days ago |
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A: Does posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines? Answer from davidgo on SE (CC BY-SA 4.0): > No. Google may choose a preferred version which it will consider canonical and this will affect the page its on on the duplicate site but not the site overall. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293941 | Initial revision | — | 4 days ago |
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Does posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines? I wonder if posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines. I found 2 old related Q&A: - The lone answer on https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/93286/13073 links to a page that is almost 2 decades old. - The lone answer on https://webmasters.stackexchange.c... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293934 |
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| Edit | Post #293934 | Initial revision | — | 4 days ago |
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In the title of a BibTeX entry, is it preferable to write {W}ord{S}tyle or {WordStyle}, or does it make no difference? Example: Consider that BibTeX entry: ``` @inproceedings{li-etal-2025-instructany2pix, title = "{I}nstruct{A}ny2{P}ix: Image Editing with Multi-Modal Prompts", author = "Li, Shufan and Singh, Harkanwar and Grover, Aditya", editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis and Rit... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293931 | Initial revision | — | 5 days ago |
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A: Is there any tool to fix cases in references (LaTeX + BibTeX)? I end up using a Python script that relies on the `bibtexparser` Python package: ```python import re import bibtexparser def wrapmixedcasewords(title): def replacer(match): word = match.group(0) # Already wrapped? (rare, but check) if word.startswith('{') and... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293928 |
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| Edit | Post #293930 | Initial revision | — | 5 days ago |
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How can I avoid frequent re-authentication when using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (e.g., auto-renew, increase token expiry, another auth method)? I use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to access the Vertex AI API. I run: ``` gcloud auth application-default login --no-launch-browser ``` to get an authorization code: Imagealttext However, it expires after 1 or 2 hours, so I need to re-authenticate constantly. How can I avoid that? E.g.,... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293928 |
Thanks, @samcarter. I have thousands of BibTeX entries spread across dozens of LaTeX projects, each using different styles, since different conferences often require different formatting, so I’d rather not manually edit all these entries to add curly brackets. (more) |
— | 6 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293928 |
@#63480 thank you, by tool mean a way to automate that process to fix many references at once. And it's about fixing since I don't want to convert titles to title case, but only fix Chatgpt -> ChatGPT and similar issues. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293928 | Initial revision | — | 6 days ago |
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Is there any tool to fix cases in references (LaTeX + BibTeX)? One common formatting issue in reference lists is that characters that should remain capitalized are often not. E.g., Chatgpt -> ChatGPT. Is there a tool that can fix this? I use LaTeX and BibTeX. I have thousands of BibTeX entries spread across dozens of LaTeX projects, each using different style... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293925 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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How am I supposed to join that Slack channel? Is upgrading upgrading my Slack account required? I got invited to some Slack channel. Slack asks me to select an account to be able to accept the invitation and join the channel: Imagealttext However, when I select an account, it just tells me: > Shared channels are one of the many features you get with a Slack paid plan. To accept this in... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293907 | Initial revision | — | 10 days ago |
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How can I configure Photoshop web so that it doesn't ask me to bookmark the page? Imagealttext It keeps asking me that at random times. I disabled all help in the settings, but to no avail. Imagealttext Crossposts: - https://redd.it/1kfko3u - https://qr.ae/pAuPLc - https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/136578/9282 - https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293900 |
Thanks, what's the difference between "downloading and uploading a small amount of data (10 MB file) to and from your device" (content speed test) and "fully flooding your connection with data to measure the maximum speed your device can achieve" (peak speed test)? Is it simply that the peak speed te... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293894 | Initial revision | — | 12 days ago |
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What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb? I use Orb for Internet speed test. What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb? Crossposts: - https://redd.it/1ke34rt - https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Whats-the-difference-between-test-content-speed-and-test-peak-speed-in-Orb - https://superuser.com/q... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293891 | Initial revision | — | 13 days ago |
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Is there any point in using GPT o1 now that o3 is available and cheaper? I see on https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing that o3 cheaper than o1, and on https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leaderboard that o3 stronger than o1 (1418 vs. 1350 elo). Is there any point in using GPT o1 now that o3 is available and cheaper? Crossposts: - https:... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293843 |
yep, no clue why the mod there thinks the pb only happens to me (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293863 | Initial revision | — | 19 days ago |
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Why does `has:attachment` return some email threads that don't have a paper clip icon on it in Gmail? I see that `has:attachment` return some thread that don't have a paper clip icon on it in Gmail, e.g.: Imagealttext Why? Crossposts: - https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/181180/18147 - https://redd.it/1k8rdit - https://qr.ae/pAoMvy (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293843 |
Thank you then I'll post: [Can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/293844)
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| Comment | Post #293843 |
Noted, thx! I didn't know IDEs were off-topic on SU. Does codidact have a migration feature? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293841 |
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| Edit | Post #293841 | Initial revision | — | 23 days ago |
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Why was this question PyCharm closed? Can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? got closed as "This question is not within the scope of Power Users.". The community description is: > Our community for computer enthusiasts (power users) asking and answering questions about software and hardware usage. "Can't run a Python file in ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293840 | Initial revision | — | 23 days ago |
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How can I find and restart mouse-related programs that got closed during an interrupted computer shutdown? I interrupted a computer shutdown and as a result the mouse cursor is moving much more slowly and the cursor has become smaller. I assume some mouse-related programs got closed: how can I find them and restart them? I use Windows 11 24H2 Pro. Crossposts: - https://superuser.com/q/1893394/... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293829 | Initial revision | — | 26 days ago |