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New maintainers never bothered to change the range.. History num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

Another key reason to me that open source can be very good quality is when the developer is the key user.

If the developer has strong knowledge of the business while designing a product, it always ends up with better qa as they are writing the right product on first draft.

You hardly get that when you hire someone to do something for you. That is valid in other domain than programming.

Very helpful! Thanks!

What could be missing is the GPU aspect. Not sure if the data is available, but it is very unclear to me which GPU is available on which machine type. and also how many, so that I have some chance to get one.

You can easily mirror LFS objects by just using

git lfs fetch --all

every modern git hosting servers now have support for LFS directly inside the git server (gitlab, github, gerrit to my knowledge)

This solve the authentication issue nicely so make it easy for developers.

git lfs starts to be adopted by vendors and becomes usable. It solves real problem when you are tired of having to double your git server CPUs every 6 months as your git upload packs are taking huge time trying to recompress those big files over and over.

For non mid west born ppl,

A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.

Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8m) races

What I didn't get in the article is how this produce constant negative voltage. From what I understand with my low amateur electronic skills, this would produce a scare signal with -5V/0V, at whatever quick pace.

That would average at -2.5V if we put a low pass filter.

This would work for me with 2 charge pumps, but I only see one large capacitor

That is not the same feature. It requires you to always add your fix in a new commit add opposed to amending the commits and maintain a clear purposed commit list.

Ability to review diff between two versions of PR is a great missing feature in GitHub. When dealing with large changes, GitLab review flow is IMHO easier for reviewer. Gitlab store each push of a MR branch as different version (as hidden refs), which make the feature possible. In GH, you force push a branch, you loose the old code for good, so reviewer has to remember why he did that comment before to see if it is still relevant.

Calling it a disaster.. I find the security community a bit tough against Zoom.

They traded a bit of security in favor of useability? Fair enough. They failed to recognise AES-EDC can be attacked by very motivated cryptanalysts? Alright.

They gathered a little bit more data than they claim they did? Well, who is not doing that?

I think they proved they can be agile. They fixed a bunch of sec issues in few days, while growing their user base like 30x, in a shutdown period! How many companies would be able to do that?

I am sure they will work in fixing all of those quickly. E2EE will take a bit of time. Right. In the meantime, Zoom is working pretty darn well for talking with 10+ family and friends while everybody is contained. Do we need E2EE for that? probably not, but that is my choice.