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William J Andrea

  • By day: tech support
  • By night: Python/Pandas/French student, folk singer, exotic soda collector, etc.
  • Author of what-bash (a tool that gets info about commands)
  • Languages: English (native), French (intermediate)
  • Pronouns: he/him

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P.S. I'm not marc_s, just in case anyone gets confused. We both have the NS flag as our pfp.

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Python 3.7 on Ubuntu 20.04
Apr 25, 2020
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How do I calculate square root in Python?
Jan 20, 2022
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How do I calculate square root in Python?
Jan 20, 2022
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Specifying *args for a Callable type hint
Nov 15, 2019
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Argparse with two values for one argument
Apr 13, 2017
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Append elements to an array in bash
Mar 23, 2019
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How to add an extra middle step into a list comprehension?
Apr 24, 2022
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What is the non deprecated version of open "U" mode
Jun 27, 2019
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Installed Python 3.8 on Ubuntu, but it's not the default
Dec 10, 2019
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YYYY-MM-DD format date in shell script
Nov 10, 2017

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What to do if a poster adds a username in the title for directing their question to a specific user?
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Pressing the quote button destroys text in code fences
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Comments design change: Please add back clickable timestamp
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If a Staging Ground post gets edited and posted, doesn't it need to indicate that changes were made, under the CC license?
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How can we handle a question where the problem in the title is different from the problem in the body, and OP refuses to change the title?

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What do the different colors mean in ls?
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How to use grep on all files non-recursively in a directory?
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How to make Gmail open when clicking mailto: links in the same browser it is clicked? (Chrome/Firefox)
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"Your python3 install is corrupted"
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