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Tips on Car Sharing, Rental and Leasing
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Car Sharing
- ZipCar is good for metro area and very short term car rental, e.g., a few hours.
Car Rental
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typicall a few days to a few weeks
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Choose the …
Recommendation of Credit Card Usage
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Tips and Traps
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Avoid AMEX as it is nutorious for closing many customers' credit cards without valid reasons.
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Costco is a wholesale. It is not considered as a grocery or supermarket …
Get Location of Max Value in a Pandas Series
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Manage Python Projects Using uv
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Installation
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | env UV_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/local/bin" sh
Usage
Ad-hoc Python Shell & Scripts
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You can …
Extracting Data from PDF Files
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Sometimes, a PDF file is corrupted or encrypted making it hard to extract data from it directly. In this case, you can convert a PDF page to an image first and …