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by AlanYx 5y ago
The worst offender is Monotype Garamond -- not all Garamond/Garalde/Aldine faces have such oddball italics. That italic isn't even based on a historical Garamond; it's based on a related face by Jean Jannon, which is par
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Popper essentially takes the same position as Thomas Jefferson. Popper says: "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument an
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Yes, Marcuse's 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance" is actually closer to what most people understand Popper's work to be saying.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I agree that Han unification was an unfortunate design decision, but I'd argue that the consortium is following a consistent approach to the Han unification with emoji. For example, they treat "regional" vendor variations in
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I may be misunderstanding the links you're providing, but to me they only appear to say that Amazon is aware of the original source of each unit sold. They don't appear to say that a consumer has any control over which bin a pro
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Yes -- and subscriptions in some sense may worsen this problem, in that subscriptions create an incentive towards ongoing interface and feature churn, to create a notional justification for ongoing revenue.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The position of Schrems/NOYB, as far as I understand it, is that using a cloud service potentially subject to US law, irrespective of where the servers are actually located, is inconsistent with the GDPR. He basically says the same thi
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by AlanYx 5y ago
True! I also find it fascinating that the first recipe in the linked article (Wroclaw Trencher Bread) includes beer as an ingredient, which has had a popular revival recently as a bread hack to add maltiness/flavor. I've seen YouT
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by AlanYx 5y ago
A decent amount of work has already been done in this area. One common experimental apparatus is a "Jensen box" which is basically a whack-a-mole game, and it turns out that performance does correlate with common general psychomet
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The roundrects give the design a deep kind of uncanny valley effect for me. They suggest some kind of human characteristic, either a hooded face or an orifice of some type, depending on the angle that you look at the building. From street l
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by AlanYx 5y ago
It's not fair to talk about Alan Kay this way. Alan Kay actually did a ton of pioneering work in children's education, and in an applied (real-world) empirical way, not just in a theoretical sense. He and some of his collaborators
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by AlanYx 5y ago
One advantage of geometric proofs is that they seem to be more accessible to some kinds of learners (visual/spatial thinkers) than proofs of purely symbolic results.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Wow -- your example is real (page 12). Thanks for that fascinating article.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Moebius Noodles looks fantastic. Would you happen to have any other resources you'd recommend for DIY home instruction for early childhood learners?
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by AlanYx 5y ago
It will deteriorate relatively quickly if you're using it primarily to watch video. Of the three vendors of e-ink monitors (Boox, Dasung, Waveshare), I believe only Waveshare is clear about this in their support documents ("The e-
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I find the headless aspects of both this project and your shh shell project really interesting... a lot of new ideas bubbled up for me after seeing this. Did you also ever experiment with near-headless interfaces, perhaps a single-line disp
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The problem with updating icon positions in both windows (to preserve the spatial metaphor) is that doing so also breaks the spatial metaphor. You switch to the second window and suddenly something that you thought was in one place suddenly
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>"apparently, not all valid Windows file paths can even be converted correctly to UTF-8" What is the author referring to here?
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The chassis is virtually the same, apart from the addition of USB-C and a relocating of the wrist strap holes to the top. I actually use the official Sony CP1 case on my A5 Quaderno Gen 2 just because I happened to find that case on clearan
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>Upper-casing is language dependent. It goes beyond just language... uppercasing can also be locale-dependent. In Microsoft Word, for example, uppercasing an "é" gets you "É" in the French (Canada) locale but "E&
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by AlanYx 5y ago
If you've been using a Sony DPT-RP1 or DPT-CP1, you should also consider the Fujitsu Quaderno Gen 2, which is the most prominent successor of the RP1/CP1. I strongly prefer my Quaderno to my Remarkable 2. Unfortunately My Deep Gui
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I thought I wanted a frontlight too, but after trying a number of these types of devices and purchasing three of them (Remarkable 2, Kobo Elipsa, and Fujitsu Quaderno Gen 2), I'm convinced that the compromises aren't worth it for
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by AlanYx 5y ago
You see this phenomenon in policy development too. My current favorite example is the AI ethics/policy space. A lot is being written by policy people about the "whiteness" of AI and those developing it. But most real world te
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by AlanYx 5y ago
He's pretty passionate about education policy; this article is one of his better ones on that topic, IMHO: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-... The discussion of Robertson et. al.'
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by AlanYx 5y ago
There's also canvas-mode, which is newer but will hopefully pick up: https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2021/08/scribble-notes-in...
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by AlanYx 5y ago
"Intelligence is a little different" is an understatement. MBAs take their rollodexes with them when they leave jobs. It beggars belief that (i) spies do too, as the information would likely have a secret or higher classification,
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The thing about the Steele Dossier though is that it wasn't just "unproven allegations"; that understates the level of lack of credibility associated with the dossier that should have been obvious to the media from the start.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
And hobbyists don't even have to pay the student price since Wolfram has made the full version of Mathematica free (as in beer, not as in libre) for Raspberry Pi users. It's such a nice, accessible environment for learning. My dau
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Both the examples you give seem kind of arguable; I'd almost say they demonstrate the opposite. The problem with VSCode's built-in Markdown previews is that they're not extensible, so there are a variety of alternate Markdown
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by AlanYx 5y ago
This article isn't very good IMHO because it focuses on emotional considerations rather than the underlying math. The core problems with the PSA test is that it has relatively low statistical specificity and it hasn't been shown t

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