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by AlanYx 2y ago
The numbers on the vinyl album renaissance are probably a good illustration. They're undergoing nonlinear growth, and have either surpassed CD sales or are neck-and-neck, e.g.: https://www.statista.com/chart/26583&
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>Or do you carry a bag with a camera, a dumb phone, a notepad w/ pens and markers, books, an mp3 player, a pedometer, a measuring tape, ... The thing is, people are starting to do that more and more. Even John Gruber, iPhone enthusi
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I love the look of the Casio World Time with some of the screen color filter mods. Those are quite inexpensive if you're willing to install them yourself.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Is this the same as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)? I'm not a doctor, but I thought GBM was a death sentence? Progress on that front would be amazing.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>The sensible default of just making the menu bar background black isn't there... This may not apply to you since you mention using dark mode, but for those who use light mode, there is a hidden system preference you can use to forc
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I was just responding to that particular point in your post. I don't have any strong views either way on homeschooling. However, that being said, for math in particular, some of the curricula available to homeschooling parents are trul
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>I’ve taught mathematics for 30 years at the college level. I don’t know how a child should be taught an introduction to fractions. Some of the best K-12 math teaching initiatives right now are run by college-level math profs who've
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It might help to disable "Allow Multiple Apps" and "Picture in Picture" on her iPad. This also disables slide over. Also consider disabling gestures. iOS 17 offers to disable all of this stuff on initial install if you s
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by AlanYx 3y ago
It really was amazing how large the market was for paid Visual Basic VBX/OCX custom controls (widgets) in the late 90s. This article estimates there were more than 100 companies selling them by 1997: https://www.devx.com&#x2
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>As for Jewish population having generally higher IQ, there must have been some far more dire population pressure beyond memorizing the Torah to explain the significant difference compared with other modern populations. There actually is
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by AlanYx 3y ago
There's a rhyme and reason to the stained glass that's tied into the other symbolic elements embedded in the architecture. For example, the color scheme shifts as you pan from the nativity side through to the passion side. The low
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That's what I've been doing with one of my kids. They're designing the sprites and maps in the PICO-8 sprite editor and I'm taking the lead on showing them how to do the rest. They've also enjoyed tweaking the sprit
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by AlanYx 3y ago
One of the big differences is that Picotron supports floating point math whereas Pico-8 is all fixed point.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
CarPlay supports notifications with non-first party apps like Microsoft Teams. I don't use everything on your list, but WhatsApp definitely supports CarPlay notifications. You may have them muted. You can mute/unmute on a per-app
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That seems like something they'd be willing to fix. They allow users to select Ecosia, an extremely niche search engine. Kagi should be on that list too.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
The only microtype feature currently supported in typst is overhang, and only for seven hardcoded punctuation characters. See the code here: https://github.com/typst/typst/blob/10a3fbd174fc1a3f95937c91... It&
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Typst is exciting, but I wish their roadmap would prioritize features in common use in LaTeX like microtype rather than niche new features like style revocation.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Does anyone know how section 702 of FISA fits into this? I was under the impression that s.702 allows secret, warrantless access to data stored in European subsidiaries of US corporations even if the data is domiciled in the EU. The linked
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>While forgiveness offers mental health benefits like reduced stress and anxiety... It's not necessarily a direct causal relationship. Research shows that the reduced anxiety associated with forgiveness is more causally connected to
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by AlanYx 3y ago
You're right -- the default is 2, not 3. I find 1 is a reasonable compromise in practice. I think of it as simulating a little paper ink bleed.
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Stillcolor: Disable temporal dithering on Apple Silicon Macs(github.com)
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That's the list of countries supported by the API. For some reason, they support fewer countries through their frontend. I'm curious why that is.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
I don't think the phone scene at the Istanbul airport is particularly anachronistic, even now. (Cue Phoebe Bridgers' song "Kyoto": "They still got payphones") The challenge for the showrunners is probably more
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by AlanYx 3y ago
The AI aspects of Neuromancer probably have more relevance and cultural appeal now than they've had at any time since it was first published. There's a lot of topical material in the book to work with. The challenge will be updati
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by AlanYx 3y ago
What you're predicting has already started. Two weeks ago Geoffrey Hinton gave a speech advocating banning open source AI models (see e.g.: https://thelogic.co/news/ai-cant-be-slowed-down-hinton-says-... ). I&#x27
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by AlanYx 3y ago
It's definitely a scapegoat, but aren't some of the statements in this article false? For example, I thought it can be used in NFC relay (not replay) attacks with an app. I also thought there are alternative firmware options that
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That's probably the key part. If someone goes in expecting earnest sci-fi like Neuromancer and the satire part doesn't click early on, they're likely to be disappointed. (That being said, IMHO there are some aspects of Snow C
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>I'm unsure what this is referencing. Bard (and thus Gemini Pro) is available in all of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. I'm referring to today's release of Imagen2 within Bard. If you check the Google Support page, it say
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>Canada walks in lockstep with the US on virtually all matters. On the topic of AI regulation, if you look at Bill C-27 and Canada's involvement in the ongoing Council of Europe negotiations towards a treaty on AI, Canada is current
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by AlanYx 3y ago
The problem in Canada is layers of legal uncertainty. Quebec recently passed Bill 64, which purports to regulate applications of AI. The Federal government is in second reading of bill C-27, which will impose an onerous regulatory regime on

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