apricot

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   by apricot 7y ago

   If ever there was a time to say "Don't judge a book by its cover"...
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   by apricot 7y ago

   Can confirm, saying "Je suis pleine" after a meal is a rather natural (but quite informal) way of saying "I'm full". Only if there were a lot of extra context would it be interpreted as "I'm pregnant&quo
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   by apricot 7y ago

   I mean you could always tell Facebook to do whatever.
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   by apricot 7y ago

   > Professors also want the best for their students, and so the latest edition is prescribed. No, that's not it at all. Calculus 17th edition is not in any way better than Calculus 16th edition. If anything, the newer one has more ty
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   by apricot 7y ago

   This guy Wolframs.
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   by apricot 7y ago

   Keyboard interaction on the Apple II is entirely CPU-dependent, memory-mapped, and works like this: when a key is pressed, the ASCII code of the character is put at $C000, with the high bit set (a consequence of this is that there is no way
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   by apricot 7y ago

   Can anyone help me understand why the base SI unit of mass is the kilogram and not the gram? Why is the ×1000 prefix included in the base unit of mass, but not in any other units? When I asked that question to my science teacher, a long tim
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   by apricot 7y ago

   The real problem is that the teachers ought to know what you just said, but they don't. So instead of teaching the smart kid -- and the rest of the class -- about the advantages of the mechanical press, they call him a smart-ass.
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   by apricot 7y ago

   I find I appreciate EWDs even more in their original, handwritten form: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF
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    by apricot 7y ago

    Why laptop makers deleted those keys from the keyboard I'll never understand. With just an extra column of keys to the right of Enter, you get delete, page up, page down, home, and end. All very useful keys, right at your fingertips. P
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    by apricot 7y ago

    No doubt this language instructor will soon be providing us with the extraordinary evidence needed to establish his extraordinary claim.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Man, I want to like J and K but the constant vibe of "this language is so dense and complex, only a few genius programmers will ever understand it" is getting old.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    So the guy finally found an ultra-rare disk, the disk had errors on it, and he set his recovery program to WRITE OVER THE RARE DISK? That's a huge no-no.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    What we want is immaterial in this case. The police will be able to do just that, very soon.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    To be frank, I had to read it a couple times before parsing "Place in Bench - Code 1234" as "Delivery person, please put this parcel inside the bench, using the code 1234". We expect addresses to be data, not executable
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    by apricot 8y ago

    I run Linux on an old Macbook Air, and it's a great machine. But it's getting a bit long in the tooth (2GB RAM doesn't cut it anymore) and I've been looking around for my next laptop. That locking move by Apple ensures I
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Extra physical switches on an Apple product?
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/451/
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Hey! Hey! Stop bad-mouthing the Apple II's graphics capabilities. I'll have you know the computer has not 7 but 8 high-resolution colors (of which two are white and two are black, but who cares about being a little wasteful when y
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    by apricot 8y ago

    > Danger Hiptop (wistful sigh)
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham.
22. 322.▲
    by apricot 8y ago

    I thought the same thing. Compression artifacts that don't sound like compression artifacts, could lead to hard-to-detect mistakes.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    I genuinely had no idea Apple was still selling the Mac Mini.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    (Points to a swan neck flask) You can put your WEED in there.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Wozniak apparently didn't like interrupts that much. They are almost unused on the Apple II -- for instance, the keyboard doesn't use them --, and grokking interrupts was the single hardest thing for me when I migrated from the Ap
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    by apricot 8y ago

    I'm sorry my comment gave you such a bad impression of myself, and I can assure you that I am neither a stoned college freshman nor a vainglorious hipster. As an educator, I have seen the impact of cell phones on sustained concentratio
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    by apricot 8y ago

    You object to calling them "phones" because they're not often used as phones, yet you want to call them "computers". What exactly do you compute with them? We should all be honest and call them "trackers"
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    by apricot 8y ago

    Greetings, fellow 32Sii lover. I also have enough spares to outlast me, and it's a good feeling. That said, perhaps I'm being overcautious as my first 32Sii (bought in the early 1990s) is still in great shape.
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    by apricot 8y ago

    And let's not even get started about using the SSN as a form of ID.
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    by apricot 9y ago

    Seriously? They are recommending the company known for repeatedly including hidden, malicious software on their computers?