apricot

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by apricot 3y ago
> A field with one element? Replacing abstract algebra entirely? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
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by apricot 3y ago
I mostly use Duckduckgo these days but fall back on Google for non-English searches because DDG is lacking in that area. Kagi users, how good is Kagi for non-English searches?
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by apricot 3y ago
"Accelerate digital resilience". Huh. Wonder what that means in English.
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by apricot 3y ago
The marketing division of the Microsoft software corporation defines a Large Language Model as "Your virtual pal who's fun to be with."
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by apricot 3y ago
> buying stuff via contactless card is extremely convenient I specifically don't want buying stuff to be too convenient. There has to be some hassle involved, so that I don't do it without thinking about it. That's why I a
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by apricot 3y ago
I started my son on Python but he switched to Java because that's what you need to write Minecraft mods. That lasted for two or three years. Now, thanks to Advent of Code, he's coming back to Python again, as well as assembly lang
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by apricot 3y ago
I will not expand on the circumstances, but at one point during my career I did review a paper while naked.
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by apricot 3y ago
The video is running at 15x, though...
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by apricot 3y ago
Holy collusion Batman. No worries, a class action lawsuit will follow and we will all get fat $17.30 checks in 2029.
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by apricot 3y ago
It's not clear to me what advantage this board has over a couple breadboards, jumper wires, switches, LEDs, resistors, and a handful of 7400-series chips. I've done most of the exercises mentioned on the page with my son using the
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by apricot 3y ago
24 lines, for a total of 960 bytes occupying $400 to $7FF. The missing 64 bytes were called "screen holes", peppered throughout that memory range, and were used as scratchpad locations for peripherals. One of those peripherals is
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by apricot 3y ago
At first I asked myself: "Why would Google do something so idiotic?" But then I remembered: they don't care.
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by apricot 3y ago
I do have a family. We often organize things. We do that in advance and stick to our plans. It works well.
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by apricot 3y ago
They email me, or call and leave a message on my answering machine, or sometimes even write me a letter that eventually finds its way to my house. I get the message and answer it when I have time. In the not so distant past, it was perfectl
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by apricot 3y ago
I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
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by apricot 3y ago
if I were to try paying my taxes that way, I'd end up in prison.
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by apricot 3y ago
The race between LaTeX 3 and Half-Life 3 is still as exciting as it ever was.
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by apricot 3y ago
Even Japan is changing. Non contact payment is becoming popular.
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by apricot 3y ago
My son is at this very moment doing the nand2tetris course on Coursera as a summer project, because he wanted to understand how computers work. It's very well done and the tools provided isolate the beginner from a lot of low-level EE
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by apricot 3y ago
I have a glass pen that I use for odd calligraphy jobs that require special ink, because it's easy to clean and change inks. It holds more ink than I would have guessed. Downside is it's rather scratchy compared to a fountain pen.
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by apricot 3y ago
If I had to wait for documentation in my native language, I would never work on any modern chips, period.
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by apricot 3y ago
> I verified that no employee would have a compensation regression What's wrong with "I made sure nobody got a pay cut"?
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by apricot 3y ago
Exactly. As a customer, what matters is my out-of-pocket expenses. I don't care what portion goes to the store, the distributor, the wholesaler, or the government. I care about how much I pay. I am fortunate to live in a country where
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by apricot 3y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but I find this kind of hypertext, with each section on its own page, infuriating to read. When you are done reading a section, there is no simple way to "turn the page" and go to the next se
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by apricot 3y ago
> but the obvious intent of the sign couldn't be clearer There is no sign. Nowhere in the question does it mention a sign. What the question does say, however, is this: "please answer the question of whether the rule is violate
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by apricot 3y ago
I notice that people who say "obviously emergency vehicles should be allowed, because of intent", despite the explicit instructions at the beginning of the test, often talk about "the sign" in their comments, despite no
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by apricot 3y ago
Surely I can't be the only one who imagined Homer Simpson going "that's good... that's bad" while reading that comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osb78oZ9Z4
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by apricot 3y ago
"Minitel: Welcome to the Internet" is a great book (in English) about Minitel and its history. It's part of the delicious Platform Studies collection of MIT Press: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9
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by apricot 3y ago
I'm probably older than you are, which means I have more experience gauging the annoyance level of various events.
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by apricot 3y ago
I don't have a cell phone, because I consider that the costs outweigh the benefits. Recently I started experiencing more often the effects of people assuming that everybody has a cell phone. * I couldn't scan QR codes at restauran

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