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by apricot 3y ago
A USB 2.0 port? 47 Wh battery? 4.4 lb? What is this, 2010?
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by apricot 3y ago
Just tried to go to the site, got the "You broke reddit!" page. They don't know how right they are.
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by apricot 3y ago
> The keyboard was the deciding factor in my last laptop purchase I'm looking for a laptop, and keyboard quality is also one of my top priorities. One of my criteria is FULL-SIZE ARROW KEYS. I don't know how people use their c
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by apricot 3y ago
I remember seeing Sun Remarketing ads in the late 1980s and wondering how they got all those Lisa computers to sell. It's great getting to see and hear the man behind the company.
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by apricot 3y ago
What's to stop someone who carries a phone from turning it off before entering the cafe? You can read those texts later.
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by apricot 3y ago
You can switch between the point and comma decimal separators by turning the calculator off, holding down the "." key, turning it back on, then releasing the "." key.
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by apricot 3y ago
As a math professor, I had an epiphany about the word "easily" several years ago. In my course notes, I used that word to mean "I guarantee you don't need any additional ideas here, just do the obvious thing." Nothi
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by apricot 4y ago
Hello there. I'm writing this on a Thinkpad x220 from 2011.
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by apricot 4y ago
The world runs on old Thinkpads.
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by apricot 4y ago
I paid extra to get a 16:10 monitor instead of a 16:9 monitor at similar specs back in 2009 or so. Those extra pixels of vertical space really come in handy! I'm still using the same monitor today (a Dell U2410).
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by apricot 4y ago
I'm slightly disappointed all that clicking doesn't bring you to a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
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by apricot 4y ago
I don't buy it. The FBI found his code sheet that he made, and tracked him down, and asked people about him. This is an investigation, and it's about him. The fact that they thought he was a Japanese spy simply means that they mad
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by apricot 4y ago
I am reminded of the (probably apocryphal) story about a logician asking for a visa to enter the US for a conference. When he got to the question "Do you plan to overthrow the United States Government by force or violence?" he hes
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by apricot 4y ago
As someone who tried to use HyperCard and, after much lost time, went back to more traditional programming tools, I agree with your assessment. The idea behind HyperCard was neat, but HyperCard itself made it easy to write simple programs w
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by apricot 4y ago
Without needing to commit many facts to memory, one nevertheless needs to know which facts are known, and how to get to them if need be. Otherwise all the time will be spent reinventing the wheel.
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by apricot 4y ago
Maybe eventually: https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/casio-smartwatch-22-07-2022/ Gonna need some creative solutions for graphics rendering, though.
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by apricot 4y ago
Most of the time, I use dmenu_run (bound to super-R) for launching usual applications, and the menu for seldom-used ones.
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by apricot 4y ago
Thanks. Do you think the Nibbler would be compatible with Ben Eater's 555-based clock? I think it would be instructive to run it at slow speeds and use LEDs to see how the signals propagate. What would you say was the hardest part of b
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by apricot 4y ago
I was thinking of doing the same thing with my son (breadboarding the Nibbler). He has built a virtual computer with nandgame.com but asked me if he could build a real one. The nand game computer is 16-bit and would be a nightmare to build
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by apricot 4y ago
Just saying slanted is not problematic. 眼 would be.
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by apricot 4y ago
Society often prevents people from pursuing their happiness, when such pursuit would be harmful to others. This doesn't mean the pursuit of happiness isn't important, only that it isn't an absolute.
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by apricot 4y ago
Fully agree that reading K&R is a must, because it puts C in context, it gives you the background that explains why C is like it is. Also, as a non-trivial bonus, it teaches you, by example, how to write great technical documentation.
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by apricot 4y ago
Not even a proper keyboard like they did for the 25th anniversary. Boo.
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by apricot 4y ago
Same here. My blood pressure rises every time I have to type on a laptop that isn't my x220. Please give us laptops with real keyboards.
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by apricot 4y ago
Hot dog. I dreamed of writing something like this, and this guy actually goes and does it. Mad props.
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by apricot 4y ago
I was this >< close to doing the same, but chickened out at the last minute. Shouldn't have. Oh well, I'll be there for sure at Knuth90.
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by apricot 4y ago
But you get to brag that you use TAOCP on a regular basis.
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by apricot 4y ago
My son just finished 9th grade and wanted to know about machine language and assembly language. I got him a Digirule 2U from bradsprojects and it clicked immediately. He wrote his first programs by hand and bit-banged them from the front pa
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by apricot 4y ago
> You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket? Yes, but I don't realize it.
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by apricot 4y ago
I agree with the author that recursive data structures are a good starting point from which to teach recursion. My favorite example is writing a program that computes the disk space used in a directory, including all of its subdirectories.

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