apricot

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by apricot 5y ago
75% blue and 25% brown: "Brue eyes" Or maybe take a weighted average of RGB values and convert to a word, which would give "teal eyes". Radical.
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by apricot 5y ago
You had me at entrails lasso.
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by apricot 5y ago
The model M is my favorite keyboard and I own a stash of them large enough to last me for my whole life. That is to say, I own one model M keyboard.
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by apricot 5y ago
Holy shit. I independently invented... well, not quite "invented", more like "stumbled into" this algorithm when I was in elementary school learning Applesoft BASIC, and wanted to sort an array of numbers. I had no clue
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by apricot 5y ago
Maille has a horseradish mustard ("moutarde au raifort" in French), and it's one of my favorites.
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by apricot 5y ago
hi
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by apricot 5y ago
"This car is the fastest one on the planet, but we legally forbid you from talking about how fast it can go." Sure.
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by apricot 5y ago
Their free Reddit ad campaign is over now.
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by apricot 5y ago
a) Cheap b) Well made c) Open source/hardware Choose any two.
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by apricot 5y ago
> In short, we need to stop conflating logical foundation with pedagogical foundation. YES. I want to put this on a T-shirt and strut around wherever they write high school math curricula.
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by apricot 5y ago
Datawake's for sale now. See https://microship.com/datawake/
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by apricot 5y ago
By Steven K. Roberts, famous for being one of the first high-profile "technomads". I remember reading his "Computing Across America" series on GEnie, back in the day. He had a high-tech bicycle and wrote email using a ch
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by apricot 5y ago
> I personally was not hand-coding assembly in 1989 I was. You missed out on some fun.
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by apricot 5y ago
I remember 14 years ago salivating at the Optimus Maximus keyboard from Art. Lebedev studios: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/
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by apricot 5y ago
Requiring students and professors to declare their political beliefs is something I associate with the USSR or Communist China. Are you OK, America?
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by apricot 5y ago
But only in answers, not in questions.
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by apricot 6y ago
Schwab has more money that you do, so they play by different rules.
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by apricot 6y ago
If we start mandating that managers be competent we're going to lose a large proportion of managers.
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by apricot 6y ago
One amazing thing to me is how you can go from the beginnings of calculus to today in only five jumps from mathematicians who were alive at the same time, e.g. Newton — Euler — Gauss — Poincaré — Turing — Yau An old C. F. Gauss could have m
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by apricot 6y ago
Reading Knuth is always enjoyable, no matter what he writes about. There's something about his writing style that always brings me joy, even when he's writing about stuff I don't really care about.
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by apricot 6y ago
It looks like they were trying to meet a dual quota of non-white, non-male people. (Also, Yau is there.)
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by apricot 6y ago
A custom-made cassette reading peripheral card in every slot, and eight cassette players running in parallel at high speed?
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by apricot 6y ago
The transcoder that he wrote to convert the source video to a 90 MB 6502 program that draws the animation is pretty nifty too: there's no time to update the whole screen between frames, so he diffs them and updates as many pixels as he
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by apricot 6y ago
The author gives some technical information in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple2/comments/mbrh2f/playing_vide...
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Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video](youtube.com)
119 points by apricot 6y ago|64 comments
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by apricot 6y ago
Sure. I'm a good speller but there are a few words that I learned the wrong way and had a blind spot for. I discovered I had been spelling them wrong all my life when Word kept underlining them in red. In related news, Japanese teacher
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by apricot 6y ago
Making it clearer for developers is the opposite of what they want. The more obscure the rule, and the more convoluted the appeals process (if one even exists), the easier it is for the dictator to control their domain.
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by apricot 6y ago
When I visited China, I saw 11-digit phone numbers commonly written without any punctuation or spaces: like 12020569031. I guess you can get used to it.
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by apricot 6y ago
My ¢2: you are %100 right.
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by apricot 6y ago
Not a terribly important question in the grand scheme of things, but what's the rationale behind making the \ key and the Enter key touch each other? I've seen it on other keyboards as well and cannot imagine what's gained by

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