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by apricot 6y ago
> I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs. Because if they did that, users would be able to replace them.
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by apricot 6y ago
My parents lived in the countryside in the middle of the "dark triangle". They went without power for about 30 days in the middle of winter. They lived in the basement around the wood stove. Dad was an obstetrician, and Mom was hi
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by apricot 6y ago
> Yeah, imagine if this applied to trucks. No one could use one for non truck bed usage. John Deere has entered the chat.
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by apricot 6y ago
You want a space cadet keyboard: http://xahlee.info/kbd/lmi-cadr_keyboard.html
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by apricot 6y ago
My institution's administration does this. Every message from them is typed in Word, then attached to an email whose body says "Please read the attached message". They do this for every message, no matter how trivial. I asked
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by apricot 6y ago
A great read for a lazy Sunday morning. The author's tastes in programming languages agree with my own, and he's defending them in an eloquent way so it's an article I read drinking coffee and nodding my head. Also describing
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by apricot 6y ago
Baka! You're the dummy, Shinji! Now get in the robot!
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by apricot 6y ago
You wrote: "If we removed everything that confused or angered people, it would be a full-time job" If I rephrase it as "Let's keep the Nazi pictures that confuse and anger people because it would be too much work to remo
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by apricot 6y ago
That insane bug was reported many times, and every time the developers reply that they won't fix it, it's our workflow that's broken. Are we sure GNOME developers aren't some kind of agents provocateurs working against f
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by apricot 6y ago
Comparing the GTK File chooser dialog to a clogged toilet is an insult to clogged toilets.
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by apricot 6y ago
That's why my reflection email always includes at least one question about some detail of the statement I want to confirm. "Per our conversation of this morning when you asked me to delete all our backups, do you want me to erase
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by apricot 6y ago
Nice! The world needs more literate assembler programs.
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by apricot 6y ago
Answer to the title question but not the second one: I decided to go into computer science after reading "The Turing Omnibus" by A.K. Dewdney. It was like my brain was let loose in a candy store. I must have been insufferable that
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by apricot 6y ago
Could be. Certainly the problem is not unique to mine. Maybe they eventually fixed it, or maybe it only shows up on some batches, and I've been unlucky. I want to emphasize that this is my only complaint regarding the Pinebook Pro. Eve
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by apricot 6y ago
I did. I also applied the software patches I found when googling the problem, such as https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9094 . It made the trackpad go from unusable to really annoying, which is progress. Some peopl
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by apricot 6y ago
I'll tell them mine if they tell me theirs.
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by apricot 6y ago
I love everything about my Pinebook Pro except the trackpad, which suffers from lag. Not much, just enough to be really annoying.
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by apricot 6y ago
Outside of education (where your lobbyists can ensure they are required by all students), there really are very few use cases for a complex graphing calculator. If you have access to a computer, Octave, Maxima, and Python (or any non-free e
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by apricot 6y ago
Fun fact: English isn't my native language and I learned programming before becoming fluent in English. I believed for a long time that 'else' was just a shorter alternative for 'otherwise'. I used to say things lik
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by apricot 6y ago
Most buyers of early scientific calculators bought them to replace their slide rule. Early TI calculators had model numbers of SR-xx, which stood for "slide rule".
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by apricot 6y ago
And there I go, reading it for the umpteenth time.
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by apricot 6y ago
That you're not Knuth, but I suspect you knew that already. If not, um... retroactive spoiler warning? Sorry. Say, have you heard of that book, The Three Knuths of Ypsilanti ?
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by apricot 6y ago
Can confirm, nandgame was a hit with my 12-year-old.
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by apricot 6y ago
I had one of those for years, then I switched to the analog MQ24, also by Casio, after realizing I liked looking at angles more than 7-digit numbers.
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by apricot 6y ago
"Therefore if MacDonald's farm animals ultimately have long names they should make slightly shorter noises." I totally read this in Knuth's voice, and this was made easier because of the absence of commas after "The
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by apricot 6y ago
Thank you very much for that.
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by apricot 6y ago
I have a 12-year-old. The killer app for learning programming for him has been Minecraft bots. He's on Discord with a group of friends from all over the world, and they're learning to program by writing bots in Javascript. Those b
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by apricot 6y ago
GNOME suddenly changing things for the worse, breaking muscle memory and making previously easy things difficult or impossible, while tone-deaf developers intone the "it's not broken, your workflow's broken" mantra in th
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by apricot 6y ago
Home printers suck because home computer buyers will always buy the cheapest printer, so it's a race to the bottom.
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by apricot 6y ago
> That's another way to make your brain work, use a terrible font. And suddenly my complex analysis prof who wrote his exams in Comic Sans is vindicated!

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