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by apricot 6y ago
> I've never seen a website with a specific shut down time Me neither, but I think it's a wonderful idea.
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by apricot 6y ago
The point is that the system monitor is in ROM, always accessible, and easy for a beginner to discover and experiment with. It feels part of the system in a way a disk-loaded monitor does not. Yes, the Apple II had several so-called "c
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by apricot 6y ago
The C64 has no equivalent to the Apple II system monitor, which allows you to examine, change, and disassemble memory interactively, and includes a mini-assembler as well. It provides a very natural pathway to understanding the inner workin
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by apricot 6y ago
I'll teach such a course next year, based on the first half of "The Elements of Computing Systems" by Nisan and Schocken. Actually we'll start a bit earlier than the book, showing how to build logic gates from transistor
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by apricot 6y ago
The USA is optimized by and for the rich, not the poor.
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by apricot 6y ago
VILFREDO PARETO likes this.
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by apricot 6y ago
I have a calculator that looks just like this one, and the calculator stops working if I block the solar panel with my hand. Now if they would make a credit-card sized solar scientific calculator, and while I'm dreaming can it be a clo
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by apricot 6y ago
Relevant: Knuth's paper "The Errors of TeX" https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf
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by apricot 6y ago
Un bazou doesn't mean a car, it's a slang word that means jalopy. In France French, one would say une guimbarde, and I suspect lots of Canadian French speakers wouldn't understand that word. Slang words tend to differ a lot f
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by apricot 6y ago
France French and Canadian French are not that different and are certainly mutually intelligible, kind of like US English and Australian English. (Except of course if you're a rude Parisian and act like any accent except yours is undec
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by apricot 6y ago
Not OP, but I also made the choice not to carry a phone (not even a dumb phone) because I don't want the inconvenience of carrying an interrupting device everywhere I go. There's a phone at home and one in my office for emergencie
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by apricot 6y ago
That's also how it was explained to me, back in the days.
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by apricot 6y ago
The only version of WordPerfect I ever used was 5.1 for MS-DOS, and my comments apply to that one only. I heard the GUI version left a lot to be desired, so I never upgraded.
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by apricot 6y ago
I had no idea dosemu2 could translate VGA to S-Lang. That's very nice, and I will look into it. WordPerfect was a great word processor, I remember using version 5.1 for years because it was wicked fast, rock stable, and most importantl
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by apricot 6y ago
Some English students might be taught that, but I'm far from certain that is the norm. In fact, I just asked three Chinese native speakers who learned English in China, and none of them was ever taught to avoid na ge / nei ge.
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by apricot 6y ago
> I remember that temptation to buy a book, as if that was how you acquired some knowledge. yeah... what foolish things we believed 20 years ago... (tries not to look at the large pile of books accumulating dust in the corner of the room
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by apricot 6y ago
I remember precisely when I had this particular epiphany. I was 12 years old, in love with books, and thanks to my parents who had signed a form, I had just gotten my first library card for the real (read: non-kiddie) section of the public
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by apricot 6y ago
Is this Duplicate Scrabble (all contestants playing the same letters)? If so, I imagine computers reached perfect play long ago, as it seems to involve nothing beyond memorizing huge lists of numbers and searching the board for the best pla
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by apricot 6y ago
The complaining students are factually wrong when they say: "The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables". It isn't. I heard it countless times when I lived in China. This is just stupid.
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by apricot 6y ago
I'd be willing to bet that it's because they printed something that criticized Trump, and it was mentioned on a TV program Trump watches.
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by apricot 6y ago
Thanks!
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by apricot 6y ago
I can't seem to find that course on Coursera; was it removed?
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by apricot 6y ago
My 12-year-old son will be taking the basic exam next month -- studying for it has been his quarantine/summer project. It's been fun teaching him the basics of electronics, but there is some cramming required, especially for the q
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by apricot 6y ago
Thank you! So in a nutshell, it's doable through VNC (among other solutions), but there's noticeable lag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkSVVwZO9o has a demo.
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by apricot 6y ago
I didn't choose my example at random. See, I drove a rental car in Japan once. Since they drive on the left, I knew the driver seat was on the right, but what I didn't expect was the controls also swapped sides. I had, without a d
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by apricot 6y ago
Could I connect this thing to my computer and use it as a whiteboard in a Zoom meeting, or something like that?
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by apricot 6y ago
It probably doesn't spy on your reading habits the way a Kindle does. https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-a...
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by apricot 6y ago
Hey, you know your car that you brought in for an oil change? I switched the turn signal controls with the wipers. No charge, and no givebacks.
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by apricot 6y ago
TL;DR: "More often than not automatic updates are not done with the interest of the user in mind." Exhibit A being the fact that automatic updates often silently re-enable privacy violating settings. When a company is caught doing
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by apricot 6y ago
This reminds me of that time when Microsoft started hiding file name extensions from the user, because reasons.

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