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by asciimov 6y ago
As someone that has endured a significant amount of bad luck, is there any advice on improving luck?
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by asciimov 6y ago
> I really don't understand how Word remains so popular. Because Office/Word has become the hammer of the document writing world. It isn't an issue that it's a bad product and better products our out there (and there
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by asciimov 6y ago
Some tips from someone who's been doing this linux laptop thing for a long while now (6 year's ago, I replaced my aging MBP with a cheap HP) 0. TAKE NOTES! Make a setup doc that keeps up with the issues of setting up your computer
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by asciimov 6y ago
The issue is that you are sleeping the computer vs hibernating it. Sleep is still powering the ram. Hibernate writes the ram contents out to a file and shuts the computer off. It often takes some tinkering to get hibernation to work, if at
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by asciimov 6y ago
I miss those days. Though they went too far with the skeuomorphic design, it is a far cry better than what we have today.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I could have sworn it would only do it for triple press, but no, it seems to work now with only two. Thanks for the info.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I was thinking about this as I recently started playing "Ultimate NES Remix" They are quick mini-games made from old nes games. These quick little mini-games really make good tutorials on how to actually play the real game they ar
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by asciimov 6y ago
No, gotta put your credit card info into the wallet app before use as it needs to verify it's your account. Also, Apple Pay doesn't accept all cards. My main card isn't accepted, which is sad.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Huh... I'll try that next time. I had no idea it would do that. Again, this is a discoverability problem.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I wish I knew how that floating window thing worked, cause like you I can manage to open it when I don't want it and can't get it to go away. I keep meaning to look for a good iPad tutorial, to see how to do all this stuff.
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by asciimov 6y ago
My concern is sticker shock. You mention "a generous free tier" yet I don't see any talk on the web page for the free tier nor what all I'm getting for $100 a year. If I had to decide between this and a subscription to A
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by asciimov 6y ago
> For anyone (cough, elderly parents) who aren't adept at discovering hidden features. I'm in my mid-30's and I find Apple awful at discoverability. Take using Apple Pay. I don't use it often, but covid has had me wan
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by asciimov 6y ago
Several years ago I finally developed RSI. It took nearly a year of different setups and exercises to figure out what would work. The cause of RSI for me was a well known ergo keyboard. I had been using it for nearly a year before the pain&
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by asciimov 6y ago
It is dangerous to say this at this point. People who have an agenda will use this to say that it is now safe to resume business as usual. IT IS NOT!
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by asciimov 6y ago
A great jumping in spot would be to watch Ken Burn's Jazz and Country Music Documentaries. Two other shorter documentaries that I can recommend is "The Wrecking Crew" (2015) and "It Might Get Loud" (2009) Listening
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by asciimov 6y ago
What you need is a signal for the brain that this is work time and this is off time. Some people have mentioned different location, that's great if you have the space. Clothes can work too, but I find shorts and t-shirt more comfortabl
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by asciimov 6y ago
> Why do people keep making the same mistake? Because there are always new developers showing up that haven't been taught. (Eternal September if you will) The real solution would be: 1. We are past the point were our practice needs
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by asciimov 6y ago
> There are always more people wanting to do science than what is available in funding. So why not just fund them? Any process you could create or that currently exists just ends up being gamed by people who understand how to get funding
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by asciimov 6y ago
I'm not sure, the attribute to Edison is apocryphal at best.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Three things I recommend: 1 - Read lots of things unrelated to your field of study. Read about flowers, or art history, or music theory. 2 - Take long walks, get away from the screens and distractions. Walk some place that stimulates though
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by asciimov 6y ago
Seriously! They tried spinning it off years ago, remember "Qwikster"? Anyway, it's no where as good as is used to be. After the rise of streaming they shut down many fulfillment centers and quit mailing out on Saturdays. My q
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by asciimov 6y ago
The problem is that a great many people believe everything they read on FB. As these people see it, "they wouldn't let them say it if it wasn't true."
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by asciimov 6y ago
The best thing that college did for me is get me out from under my parents roof and their influence. College gave me a chance to develop my own beliefs and ideas by being surrounded by people from many different places. College changed me,
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by asciimov 6y ago
While there is no argument that lectures can be done online. There is so much more than lectures at campus. One thing that isn't mentioned is Labs. People aren't going to be doing organic chemistry in their bathroom, nor are they
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by asciimov 6y ago
Yeah, I re-read the whole thing again, and I see the mistake I made. I took a wrong turn when op went into base 37 numbers, which made me consider every bit carry not just the carry on word boundary.
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by asciimov 6y ago
I see what I was doing wrong, I was considering total bit carries during the addition, ie... 1+1= 10 and is a one bit carry, and not the carry operation done after overflowing the word boundary. Next time, I'll keep from reading tech a
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by asciimov 6y ago
Right, am not saying that this isn't faster, I am saying you aren't reducing to total number of carries.
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by asciimov 6y ago
Right, I understand we are parallelizing the addition operations and the performance gain is due to adding chunks of the numbers in parallel. What I am saying is the total number of carry operations is conserved, even though they are delaye
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by asciimov 6y ago
But you are doing the same number of carries. Op is making it sound like you are doing less carries.
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by asciimov 6y ago
edit: Ignore this, I'm tired and dumb. You aren't gaining performance by reducing carries, you are gaining performance by running these additions in parallel. The ALU is doing the addition in binary. Even though you add padding to

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