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by avhon1 6y ago
You can actually enter ASM code on the calculator, but it is very limited, and non-trivial programs are extremely tedious to enter. http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/asm-command
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Definitely not. The requirements on https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-tes... say: > Only the calculators listed on this page are acceptable for the Math Test—Calculator portion of the test. Th
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by avhon1 6y ago
When I was in High school (in the early 2010's), I certainly didn't have room for a laptop or tablet on my desk! Just a notebook or binder would fill most of the available area, with room for an eraser and spare pen or pencil alon
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> School quality in the US is very location dependent, as public schools are largely funded by property taxes Also because curricula are designated at the state level, and teacher certification requirements vary by state and county.
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by avhon1 6y ago
The TI-84 and newer have USB ports, but the TI-83+ and older require a special cable to connect to a desktop computer. (USB-A or RS-232 on one end, a logic board in the middle, and a 3.5mm jack on the calculator end.) I never had one of tho
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by avhon1 6y ago
TI-BASIC code is entered with a menu-based system. For example, while editing a program on a TI-84+, pressing the PRGM button yields this menu: [CTL] I/O EXEC 1:If 2:Then 3:Else 4:For( 5:While 6:Repeat 7:End 8:Pause
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"In previous sections I have said that all figures in Flatland present the appearance of a straight line, yet now I am about to explain to my Spaceland critics how we are able to recognize one another by the sense of sight. That this p
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by avhon1 6y ago
You could display 3D projections of 4D objects on a 2D screen with anaglyph graphics. (Think red- and blue-filtered glasses.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D
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by avhon1 6y ago
I've heard of people generating designs via scripts in gEDA. http://www.geda-project.org/
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by avhon1 7y ago
There are exceptions to every generalization, and this exception is pretty cool. The Welrod MkIIA is a semiautomatic pistol, designed for covert operations and assassinations, that is genuinely movie-quiet. Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons)
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by avhon1 7y ago
The article starts with a scan of the entire letter. You need to enable javascript for the image to load.
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by avhon1 7y ago
There is actually precedent for that. Waifu2x [1] is an image upscaler for anime-style art based on deep convolutional neural networks. As far as I know, it's mostly used by people who want to upscale fan art they found on the internet
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by avhon1 7y ago
I had a hard time digging up any numbers on this. As far as I can tell, Netflix doesn't seem to offer a breakdown of their subscribers. In 2018, Parks Associates (a market research and consulting company) estimated that 30% of Netflix
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by avhon1 7y ago
Not all of them. You have to pay more money (currently $16 / month [1]), have sufficiently fast internet, and watch content that is actually available in 4K. [1] https://www.netflix.com/signup/planform
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by avhon1 7y ago
Rather uniquely, the project's assets are released "for download and experimentation" "to help the industry better understand 4K HDR and immersive audio in anime". Although the article doesn't say, the assets a
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by avhon1 7y ago
One related thing that struck me about SteamCAD was this passage from (the last page of) the manual: "5.1 What Next? Some people may be interested in what are the future plans with SteamCAD. The answer is there are none. SteamCAD is fi
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by avhon1 7y ago
In some sense, I agree with you -- there is nothing about this package that is necessarily specific to trains. However, this seems more like an art program than a CAD program. All it does is draw and manipulate straight and curved lines. It
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by avhon1 7y ago
Does Dillinger support collaborative editing (like Google Docs)? I feel like that is major feature of the parent product.
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How did you get your XO-4? Were you involved in a project developing software for it?
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Let's say Pat is an English speaker who has a strong understanding of its history and root words, but has never seen or heard of a hippopotamus until reading your comment. Without looking the word up, Pat can break down the word into t
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by avhon1 7y ago
For many geometries (especially complex or thin-walled shapes), 3D printing is faster than milling. Many medical devices are made largely out of plastic, especially the disposable parts that are currently in short supply. 3D printers (FDM a
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by avhon1 7y ago
That sure is a compact laser printer! And it only draws 210 watts while printing! Unfortunately, I was disappointed by this part of the description: > Dynamic security enabled printer. Only intended to be used with cartridges using an HP
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by avhon1 7y ago
You don't have to put "!g" at the beginning of the query. Just put it somewhere in the query -- at the end, or in the middle, anywhere where it is separated by whitespace. Also, many soft-keyboards these days let you type c
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by avhon1 7y ago
The only time I've ever called 911 emergency services, the operator opened with "9-1-1, where's your emergency?" They apparently do this first so that, if the call gets cut off, they can send somebody to the scene to ren
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by avhon1 7y ago
Funny, that was never my impression of the TI-83. In each menu, every item is numbered, and you can just hit the number to enter the corresponding item. I don't think there's anything that requires more than 5 button presses, and
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by avhon1 7y ago
The TI-93 is typically not required for high-school or undergraduate math classes, and is often not allowed on standardized tests.
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It is much easier to write math tests if you can assume that the students can do arithmetic, matrix inversion and multiplication, trigonometry, logarithms, regressions, variance, etc, nearly instantly.
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Microsoft got a cut-down version of Windows XP to work on the XO-1. When word of that came out, lots of people were very upset at OLPC, because of how heavily they had been emphasizing the open-source aspect of the project. IIRC, it never g
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by avhon1 7y ago
What you've described is nearly exactly the design of the OLPC. A one-piece impermeable keyboard, battery behind the keyboard to weight it down, all of the sophisticated electronics behind the screen to minimize cable bending. The char
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by avhon1 7y ago
In 20160-2017, I did the final year of my CS major using nothing but an IBM Thinkpad X40 (1.1 GHz ULV Pentium 4, 1.25 GB RAM). It was quite adequate. DrRacket, CompuCell, LibreOffice, Gimp, VirtualBox, it all worked fine. Such a lovely mach

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