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by dubya 4y ago
This is maybe a weird corner case, but I had no luck with the RealMedia files here: https://chance.dartmouth.edu/ChanceLecture/AudioVideo.html on a Mac, particularly the Susan Holmes lecture on "Probability by Sur
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by dubya 4y ago
Try 'XXX'. Definitely too much variation with what should be the same glyph. It doesn't seem to know about ampersands either.
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by dubya 4y ago
This reminded me of typing in a program to play a reggae version of "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" from Family Computing. It was not the coolest magazine, but it was what my school library subscribed to. A search reveals it ap
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by dubya 4y ago
As a teacher, I totally agree. Understanding something when the teacher presents material is not at all the same thing as digging in and trying some problems yourself.
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by dubya 4y ago
> The first is that textual input and treating the model as a function (command in -> result out) are sufficient for anything. No, this is a fundamentally deficient way to give artistic directions, which is further handicapped by prim
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by dubya 4y ago
I never think of POPCNT because it's not a language primitive in any languages I use. I would do it by storing the product of the counts; divide by the outgoing count before decrementing, multiply by the incoming count after incrementi
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by dubya 4y ago
That's what he said, more or less: "The problem comes not from the language JavaScript, but from the fact that browsers, by default, ..." I think it's the cultural issues he's getting at. Minified or otherwise obfu
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by dubya 4y ago
The "by default" is an important distinction.
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by dubya 4y ago
If you look at just the first 5 dice and compute the probability that player one rolls lowest, of the 6^4 combinations of rolls the other players can make: 1 beats all 6^4; 16 beats 4^4, 17 beats 4^4, 32 beats 2^4, 33 beats 2^4, and 48 beat
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by dubya 4y ago
On Safari the 'notequal' is double-width, and you can select just half of it, which I didn't expect.
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by dubya 4y ago
I see how that could happen, and probably has. But, for example, I can also see how the top x black applicants to Harvard would be capable of doing very well at Harvard even if those applicants are not in the top 4.6% of SAT scorers who ap
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by dubya 4y ago
Standardized test scores are correlated with race, but schools want to admit a more diverse set of students. If they consider test scores and still try for more diversity, it looks a lot like discrimination against groups with high scorers
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by dubya 4y ago
The iPad with pencil is really useful for marking up student papers. I bought one during Covid when everything was being turned in online, but some students still prefer to turn in scans rather than paper. The downside is that Apple doesn&
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by dubya 4y ago
The orientation is just a software problem. No reason Zoom et al can't have an option to crop to the right aspect ratio.
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by dubya 4y ago
Your description of node displays reminds me of "Robot Odyssey".
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by dubya 4y ago
That's a very uncharitable reading. "Works in China" in an Internet context would have to include something about having government approval and being subject to government control.
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by dubya 4y ago
Better transfer speed would be a benefit to USB-C. It comes up using an iPhone as a camera when wifi is congested or just not available, e.g. a college campus with device registration required. Dongles for phone to HDMI could work without
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by dubya 4y ago
Not entirely true. It came with a little female-female lightning adapter so you could charge it with whatever other lightning cable you have. The pencil end of the adapter is deeper than the other end, I think so you can't plug a lig
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by dubya 4y ago
The numbers I could find are 0.24 firearm-related deaths/100K population for the UK vs 10.95/100K for the US. ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death... ) By this metric, the US is bette
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by dubya 4y ago
Chevy Spark supposedly starts at $13600, available inventory seems to start at $14595 + tax, title license and fees. I have never bought a new car so I don't know the + part, but that's got to be getting close to $20k.
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by dubya 4y ago
Knuth also has sample code here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html I couldn't get some of it to work due to pointer hijinks not cooperating with Macos, but it's fine in a Linux vm.
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The Language of Choice (BDDs)(codewords.recurse.com)
3 points by dubya 4y ago|0 comments
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by dubya 4y ago
Canvas, which I think is pretty standard, has views, last access, and total access time for all pages. I don't think there's a way to choose not to track, and I've not seen a policy for what happens to the data. Our school a
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by dubya 4y ago
Wipr seems to work pretty well. It doesn't block the stupid overlays that YouTube puts over the last 20 seconds or so of videos (not ads, but watch this or this next or subscribe to this channel...), but I don't think that uBlock
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by dubya 4y ago
This has been going on for a while. I've seen it mostly in the "I will pay cash for your house" industry. The process has definitely gotten more convincing; before, all the letter shapes would be the same, but now there&#x2
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by dubya 4y ago
> but anybody who remembers computers 20 years ago being faster either has some serious rose tinted glasses, or was not using computers 20 years ago. Or they're using something like the grade book in Canvas, a very popular LMS, and
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by dubya 4y ago
The first few stops with toe clips are pretty dicey.
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by dubya 4y ago
I always hated automatics because I had only driven cheap rental cars with automatics. My family got a Mazda 3 with automatic a few years back, and it's so much better. I still prefer a stick in some situations, but it's not con
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by dubya 4y ago
It's not just the free client. My university uses O365 (?) and the links are in emails checked on other clients (Mail.app of ios/macos). Admin has also turned on "You don't often get email for __" warnings that edi
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by dubya 4y ago
For me it's a holdover from a high school typing class, but I find it useful. I mostly write in LaTeX which just ignores the extras. On the iphone, two spaces are replaced by a period and a space, which is quite handy.

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