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by dubya 4y ago
Two spaces between sentences makes this easy, and should be just as easy a habit as one sentence per line.
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by dubya 4y ago
Something has changed in Monterey so it is possible to use virtual webcams even with Apple apps (Facetime, Safari, etc). See https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/05/06/camo-1-6 So it should work not j
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by dubya 4y ago
My kids and I worked through most of "The puzzle ninjas" by Alex Bellos, and some of the "Pencil puzzles" books from Nikoli. Working on them with others, it's a lot of making little conjectures, testing (proving) t
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by dubya 4y ago
May I recommend https://sites.psu.edu/ehssan/wp-content/uploads/sites/7257/2... , a transcript of a 2000 talk by Michael Atiyah? A tiny bit from section 9: > The 20th century can be divided roughl
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by dubya 4y ago
I wonder how many marriages have been saved by an open letter.
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by dubya 4y ago
SVG wasn't an option at the time. Now, support for TeX labels might still be an advantage. These days I just use PGF/TikZ.
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by dubya 4y ago
The simple text format also makes it somewhat scriptable, so you could make more complex figures than you could make with a mouse, without learning Postscript.
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by dubya 5y ago
Could you point out your or some of the other places that have a good model for DEI? My department has been struggling with this and will be redoing their mentorship program in the near future.
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by dubya 5y ago
State universities kind of do have this responsibility. My school is doing more or less this, restructuring some of the math sequences that have a high failure rate, like precalc/calc 1. Also state universities are where most of the p
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by dubya 5y ago
> Just call up your local-clinic and ask them for a flu-shot. Stand in line for 4-hours for things _COMPLETELY_ unrelated to COVID19, and come back and tell me that its fake. Note that this varies by where you are. Locally, there is no
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by dubya 5y ago
May I recommend the audiobook version with Stephen Fry as Pooh, and an ensemble of other very talented actors? It's on Audible but your local library may have it on CD. I've heard it dozens of times by now and look forward to he
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by dubya 5y ago
I mostly agree. I use cheap paper at home, but my work recently switched suppliers and the new stuff is fine for printing, but bleeds terribly with liquid ink pens. Comes in plain white wrapper so I'm assuming it's pretty cheap.
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by dubya 5y ago
Not exactly a new idea. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. T S Eliot, The Rock
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by dubya 5y ago
This seems really like a browser problem, and I'd love to know a fix. Geogebra.org hijacks CMD-` in Safari and it is absolutely infuriating.
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by dubya 5y ago
Looks like it's being worked on, but has a big (NOT YET WORKING) disclaimer: https://github.com/utk-se/VSCodeRibbon
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by dubya 5y ago
On Mac, hold down the "c" key and a little menu with accented versions (ç, ć, č) appears, with numbers to choose which one. The flip side is that holding down letters or numbers doesn't repeat them on a Mac.
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by dubya 5y ago
The adblocker Wipr has recently added something beyond the Content Blocker API with Wipr Extra. I only found it because I had forgotten to switch to AdGuard on my office Mac, and Wipr Extra showed up in an update. Lots of restrictions and
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by dubya 5y ago
I really miss the "snoring" light that Macbooks used to have, though more to tell if the computer is actually waking up.
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by dubya 5y ago
The Honda Fit is on its 4th generation and is still sold in the US. I think it's a hybrid now. Mine is a 2008.
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by dubya 5y ago
Non-paywalled version: https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/JUTBZVGAF... found here (articles by author Thomas Fallace): https://muckrack.com/thomas-fallace/articles
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by dubya 5y ago
Not sure about youtube, but for the right age kid, maybe late-elementary to early high school, there's a weekly "Joyful math jamboree" online. The web page for it is not updated very often, but the registration form still wo
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by dubya 5y ago
I recommend the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon. He is portrayed as a genuinely decent human being, and the stories are interesting.
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by dubya 5y ago
The link to your generic-c github project is broken.
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by dubya 5y ago
This is just an excerpt. The actual book seems to be out of print, but a pdf is easy to find, and it's on ProQuest if your library has access to that. Here's a review if you want a little more: https://www.maa.org&#x2
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by dubya 5y ago
I doubt a fix is coming. Just keep it from reaching the Internet long enough to disable the cloud features. A patch cable directly to the PC should work.
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by dubya 5y ago
Mine is still prompting me to register my device. It's been a secondary Time Machine backup for 10+(?) years, but really is too slow to ever do a restore from. This is a good reminder to replace it.
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by dubya 5y ago
Most of the web works fine with a fast link _to_ your home, so that's what Comcast et al have optimized for. I had to upgrade during Covid to get a decent upload rate. Speedtest says I now have 238Mbps down/12Mbps up. For compa
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by dubya 5y ago
This illustrates what I miss using WYSIWYG programs like MS Word or Google Docs: the ability to easily comment out lines without deleting them, or leave notes to oneself.
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by dubya 5y ago
Nice fact! How about this for a proof: Let X_j be a sequence for unif(0,1) random variables, S_n the sequence of partial sums (so S_4=X_1+X_2+X_3+X_4). If N is the number of uniforms needed to have a sum bigger than 1, you can see that P(N
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by dubya 6y ago
What do people do about long hills and mountains in an automatic? I've not driven an automatic that doesn't have a manual mode in mountains. Maybe it's not that big a deal to ride the brakes the whole way down? Do modern C

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