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by dubya 7y ago
For anyone looking for logo, FMSLogo seems to work well under Wine, and Racket has a logo available, but I'm not sure how complete. Has anyone looked at Computer Science Logo Style ( http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh&#
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by dubya 7y ago
I've found that plug-in to work even where sites try to prevent speed control and skipping, for example our various campus mandatory online training courses. This is also very satisfying: document.querySelector('video').playb
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I believe this is Richard Guy of "Winning ways for your mathematical plays". It's definitely worth browsing if you're interested in game theory or recreational math.
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My area has something called POP club (power of produce?) at the farmers markets. Kids try some sort of produce, decide if they like it or not, and then get $5 of fake money to spend on produce or seedlings. It's really been interest
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Don Lancaster's “Guru's Lair” Archive(tinaja.com)
28 points by dubya 7y ago|8 comments
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I remember that pre-1990, PostScript seemed like a miracle. "Computer Shopper" of all things, used to have a PostScript Guru column with all kinds of interesting stuff. All the computer I had access to was an Atari ST with GFA B
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by dubya 7y ago
Like an iMac! Except the ports are accessible.
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by dubya 7y ago
I hadn't bothered to check mine until just now. It's a bit surprising who has "uploaded and shared a list with your info". The only one I've actually interacted with is Experian, and I have no way to keep them fro
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by dubya 7y ago
I have fond memories of some of the old Apple II games, and my kids have enjoyed the ones they've tried. No real emulation of anything physical, usually played by kids in pairs, and the feedback loop was slow enough that you couldn&#x
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by dubya 7y ago
The first line of M.T. Anderson's novel feed: "We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." It's a dystopian YA novel, but it's a pretty good (and quick) read.
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by dubya 7y ago
I don't know if Knuth popularized it, but it's somewhat common in combinatorics. Similar idea to using indicator functions when doing change of variables in calculus. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9205211
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I've just been reading "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, which I recommend for his view of modern mathematics. His take on Soviet science was that math and physics (and maybe other hard sciences) were mostly left outside of
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by dubya 7y ago
Actually, you can again. At least in Safari with Wipr installed. They're doing an overlay at the bottom of the window instead of just blocking the whole thing.
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The other issue is that uBlock Origin development on Safari stopped sometime last year. I still prefer Safari, but Firefox is a close second so I'll just switch if I can't find a good enough adblocker for Safari. And whatever adb
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Surely only 20 hours a week, or 8 in the off-season, according to NCAA rules.
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Look at the reviews for Amazon's choice for "iphone charge audio". The questions, pictures and reviews are about some totally unrelated product. I'm not sure if Amazon sold this slot, or just randomly chose from a huge
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by dubya 7y ago
Overnight low of 81° F in Houston tonight, and it probably doesn't get that cool until 2 am or so. There's no overnight cool to soak up. It's also super humid just to cooling more challenging.
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"Despite popular believe I don't think voting matters. " In the US, if you could just get more registered voters in Texas to actually vote it would completely flip the balance of power between the Dems and Republicans. The i
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by dubya 7y ago
Text is sharper, and diagrams with fine lines. PDFs using the standard Computer Modern font look much better onscreen on the retina imac in my office than the mid-2011 imac at home.
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by dubya 7y ago
On the Mac, the Equation Service or LaTeXit (?) included the source in the PDF so that it remained editable. Maybe the source would be easier to parse, especially if no macros were used.
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by dubya 7y ago
\theta doesn't seem that bad. Typing something like \kissyface or \poop seems better than clicking around or typing a numeric code, albeit with the usual name guessing problem. On OS X, and I assume others, you can add items to be aut
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by dubya 8y ago
Calculus has a bunch of nice counterexamples to early intuitions. The Weierstrass function and the Devil's staircase come to mind.
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by dubya 8y ago
The field is not static when energized. The hanging ones are not too hard to make with a Hall effect sensor and an electromagnet. This is a good explanation: https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=electromagnetic-levit...
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by dubya 8y ago
There are a few adapters that do audio out and lightning in for charging. Apple makes (made?) a dock that was similar. They all have pretty bad reviews unfortunately. USB-C and Android seem to have the same lack of solutions. I was looki
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by dubya 8y ago
One thing they already did is display "Scam Likely" for some calls. This is on an iPhone, but I think it's a T-Mobile thing. It misses a ton of spam calls from numbers that match the first six digits of my own number, and h
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by dubya 8y ago
The issue is that on a Mac, the conventions work in (almost) any app, in any text entry area, and it's frustrating to not have that work. For example, Excel violates this convention for formula editing, and it's really grating to
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by dubya 8y ago
UK cheese is different from middle of America cheese. I remember being amazed by the cheddar selection at Sainsbury's. Cheap and delicious! Trader Joe's is the only place I've found a crunchy cheddar over here.
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by dubya 8y ago
> my perineal email taint.net seems to be for sale.
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> ... which appears nowhere in the keyboard help or shortcuts. This is a weird omission in OS X. For what it's worth, they are documented here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
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Even with an interested relative, sometimes there's just too much stuff. My father-in-law left a basement full of computer stuff. There was some Heathkit hardware, TRS-80s, a couple of AT&T 3B2's, tons of PCs, a Bell Labs MA

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