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by dubya 12y ago
They could just let ios 6 continue to be installed on the iPhone 4, or let you restore from your own back-ups. I think this was actually possible for the first few weeks of ios 7 release, but then they "unsigned" the older versio
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by dubya 12y ago
The initial release was pretty bad, but subsequent ones are fine. Safari, for example, is at least as fast as before. More annoying are third party developers testing only on new hardware. A phone that can run "Infinity Blade"
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by dubya 12y ago
Traveling with my kids has been easier (in this regard) because the family line doesn't have the full body scanners at any of the airports I've been through (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Seattle ...). Traveling alon
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by dubya 12y ago
Works okay on an old Core2duo Macbook with Nvidia 9400M GPU in Chrome 37.something, so it's likely the driver.
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by dubya 12y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Calculus and measure theory underlie probability theory which provides the foundation for most of statistics. Stochastic calculus is another tool for dealing with noise in systems. Good luck understanding stoch
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by dubya 12y ago
I really didn't like Pascal in high school, but this was ~1990 and we were using Apple IIe's, so no Turbo Pascal. I remember strings and printing being a nuisance. Later we got to use Logo and that was much more satisfying.
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by dubya 12y ago
You can fence two adjacent sides, say north and west, and have another fence from the center to the southeast corner. That's 2+(1/sqrt(2))~2.707. The number I got was from keeping the center to SE corner fence, and finding three
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by dubya 12y ago
I can get it to 2.63896 down from 2.82843, assuming a unit square, but there may be a better trick.
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by dubya 12y ago
I remember reading "Graphs and their uses" by Oystein Ore in high school and liking it.
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On OS X, Chrome renders boxes, Safari renders the proper characters.
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by dubya 12y ago
Here in Tennessee the legislature's been fighting hard against tenure for years. At my kid's school an alarming number of teachers are leaving after this year, reportedly due to bad evaluations (not public information, unfortunat
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by dubya 12y ago
Even in a large department, individual specialties may have one or only a few experts. Sometimes none if the department is looking to branch out or fill a gap. There's also typically competition between groups for hires, so no group
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by dubya 12y ago
There's a similar account in "Farmer Boy", one of the Little House series, of an American Indian running a surprisingly fast mile versus horses at a county fair.
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I much prefer French press coffee. OTOH, the paper filter removes something that causes LDL cholesterol to increase, which at the time it was reported, was considered a bad thing.
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I wouldn't feel any moral qualms about downloading the torrent (still huge) if I had the box of discs on my desk. The swapping of discs isn't as bad as the tagging. Is the set tagged on Musicbrainz?
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by dubya 13y ago
The article actually goes further to suggest it's not how you treat your child, but also how they see you treat others. Being a decent person is a great first step, but even so your child will eventually (probably often) do something y
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by dubya 13y ago
How can children "push themselves such that they can land good grades without needing to study"? I can see not needing to cram for an exam, because a child has already put the effort in, but learning seems to require some form of
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by dubya 13y ago
I'd love to see Logo have a bit of a revival. It's great in that kids can start making pictures immediately, and learn more sophisticated syntax as they need it. The only thing that would make it more appealing to children would
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by dubya 13y ago
Yes, under different user accounts. But you can't get referral credits this way.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/australian-travelers-st...
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by dubya 13y ago
It's being standardized now across most states. It looks like quadratic equations are in high school. http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/HSA/APR
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by dubya 13y ago
Was that all a parable? The specific problem was getting more groceries home than you could comfortably carry, and needing them sooner than they could be reliably delivered. Wheels are a huge help in doing this. Perhaps the more general p
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by dubya 13y ago
Your problems are easily solved with a collapsible shopping cart.
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To be fair to Fortran, you can easily choose whatever indexing you want. 1 is just the default.
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by dubya 13y ago
After a little more digging, I've found that pdf files can have named destinations, like eqrefs, so you don't have to use page numbers as references. See http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2007-October&
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by dubya 13y ago
Yeah, I don't have the Adobe PDF plugin either. But Firefox and Chrome use PDF.js which is open source AFAIK, and works with page references.
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Is http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9907164v2.pdf#page=30 a reasonable approximation? It works in Chrome and should work with the Adobe plugin, but doesn't work in Safari. I don't know if PDF has finer scal
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by dubya 13y ago
OS X actually does this now. You get a little pop-up when you hold down e(èéêëēėę) for example and press a number to choose. It's efficient enough if you don't type them often enough to remember the alternate keystrokes. (option
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by dubya 13y ago
At least some of the Haswell core i3's also support ECC. The 4130T in particular uses about half the power of the Xeon mentioned, for a bit less money.
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The CM fonts are great for actual math, mostly because of the matching math characters. The only other near-complete math fonts I know of are Lucida Bright and a Times version, neither of which are free. Most of the other free solutions j

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