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by jasomill 2y ago
I had lots of fun with the LEGO TC logo system at around the same age: https://archive.org/details/lego-tc-logo-getting-started/mod...
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by jasomill 2y ago
Physical turtle sold separately: https://archive.org/details/lego-tc-logo-teaching-the-turtle...
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by jasomill 2y ago
Generally speaking, " ProductName Version documentation set", where ProductName is one of "VAX/VMS", "VMS", or "OpenVMS", broken up into a variety of sets, subsets, and volumes. Taking VMS V
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by jasomill 2y ago
Eilenberg and Steenrod is great, but if you're not quite ready for algebraic topology, Mac Lane and Birkhoff's _Algebra_ [1] is an introductory abstract algebra text that makes well-motivated use of category theory throughout. Fro
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by jasomill 2y ago
No, but you can 1. Write the new executable. 2. Rename the running executable. 3. Rename the new executable to the original name of the running executable. 4. Launch the new executable. 5. Exit the original executable. 6. Arrange for the ne
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by jasomill 2y ago
Another tech example of a charitable foundation funded by for-profit subsidiaries (both wholly-owned and publicly traded) is the Carl Zeiss Foundation[1]. [1] https://www.carl-zeiss-stiftung.de/en/
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by jasomill 2y ago
The Raspberry Pi Foundation put out a statement[1] on the IPO and how it relates to the mission. In 30 words, instead of receiving a share of the company’s profits each year, we will convert some of our shareholding into an endowment that
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by jasomill 2y ago
The Lua source code and assets for Balatro[1] can be unzipped from its Windows executable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balatro_(video_game)
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by jasomill 2y ago
I think it's a joke. The arbitrarily accurate power series approximation of pi (4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + ⋯) predates NIST (and the US).
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by jasomill 2y ago
That, or they won't notice at all, and when a repair calls for replacing the logic board, say, they'll replace it with one pre-populated with whatever components match the BOM on file for your system, sending the original board po
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by jasomill 2y ago
For what it's worth, I've been running Windows 11 full-time on both Skylake ("sixth generation") and Ivy Bridge-EP ("third generation") systems without issue, though not for gaming. Assuming your system meets a
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by jasomill 2y ago
"We don't want to commit engineering resources to investigating or fixing bugs that only arise when running Windows 11 on older PCs" is a sane, if not particularly consumer or environmentally friendly reason to not support Wi
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not true. I have a PC (Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF) with TPM 2.0 and a CPU (i7-6700) that's definitely not on the supported CPU list, which, for Intel Core CPUs, seems to literally be "number greater than or equal to 8000". If thi
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by jasomill 2y ago
On the original Macintosh, the idea was that you'd move files you're currently working with onto the desktop, then return them to their original folders when finished. The original Mac Finder even had a "Put Away" comman
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by jasomill 2y ago
According to the Windows 11 system requirements[1], Windows 11 Home edition requires internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account to complete device setup on first use. So can't you just tell Windows 11 Pro you don't have an In
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by jasomill 2y ago
It's from the forward to Grassmann's 1962 Ausdehnungslehre [1]: einst dieſe Ideen, wenn auch in veränderter Form, neu erstehen und mit der Zeitentwickelung in lebendige Wechſelwirkung treten werden. Denn die Wahrheit … bleibt be
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by jasomill 2y ago
The .NET runtime[1] and C# compiler[2] are both pretty easy to embed. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/netc... [2] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/bl
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by jasomill 2y ago
While Microsoft may have been "dragged kicking and screaming" to the specific $105 million figure mentioned in this article, a co-marketing arrangement that resulted in DEC endorsing Windows NT as a migration path for its signific
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by jasomill 2y ago
If I want to glob files with an 'ecks' in the name I can write x* and not have to do it twice for x and X .* Adding shopt -s nocaseglob to ~/.bashrc makes globbing case-insensitive in bash[1]. Tab completion work
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by jasomill 2y ago
Setting aside the internal connector, most Mac laptops (and all modern Macs) have a Target Mode[1] that exposes the internal hard drive externally as a SCSI, FireWire, Thunderbolt, or USB device you can mount on another computer. In this ca
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by jasomill 2y ago
No, NTFS has always been at least optionally case sensitive; current Windows versions even allow case-sensitivity to be controlled on a per-directory basis[1], which even works for (some) Win32 programs: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.
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by jasomill 2y ago
My personal record is two battery replacements (AppleCare, both due to capacity being below spec given the number of charge cycles*) and two logic board replacements (GPU failure, first under AppleCare and then out-of-warranty due to a reca
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by jasomill 2y ago
In case (a) and (b) aren't immediately obvious: The net change in direction around a triangle, quadrilateral, or any simple closed curve is a full rotation, i.e., 2π. The sum of the interior angle and the signed change in direction aro
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by jasomill 2y ago
Maybe. A more significant risk is being hassled or throttled by an ISP if (and essentially only if) you're doing (not necessarily illegal[1]) P2P file transfers on their network. At least given the lack of alternative ISP options in my
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by jasomill 2y ago
Or dispense with the hard drives and server, rip or download immediately before watching, and delete immediately afterwards. Think of it as a video store with one hour delivery. For backups, assume that if it's readily available via ph
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by jasomill 2y ago
In addition to the reasons already stated, WSL2 is a heavy dependency. Compared to PowerShell: 1. Typical WSL2 distros require far more disk space. 2. RAM used by WSL2 may not be immediately freed when your script exits. 3. WSL2 distros don
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by jasomill 2y ago
Kali Linux: jtm@aristotle:kali ~ $ apt-rdepends -r powershell Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done powershell Reverse Depends: ibombshell (0~git20201107-0kali2)
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not necessarily: 1. UNIX-compatibility aliases like "ls -> Get-ChildItem" and "cat -> Get-Content" are not defined in PowerShell on Linux or macOS. For a complete list of these, see the PowerShell source code[1] (l
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by jasomill 2y ago
"Sales and Services" in this context presumably include things like transportation, housing, and dining, often covered by the same funding sources as tuition and fees, that represent a significant portion of a student's total
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by jasomill 2y ago
And just to be clear, gas prices tack on nine tenths of a cent , selling a gallon for, e.g., $3.99 9 .

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