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by jasomill 4y ago
Mostly true in terms of margins, at least if you consider finance and insurance separately from vehicle sales (as all dealerships do). Nevertheless, new vehicle sales including F&I is a non-negligible factor in most dealerships'
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by jasomill 4y ago
You can still buy the (current model) Apple remote separately from Apple TV; current Mac OS versions still have built in support for the basic media control buttons (pause/play, volume control, maybe a few others) and you can use tools
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by jasomill 4y ago
As an example taken at random from my undergrad days, see https://jasomill.at/metric.pdf produced with \begin{align*} f^*(dx& \otimes dx + dy \otimes dy + dz \otimes dz)\\ =&\ f^*(dx \otimes dx) +
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by jasomill 4y ago
You can embed CAS-generated equations and computations in LaTeX[1]. This came in handy for undergraduate linear algebra homework that combined proofs (where I could use my existing LaTeX macros) and computations (where we were expected to
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by jasomill 4y ago
Older ISA Sound Blaster cards indeed have jumpers to configure I/O ports, IRQ lines, and DMA addresses for the hardware, and traditionally there was no reliable way to auto-detect conflicts with other hardware — such conflicts are a li
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by jasomill 4y ago
Speaking of works of art and engineering, the three HP Voyager series calculators on my desk (12C, 15C, 16C) still work as well as they did several decades ago when they were new. As does the other 15C that I regularly carry around and occa
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by jasomill 4y ago
You don't even need to replace the cable: top-quality replacement 3.5mm plugs cost a few dollars and take maybe 10 minutes to hand-wire.
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by jasomill 4y ago
Not unthinkably expensive at all, at least compared to retail: Amazon lists several new copies of the second compact edition at $400–500. Adjusting for inflation, that's comparable to the $273 retail I paid Amazon for my copy in 2002
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by jasomill 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Data_Store
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by jasomill 4y ago
In OS X, Automator lets you add Finder context menu options that can, among other things, trigger AppleScript actions that can, in turn, run arbitrary (command-line and GUI) programs. These actions can optionally be configured to only appea
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by jasomill 4y ago
As with any large software project, there are at least few features in PowerShell that are confusing, inconsistent, or both. Auto-vectorization is one of them; usually it "just works", but can be a PITA when dealing with, e.g., pi
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by jasomill 4y ago
Despite not appearing on the CPU (i7-5557U, Broadwell) datasheet, my NUC5i7RYH supports TPM 2.0 after enabling "Intel Platform Trust Technology" in the BIOS, so at least in some cases, this goes back further than Skylake.
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by jasomill 4y ago
Windows 11 currently has no trouble running or updating on my Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro[1]. Not only does the machine have no TPM whatsoever, it's booting Windows 11 in BIOS mode because its firmware doesn't properly initialize the
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by jasomill 4y ago
Anyone can get a copy of VMS, just not this closed beta. VSI plans to add the x86 version to the free community license program [1] at a later date. In the mean time, the Alpha version runs very well under emulation, and is available both
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by jasomill 4y ago
I had no problem getting both Alpha and Itanium kits from VSI, after explaining that I planned to run on an Alpha emulator and a hypothetical Itanium box that I didn't actually own yet, but may someday acquire. So they're clearly
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by jasomill 4y ago
Last I heard, VSI's agreement with HP only permits them to issue licenses for VSI OpenVMS releases, and they've never released a VAX build. So at this point, any VAX license would have to come from HP (who, AFAIK, is no longer iss
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by jasomill 4y ago
People say again and again that philosophy doesn’t really progress, that we are still occupied with the same philosophical problems as were the Greeks. But the people who say this don’t understand why this has to be so. It is because our l
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by jasomill 4y ago
If you're comfortable handling the (typo)graphical aspects of the PDF yourself and have the ability to consume a C++ library, I've had good experiences using the Apache-licensed qpdf[1] library to handle the low-level structural a
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by jasomill 4y ago
Worse, there are no "best" cables longer than 0.5m: any longer than that, Thunderbolt 3 requires active cables which don't pass non-Thunderbolt data beyond, IIRC, 480 Mbps. As someone who spent many years using a mix of 25&#x
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by jasomill 5y ago
This holds for bases other than 10 as well. In base 3, 1/3 has two representations 0.1 and 0.0222...
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by jasomill 5y ago
Also interesting and impressive: Halo multiplayer fans have modded the original Xbox version of Halo to act as a dedicated server for Xbox LAN multiplayer[1] that serves the same architectural role as 343's UHS does for MCC online play
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by jasomill 5y ago
As opposed to "nested two levels deep under one item or another on the File…or was it View…or maybe Window…menu? No? Okay, then try holding down Option…" I still think that searchable menus was one of the killer features of OS X v
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by jasomill 5y ago
Ha! I remember feeling the same way when Apple started replacing the classic Mac system fonts (Chicago, etc.) with newer, anti-aliased alternatives ca. Mac OS 8. A couple dozen years later, I guess I'm used to it.
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by jasomill 5y ago
While I'm a LaTeX person myself, the equation editor (Insert→Equation) in Microsoft Word appears to work this way.
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by jasomill 5y ago
Incidentally, Apple reseller resource CDs[1] also contained fully functional copies of PageMaker, licensed only for customizing Apple marketing materials, along with the assets (product photography, custom Apple internal-use fonts) required
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by jasomill 5y ago
Incidentally, the architect who proposed rotating the building was Kurt Vonnegut Sr, father of the well-known author.
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by jasomill 5y ago
To paraphrase my (non-lawyer) understanding of these two FAQ passages: 1. Evidence of an electronic signature is not a priori inadmissible in court. 2. A "qualified electronic signature", i.e., a cryptographic digital signatur
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by jasomill 5y ago
Additionally, when available, information was frequently of higher quality than is readily available online. Even today, it's probably easier to find detailed, accurate technical documentation for OpenVMS and z/OS — where develope
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by jasomill 5y ago
The only thing that really tempts me to piracy are shows only available for streaming via iOS apps that disable picture-in-picture viewing during commercial breaks. This particular behavior should really be banned by App Store guidelines,
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by jasomill 5y ago
While certainly not the usual approach, calculus in terms of infinitesimals has been placed of formal foundations[1]. To be fair to Courant, however, the approach to infinitesimals in nonstandard analysis is pretty far removed from the vi

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