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by jasomill 7y ago
There are, of course, many exceptions to this "rule". From the preface to my favorite calculus book: My aim is to exhibit the close connexion between analysis and its applications and, without loss of rigour and precision, to giv
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by jasomill 7y ago
The fun part of this article for me is the bit relating such a chariot built with a differential gear arrangement to the differential geometry of the surface upon which it travels: If the south-pointing chariot were built perfectly accurat
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by jasomill 7y ago
Side note: the Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard VMs in this screen shot were running OS X Server to comply with Apple's pre-Lion license restriction prohibiting virtualization of non-Server versions of the OS. I have no idea which hype
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by jasomill 7y ago
Certainly. Proof, ca. 2017: https://jasomill.at/X×X.jpg
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by jasomill 7y ago
And algebra itself is one of those real things that calculus helps to explain! Take, for instance, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, where the proof in terms of elementary complex analysis and/or topology closely related to complex a
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by jasomill 7y ago
Carl Zeiss AG and Schott AG are owned by a foundation managed by the science ministries of the two German states where Zeiss was founded and where it is currently headquartered, a structure which has its origins in the Zeiss firm's ori
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by jasomill 7y ago
Doesn't sound crazy to me…the Surface Pro (3) is the first non-Apple laptop I've owned that I actually like enough to avoid using since…well, I suppose the Compaq Portable II isn't a laptop, so, ever. And the closest I'v
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by jasomill 7y ago
Unfortunately, using identical connectors for incompatible protocols — often hazardously incompatible (to equipment) protocols — is an equally time-tested industry tradition, and not only in more cost-conscious market segments. High-voltage
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by jasomill 7y ago
"Apple Workgroup Server 95" is a Mac model, not a rebranding of the OS as the author claims. I mention this because, per Apple sales literature[1], the version of A/UX that shipped with that machine was "highly tuned&quo
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by jasomill 8y ago
And compare that to the corresponding IBM PCjr "Guide to Operations", ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/misc/Hardware/IBM/IBM%20PCjr%20Guide%20To%20Operations.pdf which combines the conventional IBM-s
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by jasomill 8y ago
Heh, that reminds me of my last rental, where, not half an hour off the lot, the touchscreen sound/navigation/??? system got stuck in some sort of reboot loop. Cursory online research suggested the problem was a known firmware b
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by jasomill 8y ago
Worse: I once had to price match bestbuy.com from my phone in-store, because the special online price didn't appear when accessing bestbuy.com through the store's own Internet connection! Perhaps it was a fluke, but if intention
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by jasomill 8y ago
On the, um, third hand, if the alternatives are to impose restocking fees across the board, or to resell returns as new, these policies seem reasonable.
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by jasomill 8y ago
Lens resolution doesn't necessarily translate to maximum image sharpness in particular shooting scenarios, digital or otherwise. For instance, when subjects are not neatly aligned near a narrow plane orthogonal to the lens axis, employ
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by jasomill 8y ago
I agree. And if your underlying question is "are these lenses going to take good pictures with this camera", the best advice I can give is: try it! I say this because some of my favorite lens/camera combinations are those w
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by jasomill 8y ago
One of the examples RMS gave where this happened (in GCC) relates directly to OS X history, viz., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13224864
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by jasomill 8y ago
Also, if you're worried about the occasional regression, you can archive an installer package of the OS X .app (--with-ns) version each time you build by adding something along the lines of version="$(date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S
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by jasomill 8y ago
Looks like the DM42 also fixes the only complaint I ever had about the 42S, namely, the display contrast. While I've had a 42S for many years, and have spent many pleasant hours fiddling with it, it never replaced my pair of 15Cs as a
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by jasomill 8y ago
On a related note, in high school, my dog got hold of my nearly new HP-48GX; I wasn't so fortunate as you, as she bit right through the display, shattering it. Figuring dog bites weren't covered under warranty, I sent the calculat
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by jasomill 9y ago
Why not simply investments that he happens to believe are better values than Intel stock? Or is he expected to believe that Intel shares are in fact so undervalued that they represent the best investment he could possibly make? Or to volu
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by jasomill 9y ago
I'd say the point is that the idea that the legal system suddenly has no way to deal with witnesses claiming forgetfulness "because encryption" is absurd. The only novel issues encryption brings to the table involve self incr
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by jasomill 9y ago
There are interesting parallels between Columbus and Rochester, and, in particular, the roles played by J. Irwin Miller and George Eastman, respectively, in their values and cultural development. As an aside, both men built interesting resi
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by jasomill 9y ago
I agree that this behavior is terrible, and arguably even worse when menu animations are disabled, yet the Start menu delay remains more or less the same. What appears to be happening — I have no idea what's actually happening, but m
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by jasomill 9y ago
Interesting that you mention that — holding neither strong opinions nor privileged knowledge about the matter, the desire to avoid making a comparatively uninformed decision about the disposition of my body after death "at a personal l
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by jasomill 9y ago
Note, however, that if[1], and apparently only if[2], you’ve downloaded Sierra from the App Store in the past, you can install https://github.com/mas-cli/mas and then use the command mas install 1127487414 to
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by jasomill 9y ago
One plausible reason is that they’ve already released a 10.13.1 beta, announced features and API changes coming in 10.13.1, and started revising documentation to reflect changes introduced in 10.13.1, so branding today’s update “10.13.1” wo
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by jasomill 9y ago
I'll second this, and note that this is a problem more significant in practice than in theory. Speaking as a physically inept "software and pure maths" person with consequently no authority whatsoever on this matter, I believ
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by jasomill 9y ago
System Information 10.13 reports a medium type "SSD" for my stock MacPro6,1 flash and medium types "SSD" or "Rotational", as appropriate, for SATA SSDs and hard drives connected via non-RAID Thunderbolt AHCI co
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by jasomill 9y ago
I’m a single-person sole proprietorship, and I have two seats of Windows Enterprise with Software Assurance as part of an Open Business agreement; “volume” doesn’t imply “high-volume”. Bringing this back to the the story, one is assigned to
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by jasomill 9y ago
So two ways Stop, two ways Yield? This sounds like an accident waiting to happen and/or an invitation to gratuitous ticket-writing. Reason being, given that this construction is expressly prohibited in many (most?) jurisdictions, there

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