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by jcfields 6y ago
It's been a while since I've taken the ACT or SAT, but it seems unnecessary to me to allow graphing calculators at all. I'm pretty sure you can get through any 4-year engineering program without ever using more than a good sc
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by jcfields 6y ago
It’s called apposition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition
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by jcfields 6y ago
If the administration deserves the blame when it does something bad, it deserves the credit when it does something good.
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by jcfields 6y ago
As they say, the road to Perl is paved with good intentions. There are several languages that people like for this sort of flexibility, but I think Python's relative rigidity has always been one of its strengths.
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by jcfields 6y ago
The two .ino files in the repository are Arduino programs for testing the sensors. So it does contain 700-800 lines of code.
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by jcfields 6y ago
That's why I learned vi initially years ago, because I was told it was the only editor that would always be available anywhere you went. I only ever use it in ssh sessions these days, but I still feel like learning how to use it has pa
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by jcfields 6y ago
Amazon suspended my parents' seller account last August or September with no explanation. All listings removed, couldn't log in, no direct customer service number that connects you with someone who knows what's going on, and
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by jcfields 6y ago
It was also commonplace to use the UXTheme patcher to enable third-party custom window themes. I used the Watercolor theme, which was modeled after the Whistler beta builds before they (bafflingly) switched it out for Luna. I have a soft sp
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by jcfields 6y ago
CSS technically came out near the end of 1996, but I don't think it was widely used for layouts until the early 2000s when sites like A List Apart and the CSS Zen Garden were advocating against using tables for layout and separating co
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by jcfields 6y ago
I did a couple of small projects in Python using wxWidgets recently, and I was surprised at how easy it was (as well as how consistent the results were between Windows and Mac OS).
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by jcfields 6y ago
They're x, y pairs for the top-left and bottom-right corners of the rectangle. They're coordinates in the fourth quadrant of the Cartesian plane (i.e., with the origin conceptually in the top-left corner), which is also the way co
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by jcfields 6y ago
I think Mac apps have settled into a pleasant place for the most part, though I'm not a fan of the look of Apple's newer apps like the App Store and News. I'm glad that the brighter colors are more subdued now, annoying UI el
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by jcfields 6y ago
I'm glad someone else remembers this. To this day, whenever I see 0.999... = 1, I think of the Battle.net forums inexplicably flooded with threads about it for what felt like ages.
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by jcfields 6y ago
I think the difference is that the infrastructure is decoupled from the content now. Cable systems and satellite fleets were both traditionally very high barriers for new competitors to overcome. Granted, consolidated media oligopolies may