mapierce2

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by mapierce2 8mo ago
Yeah I still use my good ol' TI-83+ occasionally, but I'm a math instructor, so obviously. Most often I'll just use GNU `bc` though. We are getting away from them in the classroom though; just started piloting a program where
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by mapierce2 9mo ago
https://mkprc.xyz
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by mapierce2 1y ago
I'm pretty sure zathura works with wayland just fine.
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by mapierce2 1y ago
Wayland. But only on personal machines, and only because I like customizing my linux desktop as a hobby, and only because I have more than one machine in case an update borks the whole thing. If you want/need something that just works,
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by mapierce2 2y ago
The converse lesson here is also important: If you don't want a response to your email, barrage the recipient with text.
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by mapierce2 3y ago
I've resigning myself to letting diagrams on the web be images. (1) Design the diagram in TikZ, or anything really, (2) screenshot/crop it, (3) make its background transparent with imagemagick, and (2) convert to .webp If you&#x27
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by mapierce2 3y ago
> A ban with legal backing so schools can focus on education and not combating distraction. Teaching how to combat distraction should maybe be a part of modern education. But yeah you're quite right. Optimistically I'm hoping n
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by mapierce2 3y ago
I don't see a more elegant solution than this, but it's a bummer. Smartphones are so useful; the world's information AND a computer in your pocket! The ideal would be to give students and parents an avenue to remove/comb
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by mapierce2 3y ago
GalliumOS, running on two machines I keep in sync. Debian/Ubuntu based distro, but customized for Chromebooks. Tried to get arch running on a Chromebook, but couldn't get it working before I needed a functional machine ;)
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by mapierce2 3y ago
Relevant: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/
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by mapierce2 4y ago
For convenience, here are the RSS/Atom feeds for some of the publications mentioned in this thread: Quanta https://api.quantamagazine.org/feed/ Noema Magazine https://www.noemamag.com/feed/ A
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by mapierce2 4y ago
This is my curated list of Icecast / SHOUTcast / HLS / DASH internet radio stations. These streams can be played with mpd/ncmpcpp or VLC, or just through a web browser. Maybe direct audio streaming will make a bit of a c
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Show HN: GitHub Repository of Internet Radio Streams(github.com)
3 points by mapierce2 4y ago|2 comments
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by mapierce2 4y ago
I agree, it's a response to websites being over-designed to the point of being less usable/accessible, but this feels like a dramatic over-correction.
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by mapierce2 4y ago
This is another post illuminating the new minimalist trend in website design. The old minimalism was about "elegance", but this new trend is more about utility: we don't need CSS, just content, so why bother! I don't l
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by mapierce2 4y ago
CSS could also solve this website's problem of a visitor reading the page title as "FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT EMAIL RSS DONATE" … I thought it was a website about email and RSS and donations for a second.
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by mapierce2 4y ago
> If you’re in a group and talking about something factual like when a movie came out or a directors name Check your phone, but lay the phone flat on the table or hold it so everyone can see the screen—this makes it about the group doi
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Personal observation
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by mapierce2 4y ago
That line was a flag for me. I doubt it's that simple, that admins are that corrupt. I think they're just basic: " Hire a new person to promote equity and inclusivity? That sounds great! " The good optics are irresisti
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Yeah, they are. Very much among faculty of math/physics/engineering departments. But the reason is that much of the white male faculty were hired decades ago, when white men still dominated academia. Change is slow.
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by mapierce2 4y ago
It's more complicated than you describe. Like, these bureaucrat's hearts are in the right place, they just lack focus, and are ineffective and solving the problems that they see. They see large-scale social problems of inequity, b
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by mapierce2 4y ago
I think the point is that it's not simply the case that universities have lost sight of their purpose of teaching people, but have broadened the scope of their mission beyond teaching … or broadened the definition of teaching? Broade
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by mapierce2 4y ago
It's unfortunately tough to have a discussion about this too. Any criticism of justice/equity/diversity/inclusion (JEDI) bureaucracy gets strawmanned very quickly, and the critic labelled as simply a bad person. Example:
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by mapierce2 4y ago
You're right. It's hard to teach in schools though because of standardized (often multiple-choice) tests; teachers are incentivized to teach "skills" that have objective correct answers that can be easily tested. Then by
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Reminds me of Detexify, a similar tool for learning the LaTeX codes for a symbol. http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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by mapierce2 4y ago
I don't understand
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Either KaTeX or MathJax has stepped in to support mathematical notation on the web. https://katex.org https://www.mathjax.org
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by mapierce2 4y ago
HTML/CSS, with KaTeX loaded to render mathematics using the same notation as (La)TeX. https://katex.org
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Working as a mathematician, the math notation is 100% why I use (La)TeX. Packages are just a bonus.
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by mapierce2 4y ago
Arcane, but I wouldn't say hideous. What's wrong with \alpha for α or \sum for Σ? Do you have a better idea than this?

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