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by mfragin 3y ago
My linguistics professor in college warned all students on day one: "if you are an English teacher, you may struggle in this class. If you are a computer programmer, however, you may do quite well." I love comparing the differe
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by mfragin 3y ago
Much better. Thanks for clarifying that, and thanks for what you have done!
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by mfragin 3y ago
I clicked on this to see if by any chance you included Toby Rush's "Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People." I see it's recommended in the "Where To Start" section, but then you say to intensify a fear
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by mfragin 3y ago
Here in Pueblo there are a lot of "closet" Hatch chili people ;-) Seriously though, I think Polis has done a good job and he's the rare politician who can understand the implications of the right-to-repair law. When I was tea
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by mfragin 3y ago
Set it to 66 million years ago and check out where India is located. What a different world.
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by mfragin 3y ago
While some of the more popular DVDs are in terrible shape, I have been surprised at how many we have checked out that seem to never have been watched. I'd estimate 9 out of 10 are either mint condition or have fingerprints that are ea
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by mfragin 3y ago
Dead Milkmen lyrics from 1985: "There's a town in Georgia's got a law on the books Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks Now what could make them think that way?" and, on the same album: "Violence r
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by mfragin 3y ago
Call me a Luddite, but I think were kind of in the golden age of DVDs. Local public libraries are kind of what Blockbuster used to be, except: no cost to rent. Watching something without commercial interruptions nowadays is luxury.
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by mfragin 3y ago
The woman who sold me my last phone was probably in her early 20s, and she joined AARP for the discounts on her phone plan. Off topic: the old farts in the picture hold the controller like old farts. The default way for people my age to pi
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by mfragin 3y ago
Of course, but only for nerds like me. Reminds me of the old joke about regular expressions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415441 Roman numerals were easy to chisel into stone. Beyond that, kind of a headache.
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by mfragin 3y ago
The internet is full! Go away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by mfragin 4y ago
I stand corrected! Thanks for posting, as I had a limited experience and was happy that most of my applications fell into the first category below: I just tested it out and some applications like GIMP and INKSCAPE appear as a result and wh
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by mfragin 4y ago
In the Pop!_Shop you can often find both the deb version or the flatpak, so you can avoid them quite easily. For things that only appear with a flatpak option you can usually find other ways to install, after a little searching on the web.
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by mfragin 4y ago
I started using Ubuntu back in Hardy Heron days (8.04). I remember attending an Ubuntu user's group meeting in Denver back then and the System76 guys were there. I was impressed by their knowledge and willingness to help others. I st
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Slow Glass(sf-encyclopedia.com)
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by mfragin 4y ago
I'm happy to see they referenced the classic essay by Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to Be a Bat?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F That was required reading when I was studyi
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by mfragin 4y ago
Heck, even with video games we're not on "equal footing." When I play my little self-contained version of "The Oregon Trail," I am at a disadvantage when I have to hunt for food using those clunky controls. :-)
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by mfragin 4y ago
As a former teacher of math and comp sci at a pretty low socio-economic school in (US) Colorado's front range, I can attest that kids like this are out there. Before I gave up on teaching as a career, it was kids like this that kept me