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by pflats 9y ago
Good news: iOS changed the default behavior of the side buttons: they always control system/media volume now. (Unless you flip a switch in settings.)
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by pflats 9y ago
I think the bigger safety against this isn't that Apple reviews apps, but that submitting an app to the store requires money up front and some way for Apple to identify the person behind the account. It's by no means foolproof, bu
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by pflats 9y ago
Word does its own mathematical typesetting with a GUI, but it also lets you use some LaTeX-like formatting if you want. 5\cdot2=10 will give you exactly what you typed, but if you hit space after the cdot, you'll get the centered dot s
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by pflats 9y ago
The cameras have to be 4K+; the final product can be UHD. See the "IMF Master" section.
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by pflats 9y ago
They do allow it.
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by pflats 9y ago
I am truly confused by this screed. >• Stupid Question 2: Trisect an arbitrary angle only using straight-edge and compass. >Many, very smart people, tried in vain, to solve this problem, until it turned out, in the 19th century, to be
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by pflats 9y ago
I don't follow your concerns on the headline. How is "a blanket ban on social media sites is unconstitutional" substantially different from "people can't be banned from the internet"? Perhaps we're reading
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by pflats 9y ago
Etymological research is rarely cut-and-dry. The authors are aware of this, and the quotation is being held as a counterexample to "the conventional wisdom that the word “southpaw” originated “from the practice in baseball of arranging
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by pflats 9y ago
I keep thinking that "employer" is the biggest confounding variable here. A quick survey of some of the big players, whom I would presume pay premium salaries, seem to favor spaces over tabs. e.g. https://google.github.
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by pflats 9y ago
I was curious too, so I took a closer look. The beginner/"pupil" curriculum is 28 "days", or 448 study-hours. Conveniently for comparison, a college course is generally 15-16 weeks long. A 4-credit course would be 4
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by pflats 9y ago
O(1) is a subset of O(n).
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by pflats 9y ago
It's not just the reporter, and I wouldn't want to single her out. "Important incremental progress in ________" just doesn't get an article in the Times.
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by pflats 9y ago
I hate these articles. They give people a lot more hope than they probably should. Keytruda/pembrolizumab is not new. It's the same drug that Jimmy Carter famously took for his melanoma. It and Opdivo/nivolumab are PD-1 inhi
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by pflats 9y ago
That's ridiculous. Leave is leave; it's an employee's right that's offered in law or in their contract, and they should not be punished in any way for taking advantage of it. If the employee would otherwise exceed expect
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by pflats 9y ago
No, it's not. I love Desmos. It's a great tool for the classroom. I use it whenever I can. It's also not a replacement for a handheld calculator. If the internet goes out, you lose your calculator. If it is working, then you&
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by pflats 9y ago
Hey now, the newest TI 84s use the eZ80!
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by pflats 10y ago
I'm far from an expert on file systems or semantic versioning, but the one thing I've heard is that APFS changes the way filenames are written to and read from disk. HFS+ (the old file system Apple OSes used) would automatically n
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by pflats 10y ago
Initially, I was thinking the same thing. Given how fast the average Apple consumer updates to major iOS releases, I imagine that rolling it out over a point release is actually part of the plan. Presumably, if something does go wrong on th
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by pflats 10y ago
It's not as helpful, but I like to teach my high school students: Say you're planning to rob a jewelry store. You can rob it constructively or by contradiction. You could case the joint, figure out the guards and the employees, th
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by pflats 10y ago
>all the statute cares about is whether authorization existed or not. No, that's not all the CFAA cares about. >(a)(2)(C) Whoever intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby o
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by pflats 10y ago
"Oracle sent Rimini a cease and desist letter demanding that it stop using automated scripts. It did not, however, rescind Rimini’s authorization to access the files outright. Rimini continued to use automated scripts, and Oracle sued.
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by pflats 10y ago
I'm not sure pure numbers will be the issue. Whether GT grants 25 or 2500 MS degrees in Analytics is irrelevant; the quality of the graduates with that degree is what matters. Provided they do not relax their standards, I don't se
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by pflats 10y ago
>There's serious pushback against rolling your own crypto. Your attitude towards it is good, but the hivemind-y attitude is to never do it under any circumstances. I'm sure that attitude prevents many people from experimenting
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by pflats 10y ago
This is really cool for quick things, but for anything short of quick notes, I don't want to have to manually number my equations. I generally don't write top-to-bottom, I write subsections at a time. Labels seem straightforward e
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by pflats 10y ago
>"$" ("$$" to be exact) is actually used in TeX to indicate opening and closing of statements/mathematical expressions. Both are used. A single $ is used for inline math, the double $$ begins an equation on its o
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by pflats 10y ago
You don't get jail time for running a bat-corking company, or for making hockey sticks with "illegal" curves, or for deflating footballs, or for building a stock car that intentionally doesn't meet NASCAR standards. I do
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by pflats 10y ago
If telling teenagers, "Read these books, do the problems, and repeat until you understand," worked at scale, then that's what education would be.
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by pflats 10y ago
>And here I disagree, quite strongly. If I'm using "undocumented and warning-spitting methods" then I know what I have done is a hack and those methods could disappear or change at any time and I should proceed at my own p
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by pflats 10y ago
Of specific interest: "This deprecation was announced and these methods removed/undocumented before 1.0.0 was tagged so arguably it was not part of the public API when 1.0.0 shipped." I'm ambivalent. If I rev 1.0 - 1.1,
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by pflats 10y ago
> So you assume that he's lying and secretly agrees with you. There is no way that could possibly backfire. That is what a lot of liberals (myself included) did with Obama's stance on same-sex marriage in 2008. That said, I was

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