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811.
by qubex 6y ago
There’s a lot of discussion here on how (or even whether) a ‘reflectometer’ (I had to look up what that even meant) works. However, I’m more interested in the things I do understand, and in this case, my question is: considering the fact
812.
by qubex 6y ago
This is one of the reasons I annoy people by following Wolfram’s convention in Mathematica of using square braces to denote arguments passed to a function: f ( x )= fx = f × x while f [ x ] means “apply the function f to the argument
813.
by qubex 6y ago
You’re right, my bad, it even says so right there in the article!
814.
by qubex 6y ago
Interesting factoid: David Bradley implemented the CTRL-ALT-DEL “three-finger salute” to aid in debugging the original IBM PC way back in 1980 so that he and the development team could soft-reset the machine without needing to endure the sl
815.
by qubex 6y ago
Knowing that some schools and universities are testy to use GIMP because it’s a derogatory term, I’m wondering how “SOD” will fare. “Sod off” and “you’re a real sod” are not exactly terms of endearment and are very much still in current usa
816.
by qubex 6y ago
DragonFlyBSD is definitely it’s own seperate branch of the evolutionary tree.
817.
by qubex 6y ago
I’m one of those people who is entirely happy wit Apple’s default apps, but the opportunity to change “default apps” (such as the browser, email client, and so forth) is one of the things I have always looked forward to and am hoping that w
818.
by qubex 6y ago
The old people are crewing the boat. Trivial.
819.
by qubex 6y ago
As somebody in that thread points out, using division you can trivially construct an identity by taking the definition of φ and replacing any integer with expressions such as π÷π for 1 and (e+e+e+e+e)/e for 5.
820.
by qubex 6y ago
This is a stunningly bad piece of writing, wherein the author ‘criticises’ pieces of work for not foreseeing what came later. Star Trek was written by writers in the 1960s and addresses issues that were prevalent in the 1960s; Star Trek:
821.
by qubex 6y ago
That kind of misses the whole “tipping point” aspect of climate change, wherein crossing a certain threshold is an (essentially) irreversible act. One could argue that any realistic scenario for WWIII would (unfortunately) involve a broad t
822.
by qubex 6y ago
Without a specific reference to which domain we are speaking about, the statement “the EU needs the UK more” is very close to being utterly meaningless (and is typical of a whole slew of extremely woolly posturing on the subject). It’s beco
823.
by qubex 6y ago
If it’s not algebricaly proven don’t call it an ‘ identity ’... even if a calculator were to confirm it to some arbitrary number of digits, that’d just be a more-or-less accurate approximation. ‘Identity’ denotes a far more profound relatio
824.
by qubex 6y ago
“Run in the opposite direction of the explosions.” If you’re into this kind of thing try reading Simple Rules by Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt.
825.
by qubex 6y ago
Yeah... the reference to the abundance of VAXen isn’t something one encounters often this side of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
826.
by qubex 6y ago
Clever!
827.
by qubex 6y ago
> coterminous Ooh, new word. Haven’t seen a new word in months!
828.
by qubex 6y ago
Doesn’t seem very impressive. Thanks for the suggestion though, I had never seen this machine before.
829.
by qubex 6y ago
Hehe... the great thing of bringing up a requirement on Hacker News is that one will always find somebody whose instant reaction is “you don’t need that [because I don’t need it]”. For various reasons it’s something I want . Do I need it
830.
by qubex 6y ago
I’d really like to have a capable Arm 64 workstation. Unfortunately there aren’t many options — and this one really doesn’t tickle my fancy. I’ve been looking into Nvidia’s Xavier NX of late but, of course, it’s not an SBSA-compliant system
831.
by qubex 6y ago
I commiserate with you. For the past fifteen years or so I’ve set my macs to verbose boot because I want to see what’s going on and where they seize up (if indeed that happens). Doesn’t happen often but in the few occasions it has it’s real
832.
by qubex 6y ago
No.
833.
by qubex 6y ago
What do you mean by that? I’ve been using iPads as my main computing devices for the past five years (and almost exclusively for the past three). It depends on your workflows.
834.
by qubex 6y ago
I find the NumWorks to be a lovely little calculator but Omega really needs to provide some serious symbolic ( i.e. ‘CAS’) functionality. It’s all fair and square that the official Epsilon firmware doesn’t feature CAS to appease the examin
835.
by qubex 6y ago
If you think I’m boasting about something from more than two decades ago, that’s your problem, not mine.
836.
by qubex 6y ago
The examiner’s client program is likely a browser that connects to a web-hosted system, and with the exception of Safari, other browsers do not (yet) handle HEIC natively nor even gracefully.
837.
by qubex 6y ago
That was covered by a two-year IB (International Baccalaureate) course in Computer Science running from 1997 until 1998. I attended a private school (the International School of Milan).
838.
by qubex 6y ago
I’d like to take the opportunity to recommend the HP Prime G2 (for those of you who, like myself, appreciate the flexibility of a reasonably-powered CAS) and the NumWorks (which, when loaded with the Omega fork of the open-source Epsilon fi
839.
by qubex 6y ago
She’s taking an exam. Surely she should understand these things by the end of the curriculum, right? I mean, she’s just been learning them... or should have. Besides, I don’t know what it’s like in the US nowadays, but back in my time (la
840.
by qubex 6y ago
That totally misses the point though, because if the website only validates on the basis of extension and accepts the format in an unrecognised format, the backend won’t know how to handle it anyway. There’s no point uploading a HEIC file

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