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by raegis 6y ago
Yes, but you have more fingers and toes than that!
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by raegis 6y ago
It still works if you're hungry: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=food&ia=recipes
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by raegis 6y ago
Long ago I decided to use Debian STABLE with Gnome. There is no fuss. There are no surprises. You just get back to work and (the infrequent) upgrades don't break. There are some apps which I have to install outside the regular repos
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by raegis 6y ago
Right, this suggests the app either (1) runs a web server on the client device, or (2) wants to access a third party webserver on the client device. I don't know if this is common. Or maybe I don't know/understand why this
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by raegis 6y ago
Yes, and worse if the teachers die, since they're obviously at a higher risk of being in that extra 2-4% of deaths if schools do not close.
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by raegis 7y ago
No, why?
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by raegis 7y ago
I agree--I very strongly recommend this course. I binged Dan Boneh's lectures on a late Friday night like I was watching Netflix. I'm serious.
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by raegis 7y ago
I always press the "Seller: Newegg" button. This way I never get counterfeit stuff. On the other hand, specifying the seller to be Amazon on Amazon.com sometimes yields third party products in disguise.
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by raegis 7y ago
Debian Buster (which is "stable" now) defaults to Wayland in Gnome, but you can switch to Xorg at the login window, which I had to do this week for screencasting to work as expected.
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by raegis 7y ago
I'm doing my classes online with Zoom. For whatever reason, under Wayland I can not choose individual windows to share--I can only share the whole desktop. I switched to Xorg and now I can share individual windows in Zoom. I honestl
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by raegis 7y ago
Let's all try to be nice to each other. Everybody's stuck at home and frustrated right now.
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by raegis 7y ago
The harder problem is preventing cheating, which is already difficult to do in-person.
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by raegis 7y ago
<quote>In some ways we're moving to something worse than slavery. At least with slaves they were seen as "assets" rather than "temporary rentals". They had to take care of them out of necessity, so their evil
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by raegis 7y ago
Can you say something about your child's experience using Pico-8?
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by raegis 7y ago
That only works for complete (or "nearly" complete) binary trees, and you can't draw many of these since the number of children in a generation grows exponentially. For most trees you have to try to keep the width minimal wh
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by raegis 7y ago
He's the example I have my students do in class. Roll a die repeatedly and tally the results. You'll get a (roughly) uniform distribution of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 6s. Now to illustrate the CLT, you roll a die 50 times, and ave
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by raegis 7y ago
Many things people consider "programming" but not mathematics are things we actually study in mathematics classes. They're just unaware.
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by raegis 7y ago
The Wall Street Journal is mostly paywalled. However, their editorial to support Brett Kavanaugh's nomination was deliberately not paywalled. All good propagandists know this rule.
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by raegis 7y ago
I use it in Debian, which used to (until recently) package 2 versions in every release. This was convenient for me, a conservative user, who might run old-stable on some computers for months before upgrading to stable. I have used workaro
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by raegis 7y ago
Same. I've been using it for over ten years as well. It always works correctly, which is just amazing.
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by raegis 7y ago
Is the code open? Can I put this on my own server?
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by raegis 7y ago
This already exists. The Moodle VPL plugin I use has transparent version control.
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by raegis 7y ago
I have the same opinion about the beauty of TLA+ vs PlusCal, so I find PlusCal frustrating to read. But I don't think the original poster was giving a dismissive opinion of PlusCal. Lamport's genius here is that he made TLA+ acc
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by raegis 7y ago
Yes, Hannibal Lecter shopped there after he chopped his hand off.
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by raegis 7y ago
Yes, but if your degree was in mathematics or engineering, your example is not as compelling.
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by raegis 7y ago
Actually, Debian stable uses Firefox ESR, which is updated roughly once a year. I've used Debian exclusively on the Desktop since around Etch/Lenny, and never see the need to update my browser often.
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by raegis 7y ago
"According to his Wikipedia article, he held a professor position without a PhD. Is that usual in parts of Europe? That seems unthinkable in the US." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Casson
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by raegis 8y ago
Easy. I have three children. If I didn't have children, I'd have 3 Nobel Prizes by now with all that extra free time :)
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by raegis 8y ago
Just get a masters in mathematics. If you end up teaching, there are way more mathematics openings than physics openings. Usually there are 0 physics openings.
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by raegis 8y ago
I spent a 6 month parental leave learning it and experimenting with it. I enjoyed writing specifications so much that I thought programming was a waste of time. You should watch the video lectures. The first 2 or 3 will get you going. A

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