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by salamandersauce 5y ago
So Canada used to have a party called the Conservative Party (they do now too again). They wanted a guy named John Bracken who was Premier of Manitoba under the Progressive party of Manitoba to be leader. He wouldn't agree until they p
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
MPs they like and support the same views...
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
You're the one who brought it up. Just because their behavior isn't as bad as it could be doesn't excuse their bad behavior.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
My databases course was very much a "select * from users" kinda course. Oh there was a little bit about good practice for relational DBs and what not but I wouldn't call it a math class. Obviously this is going to depend on y
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Is it a peaceful protest when you're harassing citizens of your capital with non-stop honking? Or literally BLOCKADING popular border crossings?
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Pizza Pizza? That was something they used to advertise a lot. I know in the GTA the number is (or was) 967-11-11. I think the exchange could vary from place to place but it always ended in 1111.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
There are quiz things. The online textbook ones do more than multiple choice like you can have questions where students enter a formula, or they deal with questions where students might have to enter a number but they need to account for st
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I don't know any Chinese really so I can't comment too much. Taiwan has a syallbary called Bopomofo and PRC has Pinyin but I think those are only really ever used for typing/teaching. Parts of Chinese characters do have a pho
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Japanese has a couple syllabary to fall back on. If you don't know the Kanji for a word you can use the hiragana/katakana version which is pretty much 1:1 with how it sounds. If you use too much hiragana can become a bit unpleasa
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Its not the first time Intel tried this. They did it in 2010 and 2011 with the Intel Upgrade Service except it focused on low-end consumer hardware instead of high-end server/workstation gear. I hope it fails here too.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
There's some interesting devices these days. The foldables are super cool and is not something we had 4 years ago. They just cost too much and are too fragile...
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
That's just flagship phones these days. An iPhone 13 Pro Max is more expensive than an M1 MBA too. Even the regular Pro is the same price. In the US too.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
On a per transaction basis? It's important to remember that crypto is a tiny fraction of transactions.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I'm under 35 and think it's stupid.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
It's the best performing PC in that form factor and has actually good enough battery life. It's not GBA battery life but it's on par with the V1 Switch, the Vita and the PSP and considerably better than It's PC competiti
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
My Garmin watch is like that. If you want Japanese language support you have to buy the japanese model which is obiviously only for sale in Japan. So dumb that I can't just flash the japanese firmware on. Instead I have support for Rus
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
The advantage IMO is that programs don't care what physical drive they are on. On the Windows side I've run into a few that refuse to be installed on anything BUT C: even if D: or E: is a perfectly good or maybe even the same HDD.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
You don't need to constantly think about exactly what you need to see. Nor do I need to fiddle with arrangements. There's less fiddling. With the WM I use every window is available in every frame and I can just cycle through them.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I like iOS better than macOS. Has pen input. The Pro has TB3, granted 1 port but better than the 2015 MacBook. Most of it's problems are completely artificial limitations placed there by Apple. If they just loosened those I'd pic
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
There is actually an ancient Greek translation of the the philosopher's stone! What's cool is they even edited the original UK cover where it says Hogwarts Express to say it in ancient Greek.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Ubuntu's version of GNOME X11 handles it pretty well. You can workaround it similarly in other DEs/WMs by mucking around with xrandr (I forget exactly). I have an Nvidia card and last time I tried Wayland was just not usable. I al
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Have you seen the Huawei Mateview? It's a 28" 3:2 monitor (3840x2560).
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
No, I hadn't heard of it. Windows 11 also sort of works around it you just have to wait a few seconds for it to rejigger the windows so I no longer need a workaround. I did use it with tiling window manager (stumpWM) on Linux but that
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
I would also pay attention to reviews and keep an eye out for problems like DisplayPort deep sleep. I have two monitors, one goes into DP deep sleep with no way to disable and the other doesn't. The monitor that doesn't will alway
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
If you don't need to edit the actual text or content of the document there's a lot of tools like pdftk and ghostscript that can flip, resize, compress and split PDFs.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
You could always do something like: int divRes = IntA/intB; double something = divRes*5.342; At the very least it could warn me. I just tried it in rust and that will error out if you try to divide two ints and store the result in a fl
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Okay. But I'm storing it in a variable explicitly declared to be a double. That should be enough. If I divide two integers in python or R or Julia or a dollar store calculator I don't get an integer and I don't even have to e
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
Is this really a unique to R or do all programming languages have some foibles? For example I spent an hour recently debugging C++ because I forgot that it loves to do integer division despite the fact it's going into an explicitly typ
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) is also a great Emacs package for dealing with R.
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by salamandersauce 5y ago
There isn't a built in way. That's not what Apple wants to happen so fuck the user I guess. Someone has written a script that monitors for if the lid is closed and puts it to sleep. I haven't personally tried it though. http

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