apricot

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by apricot 11d ago
> In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. At the very beginning of his first mandate, when he lied about something as trivial as the size of the crowd
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by apricot 24d ago
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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by apricot 2mo ago
I hadn't, thanks! Spaced repetition is certainly a useful tool. I always try to start every lecture with one or two review problems (that I call "brick problems", making sure the previous brick row is solid before building on
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by apricot 2mo ago
> This would be such a dumb thing to do, and so easy to get caught with... Based on what I see of American politics, it seems like the thing to do, then!
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by apricot 2mo ago
My son was really into Brio trains when he was young, and I wrote a program to visually design layouts by placing track segments one after the other. The program took that tolerance into account, and gave a score to the layout based on how
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by apricot 2mo ago
I teach linear algebra in college, and during our first class, I urge all my students to watch this series as soon as possible. It's great at giving them a geometrical understanding of what's going on, so they feel more motivated
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by apricot 2mo ago
In addition to the points listed, it gives the algorithm nerds the opportunity to show their overqualification by whipping out the O(n) median algorithm and proving that it works in linear time.
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by apricot 4mo ago
That kind of innovation is not always for the best. As an example, after hearing so much praise about the kuru-toga mechanical pencil, which rotates the lead as you write so it stays sharp longer, I went and bought one. I hate it. The rotat
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by apricot 4mo ago
This was funnier than I thought it would be.
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by apricot 5mo ago
I bought a Filco Majestouch with Cherry blues, 15 to 20 years ago. I'm still using it, and don't plan on stopping. It's not wireless and doesn't have backlighting or RGB lights on it, but I don't care about any of t
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by apricot 5mo ago
AppleWin, and the assembler is an early version of Glen Bredon's Merlin.
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by apricot 5mo ago
I am this very term teaching 18-year-old students 6502 assembly programming using an emulated Apple II Plus. They've had intro to Python, data structures, and OO programming courses using a modern programming environment. Now, they are
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by apricot 8mo ago
Nah, that's just how Stephen Wolfram writes. He also really enjoys telling us how great he is, and does so in every piece he writes.
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by apricot 8mo ago
And it produces an amazing amount of horseshit.
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by apricot 8mo ago
By an amazing coincidence, that's also my date of birth, as well as my kids'.
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by apricot 9mo ago
So much effort is spent in the computer industry to un-solve previously solved problems.
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by apricot 9mo ago
> So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'. You can, however, set up us the bomb.
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by apricot 9mo ago
> Ublock origin did precisely that, then Google went in to kill ublock origin. Advertising company's browser makes it hard to block ads. Film at 11.
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by apricot 10mo ago
I also prefer web versions for similar reasons, and enjoy them while I still can.
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by apricot 10mo ago
What an abject thing to say.
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by apricot 10mo ago
Automatic translation, for sure, as evidenced by this sentence in the two's complement section: In fact, complement is a concept in counting systems, and the Chinese term for it is "complement".
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by apricot 1y ago
> pasting images of seemingly random noise into a sensitive environment is a terrible idea BLIT protection. https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
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by apricot 1y ago
This is awesome. You are awesome.
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by apricot 1y ago
> That's not within his power to do. What rock have you been living under for the past eight months?
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by apricot 1y ago
I disagree. I'm still using hardware that I bought at the turn of the century (a wireless mouse and an MP3 player) because they are powered by rechargeable AAA cells. If they used a built-in battery, I would have had to replace the bat
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by apricot 1y ago
Maybe there's something I don't understand, but I think "broken bar" should be a broken bar, and "vertical line" should be a vertical line, rather than the reverse.
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by apricot 1y ago
This is a great project. I want to show it to as many teenagers as I can.
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by apricot 1y ago
I think it's just the term they immediately associate with the idea. They see "unalive" more than "suicide" online, so it becomes their default word for it. The fact that it originates in automated censorship avoida
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by apricot 1y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes corporatum?
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by apricot 1y ago
> Are there many instances of people using unalive IRL As a parent of a teenager, I see them use "unalive" non-ironically as a synonym for "suicide" in all contexts, including IRL.

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