dubya

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by dubya 3mo ago
Republicans in my state, TN, having eliminated the last Democrat congressional district, now want to close primaries, precisely to prevent strategic voting.
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by dubya 5mo ago
David Byrne seems to like it: https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03... I haven't seen his actual slide deck anywhere online though.
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by dubya 6mo ago
I almost never use full screen windows on a Mac. Things like video are full screen, but that's a swipe to another workspace. Half-screen windows on a 27" screen are already bigger than a sheet of letter paper. Lots happens in t
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by dubya 6mo ago
Definitely Tom Selleck, aka Magnum PI.
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by dubya 7mo ago
Non-admins getting prompts for system and app upgrades is mildly annoying. The bigger one in a family setting is the clunky sharing. There's no good way to share a photo library or music library between users. The Unix version of ma
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by dubya 7mo ago
In the past, MacOS has automatically made a folder of incompatible software that it leaves on the desktop. Little Snitch seems like something that could have been tested.
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by dubya 7mo ago
Both outlook.office.com and mail.google.com use much more memory and CPU than any "fat" client, and are constantly changing little things about the UI. Safari now often closes outlook automatically on an M5 Mac because it's
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by dubya 7mo ago
Well, Tahoe doesn't work on 2019 iMacs, and that chart shows the early 2020 Macbook Air isn't eligible either, so support duration varies a bit.
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by dubya 10mo ago
For math, the AMC 10 and AMC 12 tests have 25 questions each, some of them quite challenging. Both are high school level math, no calculus. Search "2025 amc 10" for this year's problems and solutions.
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by dubya 11mo ago
I sympathize, but just happened to listen to this episode over several days. The discussion actually adds a lot to the paper, and they seem very qualified to critique it. One of the guests(?) has written several esolangs. There must be a wa
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by dubya 1y ago
My guess is Richard Kaye, "Minesweeper is NP-complete", but it's paywalled. Certainly the paper is listed somewhere on https://minesweepergame.com/math-papers.php
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by dubya 1y ago
Seven Cities of Gold, Archon, Pinball Construction Set on an Atari 8-bit. Maybe EA was just the distributor though.
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by dubya 1y ago
I’d suggest Octave over Matlab, because current Matlab has tons of distracting AI and autocomplete front and center. Probably really helpful for getting a plot just right or implementing an algorithm from a paper, but not so good for learni
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by dubya 1y ago
I've seen the reason, I just don't find it convincing. I would like to omit these commas, but also use the formatter sometimes, but that's not really an option. It's frustrating since 'uv format' will omit th
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by dubya 1y ago
I want to like Black (or rather, uv format), but the mandatory trailing commas weird me out, especially in function definitions. It always looks like an error to me.
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by dubya 1y ago
Target has the distasteful feature that in-store prices differ from online prices. So if you go and browse you pay more than you would by ordering online and driving to the same store and picking it up. Maybe you could argue for the onlin
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by dubya 1y ago
Tennessee also introduced a $100 annual fee that includes plug-in hybrids.
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by dubya 2y ago
Gas pumps at the local grocer play beeps when you hit a key (consumer loyalty # entry), but with a random delay. It's maddening how much harder this makes typing. OTOH, these pumps don't have video ads yet.
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The EU's Share of Apple's Global Revenue(daringfireball.net)
5 points by dubya 2y ago|2 comments
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by dubya 3y ago
Screens should come with the rental, but adjustable window screens are easy to come by if this is a problem you have.
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by dubya 3y ago
I do this. I don't watch enough that it makes sense to have multiple subscriptions at the same time. The default is subscribed to nothing, then if I hear about something I want to see I'll subscribe to that for a while. I do hav
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by dubya 3y ago
You could just return the phone if it's overheating. It's only been out a week or so.
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by dubya 3y ago
Not mobile as far as I know, but Prodigy (prodigygame.com) is allowed/encouraged at my kid's school and has a lot of these traits. There are treasure chests at the end of a battle, gems or coins collected, and a constant reminder
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by dubya 3y ago
MensaNet :(
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by dubya 3y ago
LLM then Google? "The greening of Mars" is not by Stanley Robinson, but by James Lovelock and Michael Allaby. It doesn't appear to feature moving Mars, but terraforming it using 80's technology. I don't think &qu
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by dubya 3y ago
My guess is this one: https://learn.udacity.com/courses/cs212 , "Design of Computer Programs".
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by dubya 3y ago
There are definitely Mac 32-bit Intel games on Steam, like Portal, that won't run on anything recent.
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by dubya 3y ago
Or Remind, or ClassDojo, or Parentsquare, or whatever our school district goes with next year. I think they could all do SMS delivery, but none of them got it quite right. The apps are all buggy too. Various updates are often squirreled
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by dubya 4y ago
Thanks for figuring this out! The slideshows have visible timestamps so it's not too hard to keep up manually.
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by dubya 4y ago
Alas, pretty chalk-specific. You'll need something like the linked device for a whiteboard.

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