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by sprinkly-dust 1mo ago
I have fond memories of fiddling with the wave simulations on this website during high school!
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by sprinkly-dust 2mo ago
A couple hundred lines of regex for a full email validation might disagree with you there.
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by sprinkly-dust 3mo ago
I hope to see these seemingly mundane unknown unknowns raised in space travel centered hard science fiction. I think The Martian and Seveneves almost captured these but not quite.
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by sprinkly-dust 4mo ago
> the guy who makes one watch a month That's the thing, though. Most people alive today will never be able to possess such an object, no matter how prized and beloved it is. Still, if people want to be able to tell the time from the
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by sprinkly-dust 4mo ago
There are still free as in freedom software hardliner folks out there. The idea that every piece of revoked source code is an affront to computing rights might be less applicable in Obsidian's case since the files are still portable, a
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by sprinkly-dust 5mo ago
Club Penguin always held a special place in my heart but I never reflected on why. I'm sure part of it is a yearning for simpler times and a childhood unawareness of the nature of the world. However, playing this reminded me of explori
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by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago
Agreed, I really prefer using my reMarkable 2. I see it less like an iPad and more like a bottomless pit of scratch paper and printouts that I can carry more conveniently than individual dead tree products. This is probably furthered by my
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by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago
A lot of lower division math and computer science courses now presuppose iPads or other digital pen devices for working through handouts during lecture. Printed handouts are often available at request, but not the expectation / default
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by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago
David Huffman too, made some very complex paper folding models from relatively abstract mathematics, although apparently did not like them being likened to origami.
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by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago
I would disagree that a smartphone without a working camera is perfectly usable. A lot of the world — especially in developing countries — runs on QR Codes for everything from restaurant menus to electronic payments. Without a camera, other
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by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago
comma.ai is an autonomous driving add-on (fully open source software and hardware IIRC) for cars that don't have (full) autonomous driving but do have hardware like radar cruise control, etc. that can let software control the accelerat
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The expiration of New START: what it means and what's next(icanw.org)
2 points by sprinkly-dust 7mo ago|0 comments
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by sprinkly-dust 8mo ago
Thank you, this was a fun rabbit hole to dive down. That blog also has a well-argued article about Zero Interest Rate Policy which relates to the doordash story: https://www.readmargins.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world
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by sprinkly-dust 11mo ago
The remarkable 2, especially if you downgrade the OS to the older 2.x versions, is very hackable. It runs full Linux, I followed a blog post about setting up FDE on it using go and cryptfs [1]. You can make GUI applications, people have eve
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by sprinkly-dust 11mo ago
Currently that feature is unsupported or I just can't figure out how to do it. With the latest compiler version 0.14 any .typ file I try to compile will incur warnings about skipping the equations (skipping the main reason I'd wan
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
Seconding this, I've used alternatives like Amethyst, and I can't disable S.I.P for yabai, but Aerospace fills in that missing aspect from Linux when I am in want of it.
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
This might be (relatively) easily achieved by networking a couple of Raspberry Pi Zero 2's together under the Pi 500+ keyboard shell.
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
It might not be Ubuntu but Asahi Linux runs Fedora pretty well on M2 Pro and older Apple Silicon Mac Minis: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
That is one of the possible outcomes right? Producers have an incentive to collude and not compete with one another. They could create a consortium to fix prices, and use tactics such as acquisitions or _dissuasion_ to prevent new, more eff
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
'rsync' used via a terminal emulator like Termux or Android's own Linux VM is also good for resuming partial file transfers.
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
My biggest peeve with the forced push towards apps is that you're often forced to fork over permissions to access valuable data that they couldn't otherwise gleam glean from a browser. Chief amongst this is the Contacts permission
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by sprinkly-dust 1y ago
It is my experience that this is what Google does with their Pixel phones. It is really quite simple to unlock the bootloader and do whatever you want on a Google Pixel you own (i.e unlocked, no carrier). They even give you this really hand
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
Isn't flutter (especially including the flutter rust bridge), achieving that? You do need Android Studio and XCode installed on your machine but you don't have to interact with them directly.
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
That feature is available, albeit clunky. The latest Pixel phones have a developer option "Force Desktop Mode" which gives you Desktop-esque Windowing on an external monitor.
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
From my understanding, they are somehow able to intercept DoH and block queries to restricted domains. Perhaps it is through unencrypted Server Name Indication, hard IP blocking, or otherwise. If you have access to a cloud VPS server, I wou
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
If you feel this way about the works of Neal Stephenson, might I suggest Cixin Liu? Though well-done in it's own right, the 3-Body Problem Netflix series does not quite do justice to the intricacy of Liu's writing in the Remembran
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
Having composed many pieces of coursework using Typst, I must say that it certainly makes academic writing more streamlined, engaging, and dare I say fun — though that might just be me. The functional nature of Typst's syntax ensures I
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
Well, it's not the only option so no one's being forced to buy it. The same thing could've been said about ARM laptops just 5 years ago, before the launch of M1. Now, with Windows embracing ARM for real this time, it's p
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by sprinkly-dust 2y ago
I agree with you on the repeated frustrations of Desktop Linux. I'm not aware of your experience but personally, I've hopped from Distro to Distro and DE to WM to DE for years and I've come back to Pop!_OS as the choice for m