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Most of the older consoles don't have an FPU. Fixed point is king on those older systems.

Yes and no. It depends which branch of chemistry you world have chosen to go down. Physical Chemistry certainly improves a fair amount of the hand waving, but even there the underl…

Sigma and Pi bonds are typically covered in AP Chemistry, even if the “why/how” is hand waved pretty heavily. The valence cloud shapes get wild for heavier atoms and bonds between …

It's not like they're mutually exclusive. In fact, multiple candidates seem to be quite sympathetic in their feedback loops.

I thought his name was Watson (the dog assistant). Edit: I was wrong. But there is "Power Pup" and apparently Will Shakespeare

Ha, I have a 16 year old who yells "chat" often enough when online gaming to be familiar with that use. I'm positive these students did use an LLM to get the help instead of crowds…

I was hoping to get them access to a specific tool like GitHub Copilot via GitHub Education, but when I looked, sign-ups were paused, so I went the tool-agnostic approach. Even dur…

I told them up front this was new territory and we're all learning from it. If they're overusing it I assured them they won't be dealing with a student integrity issue, but I will …

I'm trying something similar this semester with my course via AGENTS.md. I think this one is overly verbose and probably falls out of context windows pretty quickly, based on my ex…

Brave man. RIP your inbox.

I'm pretty sure I did not get to keep my shoes on through TSA in 2004. It may not have been mandatory nation-wide until ~2006, but the origin is a 2001 incident.

See: "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918961 (also on today's frontpage)

I've worked in too many large codebases where no one can point to any _single file or class_ and label it "correct," ("the right way") yet management is amazed when the lack of a "…

It does amaze me when colleagues refuse to read what I (personally, deliberately) wrote (they ask AI to summarize), but then tell AI to write their response and it's absolutely blo…

I also found the statement bizarre. They don’t seem to have any argument for compensation of any kind unless the books were under a restrictive license that required derived works …

But some of Apple or Spotify Premium's recent moves Re: advertising show that even those who _are paying_ end up getting the ad experience eventually. The old "If you aren't paying…

Building floor numbers in at least a few countries I’m aware of start from zero or “G” ( or the local language equivalent for “ground“) with 1 being the first story above the groun…

Ditto!

I’m afraid I couldn’t follow. Too long since I used most of those terms or symbols. Can anyone ELI5?

The multi-line case can usually be fixed with simple configuration changes to a structured log format. The other cases are more interesting, and pre-aggregation of all logs related…

I thought it was common knowledge that Pikachu was the culprit.

Multiplying by increasingly complicated expressions equivalent to “1” is what I remember doing for almost every problem in Quantum Mechanics.

It’s not so bad when there’s at least sprint toggling (often an option in gameplay settings). Having to hold it down continuously can be a bit much, especially in games where you b…

I can agree with that, though admit to being guilty of using sudo bash far more often than I should. I honestly thought they’d be using ssh that way (single command at a time), tho…

Am I missing something? How is logging into ssh (sshd) AS root more secure than using sudo? I honestly don’t even know how dangerous that is because I’ve always been told to never …