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I'm curious on your response to GP's question. Have you heard of AHSME, AMC, or AIME? Nobody mentioned them in high school (1997) until I heard of them online and got my school to …

This. The inconsistency of foul calls. I understand the mentality of "if you're not cheating, you're not trying" and "if you're not flopping, you're not trying", but it ruins the g…

Does anyone know of an open-source way to control these JuiceBox chargers?

This reminds me of a bug I created where the calendar showed only 30 days in March. I took the number of hours in the month, divided by 24, and rounded down. The bigger problem was…

I was super happy with my Purism Librem 15 for 2 years. (Weird freezing issues after that. Replacing the memory didn't help. Maybe the mainboard went bad?) Have been tempted to try…

Does anyone have a sleep/suspend configuration that isn't too difficult to configure and works well? I should update and try again, but as of 6 months ago, this was the one thing t…

Screen size. They had a 13 and 15. Now they just sell their second-generation flagship, the 14.

I bought a Librem 15 before the 14 existed. I was very happy with it (including battery life/suspend) for about a year and used it with Linux as my daily driver. Then hardware star…

A couple months ago, I tried to make a visualization video on Arrow's Theorem: https://youtu.be/Uvax1Hj8t_E I probably need to get my act together and do a final version of that vi…

Here's how I did it by hand (assuming you can buy multiple of a given item): Work in cents, modulo 87 (the cost of the cheapest item, the pinwheel). The total we want is 4394 (or 4…

Agree. Also, you could do the following things which Voice doesn't support: - Have multiple chats open (and be working on several responses) at the same time - Star chats (nice wor…

Excellent resource. Thank you!

The code is mostly C#. There is also an Android app in Java. It is in the supply chain/warehouse management industry. I will email. Thanks!

I own a SaaS business with a family member, which has become a nice lifestyle business, but my business partner is ready to retire and I've become involved in a YC company which is…

Code128 has a mandatory checksum, so I'm surprised they try to do it with a font. Code39 is pretty common to convert into a font, since the checksum is optional.

The problem is that we need a way to say "actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy" succinctly. Also, to say "I am using an idiom, but non-idiomatically." "Literally" should be…

I tried this as a side project: http://sendfiles.direct/ It's not perfect, but I still use it sometimes.

The parent post said: > a third-party candidate doesn't spoil an election, because your second-place vote will still count. (E.g. Nader wouldn't have taken votes from Gore, so Gore…

If Nader takes enough votes from Gore, then Gore will have the fewest first place votes and get eliminated first. Then Nader has to go up against Bush and it all comes down to who …

Maybe you're right. I know displaying in hex was way faster than displaying in decimal and seemed fast enough, so I stopped there. I didn't test rendering speed specifically. Doing…

Displaying hex is quite fast (compared to trying to display decimal), though you're right that it might add up to a noticeable amount of time in the end. I did the full million dig…

I didn't note timing numbers, but rendering digits in hex was basically instantaneous, even when doing a million (decimal) digits. Rendering the digits in decimal was significant d…

Personal domain. I haven't used it for much over the years. The hosting is static pages on S3. I wonder if there's anything I could do to avoid the domain getting flagged. Maybe it…

It should take 415kB to store a million digit number, and the algorithm only needs to keep two of them. So, 1MB total to calculate a million digits of pi. I wonder if there are a l…

odds, not primes. And I'm sorry if it looks like 13 over 24. It's supposed to look like 1/2 times 3/4. (The next term adds 5/6, and so on.)