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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 p…

> 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!

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 toleranc…

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 understandin…

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 i…

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 sta…

This was funnier than I thought it would be.

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 …

AppleWin, and the assembler is an early version of Glen Bredon's Merlin.

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 course…

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.

And it produces an amazing amount of horseshit.

By an amazing coincidence, that's also my date of birth, as well as my kids'.

So much effort is spent in the computer industry to un-solve previously solved problems.

> So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'. You can, however, set up us the bomb.

> 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.

I also prefer web versions for similar reasons, and enjoy them while I still can.

What an abject thing to say.

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…

> pasting images of seemingly random noise into a sensitive environment is a terrible idea BLIT protection. https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

This is awesome. You are awesome.

> That's not within his power to do. What rock have you been living under for the past eight months?

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 …

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.

This is a great project. I want to show it to as many teenagers as I can.