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Same! They have a thing called presentation city that is a slide deck that is a sort of ad hoc social media platform.

My kid usually sits perched on the floor and holds the book open with his foot. It looks so uncomfortable but he seems fine with it.

Wow, this problem has been around for a long time. Exciting to see this finally figured out.

Colored pencils

Yeah, and constructability is usually handled by proving that a length is constructable if it lives in an iterated quadratic extension of the rationals. Pi does not lie in such an …

Or 'caw' if you want to change the whole word, even if cursor is in the middle somewhere. I read it as "change a word".

It's entertaining when reading is entertaining. This was a great "read while eating lunch at work" read because it was entertaining. I didn't really care too much about rodent-repe…

Definitely troubling. Not a replacement, but you might be interested in EHR derived communicable disease data available here: https://www.epicresearch.org/data-tracker/communicable…

My kid just figured it out, so generation parity can break

I think you meant Azure Windows Surface Copilot for Workgroups 360.Net. Everything at Microsoft is Azure now.

I'm a math PhD, was a tenured professor and then transitioned to industry. We've got two humanities PhDs that work as QA testers on our team. They're both fantastic, especially in …

There's a common workflow I use at work that involves taking the default 10 times before inputting what I need to use. I do double shave and a haircut quickly instead of counting r…

A similar annoyance is the fact that excel's undo applies to all open excel files. Make a change in a.xls, make a change in b.xls. if you ctrl-z twice with b.xls focused, it'll und…

In your third paragraph, I think you're talking about modes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music)

I can't speak for the op, but in Minnesota (in the northern part of the US), there are days in the winter when the temperature gets as low as -30F (~ -35C) with very high winds. Th…

A curve is a 1-dimensional space. Even though you draw a picture of it in a 2 (or maybe higher?) dimensional space, you should think of the set of points in the curve as being the …

Bad. I've suffered from depression for ages. I'm an academic teaching at a small college in a small rural town. I wish I could regularly see a therapist, but there's no one within …

Further evidence that e^{ix} = cos(x) + i sin(x) is natural is that it fits in nicely with power series representations. If you define cos(x), sin(x), and e^x by their power series…