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Corporate windows laptop; need to restart every 2-3 days at best.

Well, they already do in that large files take more time to copy which subconsciously discourages moving them.

Very first frame of the video: green digital text is messed up. Stopped watching after that :)

I first started coding in high school on the TI-84 calculators. My 1st language was TI-BASIC, 2nd was Z80 assembly - quite a big step - and I quit when I faced some tricky bugs tha…

Disagree with first example. If that condition is only used once, adding a variable introduces more state to keep track of, that could just be a comment next to the conditional.

Edge on Mac, but IIRC it happens on Windows as well. Just checked in firefox/mac and seems OK.

On the topic of calculator font bugs, Google's calculator randomly switches between two fonts: https://pasteboard.co/lmbr4iE6BJej.png https://pasteboard.co/sU3GA5psIaT0.png

Fails to mention the actual reason people are fascinated: their diversity of appearance. Typical AI summary with many words not saying very much.

Reminds me of TI-BASIC for the TI-83 graphing calculators... The closing ')' is optional at the end of a line, and omitting it could make your program slightly faster...

Idea: deplane by row. Each row leaves when a light in that row turns on. An algorithm decides when to turn them on based on several factors: keeping large groups together, expected…

My tentative advice would be to find the one with the best reviews. Only pay attention to the lowest reviews, even a few 1-stars are informative. My story: I brush and floss every …

When I started grad school in semiconductor electronics, I noticed everyone pronounced it "si-li- cun ", while normal people usually say "si-li- con ". Maybe it's just a west coast…

At least from the graph, it's leveling out?

https://diffxweyl.wordpress.com/ Theoretical physics blog. Something for everyone.

I've been using Cloudhiker lately to replace the good old stumbleupon days and it does capture some of the magic of the old web. (not affiliated)

Everyone warns you about alcohol, but I have only had positive experiences, and in fact, wish I started drinking sooner in life. When I was going through a period of general anxiet…

I've found they serve almost exactly the opposite purpose as search engines. When I want reliable info and don't need hand-holding: search. When I have no idea what to search, or w…

Would be better if you could pan around the board. Having only linear scrolling kinda defeats the concept.

Something I wonder: are computers better at chess because they can think faster? What if we give a team of top grandmasters 1 day per move, versus like 1 hour for Stockfish. Will t…

Sometimes you can get too carried away with drawing exactly what you see. Once I drew a person based on a photo I had on my desk, only to realize that since I was looking down at a…

Transfer length method :)

SICP blew my mind the first time, but I think it's most useful when you already have some hands-on coding experience (as I did). It's why we don't start teaching math with set theo…

If the major source of latency is key travel distance, does this really impact the user experience? My feeling is that a keyboard with longer travel distance feels more "solid" tha…