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Yeah I still use my good ol' TI-83+ occasionally, but I'm a math instructor, so obviously. Most often I'll just use GNU `bc` though. We are getting away from them in the classroom …

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I'm pretty sure zathura works with wayland just fine.

Wayland. But only on personal machines, and only because I like customizing my linux desktop as a hobby, and only because I have more than one machine in case an update borks the w…

The converse lesson here is also important: If you don't want a response to your email, barrage the recipient with text.

I've resigning myself to letting diagrams on the web be images. (1) Design the diagram in TikZ, or anything really, (2) screenshot/crop it, (3) make its background transparent with…

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> A ban with legal backing so schools can focus on education and not combating distraction. Teaching how to combat distraction should maybe be a part of modern education. But yeah …

I don't see a more elegant solution than this, but it's a bummer. Smartphones are so useful; the world's information AND a computer in your pocket! The ideal would be to give stude…

GalliumOS, running on two machines I keep in sync. Debian/Ubuntu based distro, but customized for Chromebooks. Tried to get arch running on a Chromebook, but couldn't get it workin…

Relevant: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/

For convenience, here are the RSS/Atom feeds for some of the publications mentioned in this thread: Quanta https://api.quantamagazine.org/feed/ Noema Magazine https://www.noemamag.…

This is my curated list of Icecast / SHOUTcast / HLS / DASH internet radio stations. These streams can be played with mpd/ncmpcpp or VLC, or just through a web browser. Maybe direc…

I agree, it's a response to websites being over-designed to the point of being less usable/accessible, but this feels like a dramatic over-correction.

This is another post illuminating the new minimalist trend in website design. The old minimalism was about "elegance", but this new trend is more about utility: we don't need CSS, …

CSS could also solve this website's problem of a visitor reading the page title as "FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT EMAIL RSS DONATE" … I thought it was a website about email and R…

> If you’re in a group and talking about something factual like when a movie came out or a directors name Check your phone, but lay the phone flat on the table or hold it so everyo…

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That line was a flag for me. I doubt it's that simple, that admins are that corrupt. I think they're just basic: " Hire a new person to promote equity and inclusivity? That sounds …

Yeah, they are. Very much among faculty of math/physics/engineering departments. But the reason is that much of the white male faculty were hired decades ago, when white men still …

It's more complicated than you describe. Like, these bureaucrat's hearts are in the right place, they just lack focus, and are ineffective and solving the problems that they see. T…

I think the point is that it's not simply the case that universities have lost sight of their purpose of teaching people, but have broadened the scope of their mission beyond teach…

It's unfortunately tough to have a discussion about this too. Any criticism of justice/equity/diversity/inclusion (JEDI) bureaucracy gets strawmanned very quickly, and the critic l…

You're right. It's hard to teach in schools though because of standardized (often multiple-choice) tests; teachers are incentivized to teach "skills" that have objective correct an…