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wanderer

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    Comment #30973535

    If the following is not well known to electrical engineers, I would appreciate a little explanation of how it is done: "Thus, analog ICs are designed so only the ratio of resistors…

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    Comment #29952446

    How about "ScienceWrite" or "Science Writer"?

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    Comment #27925509

    > Default LaTeX fonts give me a nasty uncomfortable feeling > in the stomach by reminding me of Math and CS tests Me too. The formulas look so dark. Do you know of any typefaces wh…

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    Comment #25490643

    You might want to look at the review of the Facebook Portal by Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac in NY Times (November 2018). It seems to make conversation between two people more natur…

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    Comment #18956034

    I wonder if the author realizes the Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to be drafted. In World War II Germany, they paid dearly for this refusal. Belief in a flat earth seems like a minor …

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    Comment #14519228

    I do understand the workflow you outlined, but I don't follow it, because I don't like it. In InDesign, I just open up a text box and start typing. Once I am within a text box, how…

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    Comment #14517707

    > a stilted compromise Not to me. I was so happy when I tried MacWrite on my new (early 1984) Macintosh. I enjoy "fighting myself" because I am very unwilling to separate content a…

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    Comment #11050534

    In the Demon Seed (1977), the master isn't killed, but the mistress (played by Julie Christie) is assaulted by their smart home.

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    Comment #8357022

    Eddie(Text Editor) by Pavel Císler has a worksheet like that.

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    Comment #7871294

    I think Xiki might help me escape the editing environment of the shell and REPLs provided via the shell (specifically the bash shell of Mac OS X Terminal, and various Scheme REPLs.…

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    Comment #4200799

    I want to agree with po from an entirely different point of view--a non-programmer often trying to figure out how a particular program (in a language I don't know) works. If I spot…

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    Comment #3358365

    I would like a webkit based browser that can only open local files. I want to be free of the security restrictions (as I understand them) which do not allow me (for example) to sav…