I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.
Ti-84 Evo
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#462Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything behavioral or psychological science adjacent tends to be "barely science" but sure. Don't know what to tell you. I'm not the first person to not be interested in "the rat race" (hence the pejorative term for it existing). People like Emerson have probably made the case better than I can. I'm not interested in getting the most women. Actually that sounds gross to me. I instead found the best woman, and fort…
>Everything behavioral or psychological science adjacent tends to be "barely science" but sure. Your arguments aren't even science. Barely but sure? What about your own anecdotal statements? That's even less reliable. If the science is all we got, then it's the best we got. >Don't know what to tell you. I'm not the first person to not be interested in "the rat race" (hence the pejorative term for it existing). People…
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#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're a hero of mine so here is my story. Me in math class in 1996 - I had a TI-82 things are programmable so I have no formal education, my parents are illiterate, and taught myself to program, and I begged them to buy me one. I spent time learning how to code on it, writing from scratch, the game Spyhunter. I couldn't figure out how to draw with lines or pixels so I used ASCII or text. I presented this to my teach…
In high school our computer class was in BASIC. They taught us to swap two variables A & B like this: h = a a = b b = h But I knew the BASIC we used had the SWAP command. On an exam, I used SWAP A,B instead of the above. I got the lowest passing score, a 70%, and the teacher wrote, "Do it our way please". No thanks Mrs. Mott, I'll take the 70.
Those folks can FRO. The teacher my wife would have had for a Pascal class in high school refused to let her apply, saying it was not for girls. Her father said, you can take it at community college.
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#464I see we've finally progressed beyond https://xkcd.com/768/, in specs if not in functionality or price point.
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#465This is a very useful gadget and without any AI
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#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean sure. Unlimited precision calculation I don't think is the proper domain of the cheap desk calculator. I mean what do these do? I think like 10 digits worth? If you're actually doing something requiring over 10 digits of accuracy and you can reliably hit that you probably have a $10 million lab... So honestly what are we talking about here...If it's pure mathematics this is a bad tool for that as well.
oh of course. But I meant being able to select a result or equation from 10 minutes ago in the calculator history without re-typing it!
These cheap calculators certainly have history. I think it's even persistent.
Chips with megabytes of non-volatile storage can be had for under a dollar at scale these days.
https://us.rs-online.com/product/microchip-technology-inc-/s... ... 4MB (32Mb) $0.74.
The TI-84 EVO brags about having 3MB on their $160.00 device. Cool TI, don't strain yourself...
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#467I'm an HP-12C guy since working on a trading desk and have 2 of the OG bronze colored ones and 2 of the HP-12C Platinum that are faster and silvery. But since I've been re-learning math with Math Academy I'm drawn to pick this puppy up. Should I be looking at an HP equivalent, though, since I'm an RPN convert?
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#468My TI-85 story. While I was in prison, around 1996 or 1997, I found out a friend had a TI-85 calculator. I realized it was programmable, so I borrowed it over the weekend and wrote a program to track his stock portfolio. It was the first time I had programmed anything in 2 or 3 years. Then I learned that the US Bureau of Prisons had a rule against any calculator (or device) that was "programmable". So I programmed th…
You're a hero of mine so here is my story. Me in math class in 1996 - I had a TI-82 things are programmable so I have no formal education, my parents are illiterate, and taught myself to program, and I begged them to buy me one. I spent time learning how to code on it, writing from scratch, the game Spyhunter. I couldn't figure out how to draw with lines or pixels so I used ASCII or text. I presented this to my teach…
I relay to you a nugget from my ancestor: "Man, this teacher sounds like a real shithead!"
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#469I love that the first thing I see in the website (at least on mobile) is "Approved for exams", as if there was some other reason one would be forced to buy those pieces of garbage.
Re: Ti-84 Evo
#470Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything behavioral or psychological science adjacent tends to be "barely science" but sure. Don't know what to tell you. I'm not the first person to not be interested in "the rat race" (hence the pejorative term for it existing). People like Emerson have probably made the case better than I can. I'm not interested in getting the most women. Actually that sounds gross to me. I instead found the best woman, and fort…
>Everything behavioral or psychological science adjacent tends to be "barely science" but sure. Your arguments aren't even science. Barely but sure? What about your own anecdotal statements? That's even less reliable. If the science is all we got, then it's the best we got. >Don't know what to tell you. I'm not the first person to not be interested in "the rat race" (hence the pejorative term for it existing). People…
If the best you have is garbage, then you just say that you don't have anything useful. It's like exercise science: there's almost nothing useful there. Don't pretend there is.
If you accept that premise, then you can't frame it in terms of science. You can frame it instead in terms of culture and philosophy, and just say that status obsession is bad. Especially, again, if it turns into literally competing with or feeling threatened by children.
And really, not everything is about status. In fact, if you want something status lowering I guess, we're kind of Billy No-mates, so I don't even have people to compare status with. I've got no Jones' to keep up with! And that's fine.
Again, I've "settled" precisely because I have exactly what I want. It's not the "costs" so much as it is the absence of value. You could argue that I wouldn't pay $100 for a turd because the cost is too high, but the real point is I don't want the turd. You'd have to pay me to take the turd. Like you'd have to pay me to take the higher status job, except they can't pay me enough, and if they did, it would be because I'd be able to save enough to quit shortly thereafter. So really there's just no sustainable world where I keep the higher status position. Because I really, truly, don't want it. It can only distract from what's important to me, and fill my head with things that are not.
Being homeless is an unhappy affair because it's some combination of cold, rainy, snowy, hot, sunny, and stinky, not because it's low status. And because you have nowhere to store e.g. food or clothes, so your situation is precarious. And nowhere to cook, so difficult to eat healthy meals. I highly doubt most homeless people have social status as a top concern.
I'm not sure what I could say that's "shameful" because I'm generally a pretty happy person. In techie circles, I suppose one thing is that my kids are all girls, and I'm going to encourage them to be stay-at-home moms instead of chasing careerism, try to put them into social circles where promiscuity is heavily frowned upon and the primary reason to go to uni is to find a husband (an "Mrs degree"), etc. Very much against the zeitgeist in my work world (and on this site), but I think it's the best way for them to find happiness. So we moved to the South to stay away from West Coast values.