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ThinBold··on Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator
VALVe themselves have game IPs they want to protect. Within the boundary of "it's legal, wygd" there are always ways to make pirating VALVe games easier and VALVe will stand no ground to ban those.
ThinBold··on The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
If the situation is that bad and cheating is that easy, soon there will be researchers cheating all the way to Elo 2000, just like there are researchers submitting garbage papers to prove that some journals are jokes. That will be interesting too so I am not against your vision.
ThinBold··on The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman
Search for "admitted" and it is on page 2.
ThinBold··on NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
It probably inherits the name from other languages that get it wrong.
ThinBold··on NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
For the hyperbolic version area is the correct counterpart of arc-length. See the wikipedia for a picture. So only "ar-" and "a-" make sense. Blindly using "arc-" is like saying non-invertible matrices are "vertible" because "in-" negates the meaning of a word.
ThinBold··on Citibank may lock bank accounts for 45 days if breach suspected
I (and I assume many do) buy flight tickets with a credit card so at least one bank knows you are traveling. Never have I had any problem when traveling. But there is one time I wanted to wire myself from Bank1 to Bank2, got blocked, called to unblock, and got blocked again immediately after I attempt the same transaction. Have to goto a Bank1 branch and brainstorm what to do and they ended up giving me a "bank check" (what's that???) only for me to walk to a Bank2 branch to deposit.
ThinBold··on NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
Despite all the good contents, calling the inverse function of hyperbolic tangent "arctanh" just makes no sense.
ThinBold··on The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
> rely on imported components

This doesn't matter. You buy wheat at $100 and sell breads at $250. You net $150 and convert that to, say, €150.

ThinBold··on Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
Maths don't scale up. Moore's Law will catch up and eventually rendering math will be like rendering jpg. For now the priority is to get things to work so we don't waste extra time determining if we just avoid math or we use stupid PNG.
ThinBold··on Space Math
The sagemath[1] suggests

> Whitespace before and after assignment and binary operator of the lowest priority in the expression:

The AMS style guide[2, p. 117] suggests

> Align multiline equations on operators: verbs are aligned with each other and conjunctions are aligned with each other

I find these improves readability of my TeX files.

[1]: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/coding_basics.htm... [2]: https://www.ams.org/publications/authors/AMS-StyleGuide-onli...

ThinBold··on The human genome is, at long last, complete
After ten years of "we are getting to the last mile" and "we are finally completing", it just feels like bio people cannot give up this good reason when justifying their funding so we have to re-complete human genome every other year.
ThinBold··on Buttons as Finite Automata
You are designing a "prefix code". It is a collection of strings of button presses such as {A, BA, BBAA, BBABA, BBB, ...}. Each string maps to an action.

Ideally no string is a prefix of another string. Even more ideally any infinite sequence of As and Bs can be decoded into a sequence of actions.

ThinBold··on Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
Scooter has an even smaller wheel and is more unstable during high speed. Also bike is more muscle-efficient.
ThinBold··on Crypto is an unproductive bubble
You get to choose between out-sourcing the liability or naked-running. You can even linearly-interpolate between the two extremes. In case of banking, you already payed the hidden fee (banks get bailout using government money, aka your money)
ThinBold··on Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option
I guess I know why the parent is downvoted but in the end the responsibility is on both sides. If you don't speak fluent English you ask for interpreters in Spanish, Chinese, you name it. You can't insists on speaking an unpopular dialect/accents, can't even specify what best describe your dialect/accents, and expect anything from the hospitals.
ThinBold··on Typography is impossible (2016)
I check the document and the it looks great. Even if it fails to work at least you are always brought back to an integer value of x-coordinate.
ThinBold··on Typography is impossible (2016)
In vscode, tab (the key above capslock) is implemented by counting how many characters are on the current line and adding 4floor(x/4+1)-x spaces to the current line.

This obviously doesn't work if there are non-ascii characters that (have to) use a different font and hence having different widths. Or if you prefer variable-width font, then a purely ascii document will break tab.

The developers reply on github that this (characters having different widths) is a frontend thing and they don't have enough API that can fix this. But of course since vscode is an open source project you can always fork it and fix it yourself.

I don't know any other editor that cannot handle tab.

ThinBold··on Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?
There were days where seeing a unique doodle makes your day. And then one day you realized that there is an official page for all doodles and you spend a good time on it. Now it is just PR department yelling: we didn't forget it's international trans-women day etc.
ThinBold··on I wrote the least-C C program I could
I mean we do have a lot of (perhaps too many) markdown dialects today. Wikipedia, wordpress, github, stackexchange, you name it. Last time I was using a Q&A forum for calculus course, it uses $$ to start and close a MathJax div.
ThinBold··on I wrote the least-C C program I could
U+FF1B Fullwidth semicolon. The semicolon in CJKV ideographs.
ThinBold··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
He's not even saying China is bad. He's related two things that people tend to like or hate simultaneously.
ThinBold··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
If the app is in the foreground or I am in a meeting, Zoom can have my microphone. Anything beyond that is just absurd.
ThinBold··on Harvard mathematician answers 150-year-old chess problem
Note that the preprint on arXiv dated back to July 2021.
ThinBold··on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
Funny enough, the moderncv document class does not have a pdf document back when I was trying to use it to create my CV ~5 years ago. (It does now.)
ThinBold··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
The way CDC and media swing between "this Greek letter is fine; no mask is fine" and "everyone get your (n+1)th dose real quick" is just hilarious.
ThinBold··on Let's Settle This
Pay respect to the author and also to people who use the word and want easy pronunciations so they can spend more time on what's more useful. If, say, our lovely Indian instructors on youtube decide that gif is git but with f, then let it be, for that they are making contributions.
ThinBold··on Airports Had to Deal With Over 2B Litres of Airplane Toilet Waste in 2019
But that's exactly the reason why healthy people, whatever healthy means, should starve: If those who can control their asses do so, then there are more toilets available to those in need.
ThinBold··on Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number
What a beautiful way to shoot yourself in the foot
ThinBold··on LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
The TikZ style should really be the default standard or even the bottom line. Last time I check Google Slides still doesn't understand how to connect two blocks of texts. I have to manually choose among four points (north/south/west/east of a block) to start or end a line. Whereas in TikZ the optimal point (among infinitely many points that constituent the border) is chosen.
ThinBold··on An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
It is in geometry one can experience a spectrum of evidence from a picture (animated or not, interactive or not) to a line-to-line modus ponens proof. Not to mention the historical value that Euclid invented a literary genre that is now called "proofs". Good luck teaching kids "more useful" stuff like data science and quantum computing. High school teachers don't understand these topics and are more likely to teach them ineffectively. Now that's harmful and no one can blame geometry anymore.
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