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> A field with one element? Replacing abstract algebra entirely?

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

I mostly use Duckduckgo these days but fall back on Google for non-English searches because DDG is lacking in that area.

Kagi users, how good is Kagi for non-English searches?

"Accelerate digital resilience". Huh. Wonder what that means in English.

The marketing division of the Microsoft software corporation defines a Large Language Model as "Your virtual pal who's fun to be with."

> buying stuff via contactless card is extremely convenient

I specifically don't want buying stuff to be too convenient. There has to be some hassle involved, so that I don't do it without thinking about it. That's why I always reject autofill prompts for credit card numbers, for example.

I started my son on Python but he switched to Java because that's what you need to write Minecraft mods. That lasted for two or three years. Now, thanks to Advent of Code, he's coming back to Python again, as well as assembly language (he did the Nand to Tetris course and is very interested in designing his own CPU on FPGA). Eventually I'm going to show him Scheme and SICP.

I will not expand on the circumstances, but at one point during my career I did review a paper while naked.

The video is running at 15x, though...

Holy collusion Batman. No worries, a class action lawsuit will follow and we will all get fat $17.30 checks in 2029.

It's not clear to me what advantage this board has over a couple breadboards, jumper wires, switches, LEDs, resistors, and a handful of 7400-series chips. I've done most of the exercises mentioned on the page with my son using the material mentioned above (culminating in a simple 4-bit ALU made from discrete chips), and it was straightforward.

As others have said, the fact that this is all being emulated by a microcontroller feels like cheating. If you're going to emulate, why not just use a circuit simulator like Logisim?

24 lines, for a total of 960 bytes occupying $400 to $7FF. The missing 64 bytes were called "screen holes", peppered throughout that memory range, and were used as scratchpad locations for peripherals. One of those peripherals is the disk drive controller card, and the position of the current track is stored in one of those holes. So if you try to clearing the screen the easy way, by zeroing $400 to $7FF, the disk drive forgets what track it's on and it needs to recalibrate, resulting in an awful noise as the read-write head bangs on a stopper.

At first I asked myself: "Why would Google do something so idiotic?" But then I remembered: they don't care.

I do have a family. We often organize things. We do that in advance and stick to our plans. It works well.

They email me, or call and leave a message on my answering machine, or sometimes even write me a letter that eventually finds its way to my house. I get the message and answer it when I have time.

In the not so distant past, it was perfectly normal for a person not to be reachable at all times. Today it became a luxury. I choose to indulge in it.

I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?

if I were to try paying my taxes that way, I'd end up in prison.

The race between LaTeX 3 and Half-Life 3 is still as exciting as it ever was.

Even Japan is changing. Non contact payment is becoming popular.

My son is at this very moment doing the nand2tetris course on Coursera as a summer project, because he wanted to understand how computers work. It's very well done and the tools provided isolate the beginner from a lot of low-level EE details. The first half of the project has you build a simple 16-bit computer starting from logic gates, using a basic hardware description language, as well as an assembler for it. Simulators are provided. As you wrote, timing considerations are sweeped under the rug, which is too bad.

The second half is more software-oriented: you start by writing a stack machine emulator for your computer, and then you write a compiler for an object oriented high-level language that outputs stack machine code. Finally, you write a standard library for your language.

As a third part to this course, we will then implement that computer on an FPGA, following Michael Schröder at https://gitlab.com/x653/nand2tetris-fpga/ . This will be my first experience with FPGA development, so I'm looking forward to it as well.

I have a glass pen that I use for odd calligraphy jobs that require special ink, because it's easy to clean and change inks. It holds more ink than I would have guessed. Downside is it's rather scratchy compared to a fountain pen.

If I had to wait for documentation in my native language, I would never work on any modern chips, period.

> I verified that no employee would have a compensation regression

What's wrong with "I made sure nobody got a pay cut"?

Exactly. As a customer, what matters is my out-of-pocket expenses. I don't care what portion goes to the store, the distributor, the wholesaler, or the government. I care about how much I pay.

I am fortunate to live in a country where the price that's advertised is the price I pay, but every time I visit the United States I am amazed that people are OK with buying something without it being clear in advance how much it costs. And let's not even start about your demented health care pricing.

I don't know about everyone else, but I find this kind of hypertext, with each section on its own page, infuriating to read. When you are done reading a section, there is no simple way to "turn the page" and go to the next section. You either have to scroll back to the beginning or use the back button.

I understand that this is mostly a reference text, and few people will read it cover to cover, but I still think that "show me the next piece of contents" is an operation that should be supported natively.

> but the obvious intent of the sign couldn't be clearer

There is no sign. Nowhere in the question does it mention a sign.

What the question does say, however, is this: "please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)."

Which is pretty much the opposite of what you conclude.

Interesting.

I notice that people who say "obviously emergency vehicles should be allowed, because of intent", despite the explicit instructions at the beginning of the test, often talk about "the sign" in their comments, despite no sign ever being mentioned in the instructions.

Surely I can't be the only one who imagined Homer Simpson going "that's good... that's bad" while reading that comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osb78oZ9Z4

"Minitel: Welcome to the Internet" is a great book (in English) about Minitel and its history. It's part of the delicious Platform Studies collection of MIT Press: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262036221

I'm probably older than you are, which means I have more experience gauging the annoyance level of various events.

I don't have a cell phone, because I consider that the costs outweigh the benefits. Recently I started experiencing more often the effects of people assuming that everybody has a cell phone.

* I couldn't scan QR codes at restaurants to see the menu, after the pandemic. The server was able to find an old paper menu but warned me that prices had changed, and I had to order without seeing the new prices. This is less of a problem now as most restaurants went back to paper menus.

* My place of work recently installed 2FA that assumes we are always near a phone, and they don't want to provide an alternative such as a yubikey, so I cannot log on to the network unless I'm at my office or at home (where I have a landline).

* I use a car-sharing service and they want to switch to an "app-only" system for booking cars, which I guess will require me to install some kind of Android virtual machine on my computer.

Truth be told, those are minor annoyances in the grand scheme of things.