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Republicans in my state, TN, having eliminated the last Democrat congressional district, now want to close primaries, precisely to prevent strategic voting.

David Byrne seems to like it: https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03...

I haven't seen his actual slide deck anywhere online though.

I almost never use full screen windows on a Mac. Things like video are full screen, but that's a swipe to another workspace. Half-screen windows on a 27" screen are already bigger than a sheet of letter paper. Lots happens in terminal windows, which vary a bit, but are usually around 100x60, and maybe 1/6 of the screen.

I do have Rectangle installed, so apps generally get at most the left or right half of the screen, with a shortcut for badly behaved websites that need 2/3 to look right. Apps are usually pretty good about remembering window positions, so mostly you futz with it once and you're done.

Definitely Tom Selleck, aka Magnum PI.

Non-admins getting prompts for system and app upgrades is mildly annoying. The bigger one in a family setting is the clunky sharing. There's no good way to share a photo library or music library between users. The Unix version of making a folder shared by a group doesn't usually work for Apple apps.

In the past, MacOS has automatically made a folder of incompatible software that it leaves on the desktop. Little Snitch seems like something that could have been tested.

Both outlook.office.com and mail.google.com use much more memory and CPU than any "fat" client, and are constantly changing little things about the UI. Safari now often closes outlook automatically on an M5 Mac because it's using significant amounts of energy.

Well, Tahoe doesn't work on 2019 iMacs, and that chart shows the early 2020 Macbook Air isn't eligible either, so support duration varies a bit.

For math, the AMC 10 and AMC 12 tests have 25 questions each, some of them quite challenging. Both are high school level math, no calculus. Search "2025 amc 10" for this year's problems and solutions.

I sympathize, but just happened to listen to this episode over several days. The discussion actually adds a lot to the paper, and they seem very qualified to critique it. One of the guests(?) has written several esolangs. There must be a way to generate a transcript.

Slight spoiler: they have lots of criticisms of the paper.

My guess is Richard Kaye, "Minesweeper is NP-complete", but it's paywalled. Certainly the paper is listed somewhere on https://minesweepergame.com/math-papers.php

Seven Cities of Gold, Archon, Pinball Construction Set on an Atari 8-bit. Maybe EA was just the distributor though.

I’d suggest Octave over Matlab, because current Matlab has tons of distracting AI and autocomplete front and center. Probably really helpful for getting a plot just right or implementing an algorithm from a paper, but not so good for learning the basics.

I've seen the reason, I just don't find it convincing. I would like to omit these commas, but also use the formatter sometimes, but that's not really an option. It's frustrating since 'uv format' will omit them for older python versions, so the logic is there.

Something between "everything fits on one short line" and "every argument gets its own line" would be nice too. Spreading a function definition or call across ten lines when it would fit on two or three doesn't feel like an automatic win.

I want to like Black (or rather, uv format), but the mandatory trailing commas weird me out, especially in function definitions. It always looks like an error to me.

Target has the distasteful feature that in-store prices differ from online prices. So if you go and browse you pay more than you would by ordering online and driving to the same store and picking it up. Maybe you could argue for the online price?

Tennessee also introduced a $100 annual fee that includes plug-in hybrids.

Gas pumps at the local grocer play beeps when you hit a key (consumer loyalty # entry), but with a random delay. It's maddening how much harder this makes typing. OTOH, these pumps don't have video ads yet.

Screens should come with the rental, but adjustable window screens are easy to come by if this is a problem you have.

I do this. I don't watch enough that it makes sense to have multiple subscriptions at the same time. The default is subscribed to nothing, then if I hear about something I want to see I'll subscribe to that for a while.

I do have Amazon Prime though, so some of the subscriptions are to channels on that. I'll drop it for sure when they put ads on everything.

You could just return the phone if it's overheating. It's only been out a week or so.

Not mobile as far as I know, but Prodigy (prodigygame.com) is allowed/encouraged at my kid's school and has a lot of these traits. There are treasure chests at the end of a battle, gems or coins collected, and a constant reminder that subscribers get more rewards. Many of his classmates subscribe.

MensaNet :(

LLM then Google? "The greening of Mars" is not by Stanley Robinson, but by James Lovelock and Michael Allaby. It doesn't appear to feature moving Mars, but terraforming it using 80's technology. I don't think "Green Mars" by Robinson has Mars being moved either.

There's nothing on Google for Benford and "Martian Transfer", though it's possible he wrote such a story with a different title.

My guess is this one: https://learn.udacity.com/courses/cs212, "Design of Computer Programs".

There are definitely Mac 32-bit Intel games on Steam, like Portal, that won't run on anything recent.

Or Remind, or ClassDojo, or Parentsquare, or whatever our school district goes with next year. I think they could all do SMS delivery, but none of them got it quite right. The apps are all buggy too. Various updates are often squirreled away on Twitter or "$schoolname Parents" Facebook group.

Thanks for figuring this out! The slideshows have visible timestamps so it's not too hard to keep up manually.

Alas, pretty chalk-specific. You'll need something like the linked device for a whiteboard.

This is maybe a weird corner case, but I had no luck with the RealMedia files here: https://chance.dartmouth.edu/ChanceLecture/AudioVideo.html on a Mac, particularly the Susan Holmes lecture on "Probability by Surprise". It's some format that has video + synced web pages.

I eventually downloaded the zip and made it into an iso that I could mount in a VM of Windows that had RealPlayer installed. Failed attempts included VLC and some other Mac video player (Elgato?), and trying to navigate to the page from a Windows VM (no https). I would love to here of a less tedious solution.