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It's much easier to connect the X4 to wifi and then upload fonts via the web interface. Apart from the initial hassle of entering your wifi password using the buttons (only has to be done once).

Command–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650)

Reminds me a bit of the Park Avenue Viaduct in NYC, which has what looks like 90-degree turns when viewed from street level, but apparently the roadway itself has (sharp) curves:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.752323/-73.977539

Looks like you've basically created an RSS frontend for reuters.com. Which is useful since they seem to have got rid of their own feeds. Would be nice if you could add your own feed so that neuters is actually readable via RSS.

It's sold by a Chinese company, their software probably doesn't worry much about optimal formatting, since Chinese writing doesn't really have any spaces. It would be nice if koreader could run on it.

Sounds like "The Last Child Into The Mountain": http://www.williamflew.com/omni54a.html

> Some friends in automotive engineering even tried using pi = 3

Did they end up with engine cylinders that were hexagonal in cross-section?

I'll usually do C-h f (describe-function), then hit tab to make it build a list of all (interactive) functions, and then switch to that buffer and search for whatever I'm interested in.

I also remember a lot of these from the 90s. But I didn't see xphoon, that was a pretty cool one to display a (fairly) detailed picture of the current phase of the moon in your root window/desktop.

One problem with SPAXX (which I realized when doing my state taxes last week) is that the monthly dividends it pays aren't exempt from state income tax. I expected that they would be, since SPAXX invests in federal-level government bonds, but they aren't.

> $45k is not a livable wage anywhere within an hour commute of Manhattan

I think $45k comes out to a take-home of about $2800 per month. I see ads on craigslist for 2-bedroom apartments in Brooklyn in the 2000-3000 range, and 3-bedroom apartments also in Brooklyn in the 3000-4000 range, either of those seem reasonable with a $2800 take-home. Of course it means having roommates.

"Smart TVs" come to mind, though this is corporate rather than government. For example there's talk of them having an embedded 5G modem so that they're able to phone home even if you've blocked them from your network, or never connected them to your network in the first place.

Haven't seen this mentioned yet, so How to Solve It (1945) by George Pólya? I haven't read it myself so I can't comment (I'm a muddy thinker and rubbish problem solver), but I think it was mentioned in a good light in one of Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas" pieces.

Politico.eu has a weekly "print edition" (you can download the pdf from their site) and I feel it's not too far from The Economist in terms of subject matter, and goes into more depth for EU issues. The writing quality isn't as good though. Not sure what their political leaning is.

The New Statesman isn't bad but has some problems: delivery delays to the US (maybe not an issue for you) and lots of "advertorials". The writing quality is usually good. It has a left/labour leaning.

My thinking is that in this alternate universe where pi=3, circles (with diameter 2 * pi * r) will look like hexagons (which have diameter 2 * 3 * r), so wheels would have to be hexagonal.

But it comes in handy in the alternate universe where pi=3.

>Isn't this just a puff piece for hacker-rank?

Bloomberg (the tech side of the company, not the journalism side that produced this article) uses HackerRank for developer hiring too.

I was under the impression that European wire transfers were cheap (free), fast, and reliable. If that's true, why is something like PayPal even needed? Can't Seafile just have their clients transfer money to Seafile's account? Or are wire transfers not free for "retail" use like this?

I'd be suspicious of a building that uses Comic Sans on its awning.

For me, 18.59 was the last real solid release.

This reminded me of a game I had read about, and looking it up, the game was RobotWar, which is mentioned as an inspiration for CROBOTS.

There's an interesting article in an old issue of Computer Gaming World [1] which discusses RobotWar and includes a BASIC listing for a tournament-winning robot, pretty cool.

[1] http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_2.2.pdf (page 25)

I think the numpads exist because just about all laptop screens are 16:9 now, which forces the keyboard area to be wider (compared to a 4:3 screen, for example). Without a numpad there would be lots of "dead" space to the right and left of the keyboard, so manufacturers added a numpad to avoid the wasted space. Personally I'd rather have a 4:3 screen and no numpad, but this aspect ratio has ceased to exist.

> Try solving these actual examples:

First one: a rhaval Second one: a onsupsel

You need to realize that only one word needs to be entered. For the other word just enter any string (or even no string works in some/all cases).

I think the difference is that you're paying (a lot) to be in college, while you're being paid (hopefully a lot) to do your job. So it's not realistic to expect to be treated the same way in both situations.

> how my personal banking experience need to be disrupted

Free wire transfers. Free (or very close) for both sender and receiver, like checks, but instant. I believe Europe already has something like this. [1] Current US banks seem uninterested in this, so a startup bank providing this service could probably steal tons of banking customers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer#Regulation_and_pr...

JIRA has got an extremely "nervous" interface where clicking around in innocuous places (like blocks of text) causes strange things to happen, editing modes to be entered, and things to move around unexpectedly. So in this sense it "gets out of the way" nicely.