James_Henry

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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
They don't mention it here, but I think they might on a different post? Rivers are going to show up more in a monospace font (which your link points out), so that would make sense. With modern fonts it makes sense to be putting the spaces in after a sentence stops for readability though. Microsoft word allows for manipulating spacing anywhere there are still rivers.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've always been annoyed by the way html treats whitespace. Having more space between sentences is so much more readable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Add a charachorder to this and you'll be typing crazy fast.
Comment · 3 years ago
Doesn't stenotype also have chording though?
Comment · 3 years ago
You can turn that feature off on Android phones.
Comment · 3 years ago
The main use of computers in school should be teaching typing, word processing (and it probably should be with Word), number crunching and mathematics, and perhaps a little bit of graphics processing.

I agree that Excel should be taught, but also something like Mathematica (or some other CAS, rather than forcing TI calculators on kids). Python, perhaps through Jupyter Notebooks, would also probably be good too.

Comment · 3 years ago
Honestly, for adults too, pen and paper is often a better solution. Word processing and number crunching are the main use cases for a computer and I think kids should learn these things with a computer, but it would be so much better if they had direct instruction in a computer lab rather than giving them all a distracting laptop/chromebook.
Comment · 3 years ago
Some people are scared of fat (or the associated calories). From the blogs/ads about the creami, it seems that's the main reason people have.
Comment · 3 years ago
Huh, I'm skeptical, but if a low-fat ice cream substitute really can be just as creamy as real ice cream then I guess I'm OK with people liking it. I'd love to try it one day, but I have such a good ice cream machine already and no need for a creami that I'll have to wait until someone I know gets one.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Also, why would you want to defile the ice cream that already apparently lowers the risk of diabetes, haha.
Comment · 3 years ago
That seems strange that the fat isn't contributing anything. The creamy mouthfeel is one of the reasons ice cream is so much better than "frozen dairy desert" or lots of frozen yogurts.

Also, does the creami only make things a soft-serve texture? Slightly harder ice cream is where it's at, in my opinion.

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