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Comment · 7 months ago
Personally, playing with the graphing and algebra functions on the calculator were hugely informative. Rapidly trying out different things, seeing how they looked how tweaking things would cause adjustment, all added educational value.

I feel like graphing calculators enable exploration in a way that doing it manually with pen and paper cannot. Obviously, pen and paper is super valuable as well, but I feel that they are complimentary.

Comment · 7 months ago
I exclusively use trackpads like Magic Trackpad 2 when I'm on MacOS. But I exclusively use a mouse when I'm running Windows and Linux.

MacOS just seems more tailored to the touchpad experience. Windows and Linux more tailored to the mouse experience.

Comment · 7 months ago
If you haven’t seen it you may want the fugitive plugin for vim. It seems to give a reasonable level of git magic within vim. Maybe not as magic as magit, but it does a lot including good handling of interactive rebases.
Comment · 8 months ago
Upgrades, API compatibility, and cross version communication are really important in some domains. A bad design can cause huge pain downstream when you need to make a change.
Comment · 10 months ago
Ah! I didn't realize that the official client's page was filtered by "recommended" by default.

I wonder why the officially developed SwiftFin isn't shown as recommended? I guess maybe because it's still considered beta.

Comment · 10 months ago
The fact that Jellyfin lacks a AppleTV/tvOS app seems like it continues to make it a dealbreaker... at least for my setup.

I hear people recommending clients like Infuse, but it feels odd to swap out Plex at this point if I can't go all in on the open source side of things.

Am I missing something here wrt Jellyfin clients? I guess I could try running it side-by-side with Plex and see how it goes.

Comment · 11 months ago
100%, it's one of the irksome things about the education system in general - resources are limited. It's a hard problem to solve.
Comment · 1 year ago
He’s implying that the variable it’s being defined within the loop. So, constant, but repeatedly redefined.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm curious how/what you use the screens via AR for if you're not using environment locked screens. Particularly in a productivity/work environment.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the feature, it seems like enironment locked screens allows for more natural usage and interactions with the screens in the virtual space?

My experience is mostly with VR/AR products like Oculus has been mostly with environment locked AR information.

Comment · 1 year ago
I always like these new comile time features getting into the C++ spec.

I'm actually looking forward to the related reflection features that I think are currently in scope for C++26. I've run into a number of places where the combination of reflection and constexpr could be really valuable... the current workarounds often involving macros, runtime tricks, or both.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is why I never do the cross-eyed version of focusing on these. For me that's always been uncofortable.

Using the parallel view, or focusing out beyond the picture to make the images converge has always been easier and more comfortable for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm surprised by this, is Comcast super regional with it's restrictions? I have a Comcast 1gig plan in the Bay Area, and last I checked I get a small ($5?) discount for using my own modem. I've been on the plan for a least a few years now... so alternatively maybe I'm grandfathered in or something? Or maybe some Comcast sales person was lying to you about your options?
Comment · 2 years ago
iOS isn’t killing OOM apps. It’s killing inactive apps. It’s something that wouldn’t fly on a desktop or server OS under general use, but works reasonably well in the mobile space.
Comment · 2 years ago
That doesn't work if core apps start moving to third party app stores.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a facetious argument. The usage needs of my phone are different than the usage needs of my laptop / desktop computers.

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