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Kind of like the “uncooked spaghetti length” sorting algorithm: gravity. Hold them in your fist vertically, let them gently fall to a flat surface. Sorted.

Because it is exercise for the imaginative mind. Reading can force a reader to build worlds. Some readers are good at this, others need practice. To call reading “consumptive” is severely minimizing literature’s impact on communication throughout human history.

Even looking back at my mother reading Stephen King and romance novels … her reading undoubtedly shaped her and helped her understand the world and her experiences within it.

Note: this comment written from the bathtub after putting down “The Stand” by Stephen King, you know, one of those “little value” books.

Is this just an ad for whimsical animations? Seemed like an abrupt change.

My first operating system and GUI was GEOS on the Commodore 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

Reminds me of the Arrested Development scene: Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb.

Blending hot liquids requires care because turning on and heating the air causes the lid to blow off. Most blenders are limited by physics. Vitamix have an analog dial for speed which allows you to heat the air more slowly. Turning off bubble? Maybe I’ve experienced that … but seems like an inexperienced operator with hot liquids and powerful motors is just a recipe for disaster.

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

This is a valuable comment. It's the exact demoralization that others fear we are headed.

From DYMO: Dear user, Thank you for contacting [DYMO]. I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience you are experiencing.

Kindly be informed, that unfortunately, but the DYMO Label Software v.8. is incompatible with the new macOS 26 Tahoe. The software is officially obsolete, we do not develop it anymore. The last update for it was introduced when Apple released their macOS 11 Big Sur, it was in 2020. The printers you have, with the exception of LabelWriter 450, are incompatible with the current software.

LabelWriter Duo and LabelManager PnP Wireless are obsolete for some time now (keep in mind that LabelWriter Duo is a 20 years old printer) and there are no drivers for them in a our current DYMO Connect software.

LabelWriter 450 was still being manufactured when the DYMO Connect was released, therefore drivers for that model were and still are included in the software.

Those older models would be working on an older OS (up to macOS Sequoia) and on Windows PC. Once again, I am sorry for the inconvenience you are experiencing.

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Disclosure: I am the developer of Label LIVE.

“Do you want to sell AirPods?”

No. They want to sell more i-devices so this is just punishment for not fully participating.

We’ve spent hundreds of years perfecting crystal clear glass and now we want skeuomorphic imperfections? Two steps back, indeed.

Cars are often artificially detuned to the trim level that’s inscribed on the boot.

I’m working on a self-hosted node-red-powered desktop app to connect cloud services to local resources and vice versa. Email me if you’d like to participate in the upcoming beta.

Something I don’t see mentioned that’s been helpful to me is having an agent add strict type safety to my typescript. I avoid the use of “any” type and berating an agent to “make it work” really opens my eyes and forces me to learn how advanced typescript can be leveraged. I feel that creating complex types that make my code simpler, makes autocomplete work(!), is a great tradeoff in some meta dimension of software dev.

Wrong thread

It’s like swimming in a lake or river and thinking the water is just water but then you take a closer look and it’s just incredibly alive to the point of absurdity.

I started 3D printing about 10 years ago with the first Taz machines and they left me a broken, broken man.

Fast forward to a month ago, I bought a Prusa Core One, loved it, and then bought a XL 5-toolhead. It's been so much fun using printers that "just work."

I finished this 6-day print last week! https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1kb3p0w/xl_full_be...

Did hoc intentionally pun by writing that this meta analysis is getting “lifted”?

Reference: https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html

Pro, max, ultra…

Ha! I was so nervous writing it because I am not qualified to use the smart math words!

Oh, I did... but it was more of a parsing error.

Prompt:

I have padlocks that I use to lock up my tools, or my bike, etc. The problem is, I often go several months without using some of them and forget the combinations. So, I decided to write down their combinations, but then I always lose the sheet. Being the math geek that I am, I decided on the following solution. I choose a 3 × 3 matrix and multiply this matrix by the combination and write the result on the back of the lock. For example, on the back of one lock is written “2688 − 3055 − 2750 : Birthdays,” indicating that the 3 × 3 matrix that I chose for that particular lock is the matrix whose rows consist of the birthdays of my brothers and me (from youngest to oldest). My brother Rod was born on 7/3/69, I was born on 7/28/66, and my older brother was born on 7/29/57. What is the combination of the lock?

Now, technically the LLM didn't quite know how to parse "2688 − 3055 − 2750" and ran the calculation with "[2688;-3055;2750]" and produced a response of, "These values are clearly not typical lock combinations, which suggests a potential issue with the encoding process."

Smart, kind-of. I reran with a more explicit prompt and it calculated the correct combination.

Overall though, I'm impressed with using ChatGPT as a linear algebra tutor. I wouldn't hesitate to use it in the future.

I've used an LLM for tutoring, but it doesn't replace the experience of biking across campus, ordering a coffee, unpacking my TI-89/iPad, cracking jokes with the professor and other students, paying attention, taking notes, and having to remember the material until exam day. This process is culture, and it's honing my mental blade. Then, as a solo-entrepreneur, I go home and use Cline+Sonnet to hack on a few side projects. These two processes compliment each other, greatly. Like I've mentioned in other replies, this is for "#2 fun" and to see if the "old guy (me) has still got it."

A masters in CS doesn’t interest me as much as pure math. Maybe when I’m 50…

We will see. A degree is just the ends to justify taking math classes. My goal is to learn, if they give me a degree that’ll be a bonus!

Yes! I’ll send you an email.

The information density is incredible. A 2x2 matrix (Jordan constants) containing enough information to produce a slice of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Leaves me mesmerized...

It's funny, at the end of each lecture I just want to yell... "NO! Don't stop! I must see how this ends!"

Very similar to when I stop our children's movie and tell them to go take a bath.

I didn't ace it, but knew immediately what I had done wrong as I rode my bicycle home. I kept checking my linear transformation matrix and the Eigen values didn't compute... Looked again at the TI-89 when I got home and realized I swapped the orientation on the Jordan constants. I wrote all the equations out, so maybe my professor will have mercy on me. Oh well, another case of elevator wit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

This college requires something like taking 30 credits from the institution to award a degree. That's somewhere between 7-10 classes (mix of 3/4 credits each).

Yes, through admissions. Getting a degree in math, maybe... depends on how much stress this adds to my life. If I were retired I'd just take a full load, but raising a family and running my business I can only take it one class at a time.

I’m self employed and this is “for fun.” My wife is a professor in another department and I’ve got a tuition waiver.