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wjrii

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  • What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts

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  • I don't math so good, so I roughly counted layers and used the formula for area of a circle, reduced slightly for gaps. First guess was a good 10%-15% off but got within 12 on the second. Then I seriously overcorrected on my third.

  • What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts

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  • A = pi(r^2) is a hell of a drug.

  • What are some chill sports?

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  • And much cheaper, but the infrastructure is already there for normie golf if even walking the course would be a challenge. That reminds me that I need to see if my bag of 15 year old pastic still has anything usable in it and go to my local DG course.

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • But only play if the solenoid is working. A person has got to have standards.

  • Anyone else have computers by Digiview?

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  • It certainly doesn't help that they shared a name with the Amiga digital camera/scanner perhipheral. I found a listing in the July 2000 issue of Computer Shopper where "Bay Micro Computers" out of Torrance California was selling the aforementioned "beige box" AMD PCs with Digiview keyboards. One of the keyboards was on eBay, and it seems like a bog standard rebadged OEM membrane keyboard of the era.

  • [FIRE] Favourite form of combustion?

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  • LOL, I did not know about that, and it's stupid and cool.

    I just use THIS with the flame set higher than it strictly needs to be.

  • [FIRE] Favourite form of combustion?

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  • Butane lighters where it's under pressure and comes out like a little jet engine. It just makes my inner 12yo boy smile.

  • When should I stop watching the Mandalorian?

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  • It gets dumber after season 2, but it's still kinda fun. For live action SW shows, it's basically Andor >>> Mando S1-2 > Skeleton Crew >> everything else shuffled around according to personal taste.

  • Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More

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  • The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall... You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.

    When you do it right, you get "how did they do that on a TV budget!?" When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.

  • Is the game show "Deal or No Deal" rigged?

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  • Yeah, I suppose the real answer is "what will make good TV without blowing the budget," but I would just about bet the trendline for actual offers would be skimming a little bit below expected value.

  • Is the game show "Deal or No Deal" rigged?

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  • Run the math again. This game should be called "Discounted Actuarial Tables: The Game Show." At any given point, average the remaining amounts on the board, reduce it by ten to twenty percent, and you'll have the "banker's" offer. Like, if the player is down to $200k, $1, and $1000, the offer will probably be something around $55k to $60k.

    Over the long term, they get cost certainty and with some insurance they can run it like a casino and budget accordingly. It doesn't have to be rigged, and as someone else has said, American TV game shows are generally considered to be above-board in a "yes/no" sense due to the Quiz Show scandal of the late 1950s. However, this makes the game play for something like Deal or No Deal very, very boring, so they spice it up with fake drama and human interest.

  • A secret is something you keep, whilst a surprise is something you give.

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  • Yup! We called the good ones “happy secrets,” and they’re perfectly okay.

  • Your Lemmy/Reddit/Fetlife/etc profile is tied to your real name and browsable. How screwed are you?

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  • It would be annoying and some relationships that have withered might finally be snapped off and thrown away, but honestly while I appreciate the opportunity to say stuff online that I generally wouldn't want to be public knowledge, I say nothing that I couldn't handle being public knowledge. Probably a good rule of thumb, TBH.

  • Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

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  • Yeah, one of the interesting things I’m learning here is that a lot of folks just don’t see much value in something that shows formatted text but also obfuscates the encoding that lies behind it. It probably says something about me as a person that I want to style my text while doing first drafts, yet here we are.

    What distro/configuration did you use on the Zero? Right now, I’m fighting with mine to get something that loads fast but preserves the killer feature of Wordgrinder for me, which is the “proper” display of bold, italic, and underlined text.

  • Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

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  • I'm not sure to understand your requirements in regards to Markdown 'behind the scene'? I mean, if you don't need visual preview you should be able to use any text editor or word processor and save your work as a text file, right?

    It’s more that I don’t mind if the file format is markdown. I just don’t want stray asterisks and dashes visible on my doc as I’m editing it, but I want to have the option to use some of the style choices markdown offers. I’m also going to be running this on a pretty weak SBC, preferably with no mouse, so LibreOffice is not my first choice. From what I’m seeing, I am beginning to think I’ve identified the best apps for my use case to try out, between Wordgrinder, Word on DOSBox, and either AbiWord or Focuswriter in X11, but I was wondering if I’d overlooked some cool terminal-based word processor.

    I used an old ThinkPad (X220) that was more than powerful enough to smoothly run LO (edit: with whatever was the latest release of Debian), hooked to an external display because its own display was shitty at best.

    Mine will begin life as the ARM SBC screwed to the back of a 9” display and using one of my mechanical keyboards. If it works well, I’ll design and print a case for it, and maybe design a keyboard specifically for it. It’s as much an electronics tinkering project as a writing one.

  • I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some.

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  • I don’t remember exactly what I ordered, but it was from an independent shop and I think I picked the middle out of five options. I’m going to give it the full three weeks, but the narrow intermediate distance band, the swimmy effect on the near band when I move my head, and the dead zone in the lower corners are all very irritating.

    The prescription itself seems spot on; it’s just how the progressive is laid out. It’s on me for not realizing that aren’t just sort of linear, but it is — well — mildly infuriating.

    For the record, I’m very myopic, -2 and -4.25, with a fair amount of astigmatism, and +1.75 near. My last pair had like a +.75 but I don’t recall the same issues.

  • Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

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  • Typora is a good looking app, but I think I've probably got Focuswriter in mind if I go with a full graphical environment. Typora is also a "proper" markdown editor in that it's not hiding the code characters, though I like how it also implements them in the single pane. I can't seem to find a way to turn that off, and it's counter to the idea here, which is not quite WYSIWYG, but definitely farther in that direction. Thank you, though!

  • Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

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  • Obsidian is a bit heavy for what I'm after, which is barely a step above a "digital typewriter." I'd definitely have to run a window manager or DE, and I'd have to hide much of Obsidian's functionality anyway. Thank you though!

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • It didn't quite make me cry, but the ending of Planescape Torment got me right in my feels.