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mazork··on The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
Deadlock is absolutely not a Team Fortress spiritual successor, it has much much more in common with Dota 2 than TF2, and is really full of interesting features and polish for where it's at in its development.
mazork··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Still no remote/bluetooth capabilities. That's the only thing that would make me upgrade, the third-party remotes you can buy are all pretty clunky (bulky clip on the side of the Kindle, need to be recharged often, can only flip forward as they just fake a swipe on the right of the screen).
mazork··on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece
I live in Montreal and I loved Dark Sky. So I'll disagree.
mazork··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
Gonna have to agree with the other reply, as a french-canadian, except for "servir comme un point de départ" which should be "servir de point de départ", that all sounds perfectly fine.
mazork··on Design of This Website (2021)
I mean, this has to be a joke right ? There is seemingly no way for me to go to the homepage from that link. This is less usable than anything else posted in these comments.
mazork··on My Life in E-Ink
I've read for hundreds if not a thousand hours on my Kobo Clara HD. I've never heard of Koreader, but from what I see it seems only really useful for PDFs ? I never read PDFs, only epubs, and it looks like on Koreader I would be missing stuff like chapter progress, length to read next chapter/rest of the book, marking finished books, etc.

Am I wrong in thinking all these quality of life things for simple book reading are not present on Koreader ?

mazork··on Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
If only they wouldn't be such *sses about Windows Phone maybe I would be able to keep up with my friends this way ...
mazork··on Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
Works like a charm on my Surface Pro 3. Incredibly impressed, One note doesn't recognize my handwriting well but this is incredible as a math undegrad !

As many have said, an open-source app would be a godsend.

mazork··on BB84 – A quantum key distribution scheme
Thanks, I'm gonna be attending UdeM next semester so I'm noting this down. Does this class require much CS education ? I'm going to be studying Mathematics but I have a good base of C#.
mazork··on Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
I agree with you. I have a lot of friends in bot pre-uni (as myself) and in techniques and I find it awesome how a CÉGEP strikes a good balance between general education and specific classes.
mazork··on Let's put the future behind us
The article was interesting, but am I alone thinking that those tenebrous, click-baity titles are bad ?