So Canada used to have a party called the Conservative Party (they do now too again). They wanted a guy named John Bracken who was Premier of Manitoba under the Progressive party of Manitoba to be leader. He wouldn't agree until they put Progressive in their name. So they did and Conservative Party became the Progressive Conservative Party until they merged with the Reform Party and went back to being called the Conservative Party. Some provinces still have a PC party.
My databases course was very much a "select * from users" kinda course. Oh there was a little bit about good practice for relational DBs and what not but I wouldn't call it a math class. Obviously this is going to depend on your school, program, etc. I took a lot of math and CS besides my discrete math CS course and algorithms I wouldn't really call them math courses any more than I would economics or chemistry. Sure there's math sometimes but it's not the focus.
General electives like a math major having to take a literature course is very different from a core required piece of the major being literature.
Pizza Pizza? That was something they used to advertise a lot. I know in the GTA the number is (or was) 967-11-11. I think the exchange could vary from place to place but it always ended in 1111.
There are quiz things. The online textbook ones do more than multiple choice like you can have questions where students enter a formula, or they deal with questions where students might have to enter a number but they need to account for students rounding etc. They also can randomize questions or parts of questions so Joe sees "Kelly has 8 balls" and Sally sees "Kelly has 5". But there are open source systems like LON-CAPA that will do all that too. But the book published ones come with giant quiz banks full with questions relevant to the subject/book used while the open source ones require you to make your own or scour for other people's. The school also doesn't have to host it. And of course no one needs to mark it except in the situations where it fucks up. It's an attractive cheap solution for schools and departments at the cost of the students which kinda sucks.
Course notes are typically posted by the prof if they want on services like Blackboard or Brightspace or Moodle. My university student union had a random PC with an old exam bank.
I don't know any Chinese really so I can't comment too much. Taiwan has a syallbary called Bopomofo and PRC has Pinyin but I think those are only really ever used for typing/teaching. Parts of Chinese characters do have a phonetic component typically and from what I've heard this maps better onto Chinese than Japanese where possible sound could have very little or nothing to do with the phonetic component. So you could maybe write another character with that component maybe?
Japanese has a couple syllabary to fall back on. If you don't know the Kanji for a word you can use the hiragana/katakana version which is pretty much 1:1 with how it sounds. If you use too much hiragana can become a bit unpleasant to read though.
Its not the first time Intel tried this. They did it in 2010 and 2011 with the Intel Upgrade Service except it focused on low-end consumer hardware instead of high-end server/workstation gear. I hope it fails here too.
There's some interesting devices these days. The foldables are super cool and is not something we had 4 years ago. They just cost too much and are too fragile...
That's just flagship phones these days. An iPhone 13 Pro Max is more expensive than an M1 MBA too. Even the regular Pro is the same price. In the US too.
It's the best performing PC in that form factor and has actually good enough battery life. It's not GBA battery life but it's on par with the V1 Switch, the Vita and the PSP and considerably better than It's PC competition which are more like 1-2 hrs vs. 3-5. It's also the fastest and costs considerably less. Performance seems good for a PC half the price of even a cheap gaming laptop that's also considerably smaller. The only difference between tiers is storage with the base model having eMMC and the upper ones having NVME.
And we haven't even talked about software like resume feature yet. If that works it will fix my biggest pain point about PC gaming.
My Garmin watch is like that. If you want Japanese language support you have to buy the japanese model which is obiviously only for sale in Japan. So dumb that I can't just flash the japanese firmware on. Instead I have support for Russian which I have no need for.
The advantage IMO is that programs don't care what physical drive they are on. On the Windows side I've run into a few that refuse to be installed on anything BUT C: even if D: or E: is a perfectly good or maybe even the same HDD.
You don't need to constantly think about exactly what you need to see. Nor do I need to fiddle with arrangements. There's less fiddling. With the WM I use every window is available in every frame and I can just cycle through them. I don't need to remember what a window is called or distinguish between 5 nearly identical thumbnails because I'm cycling through the windows at full size instead of looking at list or expose. I don't need to think about what monitor some window is on or what virtual desktop and there's never any visible clutter or noise because anything that's not something I want to look at is just not visible.
I like iOS better than macOS. Has pen input. The Pro has TB3, granted 1 port but better than the 2015 MacBook. Most of it's problems are completely artificial limitations placed there by Apple. If they just loosened those I'd pick the iPad every time. It's a more flexible form factor held back by software to avoid cutting into Mac and App Store revenue.
There is actually an ancient Greek translation of the the philosopher's stone! What's cool is they even edited the original UK cover where it says Hogwarts Express to say it in ancient Greek.
Ubuntu's version of GNOME X11 handles it pretty well. You can workaround it similarly in other DEs/WMs by mucking around with xrandr (I forget exactly). I have an Nvidia card and last time I tried Wayland was just not usable. I also hate how at this point we have 3 choices for Wayland WMs compared to what is probably hundreds for X11. I did get frustrated with mixed DPI on Linux and just ended up replacing my 4K monitor with a 1440p one.
What's also kinda sad and funny is that X11 has had from day 1 support for different DPIs on different displays. But most programs just ignore X11s DPI setting and assume it's 96ppi. It also conflicts with modern multi-monitor on Linux which essentially fakes one giant display so you can drag windows across. There is some drawbacks but if you config each monitor to be a separate X11 display with the proper DPI and use compatible programs like Alacritty it kinda just sorta works.
No, I hadn't heard of it. Windows 11 also sort of works around it you just have to wait a few seconds for it to rejigger the windows so I no longer need a workaround. I did use it with tiling window manager (stumpWM) on Linux but that just resulted in an even worse problem where I couldn't even use the 2nd monitor after returning from sleep.
I would also pay attention to reviews and keep an eye out for problems like DisplayPort deep sleep. I have two monitors, one goes into DP deep sleep with no way to disable and the other doesn't. The monitor that doesn't will always wake first and all windows will end up moved onto that monitor since the DP deep sleep monitor is technically "off" for a few seconds. As you can imagine reorganizing all your windows every time you come out of sleep is a bit of a PITA. Fortunately this is one area where Windows 11 helps as they added some feature to better help laptops reconnect to external displays. It's still a problem on other OSs IME though.
If you don't need to edit the actual text or content of the document there's a lot of tools like pdftk and ghostscript that can flip, resize, compress and split PDFs.
You could always do something like:
int divRes = IntA/intB;
double something = divRes*5.342;
At the very least it could warn me. I just tried it in rust and that will error out if you try to divide two ints and store the result in a float which is fine by me.
Okay. But I'm storing it in a variable explicitly declared to be a double. That should be enough. If I divide two integers in python or R or Julia or a dollar store calculator I don't get an integer and I don't even have to explicitly type the variable. You have to know that C++ will do that. It's not common sense just like R recycling shorter vectors.
Is this really a unique to R or do all programming languages have some foibles? For example I spent an hour recently debugging C++ because I forgot that it loves to do integer division despite the fact it's going into an explicitly typed double. No error, no warning. You just have to know and I highly doubt it's desired behavior for most cases.
Most researchers are not programmers and don't care about programming. It's a tool to get the job done and I think you'd run into similar problems with other languages.
There isn't a built in way. That's not what Apple wants to happen so fuck the user I guess. Someone has written a script that monitors for if the lid is closed and puts it to sleep. I haven't personally tried it though.