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I have a Mobiscribe, which is about this same size. I would like something closer to Letter size, but the smaller size is really handy for handheld use. I can easily hold the Mobiscribe in the palm of my hand and do work (typing on a keyboard, working a screwdriver, pounding my head against a wall) and not have to worry about fumbling my Mobiscribe. Do I think the price point on this Remarkable device is correct? Nope. I wouldn't buy it at this price.


All that text. So, so much text and not one single (maybe there was, but I fell asleep), not one single "Let me tell you what Zod is" paragraph. Lots of "Zod 4 is better than Zod 3" and "Here's what we pulled back, out, in, from Zod 2".


there's an 'Intro' link under the 'Documentation' header on the left side


"TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference"


I have a co-worker who is similar, needs to be about 3-4 inches from the screen. He had his monitor die, a 15" LCD, and the guys in IT 'did him a favor" and upgraded him to a 27" screen. He lasted all of an hour. Told IT it'll never work and they were confused until the saw and understood his use case.

I thought about these glasses, too, when I tore and detached my retina. With the surgery they drained me eye and my focal distance was initially maybe 1cm, and as my eye refilled the focal distance grew. At the time I wondered if sometime like Google Glass would work for me. I feel like there could be a lot of applications for these if they'll work with such short focal lengths.


I found only this: "A Time-independent Definition of Software Reliability"

https://a.co/d/0q7gkTo


oh good find! I went from that title to the Internet Archive version (pdf alert: https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/timeindependentd00we...) (legal because as stated in that Amazon description, the paper is in the public domain).

I am both convinced the author is quite smart and hope that the topic/audience of the book is very different from the paper because I would not survive 1000 pages of that.


Does this mean DNA is not really a double helix? It gets twisted because of the method of extraction?


The DNA strand is a double helix, but it also “supercoils”. Imagine a rope thats stretched taught. Even the straight rope has twisted braids. Thats akin to the DNA double helix. Then imagine twisting the rope until it starts to bunch and twist up on itself. That’s the supercoil. Of course the superstructure of DNA even more complex and dynamic than that


I always wonder why DNA never turns itself into a hard-to-undo knot (which is what invariably happens with headphone wires). Are these twists helping with that?


Part of the answer is the Histones (spools for DNA) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone

There are other protein complexes that keep the strand in proper shape and form. They unfold the strand periodically, and can cut and repair it as needed.

If my mind serves me correctly, it is part of gene regulation. Genes located in places of the strand that tend to form tight knots are "more difficult" to transcribe, so they express less, to some extent.


The twist probably does induce the kind of tangling that you mentioned. But, there’s a class of proteins called topoisomerases that allow the DNA to unwind itself via some very beautiful mechanisms.


Without directly addressing your question, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_number and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_supercoil

Note that math knots are always circular, while DNA is often not.


I know how to solder thru-hole. I have never done SMD, though I'd like to learn. How do I rate myself? I'm average to a little better than average, as in I'd never say to anyone "oh Yeah, I'm really good at soldering". More like, "oh, you didn't know how to solder? I can either do it for you or try and teach you the basics".


Yes, the one thing I was missing from all of this is what is the appropriate application for each joint


Same here. Open a text file in Notepad and the contents extend way past the edge of the screen. Open it in WordPad and turn on line wrapping.

Oh! Also, needing to open an RTF when Word wasn't installed.


Why not turn on wrapping in notepad?


Notepad wouldn't recognize Unix line endings and would interpret the whole file as one line. Word wrapping doesn't fix that.


There was also some weirdness where you could not have the status bar and word wrapping enabled at the same time.


Oh I see. Yes, I remember that.

FYI, notepad can cover this use case now, as it can handle more character encodings and line-endings.


Yes, 3 syllables versus 9 syllables. Funny, isn't it?


Because SQL (Structured Query Language) is the language used to access/manipulate the data, not the name for that kind of data. There have been, and are, many databases, which essentially use tabular data, which are not SQL database.


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