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First I thought to myself, "my daughter does this and it looks so cute". And only as a second thought, that your comment just proved itself.

Exactly this. Whenever macOS updates, I avoid any and all posts here, on Reddit, on wherever because it's just full of complaints and threats to leave macOS.

In the meantime, I update, note the minor (to me) changes and go about my work.


You're equals in that regard, but try riding a motorcycle one day. I live in a country where lanesplitting is legal. There's nothing quite like getting passed by an extremely expensive car, and then at the traffic lights, cut in front of it.

Sounds like an evolutionary advantage adapted by the Toxoplasma gondii in your brain to more efficiently deliver you to the big ghost cat in the sky.

It feels great until you die.

So do most nice things in life old boy.

[Honda Fireblade: throttle open and in the red, eyes closed and smiling.]


My ex isn't good with numbers but nevertheless she has a master in education. She has helped many, many children with learning deficiencies. For lots of people, the math is a significant barrier.

Very true, I don't want to presume of people ability.

I do believe though that being able to do a subtraction and a multiplication, even if both roughly approximated, for an adult in our current societies (as in not living like an hermit in the woods) is a very useful skill, even if just not get scammed while going shopping or to know how many items one can buy.

Again this isn't reciting the first 100 digits or Pi or doing (12345-12158) * 0.3223 in your head in .1s, rather it's about (~12300-12100) * .3 and knowing you should put about ~20 bucks in, not 1 buck nor 100, and if you want to be "safe" or "kind" to others you put 30 bucks, a very safe upper bound and be done with it.

OK maybe the 1st time you have to write it down. Maybe you even put your phone out and use the calculator but it should after a couple of times become pretty straightforward.

edit: if you don't have dyscalculia I think it's worth couple of seconds in your life because the ability does improve with practice and it's helpful in plenty of places.


Agreed, you will get screwed some day if you aren't able to make simple calculations by heart.

Of course they are. Lots of websites are pushing it, including while using dark patterns. You need to sometimes explicitly cancel an onboarding flow to avoid Passkeys.

I get what you're saying but please be friendly here.

Same, I'd love for the iOS version to be a little more developed. Especially support for plugins for dark mode and stuff. Safari for iOS does.


I wonder if it's legal to just park your tractor in a regular parking spot across your apartment. I'm European so we have small parking spots. But would a small tractor fit in the parking spot of the biggest Ford truck?


Tractors are tall but generally not that much wider or longer than a car. Small ones, especially, are pretty manageable.


Definitely


Perhaps they should've used something similar to the 9. However then it wouldn't really look like a lower-case g.


Here is how I would personally modify lowercase g:

   xxx
  x   x
  xxxxx
      x
  xxxx
It looks a bit like a 9 but the descender is different.

(Could play around with how many x's to put on the first and third lines, particularly whether to set the first/last bits on those lines as "corners" or make it more rounded.)

I would also modify the top of lowercase e in a similar fashion.


I might do something like this instead:

      xx
     x x
      xx
    x  x
     xx
A little awkward, but very distinct from the 9. The reason to narrow the head of it is to allow the end of the descender to rise upwards without turning it into an 8.


It depends on the level, though. You can easily ask AI to "Calculate intersection with X-axis for sin(2πx)" and I found many and I mean MANY errors in my textbook.


Could you share some?


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