I’ve used LyX with good results, it’s a GUI that abstracts away many of the complexities of latex.

Unless there are security updates to install, then everything will be mercilessly killed

Looks like real hands but not her hands

I float!

European here, I suggest Bosch or Electrolux, if that’s available in your part of the world.

Jeans in the dryer? They’ll definitely shrink that way.

I think you commented on the wrong post Edit: nevermind, these are spam links that they bypass the spam filter by starting with some random text.

What a time to be a predator

I have a 10 year old Canon MP280 still going strong. It’s one of the ultra cheap ones, I believe originally sold for something like 20$ at a sale. The only problem it has nowadays is that it occasionally makes some ink blotches in a corner of the page.

separate processor with hundreds of cores

Well, graphics rendering is very suited for parallelism. That’s why GPUs were invented.

Most other tasks are not. Most of the cores in a 128-core JPU would end up being unused. Also why JPU? It’s not like it’s significantly different from a normal CPU task.

Look up preemptive task scheduling. Basic processes will get interrupted after using a too long time slice.

Yeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.

Re: the image in this article:

Why are these QFP chips through-hole? Looks like the bastard child of QFP and DIP.

Under Santa’s hat

Hmm you need to download some more RAM

There’s another aspect than size that I feel people overlook: security updates. When e.g. libcurl is duplicated in a million places, how do you update them all when a critical security issue is discovered in it? Who will update all the random flatpaks, snaps and docker images that happen to include it?

Agree with you fully on the shortcut front, and it’s very confusing that ctrl is separate from the command key. The whole keyboard layout is also a nightmare, but this is probably because I’m in Sweden, where the Swedish mac keyboard layout is radically different from the normal Swedish keyboard layout that all other computers use. When I help out someone with programming on a mac, I always end up telling them “please press pipe” or tilde, braces, backslash, or even at-sign, as these are not printed on the keys. They are accessible through the option key, but you’ll have to test all combinations to find which one is where and memorize this.

I looked up the backgammon start position, since then all Google wants to sell me is backgammon boards.

If you run testing or unstable there will be updates available very very often. But, you choose when to update, you don’t need to update anytime an update is available.

You should know what you’re doing and expect this if you’re running it. Otherwise, you should use stable. With stable, you’ll typically just have security updates until you choose to update to the next stable, which typically is released every other year.

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