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Comment Re:Time to drop intel support (Score 1) 125

I have one of the last Intel mac models. It's served a good life.
An ARM based replacement will be no use since it doesn't have the specific CPU instructions I need and use. A windows laptop is no replacement because programming on windows is a shit show - MS C doesn't even have getopt. My windows builds for my command line tools have to use a replacement getopt library (ya_getopt) because visual studio doesn't doesn't have this library that is in the K&R C book FFS.

I'm on a Linux based Framework 16 now. I can code and browse and bash behaves like bash.

Comment Re:How much did this study cost? (Score 1) 69

When a physicist at a university turns their diagnostic tools to mundane every day things, rather than say quantum particle collisions, the difficulty of doing the experiment is usually going to be much easier. However it can have good consequences for the rest of us.

For example an Italian guy decided to take a look at how filter paper under an espresso puck affects the espresso. Here . This showed that the puck improves extraction and reduces channeling. It's a simple thing to do and it has helped me with making good espresso in the morning.

So I'm happy that this sort of research gets done.

Comment Re:How much did this study cost? (Score 1) 69

You could have just listened to any one who cooks alot and actually invests & maintains good knives vs blowing $$ on this dumb ass study. I never had tear issues cutting onions

I didn't have to. I have good knives. I sharpen them. I cut onions. Knowing something to be true is different to knowing why something is true.

Comment Re:Were? (Score 1) 140

If I were a teacher - I'd simply make the final exam worth enough points to drop the grade by at least a full letter if failed and force that exam to be pencil/paper only.

I did school in the UK and exactly 100% of my grades depended on only the final exams.
It seems pretty cruel to expect students to perform great all year, every year in order to get optimal grades.

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