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Only if the student even cares to proofread for something like that in the middle of a big, probably poorly formatted, block of text pasted into a small-ish text box.
Re:New Pebble Device on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:14PM (#46211477)
They explicitly address this in the article:

"Initially, we experimented by building this as an app on Pebble, since it has a mic and I’m always wearing one. But, I realized quickly that this was suboptimal - it required me to use my other hand to press the button to start recording (lift-to-wake gestures and wake-words are too unreliable). This was tough to use while bicycling or carrying stuff."

This interacts directly with the Pebble App, so I would be shocked if the watches never get an equivalent app.

Alternate opinion: these URLs read as "spammy" to me and I would be less likely to click on them.

It would be apropos to at least have an "about" dialog somewhere, or maybe one of those "quick tour" popups.

Re:The Tongue Is a Fire on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:48AM (#44030493)
Winning with a 49.8% popular vote is hardly a "mandate".
Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @06:42PM (#42199355)
And Nativescript.
Re:A List of Ternary Operators on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:44PM (#42055447)
How about SQL joins? "foo JOIN bar ON foo.id = bar.fooid"
Re:A List of Ternary Operators on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:37PM (#42055393)
I don't think they're saying that such a range function is itself a ternary, but using that as a lead-in to discussing the Frink ("1 to 100 step 15") and Elixir ("1..10//2") syntaxes.
Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:24AM (#41971992)
Dangit, I had finally gotten good at The Game.
For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo provides an app tracking blocker for Android that implements itself as an on-device pseudo-VPN and blocks known tracking services. No containerization/sandboxing, but it's a start.

https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-app-tracking-protectio...

Re:Why Are Sloths So Slow? on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:35PM (#40472221)
A harmful attribute on its own can be advantageous when combined with others. Think of it as finding a new "local maxima" in the sum total of evolutionary traits. Being (probably randomly) near-blind may have led to being slow and careful, which was the temperament needed to survive climbing trees, which got them away from ground-based predators and found them a lot of leaves ground sloths couldn't reach.

Evolution is basically a random-walk algorithm to find combinations that work.

I've definitely seen high school seniors get a big head!
Re:You Can Hear the Temperature of Water on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:07AM (#40340504)
I'd guess much of this difference is also due to the fats in the cheese & meats solidifying at cold temperatures, and thus less readily coating taste receptors.
Re:Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional? on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:09PM (#40077674)
For me, .NET Core has been largely solving this problem over time. In classic .NET Framework it was nearly impossible to make something without Visual Studio's arcane templates. The `dotnet` command simplifies a lot of that, and projects have a lot less boilerplate.