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As much as I love writing on it, my reMarkable2 (which has already been annoying me with its response to being caught out in the rain a couple years ago, two laptops and another tablet in the same backpack shrugged it off with no trouble but the rM2 now gets days on a full battery charge instead of months) has a jammed power button and no other way to wake it from sleep, so it's time to retire it.
Samsung makes tablets with the same stylus technology so I picked up one of those, and it's... adequate. At least it's half the price and should be durable enough to handle living in a backpack and not just sitting on a desk and never going anywhere (and if this one dies, for the same price as a rM2 I can get a ruggedized one with a bigger screen)
The device I really want is the guts of the new color reMarkable in an enclosure that's actually as durable as a reasonable person would expect from a consumer electronics device at that price point, but capitalism says nobody will buy that, so I can't buy it.
Bah. Guess who spilled beer on their laptop? On a holiday weekend?
Fortunately (1) warranty service is one of the things Apple is good at and (2) I dual wield so I still have a computer while the Macbook is in for service.
Midterm 2 marks are posted. If I get a weighted average mark not less than -8.6% (yes, that's a negative minimum value) on the remaining coursework, I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.
(This update also includes reweighting the first two assignment marks, since assignment 4 did indeed happen. A3 marks are not out yet so not included here.)
Accidentally tarpitted prof's office hours by asking a question about one of the assignment problems. Turns out the obvious approach gives a non-physical result and he can't figure out why.
This sort of thing just follows me around, I'm not trying to cause trouble, I swear.
Does not follow the laws of physics. In this case, the electric field has a nonzero curl even though there are no changing magnetic fields, which violates Maxwell's Equations.
(If any physics nerds want details, I can give a description of the problem and why the result is non-physical, but I'll hold off on that until somebody asks.)
Based on what the prof said today, it sounds like I accidentally tarpitted his whole day, not just office hours.
In summary: The answer key for the textbook he got it out of has the naive, non-physical solution. He and the TA got far enough to confidently say that the correct solution is absolutely not an undergrad E&M problem.
Second assignment marks are out. (Looking at the calendar, I'm starting to think there won't be an assignment 4.)
First midterm (of two) is written but marks aren't out yet.
If I get a weighted average of 43.9% on the coursework for the rest of the term I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.
Was talking to an old coworker about what he's working on now over dinner today.
When I said "So you're basically building UUCP", he actually knew what I was talking about. I had thought he was younger than that.
One of these weeks, I'm going to wake up the morning after dojo night without my body reminding me that it's been two and a half years since I've been getting more exercise than walking on a regular basis.
This isn't feeling like the week.
If I average 50% in all my course work for the rest of the term, I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.
I expect the required average future mark to fall below 0% sometime in late November.
Me: OpenBSD because it's a no-nonsense system that just works and my computer is a tool, not a project.
Also me: I don't like the battery status reporting tools I've found, I'll make my own.
Also me: Why does all the prior art use polling? Time to look at the kernel source.
I think I now have a list of things that aren't in #OpenBSD base that I can't use a computer without: git and rsync.
Of course if I want to use the computer *for* something, that's a longer list.
Up for review at day job:
18 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 476 deletions(-)
I've done better absolute line deltas before, but that ratio might be a personal best.
Friendica is using BBCode for formatting of the postings @Dave for the ALT text of images, you can place the text in the middle of the [img][/img]-Tags. E.g.
[img=http://example.com/img/this_is_an_example.jpg]And this would be the ALT text for the image used on mouse over etc.[/img]
Have a look at your nodes BBCode documentation for more information about the implementation of the BBCode in Friendica, and things like the "abstracts" which other parts of the Fediverse use for CW.
