The monitor stand and wheels for the Mac are targeted towards businesses. The same kinds of businesses that will spend $1000 per chair on ugly and uncomfortable office chairs.

It means you have to learn a lot very quickly, which is hard.

99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

I would just sit for a minute

I find achievement hunting to be fun, although it’s better if the achievements are interesting

There’s a huge difference between making a PCB and a modern processor.

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Prism Launcher shows up in flat hub (the “app store” that comes with Bazzite).

It manages different Minecraft instances of different versions, and helps manage mods, texture packs, shaderpacks, etc.

(But in general, all versions of Minecraft: Java Edition support Linux, and most if not all Minecraft launchers, including the official one, support Linux)

Yes Steam is the main tool Im using to run games, even non-Steam games.

Bazzite also comes with Lutris which will set up some wine wrappers for you, which work fine, but Steam gives you things like Steam Input. I’ve never seen a controller mapper as good as Steam Input.

I don’t know what the performance comparison between Valve’s Proton and current FOSS variants of Wine is.

My current workflow is to use Lutris to manage games from GoG (no GoG Galaxy on Linux). I install them via Lutris, and then add them as non-Steam games to Steam, which lets me use Proton and Steam Input. The only game I’ve installed so far that I’m not running through Steam right now is Minecraft.

The only loss is I can’t run Destiny 2 on Linux due to its invasive anti-cheat, but I was on the verge of quitting D2 anyway. Note that some games with invasive anti-cheat can still be run through proton, it depends on the specifics.

I’m trying out Bazzite, and although it does take a little tweaking sometimes, I haven’t encountered a game I can’t run yet, including features like HDR and DLSS.

Probably necessary for driving in Boston

I launched 2 million people into your mom last night

Coffee and some kind of pastry.

I have broken off one of the door handles on my car.

Virtually at least once a week.

In person, about once a month.

Who cares about solving lost and unprovable theorems — how do these help anyone?

I moved this one first because it’s the most important to answer. A lot of esoteric math does end up leading to useful results in science, engineering, or computer science. A lot of breakthroughs in physics, especially historically, came from breakthroughs in math. A lot of computer science, such as error correction and encryption, came from what was previously esoteric mathematics.

Why does the 3-4-5 triangle work out cleanly, and yet π and e are irrational?

There kinda isn’t a satisfying answer to this; it just turns out that’s how the world works. Some important questions have nice integer answers, and some don’t.

How can 0.999… and 1 be exactly the same number?

0.999… == 1 because there is no number in between 1 and 0.999… therefore they must be the same number.

For any two numbers that aren’t equal, you can find numbers between them (specifically do something like a*0.5 + b*0.5). You can’t define 0.999… as something like “the largest number less than 1” because there is no such number, because if you found such a number, you could find another number between it and 1.

However, there are some situations where the idea of “0.999…” might have some meaning, if you interpret it as “taking the limit of something as it approaches 1 from below”. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-sided_limit for some examples. These examples are mostly centered around 0, but if you moved it to be centered around 1, you would get a function where f(0.999…) ≠ f(1.000…1) with f(1) not having a well defined value.

But because 0.999… is not the commonly accepted notation for that limit, some people reading your work would be confused. In the end it’s a matter of language: agreeing on a meaning for symbols so you can communicate your ideas clearly.

Sounds like you might be dyslexic.

Yep…

Except that every so often my graphics drivers get messed up somehow and I need to spend the afternoon debugging it. Tbf this has happened to me on Windows too, although less often.

Just use Wolfram Alpha instead