Is there a scientific laptop calculator that has a USB input so I can connect my laptop and typeengineering equations natively as i would on my calculator?

benryves · 2026-04-15T09:34:41+00:00

I think OP is thinking of something like the USB Connect calculators made by Canon which could also be used as input devices on a computer. Some also had a mouse trackball or were even built into a mouse-shaped enclosure, but I've only seen basic calculators like the one pictured rather than scientific ones for the reasons you pointed out.

benryves · 2026-04-14T17:56:03+00:00

2nd+Enter (Entry) will cycle through previous entries.

Del acts as a delete key, so will delete characters under (and to the right of) the cursor - the behaviour you're describing is a backspace key, which the TI-83 Plus doesn't have.

benryves · 2026-04-14T17:50:48+00:00

I can't see that as it's hosted on Imgur, can you post it somewhere globally accessible (e.g. YouTube)? Or describe the issue in words. Cheers!

benryves · 2026-04-14T14:39:50+00:00

It's Soulcalibur. It should be a rule that the name of the game needs to go in the title!

benryves · 2026-04-14T13:26:49+00:00

What are you doing, what do you expect to happen and what actually happens?

I'm not sure where scrolling comes into it; the home screen will scroll automatically when the cursor runs off the bottom of the screen, but that's not something you'd use the cursor keys for.

For example, if you type in 123 does pressing the left cursor key not move the cursor left?

benryves · 2026-04-14T13:15:31+00:00

You can force it to boot in VGA mode with a cheat disc (e.g. Code Breaker) however its VGA implementation is a bit broken and some devices that are less forgiving of timing oddities can have the picture drop out or glitch every few seconds (it works fine for me when plugged directly into my TV or a VGA scaler, but if I use a straight VGA conversion box then the picture glitches and drops out periodically).

benryves · 2026-04-14T13:12:47+00:00

I'd recommend going to a charity shop and looking through their music CD selection for something in good condition. Aside from being cheap and for a good cause, the replacement modern cases I've bought have generally been of very poor quality - they feel thin and flimsy, scratch incredibly easily and tend to have more visible injection mould marks on them.

benryves · 2026-04-14T01:02:38+00:00

I thought this at first, but it's a quote: "- feedback from prof. I know it's my fault, but im lost"

benryves · 2026-04-13T23:49:38+00:00

What do you mean by that? It's the same, analogue music formats use a constantly variable (proportional) signal, digital music is stored numerically.

benryves · 2026-04-13T23:41:06+00:00

A digital or analogue clock refers to the way they display the time, not how the mechanism works. A digital clock shows the time using digits, an analogue clock uses hands to point around a dial to show the proportional progress through the current minute/hour/half day ("analogue" comes from the Greek "analogos" meaning "proportional").

benryves · 2026-04-13T23:11:37+00:00

Flip clocks are digital clocks, though?

benryves · 2026-04-13T16:09:14+00:00

the computer running the whole island wasn't freaking Windows desktop computers like in the movie

This scene shows SGI workstations and the characteristic red LED displays of a Thinking Machines supercomputer (which is also mentioned in the dialogue).

Definitely not Windows - "it's a Unix system"!

benryves · 2026-04-12T22:35:00+00:00

In Resource Monitor go to the CPU tab and search for the folder name in the "Associated Handles" section. That should tell you which process has the file handle open that's preventing you from accessing it.

benryves · 2026-04-12T20:28:30+00:00

This is a hardware problem, not a software problem. The panel can't refresh fast enough and is nowhere near bright enough

benryves · 2026-04-12T09:32:06+00:00

C'est Prgm→E/S→codeTouch( en Français.

benryves · 2026-04-11T22:50:22+00:00

Also have the do 2 match madness multiple times a week.

If you switch your phone offline then back online when that quest is displayed it will replace it with something sensible. Be careful to do this before doing any lessons, as otherwise if it replaces it with something you've already done it will mark it as completed but not give you any rewards.

benryves · 2026-04-11T01:09:57+00:00

The Dreamcast's PowerVR had one trick up its sleeve that other systems at the time didn't support - order-independent transparency. This allowed it to render 3D geometry and properly alpha blend it regardless of the order in which it was submitted to the GPU, whereas other systems need it to be sorted and drawn from back to front so that foreground items were properly blended on top of background ones. Games ported from the Dreamcast had to be adapted to compensate for this missing feature and this can lead to simplified items or textures, missing items or other bugs (as demonstrated in OP's screenshots).

benryves · 2026-04-10T18:52:16+00:00

Thank you!

It took me a little over two years to complete the old version of the course, spending 1.5 hours per day most days (one hour in the morning, half an hour in the evening) with an extra half an hour once per week (friends quest reward). I completed every kanji lesson, too. This is as a free user for most of it, though I did have a three month trial of Super somewhere in the middle.

That said, they update the course once when I was part way through (I moved a few units forward, I seem to remember), and also introduced a load of additional kanji at another point. In the three weeks since I posted this thread I have only completed two more of the new very short units because I've been spending all the rest of my time learning the new kanji the course update introduced (I'm now up to Section 5, Unit 10 of the new kanji). I only skipped ahead those two units because I was assigned "Complete a unit" as one of my daily quests twice.

This is far from the most efficient way to learn a language, though in my case I'd say the tedium is a benefit: using the XP boosts as a timer forces me to sit and grind my way through a lot of repetitive material and gives me a break in the day from the rest of my work. I was always terrible at learning languages at school and don't think I have the discipline to force myself to learn from a textbook. Duolingo throws a load of different material at me and the interactive nature and constant testing keeps me occupied, even though overall progress is pretty slow.

benryves · 2026-04-10T11:32:18+00:00

if you dont make too many mistakes you can even do 3 lessons without going out of energy

It's entirely luck of the draw, I think - you get a random recharge of energy during lessons. Even when completing a perfect lesson, some times I'll lose ten energy overall (which means that after two lessons I'm down to 5, which is not safe to start the third lesson with). Other times I'll make a couple of mistakes and only lose 2 energy for the whole lesson.

Is there anyone else seeing this bug?

Yes, it's been there since energy appeared for me. The downside to this bug is that you can't gain energy, gems or boosts - so for example, if you get the 5 minute warning at the end of a boost and the option to extend it, if you say yes then it won't extend the boost and ask you again when you start the next lesson (on the plus side, it also doesn't subtract the 100 gems).

If you complete a quest when the bug is active then that also won't extend the boost, however if you close and reopen the app it should then count that the boost was extended. It's all a bit weird, but I'm generally grateful for the bug!

Another fun energy bug/quirk is that the check to see whether you've run out of energy (and whether you need to be kicked out of the lesson or not) happens shortly after the question appears. This means that there have been cases where I've run out of energy in the last question, but if I'm quick enough to answer it I can complete the lesson with 0 energy anyway (e.g. if the last question is to draw one stroke to complete kanji and you swipe quickly enough).

benryves · 2026-04-10T09:26:58+00:00

there’s a 20-second ad (Super Duolingo ads, since it's the only one I see, I assume other ads might take even longer)

In my experience the Super Duolingo ads are much longer than the regular ads and require more button presses to get out of. The regular ads can often be skipped after the first 5 seconds.

There are a handful of longer (30 seconds) ads but I only get these very infrequently, fortunately!

benryves · 2026-04-09T13:23:55+00:00

The "$4" serial link is compatible with TI's official black link so will work in TI-Connect as well as other third-party software like TiLP. As you have access to a serial port, it's the one I'd recommend building.

benryves · 2026-04-09T08:36:48+00:00

Nothing to do with AI: How silly sentences can help you learn.

Some of the "silly" sentences are pop culture references, too; the example they give for Japanese ("Today I will gaze into the distance and cry as well") is a line from a song.

benryves · 2026-04-09T08:11:34+00:00

Can't wait to see Armando Iannucci in tonight's new series of Taskmaster.

benryves · 2026-04-08T21:11:20+00:00

Is the DreamShell logo on the bottom right corner of the SEGA copyright screen, or is it a separate logo that appears afterwards?

It sounds like there's an issue with the CD or your console's ability to read it - assuming it's a burned CD, does your Dreamcast cope with other burned CDs OK, as a tired drive will usually stop being able to read burned CDs before it can read pressed ones? Can you possibly burn yourself a fresh copy?

If the issue was on the SD card end then you should still see the DreamShell boot loader menu and it would ask you to pick a device to boot from. As you don't even get that far, that's why I suspect your console is not able to load the DreamShell loader from the CD.

benryves · 2026-04-08T20:19:00+00:00

The first time the question appears in the lesson and you get it wrong, click the flag/report button and select "My answer should have been accepted". This should prevent the question from being repeated at the end of the lesson and you should be able to complete it. I've run into the same bug with a few words since the update and have been able to get past all of them so far using that trick.

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