SiriusLi's comments

SiriusLi | 3 years ago | on: OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources

If you look up the review scores on Amazon, they mostly get 4+ stars. Other interest might be in play. This is a direct challenge to the textbook rent seeking behavior by some professors, e.g. write new edition each year to destroy the second hand market, use digital logins for exercise materials and so on.

SiriusLi | 3 years ago | on: RStudio is transitioning to Electron from QTWebEngine

I doubt this will be a step forward. RStudio performance was fine the way it was.

SiriusLi | 4 years ago | on: Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car

Sounds like a reason to buy your car in another country and import it.

SiriusLi | 4 years ago | on: JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains

Appears to me as a response to VS Code's remote capabilities.

SiriusLi | 4 years ago | on: Biological Batteries (1995)

Interesting! Reminds me of generating electricity with a lemon as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery