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by cbsks 2y ago
Maybe private universities, but certainly not the public university I went to. People with low incomes financed their education with loans, not scholarships.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Looks like Yale is 75k https://finaid.yale.edu/costs-affordability/affordability . Harvard is 85k, but students still need a job https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works Stanford is
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by cbsks 2y ago
It’s for families making less than 300k. MIT has full scholarships for families making less than 140k https://sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-atten... Besides the 2 other medical schools mentioned in the
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by cbsks 2y ago
QNX Muon removed the global kernel lock so it has much better multi-core performance.
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by cbsks 2y ago
I don’t have any complaints about their app on Apple TV. What platform(s) does it suck on?
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by cbsks 2y ago
Maybe this is it? https://torrentfreak.com/key-defendant-in-annas-archive-laws... > On information and belief, in addition to her extensive online presence, she has a GitHub (a software code hosting platform) account cal
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by cbsks 2y ago
Source? I’m not aware of that restriction. Self-hosting xpi files is definitely allowed, and all xpi files are signed by Mozilla. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/self-dis...
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by cbsks 2y ago
Deep breath... the extensions are still signed. If Mozilla refuses to sign the extensions, then we can pick up the pitchforks again.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Looks like the extensions are still available in the US: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/censor-tracke... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/%D0%BE%D0
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by cbsks 2y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing > Is this a way for Mozilla to censor add-ons they don't like, enforce copyright, government demands, etc.? > No, the purpose of this is to protect users fr
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by cbsks 2y ago
Here’s the repo list: https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt It’s a lot.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Not surprisingly, they already have these backup plans. The potential for RCS jet failure was known ahead of time and was determined to not be a flight safety concern. There’s a bunch of info about it here: https://spaceflightnow
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by cbsks 2y ago
When I was young and naïve.
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by cbsks 2y ago
I find it interesting that if a random person had made a program the takes screenshots of their desktop periodically, does OCR, and locally trains an LLM on the output, it would have been a super cool project that nobody would have an issue
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by cbsks 2y ago
Image search for “foosball table” shows lots of tables with 3 goalies. The one I played on as a kid had 3 goalies as well.
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by cbsks 2y ago
It’s a systemd service: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/tmpf... You will have to disable it separately. From the article: “To stop periodic cleanups of /tmp and /var&#x2
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by cbsks 2y ago
I see ads on articles on the News+ tab. I’m canceling it before my free subscription ends. Very disappointed.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Any time you see a command starting with “sudo” and with a path of “/“ in the arguments, alarm bells should be going off. Here be dragons.
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by cbsks 2y ago
To save the rest of us from the same fate, ‘rm -rf /‘ has been disabled by default since coreutils 6.2 in 2006: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commi...
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by cbsks 2y ago
“Flying Cars Are Here, And You Can Buy This One For Less Than $100,000” - Forbes Total Price: $128,000 Hmmm…
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by cbsks 2y ago
As my EE professor used to say, the problem is that once the magic smoke gets released, it’s super difficult to put back in.
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by cbsks 2y ago
On iOS, Orion with uBlock Origin works well.
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by cbsks 2y ago
Or maybe Twitter would have also pushed back, but it wouldn’t have been news because Elon wouldn’t have been involved.
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by cbsks 3y ago
I bet you’ll remember it now though :)
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by cbsks 3y ago
That’s super impressive! I have spent many hours optimizing embedded boot times, but it’s amazing how much faster it can be when the hardware is virtualized!
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by cbsks 3y ago
Note that not everyone is getting a raise, only those making minimum wage.
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by cbsks 3y ago
> The buying power of the US Dollar has declined to about a fiftieth since then This shows the buying power decline since 1963 as about 1/10, not 1/50. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&ye
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by cbsks 3y ago
No kids I assume?
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by cbsks 3y ago
Could you share your script? That sounds really useful!
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by cbsks 3y ago
Is that transferred to an external server?

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