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by gbear605 6y ago
Some countries aren’t planning on lifting travel restrictions, or are planning on having mandatory quarantine for arrivals
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by gbear605 6y ago
Significant fractions of many coastal cities are under 3m above sea level. Even if they could put up walls, many seaside communities are also under 3m.
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by gbear605 6y ago
My understanding is that it in large part was done without AI because a lot of the input requests are too complex to summarize in any form other than language. “I work in an semi-casual office but I want to try adding some new colors to my
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by gbear605 6y ago
I’m still using my non-upgradable base model 2013 Macbook Pro, while I don’t know anyone still using a 7 year old Windows/Linux laptop, even an upgraded one. It’s fallen on a cement floor multiple times and has had no damage from that.
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by gbear605 6y ago
That’s a different sentence from “most companies don't really care about no. of cycles”
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by gbear605 6y ago
According to Stripe employees in the thread, the problem is that Stripe works in a heavily regulated industry (credit card processing) and that introduces difficulties that couldn’t be solved by paying people as contractors
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by gbear605 6y ago
Sounds like a pretty big exception
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by gbear605 6y ago
Educators are working their best, but that doesn’t mean that it is equal, because the stresses that have been put on students and educators are significant and can’t easily be worked around. Also some things are simply impossible to do remo
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by gbear605 6y ago
I believe three things: 1) In a normal situation, some people are equally productive or more productive working remotely, and they should be able to. 2) In the current situation, almost everyone is less productive working from home, because
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by gbear605 6y ago
School grades are testing something very different from data entry. We know as a species that our learning process is slow and error prone, so doing decently at that is good, and we don’t need to have 100% knowledge in a school subject. Mea
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by gbear605 6y ago
The guy in the article was able to do it recently. Why not the person you were replying to? (Besides the fact that now the guy in the article has done them all)
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by gbear605 6y ago
Unfortunately, TripleByte’s solution has nothing to do with technology. When a company is looking to hire, the reputation of TripleByte means that they can trust that whoever TripleByte gives them is high quality. It’s work just as well if
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by gbear605 6y ago
TripleByte is literally the perfect example of a company that should be centralized. They work because they have a reputation that companies can trust. Trying to make it decentralized takes away any value that TripleByte provides.
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by gbear605 6y ago
What’s the financial difference between those two?
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by gbear605 6y ago
I learned something today, thanks :)
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by gbear605 6y ago
My understanding (based on http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/833-HEI... ) is that HEIC is not built on patents while HEVC is, so HEVC is problematic to use, but HEIC isn’t.
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by gbear605 6y ago
No? It’s an ISO standard that’s separate from H.265. Maybe you’re thinking of HEVC, which is like that. (Alternatively I’m wrong, which is totally possible)
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by gbear605 6y ago
I don’t know the IB system, but AP tests are equivalent to testing students on a first semester college class. In computer science in the US, that means basic data structures and simple algorithms, and it’s been that way for the last thirty
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by gbear605 6y ago
The problem is that we already don’t care about the learning, just the credentials. Everyone making these accommodations is doing so because they know that there’s no point on holding students back when it doesn’t help anyone to do so. Cert
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by gbear605 6y ago
HEIC is a ISO standard that has a free codec.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Samsung uses it too. And the iPhone automatically converts it to jpegs, but the College Board’s form disabled that functionality.
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by gbear605 6y ago
HEIC has been in wide use for three years now (about half of Americans use it, knowingly or not), and this was a one line change on the upload form that the College Board didn’t include.
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by gbear605 6y ago
The only change they needed to make was one line on their upload form (according to comments elsewhere on the post). This wasn’t an Apple support issue, this was a lack of trying and sufficient testing on the College Board’s part.
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by gbear605 6y ago
HEIC isn’t a proprietary codec, it’s an ISO standard
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by gbear605 6y ago
Perhaps the examiner’s program accepts HEICs and the frontend was unnecessarily limiting. Many systems are like that, and it’s frustrating that the College Board’s wasn’t.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Was that all covered by your first semester course? Because if so, that’s more impressive than a first semester course and MIT, CMU, or Harvard, let alone what a public school can offer.
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by gbear605 6y ago
There are lots of website and apps where renaming the file is the best solution for an enduser, because of systems that are the counter part of this that limit the option on the frontend but allow it on the backend. There’s no reason why an
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by gbear605 6y ago
But that isn’t true about HEIC. There isn’t a license fee.
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by gbear605 6y ago
For a lot of jobs in the US, you have a pension where if you retire from the company after X years there (in this case 20 years), then they’ll pay you some fixed sum every month for the rest of your life. There isn’t a “retirement fund for
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by gbear605 6y ago
Maybe that’s true for you, but if the modern web apps didn’t exist, most average people would be downloading dozens or hundreds of miscellaneous apps. “Oh, I want to order a pizza on my computer, time to download the Domino’s app.” And then

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