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by michaelt 10mo ago
> We surveyed students before releasing grades to capture their experience. [...] Only 13% preferred the AI oral format. 57% wanted traditional written exams. [...] 83% of students found the oral exam framework more stressful than a wr
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> I think people should have kids when they are ready. Make an assessment to the best of their ability when exactly that time has arrived. While I kinda agree with this, I've known some folks whose standard for 'ready' w
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> In the (a) case where they are actually having drivers sit idle, then they are reducing the throughput of their system significantly. If there are 50 deliveries per driver per shift and I want do deliver everything 5 minutes later, I
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> If browser F is worse at battery life than browser S, people will figure that out and adapt for themselves. Unfortunately, the makers of a certain browser also control several major web properties, and regularly make 'mistakes&#
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If you think wireless headphones are insecure today, I very much doubt connecting them directly to the internet would improve the situation.
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Once again proving that stealing $20 carries a longer sentence than white collar criminals stealing $200,000,000.
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The US doesn't need to pressure other nations to apply online censorship, because Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, Google and Apple app stores, Steam and suchlike are all American, and censored in line with Americ
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LZ77 compression (a key part of gzip and zip compression) uses a 'sliding window' where the compressor can tell the decompressor 'repeat the n bytes that appeared in the output stream m bytes ago'. The most widely used i
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Intel's market cap is US$ 174.96 Billion TSMC's market cap is US$ 1.560 Trillion It turns out when you are manufacturing nvidia's GPUs, Google's TPUs, AMD's CPUs and GPUs, Apple's processors, and the flagship s
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> AI has taken it to the next level. Previously, with many exams you would still have to know how to identify the concepts and related keywords in a word problem to even know what words to look for in the index of the books on hand befo
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Usually the train driver is in radio contact with central control and can request changes to the points, signals etc so they can make unscheduled stops. For example if there's a medical emergency on board and a passenger needs to be tr
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I've always felt it's unrealistic to separate upfront architecture from implementation, because my experience is a lot of systems turn out to have requirements that are a lot more complex in reality than they might seem at first,
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I think most governments do recognise food as both "strategic infrastructure" and absolutely vital to their re-election chances. European governments govern food supply with cash subsidies to farmers, land use rules helping farm
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> Cynical take - if you know you're lying, that's not optimism, that's cynical manipulation. Cynicaler take: That's how some companies fill their management with people who don't know when they're lying. A
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The real shot across the bow, for European politicians, was the US sanctions on International Criminal Court judges [1, 2] which cut them off from Visa and Mastercard - and got one judge's (European) bank account closed, because the ba
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It's pretty obvious how an insufficiently cynical person could end up badly off - they could send all that money to that deposed prince in Nigeria, or whatever. But the right optimism in the right situation can really pay off. Imagine
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Their hardware, huh? You're right, customers don't really own an iphone, even if they've paid $1000 for it.
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Tools for profiling, debugging, monitoring, thread analysis, and test coverage analysis can attach to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using the 'Tool Interface' If you've got a running java process on your local machine right
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> He sees an opportunity to let others do the work and investment to build platforms, then selectively swoop in to compete once the risk and investment pay off. Sure. Just as long as you agree Google and Apple let others do the work an
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If your requirements are “must have accurate time, must start with an inaccurate time, must not step time during operation, no atomic clocks, must not require a network connection, or a WWVB signal, must work without a GPS signal” then yes,
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Some fields of engineering have long had roles with names like that. Want to do something with motors, but don’t know how to calculate the right combination of motor, gearbox, brake, encoder and controller? Maxon’s sales engineers will happ
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When I take a job, I agree to dedicate my waking hours to advancing the agenda of my employer, in exchange for cash.
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> The tents were never in the lake. A few inches of the campsite was in the lake at high water. [...] Those words don't appear anywhere. Try looking at the actual words and not just your mental images. I think some people are inte
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> I think the solution is pretty obvious, TBH. Pay people to take care of their family with disabilities. Maybe, but we do also need a way to deal with people whose problems can’t be managed in a family setting. If a person is prone to
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> They can also run close to 24/7. In practice, if you provide enough cars to meet the demand to travel from suburbs to city at 7am-9am and back again 8 hours later, I’d expect a large fraction of them to be idle outside of peak h
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In the most central (and expensive) parts of London - “Zone 1”, where all the famous landmarks are - that is indeed a safe assumption. But go to a less central area, like Hendon and you’re still very much within London, but every street is
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> For example, is loss of contact with the control center a stop condition? Almost certainly no - you don’t want the vehicle to enter a tunnel, then stop half way through due to a lack of cell signal. Rather, areas where signal dropout
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Doesn’t having lots of people involved also raise the chance of incompetence? You’re more likely to get at least one inept agent in a random sample of 1000 than a sample of 10.
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Believe me, the average Fortune 500 CEO does not know or care what “SSL MITM” is, or whether passwords should contain symbols and be changed monthly, or what the difference is between ‘VPN’ and ‘Zero Trust’. They delegate that stuff. To t
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> And you have to work around that, because IT dept of the corporation will never lift restrictions. Unless the corporation is 100% in-office, I’d wager they do in fact make exceptions - otherwise they wouldn’t have a working videoconf

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