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by mod50ack 7y ago
I think the comment is saying that that freedom began in college, but that freedom is still exciting and new.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Fundamental misunderstanding of how it works, I think. You're not paying for a transfer of information from professor to student. You need to engage with the material and make arguments. That's crucial in that field.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
(relatively) fine for the class attendance (although I still don't feel comfortable with that kind of mechanism for doing it). But the article talks about interventions based on a constant monitoring under the guise of "caring abo
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by mod50ack 7y ago
It's possible but not in large lecture courses. I took a class with <15 people and our prof was so kind as to essentially let us get in our proofs whenever (which was an absolute lifesaver). But at that scale you of course can tell
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by mod50ack 7y ago
I'm a college student myself (my university, as far as I'm aware, has no system such as this). As far as I'm concerned, it's both an insidious creep of social-credit policy and a gross invasion of student privacy. It tre
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines(washingtonpost.com)
266 points by mod50ack 7y ago|278 comments
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Hardly been "well known for over a decade". A decade ago, Rosetta was well-supported. The dropping of Rosetta support in Lion was quasi-abrupt, but understandable (it arose from a licensing concern after the tech was acquired). Th
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by mod50ack 7y ago
So far from the case. Your kids' school can't use a .edu domain because this is reserved for use by higher education bodies. If your kids were university students, they'd be using .edu, I guarantee it. Every reputable institu
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by mod50ack 7y ago
I'm a .org domain user. My email is a .org, my website is a .org. It's [my name].org. I've registered through 2029 now. Hopefully by then this whole nonsense has passed. Honestly domain names have been handled very poorly ove
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Conversely, I was able to use a service of this kind to reconnect branches of my family separated by genocide. And I personally don't mind if the police have my DNA. If some cousin of mine committed a crime, and this helps them somehow
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by mod50ack 7y ago
So, this is just a link to a webview without any chrome (UI chrome, not the browser backend)? Does this or does it not include a chromium runtime? If it does, it's incredibly wasteful, just like electron. If it doesn't, congratula
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by mod50ack 7y ago
XUL had bindings to supported native widgetsets.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
My main personal email (permanent address, essentially), I've got on my website with a minimal brainpower test (essentially "[myname] @ [this domain]") --- but I might get rid of that. My email is in its bare form on a number
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Ask HN: What distro are you running on your desktop and why?
2 points by mod50ack 7y ago|3 comments
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by mod50ack 7y ago
I believe they just fixed this bug.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Edit, Preferences, interface, theme, system. Works wonders.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Are most of the applications you use Qt? How do you feel GTK applications have fared on your setup?
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by mod50ack 7y ago
(OP) I have two setups: a desktop which isn't Hi-DPI and a laptop which is. I like to keep the same thing running on both, and at the moment I use Cinnamon (which has been my go-to for a while now), although I've replaced a number
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Ask HN: Those with a Hi-DPI *nix setup, what desktop are you using?
12 points by mod50ack 7y ago|9 comments
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by mod50ack 9y ago
Thank God, about time. Any other major websites that still use browser-based proprietary extensions instead of open standards?
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Ask HN: What's your current phone?
1 points by mod50ack 9y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: (If you use them,) what's your model for using webfonts?
1 points by mod50ack 9y ago|0 comments
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by mod50ack 9y ago
I've used it a while and can confirm its great featureset (backgrounding, no ads, downloading) ... one issue is no subscription feature in-app. I don't want to play around with RSS
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by mod50ack 9y ago
It's part of Windows 10. Windows 7 still has Paint.
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by mod50ack 9y ago
There's a lot of stuff in there too besides the illustrations --- interesting to read a little bit of it. I'm not any expert on this stuff --- are all the demons from folklore or of the author's creation? (Oh, and, yes, it&#x
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by mod50ack 9y ago
If it's online and not Affero GPL you don't even need to give back your improvements, provided you don't distribute your improvements to others.
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by mod50ack 9y ago
Problem with Apple's .apps is that they still manage to mess up your ~/Library. You can often find gigabytes of data left in there on your average Mac.
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by mod50ack 9y ago
Because the government compels users to use things in transactions. Actually, I should have chosen Chuck E. Cheese's in (2), as there is indeed in that case as well a more powerful entity that forces people to use that currency for the
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by mod50ack 9y ago
I'll elaborate: to me, it's akin to this: In the real world, we pay people money for useful work (a gross oversimplification, but let's keep going). Imagine a world where it's impossible to print money, and the only way
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by mod50ack 9y ago
> You, too, don't understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin. > The nonce must be brute-forced to prove that the computing power was expended. It is precisely this expenditure of computing power that makes it expensive to cheat. No,

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