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by nanis 5y ago
Completely imaginary conversation ... > Look Mr. C-level, I built this amazing tool. Look at the graphs it produces. It allows _the_ user to customize parameters, track new things, and basically makes unicorns excrete rainbows. > OMG,
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by nanis 5y ago
I tried (just like I tried a whole bunch of other things). I get this both in `cmd` and in `ConEmu` on Windows 10 Pro-64 bit (Version 10.0.19043.1387). After the crash, all the enhanced console functionality is gone. panic: '%&#x
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by nanis 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out ... Here's the link I copied from the page: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/29/world/omicron-varian... I am not sure why but the submission URL is missing the
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by nanis 5y ago
Why? Are people with Ph.D.s not allowed to attempt humor on April Fools'?
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Israel’s spy agency will track Omicron patients’ phones, at least thru Thursday(nytimes.com)
13 points by nanis 5y ago|6 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Use https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath instead. This code is horrible spaghetti.
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by nanis 5y ago
https://jose-lesson.com/lin/2017/01/16/nonaginta-septem/
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by nanis 5y ago
apk add python3
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by nanis 5y ago
> Order two Vestaboard displays and receive $400 off. I saw that before my eyes located the price and I knew :-)
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by nanis 5y ago
> I think for a long time the only thing that will push IPv6 uptake will be legislation. Is it really such a great idea to force every single device on the internet to be globally uniquely identifiable?
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by nanis 5y ago
According to AAA: Regular unleaded average price in NY state: $3.566/gal yesterday, $2.218/gal a year ago for a 61% annual increase[1]. If this temporary blip could cause prices to go down by 10% (during a time where demand for ot
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by nanis 5y ago
According to this[1]: > President Biden announced Tuesday that his administration was releasing 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help combat rising gas prices — hours before millions of Americans are exp
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by nanis 5y ago
I didn't dig deep. It doesn't matter if the correct number is 40,000 or 80,000. The argument remains the same.
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by nanis 5y ago
Depleting reserve capacity does not increase the long term supply curve. When the reserves are depleted, you are back where you started because the supply shocks are real. Production possibilities are down globally due to the destruction wr
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by nanis 5y ago
> "even the top-notch engineers that work at Google are still humans." A top result in a Google search tells me: "According to 2016 annual report as of December 31, 2016 there was 27,169 employees in research and developme
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by nanis 5y ago
> Jury's don't need to be 100% certain to convict, they need a preponderance of evidence. IANAL, but since you refer to a prosecutor, they would need "beyond reasonable doubt", right?
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by nanis 5y ago
By providing Facebook with a "reserve army of developers trained in and willing to use the framework they use to build their stuff".
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by nanis 5y ago
I wish people would stop trying to write programs for which there are no interpreters, compilers, or linters: name: Install dependencies run: > python -m pip install --upgrade pip > pip install pytest
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by nanis 5y ago
I guess we must disable view-source in all browsers now! Welcome back to the 70s where you could only use a phone made by AT&T and got to rent it at $10/month.
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by nanis 5y ago
> being accessible. Not really. In a real paper & pencil exam you take in the same room with your teacher, the teacher is available to answer clarifying questions. More than once, a question one of my students asked led me to realize
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by nanis 5y ago
> Then what is the kid? The kid is an excuse for a "teacher" and "assistants" to get paid and get benefits and for Google to start collecting data on them from a very young age.
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by nanis 5y ago
I would be able to take all of this consternation over grading and preparation time more seriously if I had never taught in my life. Teachers' union members get small class sizes and assistants. Plus, it is not as if the material is so
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by nanis 5y ago
The full title and subtitle of the article are: > Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests > Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually
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by nanis 5y ago
Paper tests every day, all day.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Isn’t SALT preventing double taxation? Alternatively, enabling high-tax states to increase the burden of taxation while depriving federal government of tax revenue.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Yeah it does seem really wild that Japonic languages and Turkic languages could be from a common origin From Wikipedia: +> The original hypothesis unified only the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic groups As a Turk who has occasionall
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by nanis 5y ago
> quizzes in Google Forms. Idiocracy is here. This is only acceptable is the purpose is to provide practice questions that do not count for credit. Just like it is a good idea to provide answers to practice questions at the end of the bo
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by nanis 5y ago
This whole story is a shock to me: I wrote my first online quizzes and problem sets in the 20th century. Submissions were always graded on the server side and answers were never available to the browser. I was involved in a lot of crappy te
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Enterprise-level Chromium removes view-source to prevent students from cheating(theregister.com)
52 points by nanis 5y ago|116 comments
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Communication-Efficient Accurate Statistical Estimation(arxiv.org)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments

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