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by theamk 1y ago
There is detailed documentation but no tests at all. Stay away, there is something deeply wrong with author's priorities.
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by theamk 1y ago
This is an ad for "esProc SPL", a crazy programming language where you write your code, including functions, in spreadsheet (complete with "A1"-style references for globals), but view the results in the list view. It use
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by theamk 1y ago
> 30 kids in a class is still insane. You either adopt segregation for neurodivergent kids or leave them behind. The top level kids can be ignored as not-a-problem(giving up the chance to make little einsteins) When I was in high school
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by theamk 1y ago
A startup idea: "exam machines". An low cost/ancient laptop with locked-down software and special cloud service. They provide a way to write a text and submit it, maybe also reference or spellcheck or calculator (if teacher e
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by theamk 1y ago
nah, they are clear about that: > The page, prominently linked from the sidebar in the ChatGPT interface
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by theamk 1y ago
my "marketing and propaganda", do you mean "other AI model output"? The internet was pretty bad without AI already, but I can see it heading quickly towards complete nonsense and lack of trust. We are going to have all t
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by theamk 1y ago
One of the hardest things in Arduino-based designs is power savings, and this one is not an exception. This design has no power saving, which means it will only last few hours tops on the batteries. This could be improved, but the current d
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by theamk 1y ago
Advice to the author: attach the remote to the wall. Some remotes come with its own bracket, but if not then some double-sided tape would work. Author liked old fixed regulator, so they should be fine with new one being fixed too. This woul
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by theamk 1y ago
there is a great difference between corporate presentations vs sales presentation People on WWDC are there because they wanted to. Most corporate presentations are not like that. Yes, I am sure HR is very excited about that new expense reim
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by theamk 1y ago
it always amazes me how Haskell uses the very complex approaches for a very simple problem. Do you want a design that generalizes to zork? Here it is: def fizzbuzz(i): return "".join((["fizz"] if (i % 3) ==
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by theamk 1y ago
Have you seen the size of that thing? that's 48x18cm, or 20" diagonal. That's not even close to the phones. And yes, thing thing _could_ have been implemented as a embedded large-format Android tablet with the kiosk mode app,
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by theamk 1y ago
Are you saying that college homework/assignments are unreasonably hard? I don't think so, after all people were successfully completing them before ChaptGPT. Yes, it took a long time and some sleepless nights (unless the student h
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by theamk 1y ago
I am curious - when I do my ESP32 projects, I often set up "start up Wifi AP when not configured that shows config page". This allows easy configuration via phone, and does not require any custom app development. The only downside
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by theamk 1y ago
"Seems those scissors could be a knife instead? And anyway, cutting paper is only part of the problem, sometimes I want to cut steak as well. Or sometimes I want to carve something from wooden blank" No, this could not be done as
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by theamk 1y ago
best case: it is so full of lies no one trusts it to begin with worst case: it is mostly ok, and only the few emails have opposite summaries. So you are nornally fine, until that "meeting NOT cancelled" email is summarized "m
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by theamk 1y ago
Such site is better provide some unique service no one else can. There is no way I am sharing my phone number with random sites unless I absolutely have to, I get enough spam & scam already, and tracking potential is enormous.
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by theamk 1y ago
Being indexed in search engines is very useful, but does not need any filtering - Google and all other major search engines respect robots.txt, use well-known UA and even publish IP address. AI bots are not search engines, and they have no
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by theamk 1y ago
We already have a standardized system - robots.txt - and AI bots are already ignoring it. Why would more standardized headers matter? Bots will ignore them just as they do today, pretend to be regular users, and get content without paying.
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by theamk 1y ago
Needs (2020)
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by theamk 1y ago
let's say you need to copy config.h.in to config.h and patch a few lines. In case of "subtree merge", you will have to do it manually, every time you upgrade upstream.
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by theamk 1y ago
it's a replacement for checkout + patch process. The main advantage over plain "patch" is that it is more powerful in the face of upstream changes. For example if you rename the upstream file, you have no good way to represen
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by theamk 1y ago
If the exams get dropped on the floor, all of the pages are not mixed up. There is no need to put a name on each page, just once at front is enough. The blue books are sold in packs of 1, while paper is sold in packs of 100 or 500 (or I you
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by theamk 1y ago
If you are ready to provide hardware, why bother with typewriter? Just provide school notebooks with locked-down OS which can only open exam website. Does not even have to be any of the good ones. Something like an ancient Chromebook with l
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by theamk 1y ago
I want to go to concert, and going alone is no fun. I've convinced my 3 co-workers. I buy 4 tickets for us. Situation 1: My co-workers could not get time off work, so I am asking my tennis buddies instead. I am transferring tickets to
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by theamk 1y ago
Well yes, the concert is funded by city, and they wanted everyone to have a chance at attending, no matter what their income was. Not everything needs to be sold. The problem there was not having enough security - it's like store givin
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by theamk 1y ago
> it's obviously preferable to get paid for the entire tour on the day it's announced it's only obvious to "private equity" type people. There is energy in the concerts - and a lot of people go to live shows for
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by theamk 1y ago
Simple, there are always people who are intentionally using the hard way. There is a community programming old 16-bit machines for example, which are much harder than modern tools. Or someone learning assembly language "just for fun&qu
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by theamk 1y ago
it's called "VPN"
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by theamk 1y ago
Jobs are different too. At the place I work in, we have many software engineers doing research-y stuff - nothing groundbreaking, but plenty of algorithms to be written, tuned and debugged. We would not want the candidates that cheated throu
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by theamk 1y ago
Reminds me of JAPH [0] - a tiny Perl program that was used in email/newsgroup signature to give it personal touch. [0] https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=412464

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