vulcan01

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by vulcan01 6y ago
Fair enough. To your second point, do people use WhatsApp because of encryption, or because of its other features / community lock-in?
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I'm young enough for this to be my first time watching a crewed launch from America... Hopefully this goes well.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Then we wouldn't have Rivian, for example. Competition can be good.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Already a discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Many (including me) have remapped their caps lock key to esc, for Vim :)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also told reporters later in the day the president was expected to sign an executive order Thursday aimed at social media platforms, contributing to speculation the administration would targ
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by vulcan01 6y ago
My parents bought them for our whole house. 4 years and they still work well :)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Is > end-to-end encryption support > multiple independent client implementations something that your average user really wants? Most people don't use encryption, and are fine with the standard Mail app on their phones.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
1984, George Orwell?
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by vulcan01 6y ago
On the other hand, people complain about Apple "sherlocking" apps when they release Sidecar for example. By your logic, > they couldn't be creative and patient enough to compete with youtube so they gulp up YouTube So what
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by vulcan01 6y ago
They have computer software for Windows & Mac so you can connect your calculator to your computer and write code like that, but it is a pain to set up.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
You can add semicolons at the end of python lines to replace \n's when calling from the command line. python3 -c "n=1;print(n)"
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The College Board's Monopoly on Education(youtu.be)
1 points by vulcan01 6y ago|0 comments
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by vulcan01 6y ago
iGlass. Like eyeglass(es). :)
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Well, not as bad as Google with their multiple chat applications...
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Yeah. What if those kids just joined the subreddit for fun, and didn't actually plan on using it?
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Found the below on the CollegeBoard website today [1]. Only effective for the second week of AP exams. > Students with an unsuccessful submission will see instructions about how to email their response on the page that says, “We Did Not
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by vulcan01 6y ago
They are sending our scores and responses to our teachers, and I am sure that most teachers will report a student with a C in class who then gets a 5 on the AP exam.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Funnily enough, I think that they are running on AWS Lambda.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
An interesting way to assess your students, if you have time and a reasonable amount of students, is to do what the IB organisation required my Spanish teacher to do: a one-on-one oral exam with presentation and follow-up questions from the
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by vulcan01 6y ago
This. It's easier to criticise other countries' education systems, but for some reason we try to avoid criticising our own.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I run Sovereign [1] on a Vultr VPS, $5/mo. Flask on Apache for blogging. (Sovereign is "a set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.&quo
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by vulcan01 6y ago
That is assuming that Musk is a rational person...
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Try asking for an agenda, then if they give you one, you will know one of two things: I can contribute to this discussion, or I can't contribute to this discussion. If they don't give you an agenda, then they don't know what
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I think one of the appeals about this site is that it is simple and isn't another one of those Bootstrap websites. Dark mode would be nice though.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
exit code 1
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I don't think it's meant to be an insult. The way I interpret it, "intellectual tourism" means looking at / listening to "intellectual" topics, but only in a cursory manner with little deep conversation.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
It's called macOS now... and really all they have to do is add support for 32-bit apps again.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Is this the key? Will lawmakers start realising that anti-privacy laws will eventually be used against them? Will they start supporting privacy laws? One can only hope...
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Adding to GP this could be based on IP address of the user, which will typically give you the right country. (Unless they're using VPN...)

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