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by bArray 8mo ago
For large classes or test questions used over multiple years, you need to take care that the answers are not shared. It means having large question banks which will be slowly collected. A good question can take a while to design, and it can
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by bArray 8mo ago
> My 30k ft view is that the stock will inevitably slide as AI datacenter spending goes down. Right now Nvidia is flying high because datacenters are breaking ground everywhere but eventually that will come to an end as the supply of com
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by bArray 8mo ago
> This approach still works, why do something else? One issue is that the time provided to mark each piece of work continues to decrease. Sometimes you are only getting 15 minutes for 20 pages, and management believe that you can mark ba
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by bArray 8mo ago
Copy the URL and manually paste it into a new tab, no referrer then.
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by bArray 8mo ago
I wrote something similar years ago, which would instead convert an image into a mesh of polygons. The idea was to have a vector low-size SVG that could be used as an image placeholder or background for web pages. I think I lost the code, b
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by bArray 8mo ago
> How much time could you conceivably use this for? I also thought the same. It's a nice feature to have, but typing out significant code on that keyboard is a burden compared to a full-sized keyboard. Plus, it's not small enou
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by bArray 8mo ago
https://coffeespace.org.uk - started 2014 In a recent article I wrote about an ongoing ESP32-based custom smart watch: https://coffeespace.org.uk/projects/smart-watch-v2.html
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by bArray 8mo ago
$1 USD is ~90 Indian Rupees, 1450 Argentinian Peso or over 1 million Iranian Rial [1]. In some places, $1 USD could be a week's work. On the collection side, you could be seriously over-charging people. On the distribution side, you co
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by bArray 8mo ago
> For higher-end board that seems likely. For cheap hobby-grade boards just the job fee[1] is more than 10 boards delivered is from JLCPCB. Just checked myself using a board I already had manufactured, and can confirm it's a lot hig
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by bArray 8mo ago
Looking at the M5Stack Tab5 IoT Development Kit [1] based on the ESP32-P4 - it's a really nice piece of kit. [1] https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-tab5-iot-developme...
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by bArray 8mo ago
Quite a good implementation, got to 62 and was playing a "space filling curve" strategy to bleed off some of the length. Looking at the leader-board I suspect some people are just sending off their own custom submissions [1]. [1]
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by bArray 8mo ago
I love the picture of politicians sitting by themselves, annoyed by something as all other people are, and thinking "there's nothing I can do about it". Good on Vietnam for actually doing something about it. I got a taste o
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by bArray 9mo ago
I have been thinking about this myself, but am still not convinced about how to run untrusted Python code. I'm not convinced that the right solution is to run the code as WebASM [1]. I have been looking towards some kind of quick-start
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by bArray 9mo ago
See the linked project at the end: https://github.com/mavdol/capsule
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by bArray 9mo ago
> NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza. Forget politics, not everything has to be framed this way. Thi
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by bArray 9mo ago
I've literally been here (many) years ago whilst trying to stream video from a potato Linux SBC via WiFi. As you walked further away, the H264 stream would just die and hang, no matter what you did. Stream JPEGs? Worked excellently and
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by bArray 9mo ago
And if you find you need more features than that - just build an app, don't make the web browser into some overly bloated app!
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by bArray 9mo ago
If there were some form of "developed contributions to computing" award, his name is definitely up there. I think there could be a need for such an award - for people who reliably have created the foundations of modern computing.
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by bArray 9mo ago
> So do we want to do: We want to build one disk image that boots on x86_64, ARM AArch64, and RISC-V 64-bit. We limit ourselves here to UEFI platforms, which makes this pretty straight forward. It kind of feels like this should have been
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by bArray 9mo ago
> Of course when a friend sends me their new project my natural tendency is to try hack it. Yep. Probably the most relatable tech friend thing to do. I send my projects to friends and get a list of improvement suggestions, it's alwa
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by bArray 9mo ago
> Having seen a lot of AI-generated ads, I'm so skeptical that AI is actually improving marketing metrics. I'm sure that firing tonnes of marketing people for prompt engineers will be a good return on investment... Perhaps it r
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by bArray 9mo ago
> After a year in which trillions of dollars worth of AI investments buoyed global markets and the economy, 68% of CEOs plan to spend even more on AI in 2026 They are too far in to turn back. They got into AI via fear of missing out (F
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by bArray 9mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/l6jpQ
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by bArray 9mo ago
I wasn't suggesting the time periods are the same. The point is that we were willing to defend Ukraine against Russia, when it's the EU's problem, and refused to defend Hong Kong against China when it's a problem of our
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by bArray 9mo ago
Nobody in their right mind is keen for a war. Nobody would fight in one unless they believed they really had no other choice. I don't blame the people who would runaway to relative safety if the option is available. But. It's clea
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by bArray 9mo ago
Remember, Hong Kong was supposed to be in a 50 year transition period from 1997 where there were supposed to be one country, two systems [1]. The national security legislation is just one in a long line of failures [2]. If nothing else was
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by bArray 9mo ago
Great idea, but a few feedback points: 1. It's difficult to know that it is following from the previous problem, and then on some problems it changes the workspace. 2. It's not always easy to know what it wants. 3. The question ab
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by bArray 10mo ago
In Universities in the UK, and likely elsewhere, you get extra time during an exam if you have a qualifying disability. As said by Charlie Munger: "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome". In the UK, 23% (and cli
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by bArray 10mo ago
The Volvo modular engine is worth a short too, it ran for 26 years [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Modular_Engine
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by bArray 10mo ago
I get the feeling that MathML will win out, simply because Firefox supported from early on [1], there is first move advantage. I use an old JS library for backwards compatibility [2] that adds just enough support for any math I'm math&

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