notreallyauser

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by notreallyauser 3mo ago
Gen Xer here: we coped with hand written exams just fine. Accommodations (extra time and/or a scribe) were available for those who needed them.
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by notreallyauser 9mo ago
People will make frequent mistakes if you put the privacy decision at a per post level. (And not just average users: see stevey's Google Platforms rant) Having different apps, chats (Discord servers), accounts (at-a-push) for each priv
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by notreallyauser 10mo ago
There's an interview with the CEO where he explains (claims) the idea of that policy is to reduce demand so they can leave out a couple of toilets and put in / sell more seats -- it's not about the charge for the toilet per s
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by notreallyauser 1y ago
On student evaluations, I wouldn't be surprised of Oxbridge do badly as so many pf the dons were at or near the top of their year at the university, weren't employed for their teaching abilities, and seemed unable to comprehend th
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by notreallyauser 1y ago
Contextual offers are just that -- contextual. Cite your sources if you're claiming all independent schools get one tariff and all state schools get another, because AFAIK that's not how these contextual offers work. Oxford admiss
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by notreallyauser 1y ago
Given this is Hacker News, I think we should definitely encourage all Yes, Minister references.
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by notreallyauser 1y ago
Artists don't reap the profits of the current system -- they get the face value -- Tickmaster and the scalpers do. My solution would be some kind of auction where people put in bids of what they're willing to pay for different sea
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
Do you have a citation for that? People may have said words to that effect in addition to inciting rioting, but no one has been send to jail for saying that.
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
> What made Intel seem unbeatable was its process node advantage. Nvidia does not have fabrication plants, so it is able to get the best process node from whoever has it. Nvidia is therefore not vulnerable to what befell Intel. It's
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
Year 7's regular age range is 11-12: you're 11 going into the September that the school year starts and will be 12 by the end of the following August.
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
Other way round -- 8th grade is UK Year 9.
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
You're collecting personal info and claiming to be in the UK: identifying the data controller would be a start, both for building trust and complying with GDPR.
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by notreallyauser 2y ago
That was based on a sentence of 20 and he got 25 -- so closer to 2044, I guess.
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
booking.com allows guest bookings without verifying email address by design, so I had a booking added to my account that was nothing to do with me. Couldn't cancel automatically. Support only seemed to be able to do the same I could. I
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
They seem to want confidence that US Chess and STLCC leadership are able to handle these complaints appropriately going forward: a change of leadership would be one way. Per the intro, they're looking for scrutiny and accountability of
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
Microsoft would need to do their part in the OS, but Apple reportedly didn't do all of Rosetta in house. (IBM now owns the start-up reported to have done the core.)
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
The Guardian is reporting the submersible as registered in the Bahamas
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
There is security beforehand. Not seen specifics on this event, but metal detector arches have been part of it in other events. The playing hall is, I think, essentially closed after the start of the match.
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by notreallyauser 3y ago
Is anyone else disappointed this wasn't about old school email clients, and a belated migration to, perhaps, pine?
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by notreallyauser 6y ago
'Scale up' vs 'scale out' are, to me, more intuitive terms for the same thing. Up/vertical are aligned, I guess
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by notreallyauser 6y ago
Two or three ago I spun up a quick Windows VM in Azure for about 20 cents worth of testing. Shortly afterwards I had a missed phone call and then a follow-up email from an Azure salesman inviting me to schedule time to discuss my interest i
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by notreallyauser 6y ago
Am I the only person who didn't recognise the domain and clicked on the headline hoping for a rackmounted 1980s microcomputer?
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by notreallyauser 6y ago
They can track that from the clickthroughs. The adtech economy is far richer that just showing ads and tracking ads -- the suggestion is that they're feeding data from your use of Zoom to enrich your advertising id(s) to help others pr
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by notreallyauser 8y ago
Norway is not a member of the EU.
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by notreallyauser 8y ago
No cash outlay. Read the blog, but tl;dr is that it's quid pro quo as the owners can't afford to stand it up due to the volume of junk traffic (but want to, to study the junk) -- cloudflare can and will let the owner study the jun