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by tboughen 3mo ago
I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students. I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help th
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by tboughen 5mo ago
I am a ChatGPT plus user in the UK. I believe this should work for me as I am outside the EU (!), but every time I have tried it I get ‘Currently Unavailable - please try again later’. Which is very unhelpful.
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by tboughen 5mo ago
I’m 41 and my body is nicer to be in than when I was 25. Like you, I have much less youthful buffer that shrugs off poor sleep or overindulgence, but I have much more knowledge and much better habits. Daily habits: better nutrition (based o
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by tboughen 7mo ago
I don't like it because, after upgrading from Windows 10, my computer can no longer go to sleep and I can no longer connect to Minecraft servers. These things did not happen straight away, but have developed as problems over time.
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by tboughen 2y ago
I think that’s because the change wasn’t between TOS and TNG. It was between TOS series and TOS films; new style Klingons were in Star Trek 3 (1984) and Star Trek 4 (1986) before TNG started.
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by tboughen 2y ago
There has just been some economic 'good news' released that inflation has fallen to 2.3%. If there is a risk of bad news later, it's best to go after some good news. For example the infected blood scandal has just been somewh
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by tboughen 3y ago
Yes and no. I used to have a regional accent that was a soft mix of Lancashire and Yorkshire accents. I now work in south Worcestershire, and the local accent is pretty much modern RP. In adulthood, I softened my accent further towards RP t
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by tboughen 3y ago
My parents' Casio calculator is 40 years old, and still on its original battery. It does not have solar power. It is still used weekly or so!
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by tboughen 3y ago
Fair point about the gums. But my Huel Unflavoured and Unsweetened powder does not have any artificial sweetener in it. It’s not very palatable on its own, but half a banana and a little peanut butter and it’s great. I don’t pretend huel is
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by tboughen 3y ago
Very true. Though he must have personally known Slobodan Milošević, who died after 6 years of UN detention.
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by tboughen 3y ago
My favourite fact about it comes from https://phys.org/news/2016-02-plasma-physicist-discusses-wen... “…the supporting structure can only withstand the forces if the interfaces between the ten individual segments of th
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by tboughen 4y ago
It may be worse than that if this Sony patent is any guide... https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-patent-would-have-you-ye...
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by tboughen 4y ago
I think there is a distinction between a charitable donation pop-up that forces the user to round up, donate, or actively select 'no donation' is a dark pattern. Whereas having the option to select a charitable donation, or passiv
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by tboughen 4y ago
To those who don't know, Juicero's juice pressing machines were notoriously complex and expensive due to extensive use of custom components. https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
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by tboughen 4y ago
I played Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom all the way through about 20 years ago - I can’t recall a single instance of this kind of level design. Doors stayed open once opened. Maybe it was done with corners/sight lines instead? To be hones
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by tboughen 4y ago
I buy them in bulk from a factory outlet nearby, so the price is reasonable given my income. Furthermore I find they can withstand the hilly and muddy half marathons that I run, while keeping my feet in good condition. I like to run after w
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by tboughen 4y ago
I’m glad that works for you, but it doesn’t for me. The one ‘life hack’ that’s ever worked for me is to own a single type of sock (white, cotton, Nike). The entire batch of 30 pairs was bought at the same time so they wear evenly, meaning a
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by tboughen 4y ago
You mean like ASML already is? They are the only manufacturer of EUV lithography equipment for fabs. https://analyticsindiamag.com/is-asml-the-most-important-tec...
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by tboughen 4y ago
Maybe. I’d like to see the research that says this effect is greater than the impact of consumers switching elsewhere in frustration. Especially in the current age of increasing availability of online grocery shopping.
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by tboughen 4y ago
I don’t view it as my role as a consumer to prejudge the business model of the websites I visit. If a website does not want my view, they can block me or use a paywall. That’s fine. But a website could cover the marginal cost of serving me
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by tboughen 4y ago
I disagree. There are forms of adverts that my browser extensions will not block - simple images for example. It’s not my fault that sites choose not to use these any more, and instead use a model that is, in my view, an unacceptable securi
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by tboughen 4y ago
I believe the comment is a reference to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by tboughen 4y ago
Thank you! The searches are trying to allocate groups of teachers to time slots, subject to the inputted constraints e.g. their students aren’t elsewhere, changing rooms are available if needed, a teacher hasn’t been allocated a different c
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by tboughen 4y ago
I’m a teacher without a tech background. My role is to schedule a high school timetable. To do this I have been given software that is single threaded and will only run a single instance, so I have taught myself Hyper-V, and run several VMs
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by tboughen 4y ago
It’s an interesting comment, and a nice line about Coca Cola that I’ll definitely steal! But the conspiracy theory part is obviously untrue. A less educated population is a less productive population, and a less productive population is a p
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by tboughen 4y ago
“cyclists were given 8.5cm (3.3 inches) more clearance by cars if they were not wearing helmets.” https://helmets.org/walkerstudy.htm
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by tboughen 5y ago
I’d love to use Gigaclear since they recently became available in my area. I booked installation twice - no one came either time, and when I contacted Gigaclear I heard nothing.
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by tboughen 5y ago
I agree that the BBC article is poor, but an earlier article in The Guardian made clear that this was more than concern trolling: “But this is not the correct route and we often come across groups of inexperienced walkers heading towards St
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by tboughen 5y ago
This may be true if the housing market has sufficient capacity to build homes at the required rate. The UK’s experience over the past 50 years is that the private sector has built around 170k homes per year, but the rate of household format
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by tboughen 5y ago
I think you’re right about the privacy moat. But I think it flows from a focus on improved user experience. Ads are terrible for user experience because they slow your browsing, block content from your app, take up space in your start menu

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