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It’s a good answer for keeping online education honest. It doesn’t need to be applied to all in-person schools, where teachers distribute spot checks across the course relatively e…

EU folks, note the warnings threaded throughout this post: this is not currently any sort of panacea against US or AU data hosting risks, but it will make your data noticeably clos…

It's more that Texas is barely able to operate their grid at 100% of today's capacity demands without noteworthy outages and humiliating 100x/kwH surge pricing events, prior to dat…

Aw, I miss Aqua.

> is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures. Most people either don’t know or don’t care about “those subcultures”. I bet a lo…

> services disseminate UTC-traceable time over managed fibre links using the Precision Time Protocol (PTP version 2, defined in the standard IEEE 1588-2008) [...] with an SLA of on…

Yes, that's the exact greedy classism that the century-ago Gilded Age made well-known to dedicated students of U.S. history today. I'd be shocked if 1% of students who passed an ha…

I researched plasma drag reduction for normal vehicles at one point and the primary issue is that it just costs too much power (disregarding that it slightly ionizes the paint job)…

Hey, hooray! I still have my switch-modded Altar I but it ended up being too tall for me, so this is a surprisingly great discovery for my morning. Looking forward to trying a new …

The same skills used to mow lawns are also used in more complex settings to e.g. tend to farm fields, where you have to account for product wastage versus turning radius versus mac…

Hopefully they had the wits to put a sticker on them saying as much!

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That’s rather cruel. Optimizing lawn mowing conserves human and machine fuel/battery, especially on large plots or as professionals or in hot climates. Misapplying optimizations to…

> the non-profit should still be calling the shots I truly wish this were the case sometimes. Perhaps things would have gone differently for us if it had been. One can dream. Maybe…

Nowadays, Henson Associates wouldn't sue a 45 year old file transfer protocol over it, either; their rights to a name would generally not be universal to that degree, as long as it…

I’d be totally onboard with TLD-locking them to legal jurisdictions they’re comfortable being bound to, except that this would underserve a great deal of the Internet. Don’t really…

> Surely this will improve user security and trust in the existing Web PKI system in non-Western countries. /s I recognize that Russia is making this change for MitM spying, but th…

I've gotten several death threats for saying, at one point, that Destiny 2 year 1 was enjoyable because it pivoted the game away from loot-box gambling and FOMO addiction-driven pl…

Can you simply write overlays as GOL files and load them from non-OSM URLs? Assuming you use the appropriate coordinate grid you won’t need POIs to layer the relevant data, and if …

My first BBS handle was my full real name, and I barely managed to purge myself from DejaNews before Google bought it, so I empathize. The modern internet has been a severe learnin…