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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.

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, chat…

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 -- i…

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 teac…

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 n…

Given this is Hacker News, I think we should definitely encourage all Yes, Minister references.

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 bid…

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.

> 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…

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.

Other way round -- 8th grade is UK Year 9.

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.

That was based on a sentence of 20 and he got 25 -- so closer to 2044, I guess.

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. S…

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 in…

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.)

The Guardian is reporting the submersible as registered in the Bahamas

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 aft…

Is anyone else disappointed this wasn't about old school email clients, and a belated migration to, perhaps, pine?

'Scale up' vs 'scale out' are, to me, more intuitive terms for the same thing. Up/vertical are aligned, I guess

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 sa…

Am I the only person who didn't recognise the domain and clicked on the headline hoping for a rackmounted 1980s microcomputer?

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 …

Norway is not a member of the EU.

There's UberCHOPPER already. Which should really be a retro children's bikeshare instead of a helicopter service.