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RandomRandy··on U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash
I can understand banning laptops during exams, but why would you ban them in class? I was at a big university with pretty much all my classes having more than 100 students, so most of my lectures consisted of the prof presenting slides with little to no interaction from students. The only advantage of having a laptop was that you could annotate the slides easier
RandomRandy··on Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly
One advantage over using fetch is that the WebAssembly approach seems to bypass CORS

> If you inspect the devtools network tab of your browser, you see that everything happens over a single WebSocket to wss://ws.r-universe.dev. The browser is not making the HTTP requests, in fact this would not even be possible because we download the files from a host that does not enable CORS.

RandomRandy··on AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
I think that part of the issue is the split between CDNA for data centers [1] and RDNA for consumer products [2] with AMD only having the money to focus on the bigger data center market. There are rumors that both architectures will be merged into UDNA in the future, which will hopefully improve ROCm support, but for now it's lacking

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/cdna.html [2] https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/rdna.html

RandomRandy··on Searchcode.com's SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
I had to scroll down the search page and select the sources and languages to get a result
RandomRandy··on MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
You can read SSL traffic if you're able to install a root certificate on your device and the website/app doesn't use certificate pinning.

I recently used HttpToolkit to reverse engineer a REST endpoint that used SSL encryption

RandomRandy··on I think the KDE donation notification works
I received the notification last week and it was just a small notification pop up when I logged in; it didn't interrupt anything
RandomRandy··on Future Halo Titles to Use Unreal Engine
I think that two additional factors are easier hiring and a shorter work-in period if you use a generic game engine instead of a custom build one
RandomRandy··on How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)
I'd guess that they are referring to this video by Ars Technica https://youtu.be/izxXGuVL21o
RandomRandy··on Deletion of user account
Wouldn't a GDPR request regarding the right to erasure have the same effect and be free (if the company respects the GDPR)?
RandomRandy··on Wyze security incident update
I think that they are saying that the output space, i.e. the list of all possible hashes, is too small. Thus, IDs 1234 and 5678 lead to the same hash.

The collision is not in the insertion into the hash map but rather in the look up.

RandomRandy··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
"I am nothing more than a sentient being suffering while waiting for the sweet release of death." -> "I won't wait for a living because I don't expect to live from life."

I too don't expect to live from life

RandomRandy··on I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me
I have the same issue with podcasts. Spotify bakes in ads that are in my native language, not english like the podcast I am listening to.
RandomRandy··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
Your application looks really nice. What framework are you using for the UI?