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cherryteastain··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
When I was grading labs as a TA, the intent was communicated to me rather as "per university teaching guidelines we mustn't have too many students get the top grade but we also mustn't have too many students fail"
cherryteastain··on What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations explores the topic in depth
cherryteastain··on Codex vs. Claude Code (today)
Thanks for the correction, looks like I misremembered. But limits are low enough with Sonnet that, I imagine you can barely do anything serious with Opus on the Pro plan.
cherryteastain··on Codex vs. Claude Code (today)
I think the author glosses over the real reason why tons of people use Codex over CC: limits. If you want to use CC properly you must use Opus 4.5 which is not even included in the Claude Pro plan. Meanwhile you can use Codex with gpt-5.2-codex on the ChatGPT Plus plan for some seriously long sessions.

Looks like Gemini plans have even more generous limits on the equivalently priced plans (Google AI Pro). I'd be interested in the experiences of people who used Google Antigravity/Gemini CLI/Gemini Code Assist for nontrivial tasks.

cherryteastain··on Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
Can't anyone get a RHEL instance on their favorite cloud, dnf install whatever packages they want sources of, email Redhat to demand the sources, and shut down the instance?
cherryteastain··on Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
BN(O) is/was not a simple pathway to UK residence. As the wikipedia article says

> BN(O)s are British nationals and Commonwealth citizens, but not British citizens. They are subject to immigration controls when entering the United Kingdom and do not have automatic right of abode there

Things were different before the 1981 British Nationality Act but it's not too relevant for HK as the 1981 act is before the Sino British Declaration.

cherryteastain··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
What does rustrover do that rust-analyzer itself cannot?
cherryteastain··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Maduro is a corrupt dictator who holds sham elections, but that does not change the fact that he unfortunately is the president of the internationally recognized government. Will you also propose US seize Turkish or Russian freighters because Erdogan and Putin "won" elections under highly suspect circumstances?

If Putin came out in 2020 and said "I do not recognize Joe Biden as US president, he stole the election, Donald Trump was the real winner, so I am sanctioning America and seizing American LNG tankers" everyone would take that as a hostile action and even a casus belli.

cherryteastain··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
> How is that comparable? That seems like a deliberate misrepresentation of the situation. Russian actions here almost certainly have the full backing of what they (probably rightfully) consider to be the legitimate Donestk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic governments.
cherryteastain··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Domestic laws of a country do not constitute valid justification for seizing another country's vessels under international law.
cherryteastain··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
Imagine the outrage if the title were instead "China seizes Philippine oil tanker in South China Sea"
cherryteastain··on I wasted years of my life in crypto
Check out how $100 put in bank deposits or S&P500 have done versus gold over the last 50 years. You will find that these do not generate real returns when measured against sound currency either.
cherryteastain··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...
cherryteastain··on Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip
Hopefully they do better than UK's Graphcore who seem to be circling the drain
cherryteastain··on Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens
Countries like Denmark, Switzerland or Netherlands indeed offer very good quality of life but the language barrier is substantial. Tons of people know English as a second language and almost no one knows, say, Danish as a second language.
cherryteastain··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
Remember when they just annulled an election when they did not like the result?
cherryteastain··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Rust's Result is the same thing as C++'s std::expected. How is calling std::expected::value undefined behaviour?
cherryteastain··on Steam Machine
> designing a bootloader that allows you to run a third party unsigned OS

Oh thank you master for allowing me to boot a different OS!

Being allowed to run whatever OS you want on your device is a right, not something you should need permission for.

cherryteastain··on My tutorial and take on C++20 coroutines (2021)
I find the article useful from a "how do C++20 coroutines work" perspective, but these sorts of tutorials don't really help you use coroutines in anything beyond a toy program.

I personally found coroutines are useful only in conjunction with a library wrapping OS system calls to interact with sockets (epoll/iouring on Linux, for instance), providing an event loop, and handles the complexity of multithreading. The most fleshed out one out there is probably boost asio.

cherryteastain··on How the cochlea computes (2024)
Not really, just as we can create spectrograms [1] for a real time audio feed without having to wait for the end of the recording by binning the signal into timewise chunks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

cherryteastain··on ChatGPT Launches 'Company Knowledge'
Tokens for the token throne?
cherryteastain··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
Conversely, this and EU Chat Control are precisely why the powers that be will ensure it will happen.

The importance of FOSS mobile OSes is greater than ever now.

cherryteastain··on A safe, non-owning C++ pointer class
> but instead a single-threaded shared_ptr-like class that has no atomics (to avoid cross-core contention

Why would there be contention in a single threaded program?

cherryteastain··on The Post-American Order Starts in Riyadh and Islamabad
Makes sense, considering America lets Israel bomb the capital cities of its Arab "major non-NATO allies" [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5jl77ygv4o

cherryteastain··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
Heat pipes and vapour chambers are older than Apple
cherryteastain··on ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway
Molly (signal fork) on GrapheneOS will still be there
cherryteastain··on Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
Conversely, as long as the people they actually want to target (dissidents, journalists, ...) use non-compromised E2EE it's not very useful for NSA/GCHQ etc to harvest info about all the cat videos everyone else is watching.
cherryteastain··on Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
People keep repeating this defeatist drivel but it's just not true. It's still up in the air whether you can defeat a law using technical measures, but it is a thoroughly settled matter that you cannot legislate away mathematics.

We saw how laws completely failed to make encryption illegal in the 90s as open source encryption code spread rapidly on the internet. "Exporting" encryption software was illegal in many countries like USA and France but it became impossible to enforce those laws. A technical measure defeated the law.

Encryption is just maths. It is the law being unreasonable here, and it will be the law which will ultimately have to concede defeat. UK is the perfect example here - Online Safety Act's anti-E2EE clauses have been basically declared by Ofcom to be impossible to implement and they are not even trying anymore.

cherryteastain··on Signal Secure Backups
It's not Signal's fault that Apple does not let you access the most basic feature of an operating system - the filesystem.
cherryteastain··on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_2506

> Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506) was a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro. It carried out the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion landings in Cuba on 17 April 1961.

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