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j605··on Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
I had oral exams in Belgium where usually you are given time to prepare your written work. In the oral, the task then is to expand on your written work and answer questions that probe your understanding a bit deeper than the question itself. The professor might also ask you to hypothesize by changing some assumptions in the questions to check that you actually know the theory and have not regurgitated the book or copied it from someone.
j605··on What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?
In extension to what the other commenter said, critical temperature that is listed is usually higher than the maximum operating temperature so it is safe to run at the maximum.
j605··on John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff literacy lessons
For those curious to see the test, the link in huffpost has been moved to https://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/schoolexam1912.ht...
j605··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
AFAIR in physics and chemistry, room temperature is a short hand for 27°C in 1 atm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temper...

After checking the reference, I feel like this was probably an assumption in all the textbooks that I had to follow in school. I suppose if each standards body had their own definition, it can get frustrating.

j605··on Git undo: We can do better
I think for most people, they would encounter it in a science class early in life (at least for English speakers). And Hg is just the chemical symbol for mercury, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/element/Mercury#section=Ide...
j605··on Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
If companies want something to be reliable and accountable then paying for RHEL seems like the obvious thing to do. They are able to pay for Windows but why not for RHEL. The current change is not unexpected given their acquisition.
j605··on Pimp My Microwave
Yes, the dumb ones just ding once.
j605··on A Second Chance
In this case,I felt it was only needed because of having jury trials. I had the same takeaway that is useful in other places as you. For example, my boss presented a feature that I had worked on better than how I would have done it.
j605··on A Second Chance
Can the URL be cleaned up :)
j605··on Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”
You can listen to the songs on bandcamp before buying it.
j605··on iTerm2 3.3
After testing it feels Kate has similar numbers as Terminal mentioned here but most emulators are just as slow. The minimal ones are actually worse off.
j605··on Adblocking: How about Nah?
Patreon gives you a private RSS feed so paid podcasts are indeed a possibility. It is similar to getting your private activity ATOM feed from Github for example.
j605··on Users hate change
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109374 just recently.
j605··on CERN migrates to open-source technologies
I was forced to use Windows at school when I was already using Linux at home for about 2 years. So what do you think I should've done here?
j605··on Slack Security Incident
That is why you use a system with a package manager. Maybe you could follow the releases feed on Github. It was what I do when I maintain a package on AUR.
j605··on QuickJS JavaScript Engine
Both can decompress tarballs. No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind.
j605··on I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons
I guess the issue is more for intercountry rail travel.
j605··on Betrayed by an app she had never heard of
I get zero spam calls and on most days no calls. Should we give up on privacy because US has bad legislation regarding spam calling.
j605··on Firefox 67.0 Released
On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.
j605··on Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
I agree to what nickjj said but hopefully decisions like that are not taken in chat but rather on a mail or an issue so it is documented.
j605··on Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
My chat logs are just plain text under ~/.weechat/logs and I search them using rip-grep. Works really fast. I am guessing a nicer interface like IRCCloud or TheLounge can work like Slack for searching, file/snippet hosting etc in a more approachable manner.
j605··on Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
> They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

I never asked for them to be killed. Letting them go extinct is different from killing them en masse.

j605··on Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
They were all modified through the generations to make them a commodity. If they have no purpose, them going extinct is not a bad thing. Most of them are optimized for meat or other purposes and they probably can't survive outside. It would be humane to let them go extinct after we transition. FWIW we already wiped them off the Earth, you don't find a lot of wild cows or chickens other than the ones we have modified.
j605··on The rise of alternative milks
They can be wrong though since no evidence was presented for the “usually coloured” claim. To prove no plant milk uses colouring is neigh impossible but you could easily show a couple of example if it is that common to have colouring in them.
j605··on Ending our Medium integration
I exported it last year to move to Hugo. I will check your tool out since I still haven't migrated images from medium.
j605··on Fish shell 3.0
Probably never. Just use a shebang for scripts,they exist for a reason.
j605··on Gluten Free Antarctica
“wannabe gluten pretenders” are harmful to vegans as well. A lot of times I see gluten-free vegan food when I don't care about the gluten. It is like I am subsidising a fad although I am happy that people with actual allergies can now afford gluten free alternatives due to the fad.
j605··on Why I'm Ditching Android
If you have a smartphone, people invariably have one or two messaging apps in my experience. If it is not Whatsapp then it is something else. You need to figure out what everyone in your circle is using and switch to it or resort to sending blurry SMS. I've found sharing google photos links is much easier since it backs up anyway.
j605··on The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)
Everything is going mobile so you can't fault people for using a mobile app. FWIW I think there is some variety in reddit mobile apps.
j605··on Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time
AUR, snap and flatpak all work differently. AUR is free for all with no trust implied or given but packages will be removed upon user intervention. So curation is basically done by users and other administrations but it doesn't prevent bad packages from being uploaded in the first place. Most of the AUR is building from source so you just have to read the build scripts (PKGBUILDs) of each package before installing and do what a maintainer does.

It gets easier on updates since you only have to check diffs between versions. I believe you are making a wrong decision if you trust anything on the AUR implicitly.

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