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The methods of the PISA study are quite controversial. It doesnt even properly control for immigration and background and the fact how its presented to pupils.

In Germany in the schools I know of, its stressed a lot how it does NOT affect anything at all, so its not actually a test on ability, but also on ability to motivate oneself to perform well in a meaningless test.

They even often make extra money for each movie. Eg some movies on Amazon are offered only dubbed for "free", if you want to listen to the original soundtrack you have to buy it.

Good luck with that. No problem with investing some money , but it has to be commercially viable first and recent Western projects all over the globe have not instilled any confidence in that.

In Germany it would also be about the video.

I cant just take a photo of a person or even car on the street and just share it online unless its clear the car or person is not the central point of the photo standing alone.

Only few exceptions on that

you should really listen to one of his full town-hall videos and reflect if anything he said could not have have been said by any of the Clintons or McCain. Then compare the few differences to what you might think of Elon Musk.

Which is why some automatic intelligence is so valuable

Interesting. But trying the demo with 27G model and simple 8+5 did not work.

Guessing there is some work to do still

``` calculate({"expression":"g"}) → error: only numbers, + - * / and parentheses are allowed error: No user query found in messages. What is 8+5? Use the calculator get_time({}) → Mon Jul 20 2026 10:36:28 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) error: No user query found in messages. hi Hello! 2 tokens · 6.2 tok/s · prefill 4563 ms · confidence 87% which tools do you know about ? I'myepic know about the following are two tools I am aware of course, I currently i know about I know about me know I am aware of course I know I know I am aware of the following

calculate({"expression":" I know I am aware of know I am aware of I am aware I know I know know "}) → error: only numbers, + - * / and parentheses are allowed error: No user query found in messages.```

I would assume a human would require multiple hours for the same output though

Very interesting approach. I am having trouble with page breaks (documentation says they work, but demo pages dont) etc. For the invoicing example this would require table breaks/overflows into subsequent pages in a real application and I am currently evaluating going with model->PDF or model->DOCX

Do you have any approach in this regard that works ?

For a lot of architectures its also irrelevant. I use sync code and I use async code in my architecture. But more like independent subsystems. They are sync internally and only few places have connections to outside systems or IO. Those can be async.

I do understand though that it can be annoying for library authors, especially those that need to interact with the FS/Network etc.

You mean like you just store the Promise in a var and await after you are done with the rest (JS like) ?

An active bug from 12/12/2018 that Google and the Chromium team just dont want to fix for 'reasons'.

First time I stumbled over this bug myself I thought that will be fixed soon. When Microsoft started using Chromium I thought "for sure now they will".

Turns out there is something nefarious going on. There is no other explanation.

This article is a little distopian about what work has become already for some

I liked pi.dev but why is registering endpoints and models not as simple as possible ? Or am i missing something ? I always have to fiddle with the config file.

Which ones ?

Of course its newsworthy if the company making the most electric cars in the world has setup a factory to produce semis and produced at least one after years of testing with actual customers that say they are very happy at seemingly very competitive pricing.

To say its NOT newsworthy betrays a bias against Tesla which I would assume has nothing to do with actual facts.

They already have a hundred buttons, VW just showed of steering wheels with like 20 buttons

Fred has switched his business model to cater to every reader that hates Elon. So it doesnt matter to him

For Valerian he should have been better at casting people that had chemistry and felt real

As someone who never liked writing anything C++ since 2000+ (did like it before) I cannot agree with this. C++ and Rust are not comparable in this sense at all.

One can argue Rust is what C++ wanted to be maybe. But C++ as it is now is anything but clean and clear.

Considering that I doubt most normal office-user people even use features in Word other than changing fonts etc I doubt that will be a big issue anyway.

I only discovered PI after reading https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/.. and its the first coding agent that makes using local llms and switching to commercial options really fast and well behaved.

Still testing it, but I have to say so far I am extremely impressed.

considering cameras can create reliable enough distance measurements AND also handle all the color reception needed for legally driving roads it was always a ridiculous idea by a certain set of people that lidar is necessary.

Didnt russia cause a lot of debris due to one of their tests and endanger the ISS crew ?

The fact that canadian lumber companies seem to be switching their machinery to metric is funny though. https://woodcentral.com.au/canadas-sawmills-weigh-metric-swi...

The main problem was that it was and is twice as expensive with less range as they said it would be with seemingly no push to address either.

It seems to be a good product (with compromises as any product) but its not a slam dunk to choose that as a Model 3/Y is.

Dont get me started on the number of times Signal/formerly Skype opened up a dialog in-the-midst of me typing and me accidentally accepting a call because i happened to write 'space' at that moment in time

That depends a lot on many factors and thus I dont like generic statements like that which tend to be more focused on a specific database pattern. That said everyone should indeed be aware of the potential tradeoffs.

And of course we could come up with many ways to generate our own ids and make them unique, but we have the following requirements.

- It needs to be a string (because we allow composing them to 'derive' keys) - A client must be able to create them (not just a server) without risk for collisions - The time order of keys must not be guessable easily (as the id is often leaked via references which could 'betray' not just the existence of a document, but also its relative creation time wrt others). - It should be easy to document how any client can safely generate document ids.

The lookup performance is not really such a big deal for us. Where it is we can do a projection into a more simple format where applicable.

THe first example they showed is quite the turn-off though :)

It matters because it helps the "Elon Bad" storyline, that seems to be the connecting thread between all these "reports" whether about SpaceX or Tesla by some news outlets which dont even do the due diligence of putting the stories into any kind of perspective or try to find out if the implied premise of the headline is true or should even matter to the casual reader.