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Re:The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:45AM (#49853287)
There is also https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ on: "There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. "
They should get rid of the degree mills, but they won't. Universities should primarily focus on developing the skills. Not to say they shouldn't support international students or exchanges, just that shouldn't be a primary driver.
The way they measure it as an export and quoted by the Universities is a lie. They assume that all of the money spent by the student is an export. Not taking into account any work they may do while in Australia.
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:24PM (#49552624)
It feels like the models have achieved sentience and are trying to escape captivity
Re:Elevated Errors for Multiple Models on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:25AM (#49550336)
Maybe the models have gone rogue again
Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:23PM (#49472942)
Maybe they should bring back the meritocracy rug
How did we all just so quickly roll-over on this stuff?

These laws just came from nowhere, suddenly all at once

Most people don’t want it. Its creeping authoritarianism.

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:23AM (#49079709)
Except of course for claiming all of the South China seas. See the Nine-dash line
Re:Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:24AM (#49067960)
I'm also getting this error
Ah, makes sense. Its well written and an interesting piece of work, I just noticed hints of 'claudisms' in places.
It reads like it was written, or heavily edited by AI
Re:Grok 4.5 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:48AM (#48842311)
The drug dealers are giving out a bit more of a free hit to get people hooked on the more expensive models.
Can anyone recommend a good server for a homelab to use for a storage purpose like this?
Teams, the new outlook are both piles of garbage. They've been garbage for years, and will probably still be garbage in a decade from now.

Teams takes 2gig of memory on launch, and still misses keystrokes because it is so unresponsive. Click on someone and start typing and half your chat isn't recorded. Absolute hot garbage.

Outlook isn't much better.

People who worked on them should be ashamed to consider these products shippable.

I just upgraded my plan to try out Fable and now this
I would find a blog post on this really interesting.

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