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Re:Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:02PM (#49857796)
According to PISA they did change the tests to be more relevant to using computers. Reading tasks are mostly practical: websites, emails, forum posts, comparing multiple sources and judging whether a source is credible.

So this "old testing" framework is at least from 2010s rather than from 1950s.

I must appoligize - it is there, hidden under "Form elements" in the left menu. Kudos to the authors!
Why do all the UI component libraries always feature an accordion (something i can build myself in 5 minutes and very rarely need), but always omit a date picker / calendar component (something that is needed almost in every corporate web form and really requires a lot of effort to build)?
does this update also enable precision finding from the watch? would this start working with the previous generation of airtags as well (currently you can use precision finding from your iphone, but not from the watch)
Re:Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:18AM (#41877649)
take millions of games of human players of certain rating only as your learning data?
"Sapiens" by Yuval Harari is really remarkable overview of human history and is much more recently written. I read it twice already and enjoyed it a lot both times.
Getting "Error: Internal error while processing request." while trying on my personal public github repo. HN effect?
Re:Testcontainers on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:31AM (#39538420)
Can I run this in GitHub Actions?
Re:How ChatGPT made me lazy on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:06PM (#39443773)
Some of the dog breeds, most notably French Bulldogs, have been specifically bred for qualities that enhance their interaction and dependency on humans (like having a unique set of facial features and expressions that many people find irresistibly cute and compelling).
Re:Lapce on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:29PM (#39422249)
Warp terminal comes to mind as well. But I believe they are just plain closed-source. What makes these projects fake open-source?
Re:Lapce on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:26PM (#39422212)
getting acquired by a big tech who wants to catch up with Microsoft's dominance in developer tools is one possible out
Hmm, if generating new code is an easy task for GPT, why don't you ask it to create a new project from scratch every moment a user comes up with a new feature?

Who needs to maintain an old codebase if you can rewrite it adding new features at whim?

Re:Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:35AM (#36059558)
and is there no such pair of planets that revolve around the Sun while staying on the same "side" of the Sun?
Re:State of JavaScript 2021 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:07AM (#30358971)
Correct, but people are more likely to learn a new skill or a tech stack in their 20s than in their 40s. And when current 65+s were in their 20s javascript wasn't a thing yet.
Re:State of JavaScript 2021 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:40AM (#30358382)
65 year olds don't do javascript. which is explainable since javascript itself is ~28 years old and node.js is like 15?
Re:Top Chess Engine Championship on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:54AM (#30192373)
Would be interesting to see AlphaZero in this contest, but I don't think it is open source

[1] How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT6CR9_6l4

Re:SRE Doesn’t Scale on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:41AM (#28850147)
it's coupling via network calls instead of in-memory calls
Re:Thinking About Glue Code on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:28AM (#27890932)
Someone in this thread gave an example of casting floats to integers being glue code. But how exactly you want to cast - using round, floor or ceil is a business logic. Where is the meaningful difference in this example?
Re:AWS icon quiz on Monday August 06, 2018 @09:55AM (#17697515)
I would guess text labels with services' names are supposed to be part of those icons
Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:27AM (#17081041)
> It's not a great language (clearly demonstrated by the discussion about it being good or not) but it's not terrible

I'm wondering what would be an example of a great language? Because we know that there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses

i'm wondering if 15-25 generations (that's approximately how many generations of garden birds were there since the invention of the cigarettes with filters) are enough for evolution to actually show this trend here
Re:Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:23PM (#15049438)
But in return it's also extremely cheap to bootstrap and fail
Re:Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:53AM (#14670110)
Angular 2+ user here: - Components have nice API and are pleasant to use - Dependency injection containers out of the box are good for those who value inversion of control in their codebases - Change detection is good and fast. Gone are the times of leaky abstraction of the digest loop - Tooling has caught up: Angular CLI for rapid start, server-side rendering works just fine. You are using npm, webpack, typescript (brings es2016 features to you), modern testing frameworks and what not - Redux works nicely with Angular2+ as well, it's not exclusive to React - You can wrap pretty much any 3rd party browser widget into Angular component within maybe one hour of work

I guess when your open source library passes a million downloads per month, you are not worrying too much about marketing anymore. So i'm not quite sure why it's so important for the author to declare one and only one winner in the race. Both React and Angular users are benefiting from the competition

Re:Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:47AM (#13185338)
> jump to implementations

not a trivial thing to implement for Go though. Last time I checked the Go plugin for Intellij was missing this functionality

Or... just use the battle-tested tool that solves this exact problem well for you. Put your cache into Redis or other in-memory cache.
Re:A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:39AM (#10122095)
What would be a good textbook for Math 101, specifically to learn some advanced mathematical formalism without actually diving in applied science behind it?
Re:How to implement a spreadsheet on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:55AM (#9940788)
Does anybody know any good open source spreadsheet implementation with JS+DOM?
Re:Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:52AM (#9719675)
So does querySelectorAll, that's not the issue with jQuery API.

The problem is that "jQuery" function, aliased as "$" has 9 signatures (doing 9 different things, depending on which arguments you send to it), while querySelectorAll does only one thing

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