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Re:DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:11AM (#43553611)
Oh wow, I remember hearing about this challenge on Daily Planet when I was still in elementary school. It's super cool seeing a follow up, it brought back a hidden memory.

Super cool demo btw

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:12AM (#41911942)
Although I agree with the sentiment, the Ontario university system doesn't actually work that way. For example for Software Engineering at Waterloo, the admission average is calculated using the five required courses plus whatever your highest course is excluding the former[0].

In practice, I believe every single Ontario university program lists English one of the required courses so it will always be included in your top six average.

[0]: https://uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate-admissions/admissions/adm...

Re:How the instrument landing system at Antarctica's McMurdo Station w... on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:00PM (#41284958)
How does the TLS work with multiple aircraft landing at once? With ILS, the signal broadcast was static but it seems like it will now be per aircraft.