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Re:UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:41PM (#50279725)
That's my point. It's strange to report a USD figure
Re:UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:36AM (#50257048)
Wow, it is remarkable that the UK government is imposing a USD-denominated charge on its universities.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:47PM (#50252806)
2n should read as 2^n
Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:33PM (#49760564)
You mean symbolically?
It's a question from 2011...
Re:Buckets and objects are not enough on Sunday May 03, 2026 @07:46PM (#48002848)
S3: Simple Storage Service. It's a building block, and it's only natural other abstractions are built on top of it.
Re:MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:53PM (#46428139)
Why did it take them 4 days between publishing a CVE for the vulnerability (Dec 19th) and posting a public patch (Dec 23rd)?
Re:Unit Tests for LLMs? on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:54AM (#45412581)
You want to do evals, yeah.
If I place a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board and double the amount on each step, I'd have 18 quintillion grains of rice.
Re:How does fentanyl get into the US? on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:19PM (#42935491)
We can, though? A sugar tax.
Re:Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:02AM (#42932437)
I have the same browser and versions as you and it plays on my phone. Pixel 7 Pro, if that matters.
27 is just the EU. The whole of Europe is more like 50, which is even wilder!
Paywall
Interesting project! The kid is only mentioned at the beginning, I wonder if they participated further in the project, or if they enjoyed playing the game?
Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:44PM (#42071381)
Canadian citizens can still be brainwashed even if their data is stored within Canada.
Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:14PM (#41896342)
Sometimes you have to kill orphans too!
Re:Unoffice Hours on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:28AM (#41763892)
Other people's mouses and text selection is very distracting.
Re:Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose? on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:29AM (#41243889)
One would be quite concerned to learn they are eating cheese made from bufalo milk, as the custom is to make the cheese from bufala milk instead.
Much like a roulette, in Twitter the house always wins.
Re:My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:59PM (#40484878)
Vote with your wallet
Re:Cool URIs can be ugly on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @04:25AM (#39355997)
Cow
Re:LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:18PM (#38985189)
It's 12 bytes per second, or less than 1kB per minute. Doesn't seem like much.
Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:53AM (#38488933)
What if the predicted verb was incorrect, but the model has already translated the incorrect prediction? How does it tell you about a mistake?
Re:Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:08PM (#38416677)
fxck
Re:World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:27AM (#38207119)
What would it be used for?
Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:21PM (#38134473)
Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.
Re:Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:08PM (#37877538)
It's not a job, it's a toy. This most likely was a learning experience or hobby for the author.
Re:Oxford 'explosion' after lightning strike seen from A34 on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:30PM (#37744700)
Brave Browser + Pihole ensured I didn't see any. I'd recommend setting those up if you are annoyed by intrusive and abusive ads.
Sergey Aleynikov (born 1970) is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. Between 2009 and 2016, he was prosecuted by NY Federal and State jurisdictions for the same conduct of allegedly copying proprietary computer source code from his employer, Goldman Sachs, before joining a competing firm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

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