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Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:13PM (#27788017)
I had oral exams in Belgium where usually you are given time to prepare your written work. In the oral, the task then is to expand on your written work and answer questions that probe your understanding a bit deeper than the question itself. The professor might also ask you to hypothesize by changing some assumptions in the questions to check that you actually know the theory and have not regurgitated the book or copied it from someone.
In extension to what the other commenter said, critical temperature that is listed is usually higher than the maximum operating temperature so it is safe to run at the maximum.
For those curious to see the test, the link in huffpost has been moved to https://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/schoolexam1912.ht...
AFAIR in physics and chemistry, room temperature is a short hand for 27°C in 1 atm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temper...

After checking the reference, I feel like this was probably an assumption in all the textbooks that I had to follow in school. I suppose if each standards body had their own definition, it can get frustrating.

Re:Git undo: We can do better on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:07PM (#27582856)
I think for most people, they would encounter it in a science class early in life (at least for English speakers). And Hg is just the chemical symbol for mercury, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/element/Mercury#section=Ide...
Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:57PM (#25403312)
If companies want something to be reliable and accountable then paying for RHEL seems like the obvious thing to do. They are able to pay for Windows but why not for RHEL. The current change is not unexpected given their acquisition.
Re:Pimp My Microwave on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:20PM (#25095732)
Yes, the dumb ones just ding once.
Re:A Second Chance on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:11PM (#24386097)
In this case,I felt it was only needed because of having jury trials. I had the same takeaway that is useful in other places as you. For example, my boss presented a feature that I had worked on better than how I would have done it.
Re:A Second Chance on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:41PM (#24385852)
Can the URL be cleaned up :)
You can listen to the songs on bandcamp before buying it.
Re:iTerm2 3.3 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:27PM (#20587991)
After testing it feels Kate has similar numbers as Terminal mentioned here but most emulators are just as slow. The minimal ones are actually worse off.
Re:Adblocking: How about Nah? on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:05PM (#20542923)
Patreon gives you a private RSS feed so paid podcasts are indeed a possibility. It is similar to getting your private activity ATOM feed from Github for example.
Re:Users hate change on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:06PM (#20538329)
Re:CERN migrates to open-source technologies on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:51PM (#20528253)
I was forced to use Windows at school when I was already using Linux at home for about 2 years. So what do you think I should've done here?
Re:Slack Security Incident on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:17AM (#20478822)
That is why you use a system with a package manager. Maybe you could follow the releases feed on Github. It was what I do when I maintain a package on AUR.
Re:QuickJS JavaScript Engine on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:20PM (#20415955)
Both can decompress tarballs. No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind.
I guess the issue is more for intercountry rail travel.
Re:Betrayed by an app she had never heard of on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:05AM (#20058352)
I get zero spam calls and on most days no calls. Should we give up on privacy because US has bad legislation regarding spam calling.
Re:Firefox 67.0 Released on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:32PM (#19973264)
On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.
Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:28PM (#19773816)
I agree to what nickjj said but hopefully decisions like that are not taken in chat but rather on a mail or an issue so it is documented.
Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server on Saturday April 27, 2019 @03:35PM (#19767222)
My chat logs are just plain text under ~/.weechat/logs and I search them using rip-grep. Works really fast. I am guessing a nicer interface like IRCCloud or TheLounge can work like Slack for searching, file/snippet hosting etc in a more approachable manner.
Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:49PM (#19241154)
> They keep the grasslands under control, and they happily mind their own business. I don't think they need genocide.

I never asked for them to be killed. Letting them go extinct is different from killing them en masse.

Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:37PM (#19241083)
They were all modified through the generations to make them a commodity. If they have no purpose, them going extinct is not a bad thing. Most of them are optimized for meat or other purposes and they probably can't survive outside. It would be humane to let them go extinct after we transition. FWIW we already wiped them off the Earth, you don't find a lot of wild cows or chickens other than the ones we have modified.
Re:The rise of alternative milks on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:14PM (#19065757)
They can be wrong though since no evidence was presented for the “usually coloured” claim. To prove no plant milk uses colouring is neigh impossible but you could easily show a couple of example if it is that common to have colouring in them.
Re:Ending our Medium integration on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:57AM (#19035486)
I exported it last year to move to Hugo. I will check your tool out since I still haven't migrated images from medium.
Re:Fish shell 3.0 on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:12PM (#18779107)
Probably never. Just use a shebang for scripts,they exist for a reason.
Re:Gluten Free Antarctica on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:32AM (#18732513)
“wannabe gluten pretenders” are harmful to vegans as well. A lot of times I see gluten-free vegan food when I don't care about the gluten. It is like I am subsidising a fad although I am happy that people with actual allergies can now afford gluten free alternatives due to the fad.
Re:Why I'm Ditching Android on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:34AM (#18370673)
If you have a smartphone, people invariably have one or two messaging apps in my experience. If it is not Whatsapp then it is something else. You need to figure out what everyone in your circle is using and switch to it or resort to sending blurry SMS. I've found sharing google photos links is much easier since it backs up anyway.

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