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Though the rhetorical questions appear to be making some rather outlandish claims (e.g. that in Slide #2 there are a reducing number of acute respiratory admissions while COVID attributed deaths are increasing), these stats and claims appear to have started appearing in some mainstream media and appear to have growing support. It would be interesting to know if other governments/official advisory bodies are taking the time to engage in discourse rather than selecting only those data points which support the policies they are enacting.

What does "you can make unprotected left turns" mean?

I'm from the UK so I guess this is the US equivalent of turning right at a set of traffic lights... but what significance does "unprotected" have?

Most people I've introduced to Maven have asked "OMG, why do you have a file called 'porn.xml'?!"

A lot of those tweets could get you sent to prison in the UK. I wonder what the British Police would do with complaints about a bot like this based in the UK - would the engineers be held responsible?

I've been using FitNesse heavily at work for the past few years, and I've been surprised by how buggy we've found it.

We have over 30,000 tests and we've had to rewrite part of it because it memory-leaked so badly. Unfortunately the company has strict rules against contributing back to Open Source projects.

That's really interesting. I did a CS degree in the UK and all exams were strictly supervised and we were never allowed computers.

The exception to this was programming exams for which the department would boot all the lab workstations into a locked-down mode with no internet & new homedir containing only the exam files. At the end of the exam everything got collected and marked by an automated test suite.

They went to quite some effort to ensure that no cheating could take place - http://pubs.doc.ic.ac.uk/Lexis/Lexis.pdf

Out of curiosity - the Mid-term exam paper says:

This midterm exam is open-book, open-note, open-computer, but closed-network. This means that if you want to have your laptop with you when you take the exam, that's perfectly fine, but you must not use a network connection. You should only use your computer to look at notes you've downloaded from online in advance. If you are an SCPD student, you should take this exam in any two-hour period between 11:00 AM Pacific time, July 20 and 11:00 AM Pacific time, July 21 . If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at _ any time in this window except between midnight and 8AM on July 21, Pacific time. You may submit the exam either by faxing it to _ or by scanning and emailing it

I'm not familiar with how these things work in the US - are the students trusted to take the exam away and not use the internet to get help?

What if the "state remote computer hacking" target isn't running Windows?