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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:42PM (#50126646)
Its a hollow shell RC car with air canisters.
Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:53PM (#49819023)
I'm not an ornithologist but birds don't need to consume jet fuel to fly hundreds of miles either.
Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:30PM (#48997023)
from what i understand this is CrossPoint.
Re:Iroh 1.0 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:34AM (#48555953)
replace "successful product" with "useful artifact" and you'll get more of the common ground with less of the pedantics.
Re:Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:21AM (#46513382)
Yes absolutely. For large code writing assignments and projects grad students would be tasked with writing the code. After submission they had to schedule a 15-20 minute chat with a grad student in the course for Interview Grading. Through that process the grad would ask why the student made specific choices in their code, where improvements could have been made, and the process they took to solve the task. It wound up being a pretty effective and kind way to get people to not really care as much about referencing things like StackOverflow (no GPT at the time), and helped make a lot of students need to care much more aabout the why of their code.
Re:Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:45AM (#46473715)
My university had a great policy for this. For every major assignment you went through interview grading. if you failed it you lost 60% of that grade.
Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:16AM (#46290397)
There is voodoo in begging the question though.
Re:PGlite – Embeddable Postgres on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:33PM (#46151089)
You can use it in Rust if you like. I've used pglite through wasmer before. Also [pglite-oxide](https://lib.rs/crates/pglite-oxide) is pretty usable.