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1 points·by vlasky·l’année dernière·0 comments

Aussie math teachers must add Indigenous dance, storytelling to lessons

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3 points·by vlasky·l’année dernière·4 comments

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vlasky
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Happy to share your AGENTS.md?
vlasky
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
It's alive and well!
vlasky
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
For desktop PCs, Rymdport (formerly wormhole-gui) may be suitable. It's cross-platform with pre-built binaries for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows on x86-64 and arm64:

https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport
vlasky
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Wormhole William is available for Android devices:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
vlasky
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration. Since 2015, I've been involved in the design and maintenance of six different Meteor webapps for real-time geospatial applications built for B2B and B2C.

Given this, I reject your assertion that Meteor is limited to MongoDB and "toy apps".
vlasky
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
Meteor is alive and well and actively maintained. It just doesn't get attention for some reason. Version 3.3.1 was released 4 days ago.
vlasky
·l’année dernière·discuss
But does our universe obey Popek and Goldberg's virtualization requirements?
vlasky
·l’année dernière·discuss
Base rate fallacy is a key part of many erroneous human decisions or judgements. This could easily be taught in high schools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
vlasky
·l’année dernière·discuss
Maybe "tragicomic" would be a better word.
vlasky
·l’année dernière·discuss
It's not "strictly illegal" in Australia. Our anti-discrimination bodies across the country frequently grant exemptions to employers allowing sex-based or race-based discrimination in favour of certain groups (e.g. women, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people), in order to "improve access to specific jobs, programs or services".

Here is a list of the current exemptions in NSW:

https://antidiscrimination.nsw.gov.au/organisations-and-comm...
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I can also suggest Morefine. I bought a couple of AMD Ryzen 5900HX mini PCs from them:

https://morefine.com/
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I'm Aussie and I can't believe this Sun Cable project is being taken seriously by our government.

The longest submarine power cable in the world - the Viking Link - is a mere 756 km long and cost US$2.2bn to build. Sun Cable calls for a 4,200km submarine cable to be built!

I do not expect the construction cost to scale linearly and I shudder to imagine the maintenance difficulties and expenses.

Back in December 2015, Australia's 290km long undersea Basslink cable broke causing the 2016 Tasmanian energy crisis. It took 6 months to get it working again. Basslink eventually went into receivership on 12 November 2021.

Something to ponder.
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
ngxtop is also very useful for providing real-time metrics:

https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I'll never forget Bob Newhart's heartfelt eulogy for Krusty the Clown. It was better than some real life ones I heard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ7lVT7b-Q
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I wouldn't want to see this sort of post everyday, but I thought it was an interesting forensic exercise - kind of like carbon dating.

Just for fun, I used ChatGPT 4o to answer the question. It reckoned 1997.
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
I'm surprised that you can't configure the pace or pitch of the voices. The Web Speech API, around for a long time, has that capability. I'd also love to have the option of Australian and British accents.
vlasky
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
This software mitigation technique for Rowhammer could also be useful for improving the reliability of programs running on microcontrollers in high radiation environments, e.g. satellite in Earth orbit.

By maximising the Hamming distance between binary values used in enumerations (enum variables) and boolean variables, one could detect if the code has entered an invalid execution path and then trigger a watchdog reset, e.g. an else statement or a switch statement with a fall through case that would not normally be reachable.
vlasky
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I wonder how difficult it would be to enhance Redis to support FIFO with Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion.