I’ve studied at a public university in Brazil. Students from private schools were always mocked as being less intelligent and hardworking, starting with the selection process to get in: since everyone wants an education free of cost, the best students are selected for public schools.

But still, I’m pretty sure it’s less of a matter of quality of education, and more of a lack of interest from students combined with a systematic problem of private schools. Hopefully they’re able to require passing this exam to rectify this situation. Currently, that already happens for law schools.

it just means they’ll be a passive node, but still able to seed if they connect to the other node (edited). It’s the setup I have and I manage to keep an overall ratio >1, especially if the torrent is popular.

you don’t actually know that you would have continued playing that game

yes, that’s kind of my point. With this feature it’d be more likely that I would. I don’t play games for the boss fights, but even story-driven ones have them at times. They’re more of a nuisance to me.

Idk, I’ve left some games behind, which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn’t have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever. Not so much as a teenager, but definitely as an adult.

Sometimes I come back after weeks or months, sometimes I don’t bother.

Isn’t it against the law in many places to charge customers without providing a breakdown of what they’re being charged with?

maybe he calls his net worth “cognition”

yes, the system will likely use some swap if available even when there’s plenty of free RAM left:

The casual reader1 may think that with a sufficient amount of memory, swap is unnecessary but this brings us to the second reason. A significant number of the pages referenced by a process early in its life may only be used for initialisation and then never used again. It is better to swap out those pages and create more disk buffers than leave them resident and unused.

Src: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand014.html

In my recently booted system with 32GB and half of that free (not even “available”), I can already see 10s of MB of swap used.

As rule of thumb, it’s only a concern or indication that the system is/was starved of memory if a significant share of swap is in use. But even then, it might just be some cached pages hanging around because the kernel decided to keep instead of evicting them.

if my system touches SWAP at all, it’s run out of memory

That’s a swap myth. Swap is not an emergency memory, it’s about creating a memory reclamation space on disk for anonymous pages (pages that are not file-backed) so that the OS can more efficiently use the main memory.

The swapping algorithm does take into account the higher cost of putting pages in swap. Touching swap may just mean that a lot of system files are being cached, but that’s reclaimable space and it doesn’t mean the system is running out of memory.

sshhh 🤫

not making illegal and support from the national health service are vastly different things. 15% is a disastrous rate for public health.

I disagree. What I could hack over a weekend starting a project, I can do in a couple hours with AI, because starting a project is where the typing bottleneck is, due to all of the boilerplate. I can’t type faster than an LLM.

Also, because there are hundreds of similar projects out there and I won’t get to the parts that make mine unique in a weekend, that’s the perfect use case for “vibe coding”.

what are sections, chapters, indices? Who’s the librarian?

we don’t need to go all the way into a metaphor

you haven’t seen my frontend code

potentially relevant: paperless recently merged some opt-in LLM features, like chatting with documents and automated title generation based on the OCR context extracted.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/pull/10319

A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time.

yeah, it’d be hilarious if the committee decided to withdraw her prize, even if just symbolically.

Python stack traces give you all files involved in the error, with their lines. I don’t know what you’re talking about

how’s that the same thing as in the picture?

The waste of power is often associated to the proof of work consensus, but that’s not a requirement of blockchain. There are other ways to create consensus.

The bandwidth requirements really depend on what’s being stored, but it’s usually very manageable for a server. And clients not running validation don’t need to store or transfer that much data.

git itself is really not far from a blockhain. Blockchain is fine, it only has a bad rep because of ponzi schemes that use it to create crypto, but the technology and trustless consensus mechanisms are interesting.

you’ll need to record it

a man saying ‘ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT’, wherein the first syllable of the first two words is at a lower pitch than the second syllable, and the first syllable of the last word is at a higher pitch than the second syllable.

If you say it in front of the mirror at exactly 3am, a court official will spawn at your location to serve you the papers.