All of my lab’s data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn’t have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It’s insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There’s a ridiculous amount of water there.

Columbia station load follows within a certain range set by nearby hydro. It can be done. The economics aren’t even that bad, as fuel is one of the cheaper inputs to the reactor.

I’ve never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn’t care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

I’m jealous, but not jealous enough to live in OK.

$105 for the same speed in Lincoln, NE

Start with the sl command, and you can do it now 😁

This is just ensuring that companies are forced to blacklist Chrome if they want their secrets to stay secret. It’s already happened at my partners workplace (power industry, federal regulations on security) - hilariously, all google cloud services are blocked, but Bing is fine (w/ automatic ChatGPT integration).

It will be very interesting to see how companies handle this type of practice in the long run.

shit, guess I am eastern European despite never having left North America. My ISP just doesn’t give a shit.

I mean, I believe that he is stupid, and yet, if you know you’re stupid, you shouldn’t put yourself in a position to endanger the whole freaking world with your stupidity. So I’m sorry, but even if it is true, he still deserves to be held accountable, because stupidity isn’t an excuse.

I am not as familiar with the K-12 system, as it’s changed a lot since I went through it, but my college students seem to have gone through school with no deadlines and the ability to resubmit any and all work any time they want, with the expectation that they’ll get at least 50% just for turning in the assignment (even without their name, lol). So while year-round school with absences whenever might be compatible with this system, it’s not particularly compatible with a functioning educational system where the class is being taught as a unit and are more or less learning the same things at the same time.

Additionally, it only works if teachers are completely exchangeable, and are also allowed to take time off whenever. What is likely to actually happen is that teachers will be paid the same but expected to be on call year-round (they’re already expected to be on call 24/7 during the year in a lot of places) with no breaks and limited ability to take even sick leave. I’m fully in support of year-round school - I think it’s a great idea for a lot of reasons - but I would caution that this type of implementation might be a bit harder to pull off.

IMO, at least, education happens when there’s an actual interpersonal relationship between the teacher and the class, as well as between members of the class. This doesn’t happen with the app-driven schooling my nephews are completing, where everyone is in a different place and they just follow lessons on a computer all day with teachers as facilitators and not actual instructors. It’s why we see massive declines in student motivation - they’ve lost the relationships that tend to motivate us as humans, and that’s a really hard thing to get back. My best classes have been when there are meaningful relationships between me and students, but also between students in the class, and we are all tackling a problem/topic together. There’s something about shared suffering, you know?

How on earth would that work with curriculum, planning, and actual teaching? I mean, fine for self guided computer school, but that’s not the way kids actually learn.

You can also curate the training data so that it’s not problematic, but then you are biasing the model in other ways.

Thank you so much!

Anyone willing to copy it here for those with privacy browsers?

Yeah. I can’t stand myself on Adderall or Ritalin - only dextroamphetamine works (and my lil brother is the same way). Caffeine is a sedative for me and does nothing for my dad - he can drink it at any time of the day and not have issues with sleeping or anxiety. There are definitely some metabolism issues that probably affect everyone but are particularly problematic for people who need stimulants of one form or another to function in society.

Unfortunately, for some of us, caffeine calms us down enough that it puts us straight to sleep. I drink caffeine at night if I’m having trouble sleeping. I get the stimulant effect when I’ve already taken my meds - it definitely sharpens my focus then, but sans actual stimulants, it puts me to sleep better than Benadryl.

Because that’s not why many of us are on these meds. For me, they allow me to not burn the house down cooking dinner, and ensure that I still have enough executive function left after work to not lose it on my kids due to the chaos they cause in my house. I don’t take the meds to be a productive worker bee, I take them so that I can be a decent mom and take care of myself and my family.

Care to explain for the uninitiated? I assume the code at the front and back are some sort of indicators to reverse the text?

Can’t you just change the browser’s ID string and make it look like it’s not a mobile browser?