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GPS (using TOA or absolute time of a arrival) is cool and everything, but I'm a much bigger fan of TDOA, when you trilaterate using time _difference_ of arrival, relative to each station. This involves finding the intersection of 3 hyperbolae... Which is where my user name comes from!

I'm a brit who was born in and lives in Watford. I was mugged at knifepoint on oxford street in 2019, and have personally witnessed multiple phone thefts. Non-fatal knife crime is very high, the statistics don't lie in that regard. I hope you don't have the right to vote, because your denial of reality is doing irreparable harm to my country.

Not to state the obvious but, isn't literacy an entry requirement for a college course?


The problem seems to be that many students going to college can't seem to read any substantial texts anymore, while somehow getting themselves into college. It's pretty worrying imo. There's a bunch of articles about this as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-eli...


It's their attention span. My SIL is an English professor and she stopped assigning long texts. The kids won't read it, will get an AI to summarize, and then give her poor reviews at the end for making them read.


Nope.

https://www.live5news.com/2025/02/28/former-high-school-hono...

  Nineteen-year-old Aleysha Ortiz says she graduated from high school with honors and earned a college scholarship, but she can’t read or write.
The problem is also discussed briefly in this recent paper: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...


In my experience I have found the xdg-desktop-portal for whatever reason to be completely non functional on Arch/Hyprland. It must be an issue with my config but on x11 I never had to think about this


I want to love Mojo, but honestly, I think changing the semantics of the language is a massive footgun that will stunt adoption. Being a strict syntatic superset is not enough imo, and I'm not sure it can even make that claim?


At the most basic level, even just not letting Claude run terraform apply would've solved this issue. Review the god damn plan first! This is like engineering 101


I don't understand how a trillion dollar company can't at this point say "you know what, I think we're good on the profit front, let's convert some of that into improving UX"


Bloodsuckers say “we’re good, let’s do something beneficial for the world”, hear how that sounds?


Its not in their DNA, the don't get that large by making that kind of decisions.


If only any of their former leaders and one of the most famous people ever had said something like "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will"...

Well maybe that kind of company would've been aggressive about always being competitive, yeah? Instead of whatever Tim Cook is doing...


I guess that makes Usain Bolt a physicist?


A factoid is a fact commonly thought to be true, but is actually false.


There are two definitions of the word according to Merriam-Webster. The second one is used accurately here.


Justine identifies as a woman.


"identifies as" is an unnecessarily dismissive choice of words. She is a woman.


My statement was a fact, and in my opinion not politically loaded, yet respectful to Justine. I chose my words carefully.


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