whacim | 3 years ago | on: Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
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whacim | 3 years ago | on: Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search button – how to remove?
I'm running Windows 11 preview and have the ability to turn off taskbar items in taskbar settings. I get the impression that they are still experimenting with the search box settings.
100% agree it is a ploy to drive Bing search.
whacim | 3 years ago | on: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
I wonder if there is some sort of tax strategy Musk can implement if Twitter goes under? Might be more valuable dead than alive to him.
whacim | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones?
May also differ by OS. I'm on Android and have options to disable four or five different types of alerts.
whacim | 3 years ago | on: Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S.
There are also some indications that Washington is increasingly viewing semiconductors as a national security issue. There could be a shift in federal funding that could make the industry more attractive to talent again.
whacim | 3 years ago | on: Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming
whacim | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to talk with logical flow and coherence at interviews?
One approach I used when I first started interviewing was to apply to a few jobs I wasn't really interested in pursuing to use as an opportunity to practice interviewing.
whacim | 4 years ago | on: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
I think they should just make a one time half-hour adjustment and split the difference. Not sure how much of a technical challenge that would present to implement.
whacim | 4 years ago | on: Colorado to become first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments
My theory is that U.S. and other governments recognize that digital currency will eventually be necessary.
Rather than expend the resources to develop it themselves, they are giving the crypto community enough space to do the R&D for them. Once the technology evolves to a point that it is both secure and practical, the governments will implement their own digital iterations of their respective currencies.
whacim | 4 years ago | on: How to commit murder inside a locked room
Here is an alternate version of the story.
https://icantbelieveitsnonfiction.com/2020/10/20/greg-flenik...
whacim | 4 years ago | on: Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
Was related to Rogan's Instagram post related to the 'N-word'?
whacim | 4 years ago | on: Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
I think iPhones get 6-7 years of support. I believe the new Pixel 6's are up to 5 years.
whacim | 4 years ago | on: A Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men (2007)
This Scientific American article may touch upon some of it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lab-rats-are-...
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Assign the students a project to filter out students with ulterior motives from a theoretical class. The engineers will then be forced to produce a solution for the problem of their own creation while subtly alerting other students that not everyone enrolled in the course is there for the same reason.