thats why theres always an ongoing debate on grading homework. what matters more are the exam grades to show if a given person understands a concept, but it runs the riak of more people failing out without the weight of graded homework easing up scores.

back in middleschool, i was basically told i would instantly fail a geometry class if i didnt start doing homework, despite aceing exams. The goal of homework is to teach students more about meeting deadlines, and that message often gets lost in education.

it hasnt changed much but at least theres a possible fear a lease might be held out slightly longer this cycle due to tariffs.

Business computers are definitely longer leases than mobile phones i can tell you that. consumers upgrade more often than businesses do.

well not the businesses that are built around apple devices.

as a person who works in that industry pretty much. the only people buying singles are people who do it internally else its sold on bulk because the money gets split between the ecycler and the company who originally owns the product.

outside of having less processing to deal with per order, a company buying things in bulk is less critical about the condition of a product than an individual end user.

I just hate the trend that people want to make villains more generic evil. like how much shit ultraman got for the prescreening when he hits krypto thats actively fighting him. HES A VILLAIN, HES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD.

id rock the costume

although i prefer the arch paths for bleeding edge and rolling updates. Bazzite makes sense for testing because of the immutable.

A lot of more experienced pc users might end up liking arch distros later in their life, but I would never recomnmend arch based distros to people who aren’t comfortable with linux yet.

according to Australian coworker, knart is basically slightly step up from dollar store goods. buy appliances that are cheap, but probably wont last long.

Lesson of the day is don’t let ding work on your dong

high stakes game. its not a genre you in particular talk about specifically, but there are several entries in it that are worth watching.

The problem that (local) ai has at the current moment is that its not just a single type of compute, and because of that, breaks usefulness in the pool of what you can do with it.

on the Surface level, “AI” is a mixture of what is essentially FP16, FP8, and INT8 accelerators, and different implementations have been using different ones. NPUs are basically INT8 only, while GPU intensive ones are FP based, making them not inherently cross compatible.

It forces devs to either think of the NPUs themselves with small things (e.g background blur with camera) as there isn’t any consumer level chip with a massive INT8 co processor except for the PS5 Pro (300 TOPS INT8, which compared to laptop cpus, have a 50 TOPs, so on a completely different league, PS5 Pro uses it to upscale)

So, yes, it would be unrealistic to suggest AMD could rip out the NPU and easily put that space to good use in this current chip.

a few amd chips did have the NPU removed in them, except they were mostly allocated to handheld gaming devices. the Ryzen Z1E for example.

when redreshed, there were a handful of hawkpoint cpus that were NPU less (Ryzen 7 8745HS)

Strix point does not have that dumped die cycle yet

it goes both ways. there are also a bunch of mid 30 year old woman who go to male host clubs to get young dudes to do stuff with them. One of the more famous that showed this circle was Mai Watanabe, or Riri, who got infamous by scamming a bunch of dudes for shit and making a guide for how she did it, only to spend the money she scammed from dudes, at a host club

Gundam recently gave an example of it for the same character

black friday died when it became a normie holiday for sales. part of the reason why black friday worked before hand was that buyers are 100% aware of the product theyre buying and how much it is valued. anythings a “sale” if you’re selling it to an audience that doesn’t know what it was normally priced.

to be fair, the drive in question is a NAS drive, which is not a backup drive by its intended default usecase, unless you slapped it in a nas thats stored as a cloud storage in an offsite location.

its just a matter of people understanding that data redundancy is not a backup, just a level of data safeguard, as it only partially covers some of the forms of data loss and not all of them (e.g not immune to physical methods of data loss like fires, floods and stuff)

its why I dont like calling it scifi to people on suggesting it, because it kind of spoilers the premice on the idea how humanity got to that position in the first place. Its better advertised as fantasy mystery, than scifi.

back when Shin Sekai Yori aired, the yaoi jumpscare of Episode 8 caused a lot of people to drop the (very good) sci fi anime.

On and off conflict between the two countries for a while now. From what i know:

the land in dispute is Khmer land built an entire millenia ago under Suryavarman.

Thailand claims the lands were there due to drawn maps during 1904 french colonia indochina times. Cambodia claims the International Court of Justice lines in 1962, as about a decade ago, france pulled out of the region, and thailand moved in to occupy it.

to quickly summarize a lot, Thailand eventually obliged and ceded the temples to Cambodia. Cambodia went through the civil war. Thailand goes through a military coup, and expels a bunch of refugees into the region.

fast foward to 2008, globally wanted to turn the temples to a world heritage site. map draws borders around the site without giving posesion to a country, Thailand renegades on the plan but Cambodia continues.

Since 2008, there have been conflicts from both sides, and nations globally are trying not to exacerbate the issue.

i remember there were false flags that were raised before when crypto mining operations were flagged as an illegal weed operation