I might be wrong but I fear this strategy might unfairly punish e-readers which imo offer the best of both worlds

I've brought my kindle to even the most strict of technology-banned lectures (with punishments like dropping a letter grade after one violation, and failing you after two), and never have they given me a problem when asked. They realize the issue isn't the silicon or lithium, it's the distractions it enables. I'm sure I could connect to some LLM on it, it's just that no one ever will.

I’ve tried many e-readers since early Kindle but I keep coming back to two fundamental problems with e-ink, both relevant to education.

First, extremely cumbersome and error-prone to type compared to swipe-typing on a soft keyboard. Even highlighting a few sentences can be problematic when spanning across a page boundary.

Second, navigation is also painful compared to a physical book. When reading non-fiction, it’s vital to be able to jump around quickly, backtrack, and cross-reference material. Amazon has done some good work on the UX for this, but nothing is as simple as flipping through a physical book.

Android e-readers are better insofar as open to third-party software, but still have the same hardware shortcomings.

My compromise has been to settle on medium-sized (~Kindle or iPad Mini size) tablets and treat them just as an e-reader. (Similar to the “kale phone” concept ie minimal software installed on it … no distractions.) They are much more responsive, hence fairly easy to navigate and type on.

Its obvious they don't care.

That said, I always thought exams should be the moment of truth.

I had teachers that spoke broken english, but I'd do the homework and read the textbook in class. I learned many topics without the use of a teacher.

what are the blue dots? (not water bodies i think?)

I was curious about this too and it’s actually a bug— these blue dots are random parks or park features. Most parks are polygons, but less than 5% or them are points from volunteer mappers who didn’t make them polygons and so these stray points seem to slip through and get plotted as the matplotlib default color…

If only I knew this before I printed it out and attached it all together with rasterbator lol

Yes, the blue and orange dots are from the water and parks Nodes and Ways in the OSM data.

It doesn't look like the orange and blue colors are part of the theme definitions, so the rendering library may be using some default values. This is why they are rendered in the same color on images using different theme files.

came back just in time for me to spend the first hour of my work

add ai generated dang

off topic but I love your product it is an absolute joy to use, give my regards to Luke from the support team, he helped isolate my work's issue to something obscure in WSL2

hi, would you be looking for interns by any chance? Have applied under the no role fit category though, I think I may be a good fit

It's possible, if you are able to be fulltime in the office and graduating in 2026.

they have a new Gemini integration, pretty useful for me now.

better title for the piece of this post

Could you provide any links as to this? Was not able to find anything

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Variability

And from the original NOIRLab link: “This discovery answers the longstanding mystery of the star’s varying brightness”.

The system’s brightness decreases when the companion star swings around behind Betelgeuse. It also dips when Betelgeuse goes behind the companion star but much less so because Betelgeuse is so much larger.

Exactly, was just calculating pricing yesterday, it doesn't make sense what they are doing. Straight up bs.