Yes, usually university signature programs put tough classes in the first couple of terms to weed out the students who shouldn't proceed in the programs (i.e. taking a slot away from students that likely will excel in the program)

Getting rid of grades is just masking the issue.
When I graduated high school in the late 1980s and college in the early 1990s, letter grade definitions used to be a C is average, B is above above average, and A is exceptional, with D being below average, and F fails to meet minimum requirements, and many students were happy ending up with a C. A statistician will tell you there should be an equal number of Bs and Ds, and the most prominent grade should be a C, but I am fine with any student giving their best effort and meeting minimum requirements getting a C. When I was in high school, the "A" honor roll only had like 10% or less of the class in it, and 4.0 honor roll was like 1%...Now it seems we live in a culture of grade inflation where "everyone gets an A", and with my kids' high school classes, like a quarter of them have 4.0s and like half are on the "A" honor roll, so the achievements of the truly exceptional students are very diluted. Kids getting anything other than a "A" (i.e. perfection) are seen as failures, that mentality carries over to College. The grades you get is college should help you grow as an individual as an indication of where you need to make improvements, or if your course of study is appropriate (or even if College is appropriate).
We need to stop the grade inflation and the expectation that every student gets an A in every class, and that perception anything less than perfection will ruin their future opportunities. Focus should be on students giving their best effort and growth, and let the grades fairly evaluate the student in that subject.

I hate it when they just report "compromised computer systems", they need to go into more detail. Like the recent water plant attacks, the media reported it like it was a advanced novel thing that involved sophisticated methods, but in reality the PLCs affected were connected directly to the Internet, with all their ports open to the world so anyone with the programming software or the ability to read/write Modbus, Ethernet/IP, DNP3, etc. and Internet access had the ability to take control of the PLC.

Was everything in this city just sitting on a flat network with no segmentation? Was the vector an email, USB drive, compromised NMS? Were the dispatch consoles also used for "general computing" functions? Was it a ransomware attack, an APT, script kiddie playing around with everything they could get access to?

"Preserving evidence for federal investigation" ...They could dump logs, configurations, etc. to preserve the current state, but still take mitigation actions to reduce the vulnerabilities, recover data to a known safe point, and get systems back up and running. Also comical that so many people think the malicious actors will be caught, best you can do is practice good security to minimize threat surface and impact, most of which is largely unchanged for 3 decades (network segmentation/isolation, strong authentication, least privilege, patch known bugs, along with backups, archives, disaster recovery plans), and have robots watching log files for anomalies...

Unfortunately they were able to drag it out until Digital Research was pretty much dead.

The AI bubble should burst soon.

100% agree with the MBA assessment.

Maybe we should "recycle" radioactive waste (looking at you Cs-137) into sealed thermopiles to send to 3rd world countries to use as power sources. Likely just as safe...

But there are many reasons an emergency vehicle might deviate from a prescribed route, and the strobe or transponder systems are much better at adapting to that. Not to mention if you clear the whole planned path immediately, in most US cities, will cause traffic congestion that could take hours to recover from. A system that follows the emergency vehicles and continually adjusts their next couple of blocks allows for much better traffic flow overall.

It's been happening since the 1980s. I remember when Fargo, ND installed emergency vehicle priority in like 1984, and used flashing strobes on emergency vehicles to turn lights green for as far the strobe could be seen.

This is what happens when the laws/rules are stacked against the small people.

My local dollar general (about the only general merch store in my town), is so disorganized that I can never match up products to shelf tags anyway....

Fair Issac was suppose to take out gender/racial and other biases from lending. It was supposed to be a way to subjectively evaluate applicants.

The amount of waste per KWh produced is among the lowest of all the fuels we use for energy production. Remember one truckload of fuel lasts about 6 years in a nuclear reactor (not all the fuel is replaced every 2-year refueling cycle, only about 1/3 of the fuel is replaced)..nuclear plants in the USA have a capacity factor of well over 90%, some near 99%, meaning a 630MW plant is pumping out 630MW 99% of the time.
A single BWR fuel rod (30,000 of them in a BWR-4 like DAEC) produces 2400MWh of electricity in its lifetime. A typical 460W PV panel will produce about 17MWh in its lifetime.

CANDU has a nasty positive void coefficient, not seen in BWRs and PWRs, so CANDU is not allowed by the NRC in the USA. DAEC is a BWR-4, IIRC, with a Mark-I containment (inverted light bulb with torus)