The_Grinch [he/him]

Sometimes I think they’re just jealous of the cool kids who know how to use torrents and mod their consoles.

Even the people who love him hate him!

I’ll believe it when I see them demonstrating the ability to extract specific pieces of information from an informational video in a comparable amount of time as an indexed informational text.

It’s definitely gotten more wasteful lately in particularly. You could run 8.1 on any computer that supported Vista, and IME it was even a little snappier, but 10 and 11 have each been significantly worse.

i3wm on a 32bit IBM thinkpad is still instantaneous-response-fast

That’s why in ny opinion it’s criminal that for most high school math stops before calculus. Calculus wraps up so many loose ends and replaces rote memorization techniques with understanding. Why exactly is the area of a ___ = (formula)? Calculus answers that.

The quadratic formula too, calc replaces it. In fact if I had my way with the curriculum we would skip that one entirety in algebra. I’d also throw in a statistics class, which would directly impact just about everyone’s lives, but that’s another matter.

I never learned my times tables either. We don’t teach them anymore anyway.

STEMlords are already primed to reject anything that sounds “philosophical”, such as differences between license types.

You’re being ideological! You will never make anything with that attitude!

As if what you’re making and who it’s for are somehow secondary, trifling matters. Yeah I’ve been down this dialog tree a few times how could you tell?

No, I’m actually agreeing with you completely. I can see why you took it that way though. My fault.

Sometimes what they’re teaching you isn’t what they’re teaching you.

Maybe you don’t need to know how to find the exact surface area of a cone ever again, but the idea of unwrapping a cone to measure the surface area leaves an impression of a technique for deconstructing a problem, or that problems can be deconstructed into simpler parts at all. It also leaves you with a feel for roughly what the surface area of different shapes would be.

Using a protractor teaches you how to measure accurately and use tools.

Cursive and recorder teaches hand eye coordination, and music is just fundamental to human beings.

Then again maybe you do need to find the surface area of a cone one day, and you could probably go ahead and work out how that would be done even if you don’t remember exactly.

What’s the counterproposal for a curriculum? I’m genuinely curious here, not trying to jump down anyone’s throat. What would school look like without these things?

Everything is like… connected, man.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. The reasons all exist on the spectrum from “we have no reason to care” to “We have every reason to make this difficult for you”

I believe in the conspiracy theory that the reason connecting devices directly to each other anymore without doing a bunch of backflips through third parties is more or less intentional. If you could send a file to your friend sitting right next to you with some sort of wifi-direct or bluetooth or even just via usb-C cable that is seamless and actually works, it would impact every web service from facebook to onedrive. You also have a chilling effect on what kinds of data you’re going to share as well.

That said, tailscale is the ticket for me. The client is BSD licensed, and there exists a self-hostable server which is floss (headscale). Works like airdrop but better.

“Smoking kills” shock images of diseased lungs, but for oreos. We gotta do communism for the first 10 years or so to detreatlerize the USians.

Yes! I’m on year 4 on my current pair of hiking boots and I have a second identical pair ready to go.

The price has been all over the place lately too. Keep checking in once your roof gets toward the end of its life.

From the company that brought you tin pants… tin underwear. Imagine

I work in roofing on and off. I’ll just say get a metal roof if you can afford it. They come in lots of colors. They’re easy to install solar on. They last a lot longer than shingles and add value to your home. Some people think they’re ugly, but I think they can look pretty good.

It clearly isn’t effective to keep a person in a deep hole if you want them to be “productive”. Bad times don’t make “strong men”, adequate nutrition, enrichment, stability, support, and education makes “strong men” (and women, NBs, etc). and those people make a strong society.