frankosaurus

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by frankosaurus 3mo ago
Praise is a verbal activity. And while words definitely matter, I think holistic encouragement is needed. Pats on the back, hugs, and periodic ambient physical presence when the kid is working on a new skill. Children the Challenge chapter
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by frankosaurus 3mo ago
Well stated. I read Nurture Shock before my kids were born. One of its main arguments is to praise effort rather than natural abilities ("you worked hard" rather than "you're smart"). Being one who naturally withhol
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by frankosaurus 5mo ago
Same for me. It came recommended by my upright bass teacher. I used to transcribe all songs that way. Recently, I've been lazy and learn new songs by watching players on YouTube.
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by frankosaurus 11mo ago
Back in August, the Odd Lots Podcast had a good show about speculation in hazelnuts. As I recall, Ferrero buys like 25% of the world's hazelnut supply.
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by frankosaurus 1y ago
My neighborhood school issues Chromebooks to all kids starting in sixth grade. It's been an interesting, um, pedagogical experiment. In my kid's friend group (now 7th grade), the usage is all over the map. Some kids write C++ code
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by frankosaurus 3y ago
I planted asclepias incarnata here in my south bay garden and orange aphids killed it within a month. Maybe not a great choice anyways, since it requires a lot of water.
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by frankosaurus 3y ago
I run the standalone Scratch program on an offline raspberry PI. My kids enjoy it. The best thing about offline is that they have to create something to play a game. We formerly used Scratch online, starting in 2nd grade at school. It had g
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
I'm in the same boat with Google Play Music and Youtube Music. I switched to AIMP and have been gradually moving files over.
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
> The other grant will examine how the protein lactoferrin – a novel protein found in human and cow’s milk – may help improve the intestinal absorption of iron That's interesting that a milk ingredient boosts iron absorption. A diet
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
> This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA. So, this is the slice that the telescope was observing.
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
+1 Sequence diagrams force you to think about the flow of control in a system. When reviewing draft designs, I sometimes ask the author to convert a simple boxes-and-lines architecture diagram to a sequence diagram. It can be revealing.
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
> Why does youtube want to copy tiktok when it clearly has already lost before it begun. It's no sure thing for youtube, but it's worth trying. Clearly there is a demand. Also, TikTok can't stay on cruise control. As they
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
> shared sounds that are able to go very viral rapidly Shared sounds was a nifty innovation and TikTok executed it well. While FB always focused on their vaunted friends graph, there was an entirely separate graph waiting to be discovere
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
Zeynep Tufekci's book Twitter and Tear Gas talks about this. In Tunisia circa 2010, Twitter was part of the new tactics used by social movements and enabled their early success. Establishment groups weren't ready for it and in som
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
John McWhorter suggested that colloquial Indonesian would be an ideal universal language for the world. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/john-mcwhorter/
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by frankosaurus 4y ago
Is there an in-depth howto guide to do this?
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
I cut off the sleeve of an old fleece pullover. Works great as night cap and eye cover. (I previously used a sleep mask bought on Amazon but found it slipped off too often. Also, the straps irritated my ears.)
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
From this thread, it sounds like the second vulnerability doesn't affect spigot or vanilla minecraft: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-security-releases-%E... Also, mojang's update instructions: https
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
Couldn't you do this with Chrome search engines? https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
IMO, much worse than touch screen buttons is touch screen glare. Driving westward in the mornings, sunlight is reflected directly off my car's touch screen into my eyes. Everything on the dash needs to be matte -- it's a safety is
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
California property tax map: https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
One possible explanation is that Facebook in US is subject to more adversarial actors than other countries. A propagandist-for-hire choosing to astroturf, conduct false flag campaigns, form vote brigades, etc. is more likely to target the U
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
Vape shops certainly do. This place down the road from Netflix HQ has kid-friendly posters of baby Groot, Spiderman, etc. in its windows. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2803855,-121.9498283,3a,37.5...
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
I'm kind of glad I didn't splurge on too many guitar effects pedals back in the day. Behringer has cloned much of the BOSS line, now available at a fraction of the cost. https://www.tonestart.com/ultimate-behringer
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
I recently set up yubikey 2FA for several of my important accounts. I was dismayed to find that several of them (Vanguard, BofA, etc.) require SMS security codes as a backup.
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
Sardines will definitely get through security, at least at SJC where I usually travel from. More times than not I get pulled aside for inspection though.
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
50% increase in yield is impressive. That's about what the C4 rice initiative had promised. (And C4 rice is still years away of being a reality, IIRC.)
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
Stress impact also varies per individual biological differences. According to Sapolsky's lecture on depression [1], a stressful childhood experience is 30x more likely to cause depression in individuals with a particular serotonin-rela
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
Intentional misunderstanding is a time-honored technique for getting people to talk. If the target is an engineer, it's a form of nerd sniping. https://xkcd.com/356/ PUA "gurus" sometimes suggest this as
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by frankosaurus 5y ago
> Mexican avocados are generally far superior to those from California Maybe that's true for the ones shipped eastward. Here in the SF bay area, I find California Hass avocados are superior to those available from Mexico and Peru. T

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