georgebcrawford

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by georgebcrawford 6d ago
In Australia the most commonly scammed demographic is under 25s.
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by georgebcrawford 4mo ago
Improvement in what way and over what previous phone? The parent mentioned a number of metrics.
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by georgebcrawford 5mo ago
That’s not true. You can swipe up from the bottom, just as you described. That brings up the app switcher. Or you swipe along the bottom in a straight line (no arc, no corner) to go directly between apps rather than choosing which one. Good
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by georgebcrawford 5mo ago
Yep, trash.
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by georgebcrawford 6mo ago
An essay is a good gauge of how one can organise their thoughts, argue a position, respond to a stimulus. In short it’s a good way measure thinking.
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by georgebcrawford 6mo ago
> essay writing is no longer a viable form of assessment. Of course it is. In person, with an unseen prompt/question. By hand or not doesn’t really matter as we can airgap or just monitor via software when in class.
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
I'm an English teacher - I'll be sharing carefulwords with my students and faculty. Thank you, it's bloody great.
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
I agree until your last sentence. Pubs closing can be devastating. Pubs are often the centre of a community, especially small ones. Not even small towns . Traditionally they have been centered around drinking, but this is changing. Much li
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
I spent 30 seconds and the first word that came to mind was drivel. As an English teacher this shit makes me hate LLMs even more. Like so much techbro nonsense, it completely ignores what makes us human.
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
Good point, you did ask in good faith for an explanation and just fired off a quick comment that didn’t serve to further the discussion!
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
Not danger as in being kidnapped by government agents, danger in terms of being denied a job or insurance or anything else. Your comment is extraordinarily naive.
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by georgebcrawford 8mo ago
Good point. Music is much more personal, perhaps?
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by georgebcrawford 9mo ago
He was successful at Air NZ from memory. But they're completely different jobs. For example, he cut services and jobs which helped increase profits. Not uncommon for an airline. The same approach when running a country is disastrous
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by georgebcrawford 9mo ago
New Zealand isn’t on that list, but two parties generally take 70-80% of the vote. Last election (~65%) was an outlier due to the two leaders being pretty unpopular. However, NZ has a proportional voting system that leads to coalitions form
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by georgebcrawford 9mo ago
I have the same router as the OP article - it ran at 72C until I did [this]( https://phasefactor.dev/2024/01/15/glinet-fan.html#choosing-... ). Currently running at 60C!
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by georgebcrawford 9mo ago
Because they're often acting as a bulwark against powerful MNCs.
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by georgebcrawford 10mo ago
> The metaphor of assigning a literal monetary value to one's opinion reinforces the idea that contributions are transactional and that their "worth" is measured through an economic lens. That framing can be exclusionary,
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by georgebcrawford 10mo ago
> This relegates the use of AI to personal choice of learning style and any misuse of AI is only hurting the student. I'm a teacher. Kids don't have the capacity to make this choice without guidance. There are so so many that d
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by georgebcrawford 10mo ago
I’ve lived here 15 years and seen two snakes, zero deadly spiders, zero crocs. Yes, I’m on the city fringe. Like millions of others here.
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by georgebcrawford 11mo ago
> every single child here in Australia is learning on a school issued Chrome Book Many? Most? Possibly, but absolutely not every single one.
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by georgebcrawford 1y ago
That's only partially true for me. Recommendations? Not at all. Subscriptions less and less. I can think of two that I regularly watch, and even those I'll just binge their most recent 2-3 every couple of months. For me it's
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by georgebcrawford 1y ago
Whoops, I didn't see parent comment and thought the reply was to the submission. It seemed massively out of context but absolutely wasn't :-) Curse HackerNews' narrow indents!
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by georgebcrawford 1y ago
Oh! I've long struggled with the narrow indents on Hacker News comments. I thought this was a reply to OP. Thank you.
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by georgebcrawford 1y ago
What does autism have to do with it?
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by georgebcrawford 1y ago
"beat of a different drummer." I really want to check if it's drum or drummer, but will refrain and live in hope that it was a clever joke
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by georgebcrawford 2y ago
This is so upsetting to hear. The librarians at my school are amazing. The students don't know how good they have it, but us teachers certainly do.
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by georgebcrawford 2y ago
Nowhere did they mention social media :-) but emails and Teams work just fine - though one of my students mentioned they can't initiate chats. I'm sure there's workarounds. I just keep my students off laptops as much as pos
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by georgebcrawford 2y ago
It indexes based on tags. You could theoretically have every file in one folder and still browse by artist/album/genre etc.
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by georgebcrawford 2y ago
Is that what pikapods is? I ask out of ignorance, not "somebody is already doing that".
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by georgebcrawford 2y ago
I 50/50 agree with you. My issue is the bait and switch feel it has to it, for both artist and audience. Spotify holds all the power. They already pay less for Discover Weekly streams, instead using that old music industry classic &quo

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