tcbawo

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by tcbawo 11d ago
New approaches are tried in education all the time. What constitutes "good" is subjective and might take years to really play out. Education is like economics... so many variables and changing starting conditions
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by tcbawo 11d ago
Who is the authoritative voice of reason for the effectiveness of any educational approach or tool? It takes years to sort things out and by then the approach of the day has moved on. Education is an area where everybody feels like they a
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by tcbawo 22d ago
Dolly Parton was an incredibly savvy business person, talented songwriter and performer, and an outstanding human being. One in a billion. I will always remember her appearance on the Late Show with Steven Colbert where she moved him to te
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by tcbawo 3mo ago
I was somewhere recently where the World Cup games were on the TV, but the current score was also on what appeared to be a split-flap board mounted to the wall. Seeing your post had me look up commercial availability of these (it seems the
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by tcbawo 3mo ago
I always loved the story of the "three-sided" Monty Python record, where the B side had two parallel concentric grooves, causing different tracks to play depending on where the needle was dropped. I always wondered what kind of e
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by tcbawo 4mo ago
There isn't a lot of money in 40 year old computer books targeted at children
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by tcbawo 4mo ago
This game was created before virtual currency and pay to win was a thing. The potential money is probably too corrupting.
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by tcbawo 4mo ago
> Yes, the AI may have produced the recommendation but a human decided to follow it, so that human must be held accountable It is common and a mistake IMO to rely on the AI as the sole source for answers to follow-up questions. Better v
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by tcbawo 6mo ago
We now live in a courtier world where flattery and politics determine successful outcomes.
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by tcbawo 7mo ago
I love the accessibility and diversity of large city living in the US, but it is definitely the exception to the rule. The US is hoping for technological breakthroughs in self driving electric cars to bail us out from the sprawl we've
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by tcbawo 7mo ago
The actual smart money isn't selling knowledge to anyone else. They are using it to make money.
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by tcbawo 8mo ago
I had an idea once for connecting an old 8-bit computer to the modern web by connecting to a text-based web browser running on another device using the terminal. Maybe one day when I find more time.
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by tcbawo 8mo ago
I have a Framework laptop. It was expensive for the specs, but I really appreciate the philosophy of openness. I have replaced both the keyboard and battery, which was easy and painless. At least for Dell, I don't think Framework&#x
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by tcbawo 8mo ago
From what I remember, trying to fix configuration was mostly to recover from whatever broken state package/distro updates caused. Thanks for the Silverblue suggestion. In recent years, I enjoyed using Pop!_OS, at least on VMs.
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by tcbawo 8mo ago
It has been a few years, but for example breaking the display, bluetooth, power states/sleep, or wifi. Or subtly messing up dependencies of various other packages that I was trying. I just don't want the overhead of system admin
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by tcbawo 8mo ago
I am pretty sure that my previous attempts at a Linux desktop have failed because I would tweak my setup by installing packages and updates until I broke it and needed to reinstall. But I want my machine to be indestructible and "just
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by tcbawo 9mo ago
The dial tone was prior to dialing. Upon connection, there was an audible sound from the modem handshake. Through some google searches, I came across this recording: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo
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by tcbawo 9mo ago
It would not surprise me at all if the sequencing step was done via FPGA processing many network inputs at line rate with a shared monotonic clock. This would give it some amount of parallelism.
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by tcbawo 10mo ago
Which policies contributed to income inequality?
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by tcbawo 10mo ago
For certain jobs, I've done development for Linux while also having a Windows box for other things. Opening Linux GUI apps remotely on my Windows desktop is nice and allows me to consolidate my displays. This is an edge case, for sur
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by tcbawo 11mo ago
Here is a dumb question. In an OS with user-space drivers, can't many existing drivers be wrapped and repurposed? Does this shorten the path to mainstreaming more new OSes?
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by tcbawo 11mo ago
Is it really true that ICE has been stable? Cars seem to have been getting many innovations, especially with power, torque, and reliability. We probably don't hear much about it because it is low profile stuff and a mature product.
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by tcbawo 11mo ago
Is there anything interesting or novel about this exchange, other than its headquarters are located in Texas? From what I can tell, the primary data centers will be in New Jersey like all the others.
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by tcbawo 1y ago
> Whose_ destructor, if not the receiving-type The receiving type should control the lifetime of any callbacks to itself that it gives away. The destructor is the best place to ensure this gets properly cleaned up. Like anything, custom
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by tcbawo 1y ago
> most debuggers just show you two opaque addresses This has not been my experience. But I haven't needed to deal with RTTI disabled. By RAII, I mean using destructors to unregister a callback. This covers 99.9% of use cases. Gen
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by tcbawo 1y ago
Can you elaborate on your third point? What would a class need to do to affect debugging info? Regarding your fourth point, sometimes an architecture can be vastly simplified if the source of information can abstracted away. For example,
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by tcbawo 1y ago
Watching this movie, I did not get a sense of glorifying violence in any way. If anything, it glorifies resistance to authority. The strongest and most successful members of the resistance (like the Sensei) avoid confrontation. It's
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by tcbawo 1y ago
How often are all doors of a car inoperable after a crash? Getting out the other side of a burning vehicle is an option I want
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by tcbawo 1y ago
There is an astute comment floating around here that describes the tendency for human psychology to absorb information first through the limbic/emotional center first before the logical part. It is unsurprising to see horrible reactio
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by tcbawo 1y ago
I don’t understand the downvotes. Replacing foods that have been prepared in the same way for hundreds of years with foods treated with processes that have not yet been considered harmful is inherently risky. There are plenty of example

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