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by zx90 1y ago
I saw this in the Netherlands: Chromebooks with which the children did their research online, submitted their homework online, got them graded online, organized their workgroups, schedules and meetings online ... Actually </s> th
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by zx90 1y ago
Sorry, I was not clear. Absolutely smartphones should be banned, at least during lessons, and at best during the whole time in the school, recess, etc. Giving a child a dumb-phone in an environment where everybody else uses a smartphone doe
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by zx90 1y ago
Using a dumb-phone is the reason a pre-teen neighbor of mine got bullied. So much that she ended up stealing money to get herself a smartphone. Shortly afterwards the parents folded and became less strict with their anti-consumerism stance.
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by zx90 1y ago
To add another case: When I was 14 or so, a science teacher taught the whole classroom that the reason stars twinkle is because of light being waves. I considered interrupting and mentioning pockets of air with different densities, refracti
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by zx90 2y ago
There is a minor but growing trend of schools (even whole countries, see Australia) banning social media or smartphones for under-16s. I tentatively agree. Are your kids now overly impressed/influenced by celebrities or influencers? Do
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by zx90 3y ago
Even though the amount may be small this touches a very sensitive spot in Spain. In 1981 hundreds of people died and thousands fell ill due to adulterated rapeseed oil. The origin of the disease was a mystery for many weeks and even afterwa
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by zx90 3y ago
A minimal language for UIs sounds interesting. Can you share any details?
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by zx90 3y ago
For those who don't get the reference: It's from the movie Children of Men. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o&pp=ygUPY2hpbGRyZW4...
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by zx90 3y ago
To all the sibling repliers: PICO-8, TIC-80, Load81 and probably others are somewhat Lua oriented. What is it about Lua that makes it so popular in this area?
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by zx90 3y ago
That sounds extreme! Source please?
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by zx90 3y ago
It's already happening: https://youtu.be/A6s8QlIGanA
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by zx90 3y ago
Invent or discover? Is there consensus about that when it comes to maths?
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by zx90 4y ago
It has an interesting choice of screen resolution, 640x360, related to smartphones _and_ modern home screens. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/98985/why-the-360x640...
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by zx90 4y ago
Somewhat off-topic: This reminds me of an article I read about law-making in Taiwan. Iirc there is some kind of crowd-sourced composition, with branches, versions, voting, etc. Unfortunately I don't recall any key words and I don'
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by zx90 5y ago
Please, rouge is red. You meant rogue.
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by zx90 6y ago
Nice language! To the creators of the language: How is it pronounced? And a bit about the etymology please. Do you foresee any challenges/inefficiencies when building a compiler for Toit?