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Good heavens, it's a difficult path to walk avoiding Chinese goods. Everything seems made in China - clothing, electronics, etc. Moreover, when shopping online it's rarely specified where the product was made. How do you manage these practical problems?
That message may have been inflammatory, based on my opinions concerning Stack Overflow, but I don't see where I called names; I called some systems stupid, but I can't name call a system as I would an individual.

Anyway, sure, I could've made the message a tad nicer, and I really shouldn't have bothered commenting in the overcrowded discussion anyway, but some of the points in the discussion, from this author I've read before, compelled me to write it as I did. There was value, I think, in countering this faux-niceness presented in the submitted writing with a more genuine and plainly-phrased critique of the ideas.
Probably more reliable to maintain, too. A single drone or even a substantial minority failing only lowers swarm throughput rather than completely taking the whole thing out of commission.
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> (the) governmaent is dropping UV powder on protestors from fucking helicopters so that they can be identified as participating in the protests, and then arrested.

If you don't think police forces around the world won't learn and copy this tactic, you're sorely mistaken.

Also, I applaud your vindictiveness, but good luck abstaining from any consumer electronic that doesn't include China in its supply chain.
This comes up often. Amazon profits are "small" because they reinvest into growth. It's a trillion-dollar corporation operating in multiple sectors with massive free cash flow. They're doing just fine and AWS only adds to their margin.

I suggest you read this for more details: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/21/20826405/amazons-profit...
Heh, I like the way Rust proceeds as a language, with regular releases and improvements. I hope Go can make quality of life improvements with similar speed.
Yes, most of the people at the top are billionaires. Tony Bloom owns Brighton FC, Benter is a billionaire (probably, he made several hundred million in HK), Billy Walters is likely close, Ranogajec, Alan Woods is close, Benham is likely close (or was before he decided to buy several football clubs).

The issue, as I said initially, is that you aren't scalable past $100m or so (without connections to the Asian books, which some people above have...apparently, some of the guys are able to put down multiple millions on most European soccer leagues...which isn't available to most). But yes, most of the funds run by the above people have been making 100%+ for years.
If you think kids need more exercise, increase the time spent in gym class/phys-ed.
It's kind of funny that we can say this; it seems that modern computers have come so far in having a user-friendly UX that you're now learning nothing about computers by learning to use one.

Back in the 1980s, just giving kids a computer (without also giving them a bunch of game disks/tapes/carts) would certainly teach them something, in that the only thing you can really do with this "tech" is to fiddle around/tinker with it until you learn how to make it do something you came up with. Just sitting around "being bored on" these computers can—and did—gradually build up a skillset in many of us.

There are still computers that are like this, of course. The Arduino comes to mind. There are also environments you could lock a modern computer down into that do the same.

As well, there are apps and "games" that teach you a ton just by attempting to understand the model behind them, which bored children will stumble into and then learn from under the guise of "wasting time at recess." (The best thing you can preinstall on a computer that a middle-schooler is going to be using is an interactive kinematics sandbox program.)
I occasionally use Python for large-scale processing of structured data (XML, JSON) and the data's really messy as you'd expect (malformed responses, missing fields, normalisation, etc..). One of the things putting me off of Go for these kinds of projects is it's much more verbose/harder to handle edge cases - it feels like I'm less productive writing the program, but end up building something much more stable than the Python equivalent.

I'm definitely going to see if Go is acceptable for my next project since I really need the performance for my workload, and I've wanted to put this great language to work in something that isn't a toy project.
Have you looked into the VSVim extension? It's a bit of extra effort to learn vim, but you'll never have to reach for the arrow keys again.

You'll also need to map your escape key to Caps Lock. You can use AutoHotkey for this with this script:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6t9sj3fygtre6h/AutoHotKey.ahk

Vim basically allows you to trade mental effort for hand movement. Over time, the mental effort goes away, but the saved movement lasts forever.
At my school it was 5 minutes to get to your next class. Socializing was during lunch (we got an hour).
I guess I don't really notice it being much different from say a laptop keyboard, but I suppose maybe it does take a bit more force to push the keys down. Not a metric that I ever really considered being important or not in a keyboard, I guess.
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My wife (a former PS teacher) just literally created a microschool focused on project based collaborative learning and lots of outdoor activity so that we wouldn’t have to send our daughter to that system. We thought we might get 10 kids enrolled the first year and got 34 and are waitlisted. There is a huge demand for alternatives, and we don’t live in a progressive area of the country.
Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you! 90% of Android phones shouldn't be used, and 100% of iOS phones shouldn't be used. How is it that you still do not understand this?

So no personal computer should ever be used since you have to reboot to receive security patches. But I guess in that case even Windows 95 was secure since you could update applications without rebooting....
Congrats on the release and I'm curious to know how such release process works.

e.g. I'd buy it in audiobook form, my wife and I enjoy this topic. Have you considered it, and if so, what's involved?
I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but I've heard it speculated that heavy backpacks are bad for kids backs.
So how this compares with having a very low tech solution instead, like the one using pipes in the field that can spray the insecticide in the same amount as a drone does?
That was exactly my thought. It's like DDT on Mosquitoes. The ones that survived were resistant, so when they bred, all their offspring were resistant.

Could end up being the same issue here, so this could easily become a FAR FAR worse issue in the next generation or two of these worms.
I recommend reading "Fall; or Dodge in Hell" because Stephenson addresses just about everything you mentioned.

It's not the primary focus of the story, but it does at least quickly attempt to answer these problems to advance the narrative in a reasonable way.
> Chrome has already ditched adblockers on mobile

nit: chrome has never had extensions (or ad blockers) on mobile

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
> From the beginning parents have been extremely skeptical

> There is every evidence that this was driven by administrators and tech companies hoping to make money selling software and devices.

> There has never been any evidence that giving kids screens helps them learn

No offense, but you made three fairly bold claims there with little sources to back them up. It's not that I disbelief any of your assertions, but refuting someone else's claim because it has no evidence and providing counterpoints without evidence isn't really helpful...
In my limited use of arch it does seem to be one of the distros that someone with *BSD type aesthetics wouldn't mind.
Chromebooks in education were not supposed to get students interested in computing or teach them about it. They were supposed to be used as an alternative for heavy backpacks with books and make scheduling and other organizational things to be done easier (considering that all of those things are slowly moving to online space, like class registration, gradebooks, etc.).

I.e., it isn't a programming-friendly OS vs. chromebooks, it is heavy backpacks filled with textbooks and notebooks vs. chromebooks. Don't mistake chromebooks for a computing tool, it is an everyday student things kind of tool that just happens to be served by a computing device.
I hope the gestures are better than when they first came out with the "pill". I tried it for a week and it was an awful experience. Maybe it's because I use the double tap on app switcher to quickly get to last app a lot and the pill was really bad for that (slow and would switch to wrong app half the time).
I have a Model M with the flow-thru option; keyboard is probably 30 years old or so.

My mobo still has a PS/2 port, but I bought an adapter for USB when that time comes. Other than needing a really deep cleaning (something I really need to do) - it works flawlessly.

And it doesn't have any of the "Windows Key" junk that happened in the 90s to distract from my *nix aesthetic. Only downside is that it is beige, while the rest of my system is black.

When/if it ever breaks - I have another one waiting in the wings, plus a Unicomp USB classic also available (I've been thinking about swapping it out to keep the aesthetic - and replacing the 'doze keys on it with Tux keycap covers or something like that).

Somewhere, in my junk stash, I also have an old SGI keyboard that I need to look into making an adapter or something for...
Interesting. I didn't know that. The Oxford Style Manual confirms what you say. (I'm not sure whether it's telling you to do that when quoting a French title in English; it might just be talking about what to do when a book title appears in a passage in French.)

Apparently the rule doesn't apply to the actual title page: the 1968 copy, which I happen to have and was able, somewhat surprisingly, to find in less than 60 seconds, has "Le chien jaune" on the title page, page 3.
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Were they autonomous?
I agree that there's many beneficial things technology can bring to the classroom in moderation.

But even when we didn't have chromebooks in every class, everybody in my grade used to go to great lengths to figure out how to play flash games, runescape, minecraft etc. on the school computers. I'm sure current students are even more sophisticated in distracting themselves now that chromebooks are assigned to each student.
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Well, it is quite a bad experience in the first days. It's both learning a very new layout as well as getting used to the ortho alignment of the keys, where in the beginning I automatically used the wrong finger for a lot of keys. That said I'm glad I made the leap, because no standard keyboard can match that level of comfort.

It's not that normal keyboards are bad, but it's a bit like going from cheap generic shoes to custom-tailored ones. I don't type much faster or accurately on it, but it feels much better, every single day.
They talking in the halls, during class, or during lunch. Study hall or detention. And all the while looking for teachers out of the corner of their eye. Many teacher are eager to scold any socializing, sometimes even during lunch, and students are willing to risk a scolding to have social contact. The teachers interpret this as unruly behavior and in an act of circular logic use the perceived unruliness of the children as a justification for scolding students who socialize.

'Gifted' students and those on the honor roll are often given a reprieve from this vicious cycle. But the majority are subjected to it.
No, 'administrators' usually means non-teaching educational staff of a school and district- principals, vice-principals, deans, directors, superintendents and similar. They're employees.

Local elected officials form a school board, which may then have various committees composed of board members, administrators, teachers, and parents.
I work in the EdTech realm writing software to keep students on track. Technology in the classroom is a means and not and ends, it all depends on usage.

We have two "model" teachers.

The old guard teacher who started their career before computers were in classrooms, those teachers utilize our technology to accomplish a task (block websites, etc)

The other model teacher is someone who welcomes technology into the classroom, they utilize the deeper functionality of our program, and normally have more than one technology of some kind running in the classroom.

Both are great teachers, they just use our product differently.
this is an ad. notice the referal link at the bottom.

if a keyboard actually matters to you, please look for unbiased information.

a couple of suggestions that aren't just meant to net me a few bucks:

- tenkeyless reduce wrist strain (a full size keyboard forces your hands further apart than is natural). if you need a numpad you can always add one.

- consider a backlit if you work at night.

- mechanical keyboards tend to last forever and they are easy to clean because all the keys come off.

- non mechanical are quieter

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I've reflected a lot on this, as a parent. I can't quite get behind the "no computer screen" thing, because a bit part of me wants to get my kids into unix, python, and interesting electronics projects from an early age. Another part of me sees this as a potentially endless loop of gummy bear videos (and, to paraphrase "war of the roses", "by the time this is all over, an argument about gummy bear videos will seem like one of your lighter moments").

I've come to a general, porous, leaky set of guidelines. The closer you are to black text on a white background (or white text on a black background), you're more likely it is you're doing something interesting. That could mean reading a novel or analyzing data with python or R or unix on the command line or in a relatively lightweight IDE. If lots of distractingly flashy colors and sounds are going on around you, then odds are you're getting sucked into the screen vortex, even if you aren't actually looking at a screen.

And like I said, porous. There are, indisputably, phenomenal comic books (ok, graphic novels) with great depth. Videos and movies can have tremendous artistic value. Those flashy images on a screen could be watching Citizen Kane. That black and white text could be 101 fart jokes. What the hell do I know.

But overall, I feel like the equation holds, sort of. If you're looking at symbols on a background, odds are this isn't the wrong kind of screen time, and it could be very intellectually enriching.
Yes, the game can deal with these things. There's been wild card games forever and people like them just fine.

The issue is that this is a completely different game. It might be a fine game. People might like it (maybe even more than Texas Hold 'em). But this isn't the same game anymore. They're both played with the same 52 data points, but the frequency of those 52 data points makes these games and the skills needed to be good at them very different.

My previous comment of the game being "unplayable" might have been hyperbolic. The point I was trying to make is that it's not the same game when you change one of the rules so dramatically.
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"An interactive program delivered an image of a token on the screen when she completed an assignment. She could then trade in those tokens to play games. To Dr. Boyd, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, it looks more like a video game than a math class."

I think this is a core part of the problem. Gamification, perceived usefulness, and enjoyment are being used in lieu of actual learning gains. I believe, however there is too much focus on "enjoyment" rather than learning.

As an example, my research is on rote practice of writing code. Literally retyping syntax, because I believe the technical literacy is the foundation to conceptual understanding. This is no different than a cook, musician, athlete, even doctors. However, retyping syntax is not "fun". It's not "interactive". It's not meta-cognitive. It's drilling. But the responses I get are near bimodal. Some people fully understand the logic and others outright argue against it.

However, rote practice is (in my opinion) the first step to high-level learning. Meta-cognitive skills like self-explanation are great but only if you have the prior knowledges to utilize them. They should not be given to a pure novice; however, no one wants to admit to being a novice. Somehow, that's for children, but I'm an adult / young-adult / "big boy"! True novices should be given the chance to learn these lower level skills without feeling like its beneath them or treated as "lesser" than higher level skills.
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It's not the only factor though. I've talked with my father-in-law who does a lot of work in Haiti. His observation is that it is a much more systematic problem. Kids don't learn to plan ahead because the schools only teach memorization and they don't play with toys like building blocks. It's very frustrating for him because he finds himself having to hand hold a lot when doing construction projects like building schools, even when the people doing the work are supposed to be professionals.

For example, if he orders a truckload of gravel he has to watch the entrance like a hawk and be ready to rush out the instant the truck arrives, because if he doesn't the truck will just dump the gravel right in the middle of their entrance and block everybody in until he can round up people to shovel it into wheelbarrows by hand. The idea that you might want to ask where to dump the load is not something that will ever cross the truck driver's mind. The project manager won't think about it either unless my father-in-law asks him explicitly where he is planning to store the gravel he just ordered. It's these kinds of problems day in and day out that makes reconstruction so difficult.

Learning how to think ahead is something we take for granted in the west, but it's not an innate human skill. It has to be taught. Worse, if you never learned it yourself then you won't notice that your kids lack the skill. It's a difficult cycle to break.
My nephew's school in upstate NY eliminated recess periods starting in grade 7. He's in 9th grade and gets 25m study hall 4 days a week. He has 3 minutes to get between classes. They essentially added time for test prep.

When I was in the same school district in the early 90's, we had a 42m recess period at least 3 days a week and either a 42m or 20-25m study hall every day.

For my kids, we bit the bullet for private school. There are some things I don't like about private school, but I'm unwilling to make my son a subject of whatever bullshit social experiment is being conducted. You're only young once, and we live in a world where you need to be top of your game.
Ten minutes, maybe five minutes if the school is small enough physically to get between rooms in that time. The break is definitely not meant to be long enough for more than "get to your next class" - and that's from someone from a relatively well-off suburban school district.

Elementary school gets recess, don't remember how long. Middle school I don't remember very well; high school you just get lunch (but are perhaps not restricted to one room to have it, at least).
During the 25 minutes for lunch and maybe 10 minutes before and after school. Otherwise, everything else is what your parents allow.
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Understand the sentiment. But applying it selectively seems to be desirable, no matter how euphemistic the low-toxicity part is.