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My mother runs a Montessori school and takes in the “problem” children that other schools push out. (It only annoys her that parents look at standardized test results without considering growth year over year.)

Montessori is not a trademarked name, and so you get a lot of schools that call themselves Montessori with various levels of fidelity to the principles. Getting AMI accreditation is the best way to verify you’re legit.

Even so, I agree that many good Montessori schools cultivate a certain clientele. That teacher/student ratio and the materials aren’t cheap, and they have a reputation to uphold to keep rich people coming. As per the article, it’s unfortunate because Maria Montessori started her original program for disadvantaged children. We’ve decided for our own children that after a few years of Montessori they go to public school, to be around kids with a wide range of perspectives. Best way to make schools better is to be part of them.
I disagree completely. Having runtime checks or not if the code that's written is basically randomly stringed together expressions, are all unsound code.

This is runtime type-checks:
if x == null: die "Nullpointer exception";

it is simply not better than:
x.DoTheThing();

They are equivalent.

The solution to that is not a runtime check, it's actually using a typing system in the first place. Runtime type-checks is no different from:

let x = 42;
if x != 42: die "It's supposed to be 42";
compute_the_thing x;
if x != 42: die "It's supposed to be 42";
save x;
if x != 42: die "It's supposed to be 42";

Only completely unsound code would rely on something like that.

I know that I'm not checking types in my pretend-o-code.

"In practice, if the car I ordered is a pizza, I want to know!"

I would say that this is misusing my analogy by flirting with simple value bugs. Ordering a thing and getting the wrong kind of product, that's perfectly understandable in the world of bugs and what not.

Calling the place_order function, expecting to get back an order object but instead getting the function "not" or a database connection, that's more akin to what we're talking about here. It's the wrong data type and having a runtime check to catch that is a sign of dealing with unsound code.

Just crash everything is what _you_ are suggesting because that failing runtime type-check _is_ a de facto runtime crash of whatever was running at that point.

Code that runs the risk of encountering such a problem should not compile because it's not even wrong.
My kids go to a Waldorf school. Around half of the kids in my oldest son's class came in later grades, with a story like this.

While there are some odd things in anthroposophy, I think a great deal of it is actually metaphorical and coming from someone with a good intuition about how humans work. You have to look past the terminology, though, and the 1910-20ish free speculation about how the world works. :)

There's an emphasis on self-development, too, which I've come to see as a vital part of working with humans. If you can't look past your own self and own biases, you'll never be able to work with all sorts of people on their terms.
Steam deck uses AMD GPUs though, so this wouldn't help.
Piracy's impact on the digital industry is propaganda. No link has ever been established by factual data. It's just corporations' PR.

The Government Accountability Office came out in 2010 with a report that said these numbers “cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology.”

http://freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/how-much-do-music-and-mov...
If you're mining, buy ASICs that do the job. That way the capacity is available for people who want to game casually, game professionally, render, or compute.
My oldest daughter is going to a public Montessori elementary school, and my youngest daughter will start this summer. To understand the following points, you need to know that German elementary school is grade 1 to 4, usually starting when kids are 6, and in Montessori schools the students are in mixed-age classes.

Some things I noticed:

- there are kids who are doing really well, and there are other kids who (I think) have more trouble than I'd expect in a classic elementary school

- a few kids are learning at a faster pace, like my daughter who skipped 2nd grade.

- there is a shocking number of kids who are having trouble and have to repeat a grade, usually 3rd grade. Last year, 3 out of 6 third graders had to repeat third grade. Not sure how statistically relevant it is, and it feels closer to home as those three are my daughter's best friends, but it was quite surprising and made us wonder whether it's the right school for our younger daughter (who's a bit wilder and has less patience and discipline).

- in addition to the usual ADHD stuff, there is a surprising number of kids who are diagnosed with dyscalculia. Not sure what's normal, and of course this is a small sample, but still makes us feel a bit uneasy.

- a possible reason why some kids are struggling could be the student/teacher ratio. There are 27 kids per teacher. I think that's way too high to support kids who are having difficulties.

- I should also mention that Covid interrupted Montessori schools more than traditional schools. Kids are supposed to work with Montessori materials, and they weren't available in home schooling. Teaching via video was difficult in mixed-age classes. Even today, kids do not experience the school as intended, as the class needs to stay together all day and they are not free to roam to other rooms, like workshops or the library.
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Correctness is relative to expectations though. It might be worse for bug count to have some languages use decimals and others use floats. People might make even more mistakes.
Linus Torvalds directly addressing NVIDIA (worth the click: it's only 17 seconds):

https://youtu.be/_36yNWw_07g
IIRC, it's because they got sued, and content ID was part of the settlement.
> In Germany there is a big after school business with homework help that parents have to pay.

I grew up in (Eastern) Germany, but left in 2009. As far as I can tell, cram schools like that are rather niche.

Compared to my adopted home of Singapore at least, where you see them on every corner.

Do keep in mind that the educational system in Germany is run by the individual states. And I have only seen Saxony-Anhalt directly on a day to day basis. Though I probably still had more exposure to the other states than someone from outside the country.

I didn't like German schooling that much. But I have no clue about the other complaints in your comment.
Living in Germany, I have the opposite observation: Good grades these days seem to be handed out (too) freely - the other day I again had a college-entry-level student who did not know essential stuff (in this case: no idea about basic history), even though he had an A- average (13/15 points) in his Abitur diploma.

This may be me getting old and starting to have strong, rose-tinted memories, but I am sure many who get good grades today would have been close to failing only twenty short years ago.
> Meanwhile the fax machine anecdote is about ten years old at this point. Most Japanese purely rely on mobile devices these days.

My wife's small business included a fax, but it didn't get much use after around 2014-2015 or so, I think. The next couple of years you could occasionally hear a call to the fax machine but it was always just some random ad spam. We let it all go to /dev/null. Nowadays her work space is rented out to a small service firm and they don't use a fax at all as far as I know. Internet and phone services were super important to get set up though.
As far as I can tell, this power station is in the south-east. A wind from the south-east would dump fallout in central Ukraine, not Russia.
I went the API way but with Gandi, works like a charm!
> Fallout from Chernobyl went around the world several times, poisoning most of the humans alive or being made at the time [...]

> Not at a dangerous level, say more than eating a banana.

Born 1986 in Germany and I got a rare metabolism illness that only ~2000 more people have, all born around June/July/August in 1986 in Western and Middle Europe with some exceptions distributed around as late as born in September and October. But the Spring of 1986 was probably just a famous year for pregnant women eating exceptionally many bananas I guess?

At least I agree that dams killed more people than that specific event. But wait till you see the numbers for fossil fuels ...
Not saying you’re wrong, but espousing the idea that “humanity is too short sighted” is just as daft as saying “we are definitely going to colonise the universe”. It’s not particularly helpful, you’re reasoning more on emotion than fact (we’ve gotten this far) and most of all you’re talking as if this is something you or I cannot change. I think that’s why you get downvoted. I don’t think it’s an unreasonable opinion you hold, but it’s not a very constructive outlook. And HN is full of people who want to make things better, not sit on the sidelines pronouncing doom. If you see a problem, work to fix it. People can and do change the direction of humanity.
And for what reason would Russia commit so few troops?

Other than explaining away russian embarrasment of the way things are going.
freedom for me, but not anyone else. Genius.
I think it's a bit of a catch-22: given one of Putin's stated aims is to demilitarise Ukraine and remove Western weapons, NATO arming Ukraine earlier would have caused Russia to invade earlier.
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What's the catch? There isn't one.

Think something is missing? Let me know - would love to add to it!

Got any feedback? Fire away.

And lastly? Enjoy!
A quick Googling shows that "integdev_gpu_drv.rar" is the filename the hackers released.
Between the Kinesis Freestyle (Edge/Pro), Ergodox, and Moon lander, there are a number of split mechanical keyboards that you can order and have shipped to you in a matter of days.
For jamming, sure. To accurately locate SpaceX dishes you’ll probably need to get within Buk range.

Ukraine has much more than MANPADS still operational.
The server wasn't even open source for a full year recently while they integrated MobileCoin :/.
Thats wonderful. Im sure a handful of victories can be listed. I highly doubt they wouldn't have found another way to purchase a car, though.

Anyway, I need not remind you of how big a boon cryptocurrencies have been to criminals and con artists. I think it should be pretty clear to anyone on this site why someone would be against them, just like it's clear to me why someone would be for them.
It is highly unlikely there are be nuclear scientists with that knowledge amongst the armed forces currently invading Ukraine. The type of reactor may be known but each reactor and its instruments, controls and protocols will be unique in some way. The only people who are qualified to run this reactor safely are the staff who work there every day.
AsciiDoctor has been designed so that its syntax elements map well to Docbook. You can use pretty much every feature of Docbook with the much nicer AsciiDoctor syntax on top.
also the whole "kill leaders" thing is very very overblown, because it assumes that guerillas would necessarily adopt some kind of hierarchy that falls apart once you lop off the head

in recent conflicts this has proven to either not be very effective (islamist groups such as Al Qaeda or ISIS), or actually make the situation worse (killing a Mexican cartel head usually just results in more chaos as factions vie for supremacy and upstarts try to muscle in). and at this point, most guerilla operations of this type usually assume their leader is going to die at some point and prepare accordingly.
But the improvements Valve is making to Steam, Proton, and other areas along with game developers paying more attention to Linux compatibility will benefit all Linux users, not just Steam Deck users, and make Linux a more popular gaming platform even among people with Nvidia PCs.

Yesterday I installed Steam on my Linux machine and downloaded a random game that has no Linux port and played it. It worked perfectly, just like Windows. It was amazing.
That reply probably sounded pretty smart in your head. Maybe you think I'm suggesting that we should outlaw or criminalize them? That makes sense based on your previous comment. But I said no such thing. Wishing it ill is not the same as taking away your freedom.
Your definition of "storage" must be including memory, because the page says memory has been speeding up.
Stalin helped his on death in many ways (his drinking for one). However organising a campaign against doctors around the time of his death is deeply ironic (though quite how effective treatment at that time would have been is relevant).
Simon Sebag Montefiore has written some excellent books about him, which is mentioned in the below discussion of his death.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stal...
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Pravda means truth. Pravda was also name of state journal. The half-truth is said as half-pravda. English has many words for lie too: misinformation, lie, untruth, false, deceit, deception, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, forgery, misrepresentation, perjury, slander, tale. I got them from synonyms dictionary.

That does not say anything about English speaking people other then their language is rich and can express nuance.
You don’t understand how deeply ingrained their hatred for Armenia goes. It’s literally what they spend surplus money on.

First, Turkey and Azerbaijan are effectively dictatorships flying under the radar using oil money and “west-friendly” trade policies.

Second, Armenia has been Christian for as long as Christianity has existed. Turkey and Azerbaijan are Muslim. There are millennia of wars and conflict over forced conversion that have resulted in “Armenia is the devil” propaganda making its way into the Turk cultures.

Third, in the Turk and Azeri mind, Armenia is the one threat to their “Turkic manifest destiny.” They believe the Caucus should be theirs in order to create a unified “great” Turkic civilization.

So yes, when these countries have the means to buy very efficient weapons, Armenian lives become at risk.
"Utter nonsens" is such a non-startar in conversations you know...

My "proof" is that everyone I know in Germany has been forced to change their kids school or use homework help or other way of paying for help in school because the parents either aren't educated enough to help by themselves or just don't have the time to help them due to working two jobs to keep up. This is ofcourse in a small area in Germany but it is one of the densest populated.

When walking in the streets I see homework business in the former shopping windows even in tiny towns. And they are visibly used by youth.

I also had a hard time believing this about Germany when I first started hearing about it 20 years ago but I have met so many parents that repeat the same thing and it hasn't changed a bit. No wonder Montessori and Waldorf schools are so popular there.

In Sweden the homework help is part of school. Our kids school has four different homework help after school that is run either by state/school or teacher students as a project. On top of that comes extra teachers for the kids with diagnoses. They always follow the student around to classes and help out where the teacher isn't enough.
As someone who owned an SE/30, I had an emotional roller coaster. Like, really?!?!?! You dare use a custom firmware?!??!

Oh, but...YES! The memories! chef's kiss
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I mean you're right, but... he already lives in unimaginable luxury, wanting for nothing. Has for decades. Could continue to do so for 100 lifetimes. And yet here we are.
Yes! You saw the Chart: Mr. Smith,

They may have booked other Freq's and Countries too!
When you get kids, you question whether they absolutely have to go through regular education, just to become fodder for the industry. That said, I've heard from several ex-Waldorfers that their school experience was rife with bullying and crime, because the school became a place for those who didn't make it elsewhere.
I kinda hate writing real programs in C. The only time it's vaugely enjoyable is with sub 100 line embedded stuff. Otherwise, it's near the bottom of my list of languages I'd like to use.

Not actually at the bottom, I'd choose it over Forth and ASM, but.... I haven't written it for anything but a microcontroller in years.

I don't really do much outside of Python and JS in general these days. Python's performance is basically the same as C, because... There's already a C extension for everything!

I'm really not even a fan of compiled languages in general especially not for open source work. Things like plugin architectures are a lot easier in dynamic everything is a dict type languages.

But C sure is good at being ubiquitous! I appreciate the heavy standardization.
Yep, it’s the red queen’s race problem. If LHR is lifted, your hash rate will rise, but so will everyone else’s, so you are either (1) no better off or (2) worse off because other people may use this increased efficiency per chip to buy more chips, thus increasing their hash power proportionally. No one will ever decrease their hash power.
It is a political move to appear that crazy.

Russia is desperate to deter EU/USA from involving itself more in the war, and the only way it can do that is by treating to escalate to nuclear war.

But that threat is only effective if people actually think that you will do it, so they must play this so that they seem crazy enough to start a nuclear war.

It's a bit like someone blackmailing you for money for something illegal you did together, only way to get you to pay is to show that they are really willing to expose your secrets, even if they might be exposed also. And once you believe them and start paying they will continue to demand money from you.
Yeah, I was wondering where the heck 2ms disk seek times came from. That's not a thing and will never be a thing; disks only spin so fast, and nobody even uses >7200RPM drives any more (because we've all moved to SSDs instead).
Just curious, how does this project pays bills?
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That doesn't even need to be a tale, it basically happened in real life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956832
Nope. Apes are "cousins" to humans regarding evolution, and secondly evolution isn't some linear thing where everyone eventually evolves into humans.

So it's unlikely that they evolve into very human like species
While pure credit as it is originated does not have to be covered by central bank or cash funds, in outgoing transfers it has to be. Banks cannot transfer their own book money.
> Emulators are legal, including emulators for current-gen systems. Switch emulation is exactly as legal as Gameboy emulation.

I know you're talking about emulators, not ROMs. But it's also worth mentioning that the legality of Switch ROMs actually is quite different from Game Boy ROMs. I was recently surprised to discover archive.org has ROMs for older systems - IANAL, but apparently this is covered by a DMCA exemption for obsolete formats [1]. Also, Switch ROMs are encrypted on the cartridge, and while I really don't know the details, breaking the encryption also seems to open another legal can of worms (remember when people would get tattoos of the DVD encryption key?).

Once again IANAL, but I suspect Nintendo would have a better case against videos that include instructions on acquiring & decrypting Switch ROMs. I'm not sure if that's the case with these videos or not.

[1] https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
My predictions on the Russian invasion of Ukraine:

1. Water flow through the North Crimean Canal is restored.

2. Kyiv is surrounded from all directions. Ukranian president dies in combat.

3. Odessa is surrounded from the north, then the Russian navy attacks it from the Black sea. Population is forced to evacuate.

4. Donetsk and Luhansk become fully annexed by Russia.

5. Kharkiv is surrounded from all directions.

6. Russian economy collapses. Putin's key supporters turn against him and stage a coup.

7. Ukraine negotiates a ceasefire, then joins the European Union.

8. Unless Ukraine signed a peace treaty granting territory to Russia, Russia will be forced to give up all annexed territories.
First, yes, Putin's Russia has started a war of conquest.

Second, no, it is definitely _not_ a total war. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war for background.

Third, the theoretical threat of NATO is not so much to Russia: I agree that NATO is not a threat to Russia. However I do also see that NATO and EU are a threat to Putin's long term vision for a renewed Russian Empire.

To be clear, I agree that this vision is bogus and that a threat to a bogus vision is not a valid excuse for a war.

Please also be careful with accusing people of being fascists or Nazis. Putin and his predecessors in the USSR employed the same tactic. And whether anyone does or does not fulfill the textbook definition of a fascist is besides the point here.
Wrong question. How many BAD engineers do you know? I've known a few great engineers and lots of good or ok ones, but few who are actually bad. They tend to not make it into the field, or else not to stay in it. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places?
The Free Solo movie gives enough context, IMO. (it was hard to watch for me though)
A single dam break did not killed and hurt magnitudes more people then singly Chernobyl.
Why is the union a parasite, but not the company’s shareholders? In both cases employees are forced to send them revenue. So why is one good but the other bad?
+1.

Got tinnitus due to injury to auditory nerve.

Those who are just starting with overcoming Tinnitus - Make sure to give time. Human brain is amazing at latent inhibition, ie capability to ignore things that it learns to be irrelevant.

That is your largest medicine. In my country, there are sugar cane refineries/factories that emit very pungent small that is very strong and spans across miles in radius. People who live around in that vicinity develop ignorance to the smell in a matter of months.

All I can say is - whether it is a decision to try some experimental medication or surgery, or otherwise - give it 9-12 months time after you acquired Tinnitus. There will be bad days, but there is a good chance that you will realize you could live with it. With an inconvenience (for comparison) as severe as your car's "check engine" warning beeping every 10 seconds.
This is a deliberate part of KGB style propaganda. It's not designed to convince people of any specific lie, but rather so muddle things that people become cynical about knowing the truth period. There's a book on the topic where the title kinda tells the whole story: "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible"
Eh, it absolutely helps the Linux gaming community. Not so much the Windows one though
No, I expect to pay for the cartridges as I use them.
IMO we want to believe that the second best military on the planet is not competent because it is more comforting than the idea that the second best military actually planned out this assault on a sovereign country.
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