JackMorgan

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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I recently needed two tickets from NYC to LA, and was astonished to find air tickets for $80 and rail tickets for $2200. It's so unbelievably expensive (not counting that the flight was a few hours and the train was 56 hours). Very dis
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
One day in the future, there will be more "dead" software than "alive". All software is kept "alive" by human effort. As hardware, operating systems, drivers, and runtimes change, all software is kept running b
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I work on space weather stuff... but only on it's impact to satellite orbits, not impact to humans, sorry!
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I've helped with the Philly Free school, which is a very new branch of the Circle School in Harrisburg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_democratic_schools
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
For the first claim, 50 hours at 40 students would be 2000 hours. One year to complete the prerequisites for self teaching for those 40 students. Instead of 12 years full time lecturing, so that's 1/12th the cost. I have volunteer
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
As a long time personal and professional Linux user, lately my work has led me to work for companies that are Windows-only. I use git bash as my main shell on Windows. It just works for what I need, and in the rare cases I need powershell I
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I responded to another similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500932 Considering how much more effective tutoring is, we do it this way not because it's the best way to provide free child care (it isn&
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Because of how much more effective one on one tutoring is, it needs significantly less effort in total hours even maintaining a 30-to-1 ratio of students to teachers. "It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
There's a long history of classroom education producing significantly worse outcomes. "Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to the educational phenomenon that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Fascinating that this is exactly what they did with the new Star Trek movies by JJ Abrams.
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For myself it's an incredible tool for learning. I learn both broader and deeper using chat tools. If anything it gives me a great "sounding board" for exploring a subject and finding additional resources. E.g last night I se
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Does that mean that batteries are a 14-20% guaranteed investment? If so, that's a fantastic deal.
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If I remember correctly my students in Glenallen AK used to be bussed from up to 2.5 hours each way! I always have thought that was so silly to still have daily classes. Why not just once a week and the whole day is filled with socializing.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Lemmy exists. Lemmy.world is fine social media site. One could just host their own private instance for friends and family.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Ah excellent extra detail! Eight years. I wager you've put in a remarkable amount of hammock driven development in that time.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
A short story from the pre-development of Electric/Hyperfiddle. I was sitting at a table with Rich and Dustin after Conj in Philly. Dustin was trying to explain some of these (still hypothetical) ideas to Rich, and Rich was just too ti
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
It's no surprise a lot of these dark red spots of cancer causing VOCs are in TX. And Longview TX is dark red even for TX.
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Haha fair enough, maybe you're not using all these things. I suspect though if you aren't doing a webstack then there is complexity elsewhere, like external API calls, message queues, enterprise service buses, s3 buckets, ML pipel
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Exactly! I find many (not all) younger developers respond extremely well to this more present mentorship. Also let's be real, the average project now is 10x the complexity of the projects when I was getting started in the late 90s. I r
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I wouldn't do this exactly the same way with fully trained Sr engineers, but a whole team of 1-3 year engineers I would certainly do this. How else will they learn? I don't mean this in a snarky way, but what other options are the
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
1. Daily chats one on one, unscheduled time, with them showing me what they are doing in the editor. This time is used for code review. Sometimes it turns into pair programming for training. Text messages over teams as needed. Open voice ch
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I used to live near Longview TX, and it was fairly well known that people living near Eastman Chemical got cancer at higher rates. The issue is TX politicians just don't care. Which if you think if it, is really sadistic. To have a big
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Most of the planet is empty, yet housing is expensive. Most of our food is produced by a few percent of the population, yet people go hungry. I don't know what the right answer is, but we live in strange economic times
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I know people with tens of thousands of dollars of Marvel paraphernalia. They spend thousands a year on tickets, events, comics. These people are not well off, it's money they otherwise would do well to have in retirement savings. Huma
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
That's really great you've got a good place to teach. I think I would really enjoy such a place. What age range/subjects are you teaching? Is it a mandatory system or elective? I have thought a lot recently about going back t
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I used to teach at public middle school. The format of "lecture and assignments" is a big reason I couldn't keep doing it. Every trained educator knows it's scientifically the _least_ effective pedagogical method we know
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I have lived on trail, hiking thousands of miles a year with a backpack filled with food, water, and shelter. To hear the claim that hiking with a 50lb pack has the "same perceived effort" is absolutely untrue for me. The differen
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This punchline is so good I wonder if you and the grandparent poster coordinated this. Bravo.
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I wrote this to help me understand the differences. https://deliberate-software.com/christmas-f-number-polymorph...
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In the 1800s we could have faced that ploughing 300 acres would always need 30 horses and 30 strong laborers. Or that 64kB of RAM was plenty enough to make all the software we needed. I would rather always dream big and help invent the futu

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