NoNameHaveI

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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
Here's my nutty cuckoo idea: Free admission. Free book rental. No lab fees. No student activity fees. BUT: Only admit the top 20% of applicants. Minimum 12 hours per semester. Maximum 16. Every class is curved, 20% A, 20% B, etc. At th
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
Sadly, in my experience, these was the case in introductory STEM courses. They could care less whether you understood or not. There were plenty of people in line behind you, so your personal experience didn't matter. This is a big reas
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
PACKERS!!! WOOO!!!
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
Amen to this! Having relocated to a new job, I was bored and lonely outside of work with no social connections. Now, I volunteer as a trolley conductor at a railroad museum. No screens. No code. Just a nice way to spend Saturdays and meet a
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
"unaware that in nearby Ohio," Clearly this was written by a coastal or someone who needs a lesson in geography. Vulcan, Michigan, and for that matter most of the Upper Peninsula is closer to 3 other states including Iowa than it
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
Very little. ~95% of my personal email and ~60% of my work email is discarded because I have no interest in the message. IM (Skype, Google Hangouts, Text) is my preferred means of communication. I don't like my real-time being monopol
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by NoNameHaveI 5y ago
Growing up, Dad worked 3 jobs to pay the bills. On more than 1 occasion, I was sent to go pay a utility bill after the utility was shut off. My first experience driving was at 13 to haul our garbage up to the school dumpster on Sunday night
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by NoNameHaveI 6y ago
Plus, Beagle is 100% open source. Want to mod and etch your own PCB? You can.
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by NoNameHaveI 6y ago
Companies that use millions of micros will grow tired of paying royalties for ARM & other IP. I'm putting my money on RISC-V. If Intel is smart, they will too and offer design customization and contract manufacturing of RISC-V.
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by NoNameHaveI 7y ago
Easy. Doing so is career suicide.
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by NoNameHaveI 7y ago
You must live in Iowa, where looking a cyclist at worst, warrants a fund because it is "accidental". We have a major bike ride across the state from West to East every year, called RAGBRAI along a different route. And seemingly e
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by NoNameHaveI 7y ago
From the article: "Schools of standard C produce graduates who are more ready for college. Schools of standard B produce graduates who appear more college ready." I just left a job teaching community college in Iowa, who is now bo
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by NoNameHaveI 7y ago
So, the linked article is an updated version of an earlier article in the EE times. In the comments section, a reader (ie) Frankly, I am astonished that a single point of failure (AOA) could make it through a FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analy
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
This is worth your 8 minutes of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ I love trains, but the economics of rail travel in the USA can't be overcome. Until robot trains.
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
One Iowan to another: you didn't ride a train in Minneapolis. You rode a streetcar (tram in British). And yes, only the southeast corner of Iowa is served at all by passenger rail. Would be nice if they extended the Hawkeye Express to
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
I do. At least sometimes. I use Zoom to do so. I sometimes record them as well. We have had a lot of weather cancellations this winter, so I have been doing this quite a bit. But, I am not required to, nor do I do it 100% of the time. FWIW,
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
"No word genders in Finnish, sorry!" No direct word for "please" either, unless you want to count kiitos, which I understand as thank you.
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
Meanwhile, at community college, a place with NO admission standards except a high school diploma, enrollment numbers are down, down, down. How do I know? I teach at one. And I used to teach at a different one, WITH TENURE, but we didn&#x27
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
Really? This is a problem? How is a battery any different from any other auto part? Radiator, water pump, alternator, etc. Yours goes bad? You go to the auto parts store and get a new one with a "core" fee. You return your broken
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
There are 2 reasons a show are cancelled: #1, and the reason in the majority of cases: not enough people watch. It doesn't matter if you think the current season of The Simpsons is good, terrible, or whatever. It only matters that you
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
Pyret may very well be a great programming language. But it likely does not belong in a programming pedagogy at a higher ed institution. Why? Because time is limited. We already teach Intro to Programming in Python, which to us is a "t
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
12 years of teaching full time Intro to Programming (and other courses) at community college has taught me this: No matter how good a student is at "computers" doesn't matter. On day 1, I ask them to raise their hand if they
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by NoNameHaveI 8y ago
Great idea. Only problem is, I live in Iowa. Wind energy abounds. Adequate topography does not.