PebblesRox

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by PebblesRox 1y ago
I like the background music, but I didn’t notice any other sound effects when I’m playing the game.
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by PebblesRox 1y ago
I love the new features! I also appreciate the details of what software you used to create the game. My kids have been building stuff in Scratch and I want to have something available for when they’re ready for the next step, so it’s nice t
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
I think the point is that they're opt-in advertising. You didn't pick up a book and find pages from the Sears catalog interspersed with the pages you were trying to read. You picked up the Sears catalog when you were considering a
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
If I were trying to do something like this I would sketch it out first with imperfect curves and then worry about making it perfect once I was at the computer. It would look slightly different but I don’t think it would make that much of an
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
Ah, the SR-71 was new to me, thank you! https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac... http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
I felt shortchanged my senior year at my fairly well-regarded university when I was dealing with depression and doing what I saw as the bare minimum academically. I still got straight A’s despite putting in minimal effort.
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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)(science.org)
271 points by PebblesRox 2y ago|119 comments
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
Desmos also produces curriculum for K-12 (Desmos Classroom) that takes advantage of the computer’s ability to give real-time feedback for student answers beyond just giving them a binary correct/incorrect. It shows them what their wron
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
Every so often I will have a dream with a joke or pun that surprises me. And they even make sense after I wake up! I always wonder how my brain manages to do that. A similar time was when I dreamed I was reading a blog post about a game tha
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
I would be up for signing up for email notifications for events in my area.
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
I had a friend who used Excel to render blueprints for the dream house she was designing. As an architecture student, I was both impressed and horrified!
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
Your cube board is beautiful.
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
Yes, the studies tend to exclude the kids who aren't using the tools "enough," which can end up being 95% of the students! [0] On the other hand, I know there are people who enjoy math but struggle to pay attention and learn
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
This video has some good examples of the nuances of door design: Why video game doors are so hard to get right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEWsLdLmcc
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
I discovered that it's much easier to dip apples slices in peanut butter if I nuke the peanut butter for 30 seconds. Now I don't get frustrated by my apples breaking off in my peanut butter.
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by PebblesRox 2y ago
You could say the same for plastic surgery in general. Techniques developed to restore injured faces (e.g. of soldiers) are now used for cosmetic purposes.
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
This blog post [0] has a few more examples, and I like how the author's alligator calculator [1] translates from traditional notation into alligators. [0] https://propella.blogspot.com/2011/09/yet-another-allig
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
Thank you for sharing! I tried it out with my 7yo, who was interested. Unfortunately we had some issues with the toddler interfering so our session got interrupted. I did find an online version here, for anyone who wants to try it without c
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
I have a short collection of ideas here.[0] The biggest thing I've done is tell bedtime stories (often collaboratively) that incorporate topics like functions, negative numbers, and debugging. Here's one where we did FizzBuzz toge
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
This is a great new addition to my collection of low-budget screen-free ways to teach programming concepts to little kids.[0] We don't have a xylophone but I might just have to get one so we can try out this game - I love it! [0] https
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
My kids are having a blast with these. Although my ear drums are feeling thankful that so far they haven't discovered the spectrogram one that makes a picture of whatever you sing/shout.
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Chrome Music Lab(musiclab.chromeexperiments.com)
1 points by PebblesRox 3y ago|1 comments
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
What's the technical distinction between "not guilty" and "innocent?"
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
A Facebook friend was talking about how overwhelming and chaotic her life has been feeling lately and people were chiming in to say they were in the same boat and attributing it to the Mercury retro-whatever. Must just be a coincidence that
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
I got the FirstEnergy settlement email this morning and was very suspicious, but I'm finding multiple sources online claiming it's legitimate. Is this an intentional design to make it so that people don't claim the money? It
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Email from rewards(at)reward.tremendous.com is not SPAM [pdf](ohioelectricitylitigation.com)
2 points by PebblesRox 3y ago|1 comments
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
I’m familiar with this principle as “Alternate your mistakes.”
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
I call it "seeding." When a mess is bothering me but there's a barrier (internal or external) to dealing with it completely in the moment, I "seed" the cleaning process by doing just a little bit. A few rounds of se
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
We definitely relaxed our standards for kid #2 compared with kid #1 in terms of phone time. Mainly he would watch photos and videos of himself and his big brother. We did not install any kid-specific apps and did not allow YouTube at that a
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by PebblesRox 3y ago
Unfortunately it was too late to change the address by the time I discovered it, but we, uh, actually did order our own copy (from a much cheaper photo place) and it's currently hanging on the wall in our kitchen.

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