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by beej71 4mo ago
Also, when I (GenX) open my ereader on my phone, I read it just like anything else. And I read paper books, on two e-readers, my phone, and my computer screen. If it's some online article, though, I definitely skim. And I'd skim i
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by beej71 4mo ago
FMFL. I'm going to build a paper-based social network where non-handwriting is prohibited. Like in the 70s.
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by beej71 4mo ago
I feel for people who have this issue--wish I could help you solve it, but I can't repro. My 10-year-old laptop with 16 GB runs it great with low memory usage.
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by beej71 4mo ago
Doesn't happen in my case, either. Pixel 9a, Android 16.
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by beej71 4mo ago
I don't know what uBO on FF is doing, but it seems like ages since I've been blocked for using it. Maybe I've just gotten lucky with the sites I visit.
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by beej71 4mo ago
While I don't claim to follow the whole thing, it does have a section titled "Liberating democratic civilization from the State", which certainly smells cypherpunky.
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by beej71 4mo ago
Prevailing wisdom is that we need to increase supply.
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by beej71 4mo ago
We're building like mad in our town. Have been for years. Thousands and thousands of new units. Prices ain't budging. It's odd.
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by beej71 4mo ago
Admittedly, I went to school when such classes cost more like $250 in today's dollars.
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by beej71 4mo ago
> At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code. Also: at some point the elegance of the code starts to matter more than execution speed. :)
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by beej71 4mo ago
This is a lot of it for me. "All users care about is that they can drive a car across the bridge. They don't care if an AI built it." I want a solid, proud, well-engineered bridge, goddammit!
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by beej71 4mo ago
> They care that the product works This reminds me of Anthropic's post where they say they ship 8x as much code as they used to. And I stopped to consider how many times I've used an app and thought, "You know what this ne
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by beej71 4mo ago
> something has gone horribly wrong with primary sources of education and lived experience if someone reaches the university level before being prepared for the world I think the GP's idea is that university is part of getting prepa
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by beej71 4mo ago
> Undergrad still has a lot of required courses that aren't directly related to your major, and it can be draining. This is why I LOVED getting my MS. Just computer science all the time! Heaven! None of those pesky, worthless genera
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by beej71 4mo ago
After 20 industry years, I've been teaching CS for the last 7. I sincerely hope that I figure it out before I retire. :) Doing this job effectively is more challenging than anything I've done in my career. I've read a lot a
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by beej71 4mo ago
If spent with a modicum of sanity. Is California paying top salaries to instructors to draw top talent?
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by beej71 4mo ago
I try to lecture as little as possible. No slides. Quick highlights discussion of the reading, maybe a coding demo, and then students work on coding challenges in class, in groups if they want. I circulate and help out. I'm lucky to ha
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by beej71 4mo ago
As an educator, this is exactly what I struggle with. I'm pulling out all the stops to give students every chance to do the hard work and not lean on AI. But there's a good chunk of the class who don't listen to reason. I hav
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by beej71 4mo ago
Clown show antics! * Using the FCC to control the press * Arresting American citizens because of their brown skin * Talking about menstruation
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by beej71 4mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
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by beej71 4mo ago
You left off: pay teachers top wages to draw top talent, didn't you?
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by beej71 4mo ago
The author should have said "read a voter information pamphlet".
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by beej71 4mo ago
You need to be clear on the usage. It's like how we're all pro-knife and anti-knife at the same time.
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by beej71 4mo ago
I asked my students how they felt about having AI teacher avatars and they had a lot of negative things to say. The one thing that stood out the most to me was "it's disrespectful".
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by beej71 4mo ago
One hedge I always used to make was, "I think we have all the information we need for now. We'll get you an estimate within 3 business days." And then I'd sit down and bust my ass trying to find out if it was feasible or
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by beej71 4mo ago
When I was a dev working with my business-oriented business partner, I had to get used to sitting in meetings where we promised the client the world having no idea if I could accomplish it or not. Made a lot more money than I could have on
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by beej71 4mo ago
Eventually, though, you won't be able to avoid it.
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by beej71 4mo ago
The trick is to stay small. If your network only has a few millions of people, nobody targets it.
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by beej71 4mo ago
Can you ask the AI to reset it back to you? Knk
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by beej71 5mo ago
> It's worth the cost of humans avoiding them. No, fuck that. I'm not going to think twice about what I write just to avoid an AI checker, and I will delve into em dashes with gusto if that's what the writing calls for. I&

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