cathdrlbizzare

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by cathdrlbizzare 3y ago
The age old (no pun intended) rich people trying to cheat the reaper. There’s a trade in endangered animals for this same snake oil (also no pun intended).
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
It depends on the type of school. I was 1-2 years ahead of public school coming from private school around 6th grade (11-12yo).
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
My main concern is whether the homeschooled kids are disadvantaged by the lack of the vital social component of school. I’ve met a number of homeschooled kids but they always seem to have limited socialization opportunities.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Deep treatment of (in)famous and obscure historical events. Classic literature. Controversial literature. Philosophy. A nonnative language, preferably Mandarin. Phonics. Dialectical method exercises in critical thinking.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Departments aren’t a hive mind. Individuals do work.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
There are all sorts of security software that could do this. Antivirus, DLP, and more. Conflating a variety of possibilities and relying correlation doesn’t reduce to intent or prove causation. OTOH: Don’t play computer games on company har
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Security through obscurity isn’t security.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
I fail to see an argument for this being a technical necessity. And, you don’t offer any data or evidence for this. There are thousands of businesses and million of users who don’t care about and don’t need this.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Yep. There’s no incentive to catch every cheater because it helps sell the “need” for advantages conferred by DLC and virtual currencies.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
You can bet F2P games generally aren’t playable without buying virtual currency and DLC.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
AirTags and police are worthless. I had an AT on AirPods that dropped in my apt garage. I could see them move into a secured area that Google leased. Called the cops’ non-emergency number. “Sorry, we have a 2 day backlog” Then, I watched th
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
110k staff total post-layoffs.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
It’s a conspiracy to watch me do laundry. I have evidence on a wall of random photos and newspaper clippings pinned together with yarn made from ugly sweaters’ red dryer lint. I think there’s a subset of people who make up and believe sinis
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Null modems. Laplink cables had DB-9 and DB-25 on both ends with the crossover built-in. There were some male to male cables that had crossover while others didn’t. Then there were null modem adapter dongles for straight through cables. The
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Dead Code Society ftw
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Is it still the case an appendectomy is required before spending time there? https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4965
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Decentralized means complicated and no regular people will use it.
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by cathdrlbizzare 4y ago
Low-skilled devs should plan for AI to replace them.