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by corrral 4y ago
> I understand you're passionate about the issue and feel your spouse has been ripped off. It's not just that we're personally harmed by the current system—we're in the "has a high-earning spouse" group so w
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by corrral 4y ago
Email? I expect managers of library systems were still checking their email even when their buildings were closed.
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by corrral 4y ago
Sorry, by the way, if I've misunderstood or misread some of your posts. I'm truly not trying to be argumentative for the sake of it, and expect we agree much more than we disagree, overall. Also: yes, I'm sure you're rig
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by corrral 4y ago
> We have spent the last 40 years reducing teacher autonomy, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's harder to get teachers who care. I think schools are in a death-spiral where they can't get enough decent teachers with g
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> IMO this is the biggest problem. And, indeed, teachers will take even lower pay to be in a private school situation with a parent community and student community that values education. Lots of private schools pay worse than public sc
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by corrral 4y ago
> I agree, but we have a whole lot of data that indicates that raising comp often has perverse effects. Better tell waves hands at the entire private sector . They don't seem to have gotten that message. Seems like an opportunity t
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by corrral 4y ago
> The data on whether this works in general is very, very muddy. My spouse, with about a decade of teaching experience at the time, once had a former student drop out of high school and start working at as a gas station clerk at a major
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by corrral 4y ago
> Indeed, it may even have adverse effects: you draw people who want the money, instead of people drawn to the profession intrinsically. This sentiment is a big part of suppressing teacher wages, and needs to stop. No, raising teacher pa
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, all of our new ones around here seem to use some Dutch or German (I can't remember which) company and look almost exactly like that. All their merry-go-round type things are very different from the old ones we were used to, and
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by corrral 4y ago
No fast food places have "fast food prices" anymore unless you heavily coupon and/or use their apps. Seems to be a method of price discrimination. If you're poor you know about the app and coupons and never pay menu pric
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by corrral 4y ago
The clock was crucial to timed recordings, which were how people recorded TV programs when they weren't around for them before things like TIVO existed. Set a it to record when your program's supposed to start and for X duration,
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by corrral 4y ago
Gartner and their "magic quadrants" and all that crap is also, at least in part, pay-for-play, no?
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by corrral 4y ago
I've seen some kinda "high design" sinks that do abandon all use cases aside from washing one's hands and teeth-brushing and such—so-shallow-it's-barely-there basin, fancy faucet that sends the water straight out in
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by corrral 4y ago
Right, absolutely. The conditions are also damn stressful, unless you're lucky enough to be at a school with amazing admin and co-workers and parents. That almost never happens. Then the ones who are good but getting stressed out e
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by corrral 4y ago
Reality is you'd need to at least double teacher pay to get a pool of teachers for whom the approach from one of these "amazing teacher does amazing thing" stories might— might —generalize well enough to be useful.
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by corrral 4y ago
> Fittingly, now that the politicians are paying attention, their immediate instinct is to just blindly ape the structure that he's built Entirely typical of school reform efforts. Study or (more often) a book built around a study o
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by corrral 4y ago
When I was 16 I waffled between the top edge of healthy and the bottom edge of overweight, according to BMI. When I dropped into the top edge of healthy I had a 6-pack. I wasn't even that muscular, just broad-shouldered.
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by corrral 4y ago
Then you only know power users and computer geeks.
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by corrral 4y ago
4k+ per day of junk food from ages ~15-20. Then I had to knock it off because I stopped being able to do that while staying trim (got fat fast , and I really was trim before). Which is probably just as well because that wasn't healt
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by corrral 4y ago
A high percentages of users don't and never did understand file trees and how to navigate them. They find their files by rote repetition and spatial memory. This is how people end up with desktops covered in files and directories—that&
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"Knew". My parents wrote sequences of commands on a piece of paper that told them how to launch various programs. These were usually captured from manuals or from the output of installation processes (launched by following the man
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by corrral 4y ago
The first (harm) is about as mild as it gets, and the second is a common usage. Webster's 1913: > 2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assau
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by corrral 4y ago
I mean... from context, it's probably a mistake, but on the other hand we don't actually know the structure of that filesystem or the author's intentions.
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by corrral 4y ago
Figured, but it's a pretty goofy way to introduce it after that comment. [EDIT] I mean, you can almost "who's on first?" this. "OK, what type do you want this to be?" "Type." "Yes, what type do y
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by corrral 4y ago
Shit, most cities in the US stopped seriously doing comprehensive contact tracing around the time NY threw in the towel, back in late Spring or early Summer 2020 IIRC. Yes, within months of it reaching our shores. "Pushing mass tes
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by corrral 4y ago
How so? Leading comma puts the terminator on the line after what it's terminating (which is why it bothers me, can't speak for others). This doesn't do that.
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{- You can optionally add types `x : T` means that `x` has type `T` -} let Config : Type = Config's type is Type? Clear as mud.
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by corrral 4y ago
> It looks like "How" was accidentally dropped from the title so as-written it doesn't quite make sense because today Guernica is hardly considered a "flop". I don't follow how adding "how" modifie
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> One of my coworkers has spent most of the last year sharing observations and ideas with the team that are things I pointed out three years ago. I don’t know if he’s giving me an overly subtle nod or he just doesn’t know he’s doing it.
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by corrral 4y ago
Haha, Paris was exactly what I was thinking of. "Pretty lady, flower for you! You want flower? Flower for you, pretty flower for a pretty lady," pressing the flower toward the woman as if trying to give it away for free, and then

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