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by eitally 3y ago
This cannot be upvoted enough - thanks for posting it!
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I think it's important to differentiate social media with social networks. I would vigorously argue that Instagram & TikTok are media setup for doom scrolling, and almost nobody gets anything positive from the experience (unless
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We got our kids smartphones when they started middle school -- for our convenience, not their entertainment. I control what they install and I set time limits on when they can use them. They are not allowed to have social media accounts,
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by eitally 3y ago
Most soundbars, I think, allow you to control this. My Sonos does, at least, and I absolutely employ that feature!
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by eitally 3y ago
A number of years ago I solved a minor but repetitive QoL problem I had, and created a password I could type with just my left hand. It started as 8 characters, but I now have variants with as many as 15 characters. Not a word, or even wo
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by eitally 3y ago
It definitely is. It also sort of applies to legacy enterprise, too, in a different flavor: "If the tool or system is easy to use and accessible (thing classic LAMP stack), then shadow IT is guaranteed to exist and start using it.&quo
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by eitally 3y ago
I think your second point is vastly overstated for 99% of companies and their use cases. There are precious few situations that can't be handled decently well by a simple RDBMS, and a simple ETL process into an analytical data store f
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by eitally 3y ago
Well, one of the easiest paths is to stop doing oly lifts and start using DBs instead of a bar where possible. If you don't think you might have great form with DBs, just spend a few sessions at the beginning with a coach. The one th
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This was me with my youngest child, who had croup and I ended up walking her around the block quite frequently at night, especially in the colder months. We got to know so many people and so much about what was going on.
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This varies wildly neighborhood by neighborhood. In our first house, in suburban Raleigh, NC, we had a modest 1972 split level worth about $200k. We knew all our neighbors and it was, for lack of a better word, neighborly. In our second h
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Are you talking about a specific school, because there is almost 0 supervision (I would call what dorm RAs do as more "emergency oversight") and freshman absolutely party the same as upperclassmen & women. Also, you should kn
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by eitally 3y ago
I grew up in semi-rural Virginia and recently watched Peter Santenello's Appalachia[1] series on YT. The reality is that WV is nearly entirely rural (like Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas), but there's little oil or gas to backfill
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by eitally 3y ago
The counterpoint to this is the real issue overpopulation of whitetail deer has caused in the eastern US over the past 30 years or so. I grew up in Virginia so here's one specific example: https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildl
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by eitally 3y ago
But on the flip side, I went just last week, with my whole family, and we picked out two large shopping bags of books. Libraries are amazing places for children, and their parents. As an aside, I have to also give kudos to my local school d
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by eitally 3y ago
I've used all sorts of sit/stand desks and chair & swiss balls in all sorts of combos, but I've learned over time that I prefer a static height desk and a padded piano bench to sit on. Sitting on a bench rather than a ch
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by eitally 3y ago
It would be hilarious, if 100% unlikely, if jack@ reclaimed the Twitter brand and renamed Bluesky into Twitter.
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by eitally 3y ago
These are called "Sponsored Articles" and they're very common in industry-specific publications. For general business, Forbes[1] pivoted this direction a few years ago, and this is the entire raison d'etre of CIO Magazi
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by eitally 3y ago
This depends a lot on the state & county. Where I used to live in VA & NC, property taxes went to the local district to spend, and the wealthier schools had better programs & facilities. In CA, where I live now, property taxes
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by eitally 3y ago
Every mathematician disagrees because their focus isn't learning or teaching children foundational number sense and math concepts that will help them lead successful lives. You guys are talking past each other, and the guidelines in qu
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by eitally 3y ago
fwiw, these are guidelines, not rules, and districts can themselves choose their curricula. I'm in the bay area, and even though SFUSD has removed algebra from middle school math and tried to remove calculus from high school, my kids&#
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by eitally 3y ago
In addition this, at least in California, kids can dual-enroll in community colleges to take supplementary or more advanced (or even vocational) courses that mostly do transfer for college credit when applying to UCs & CSUs. I sometimes
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Citation needed. From everything I've read, it's nearly entirely the case that low income and ESL students do the worst (and there's a large overlap between those groups) and it has almost nothing to do with the kids' ed
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The answer is simple, though. When you invest the money exclusively in the schools and what happens in the schools, your reach is extremely limited. In Baltimore, and everywhere else, raising the minimum wage, offering free daycare &
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It sounds to me like there may have been an intermediate step, which was for little billy to be enrolled in some sort of third party course as a catch-up / qualifier for enrollment in the advanced class, and the district not accepting
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I'm not aware of any religious public schools that kids are forced into through zoning/districting. I am aware of MANY families who choose parochial schools because of the school quality & culture, but are absolutely not reli
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by eitally 3y ago
I don't completely disagree with you, but where's the incentive for a government to give you vouchers to spend on non-governmental education, directly taking away funding from the schools the same government is responsible for man
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by eitally 3y ago
I was in Google's partner org for 8 years and recently joined a cloud services company, but one that specialized in product engineering rather than "normal" system integration work. I've found that there's a glut o
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by eitally 3y ago
Well, as a start states can start refunding their colleges and universities, to levels that used to be common [until roughly the 90s]. After that, it becomes more prescriptive around roles of operation, and that's murkier. For example
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by eitally 3y ago
The highest I've found in the bay area are a small handful of residential private schools (e.g. Athenian is $82k for boarding students). Most of the top private day schools are still <$50k/yr, but I strongly suspect they top t
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But once you've become sensitized to the impact of paying for daycare on your budget, it's easy to logically just continue the same budget and funnel the same money to a different school.

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