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by guidoism 6y ago
Source? We do unschooling and know a lot of families who unschool and exactly zero of them are antivaxers or antimaskers. We tend to end up here exactly because we believe in the scientific method.
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by guidoism 6y ago
Indeed. And the math schools concentrate on isn’t particular useful in the context of a modern society. So what that you once memorized a geometric proof long enough to take a test if you don’t understand how interest works and how credit c
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by guidoism 6y ago
I would like to point out that in our current world it would be very very difficult to end up illiterate under just about any circumstance. Reading and writing don’t need to be explicitly taught unless you are under extreme time pressure (l
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Human Resource Machine CPU (Verilog)(github.com)
1 points by guidoism 6y ago|0 comments
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by guidoism 6y ago
Depends on the state and plan. For me COBRA was $2000/mo. When employed I paid like $20/mo and my employer paid $1980/mo. When I left I paid the entire amount.
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by guidoism 6y ago
Ok, let's see what we can do to improve your PDF. I ran it through qpdf so I could view it in my text editor: qpdf --stream-data=uncompress 0.pdf 0.uncompressed.pdf The Tj operators (for printing text) are operating on numbers instead
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by guidoism 6y ago
Please don't confuse the monstrosities that our poor tools produce with the nice files that our good tools produce. Using a shit PDF from some manufacturers website to criticize the format is like using the HTML produced by Microsoft W
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by guidoism 6y ago
Hah! I came to the same conclusion. PDF isn't actually that bad of a format and it's much easier and faster to parse and render than HTML/CSS. My conclusion: - Use the streaming format with the index headers at the start - Br
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by guidoism 6y ago
I don’t think that this is always true. Land reform happens consistently in history when ownership gets out of wack. Also the value you assign to the land is going to change when the use changes, for example houses in currently popular tech
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by guidoism 6y ago
Pretty sure OP’s article is advocating completely removing that whole massive stack of trash of web tech and instead use technology designed for the particular computer they are running on.
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by guidoism 6y ago
Python is strongly typed. Maybe you are confusing strong vs static typing.
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by guidoism 6y ago
SF to Palo Alto by car in 35m is ummm, optimistic. It’s usually more like 2h.
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by guidoism 6y ago
It's so interesting that the rich elites need to be entertained so much. You can have a good life just about anywhere. Only boring people get bored.
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by guidoism 6y ago
What is annoying about these interviews is that you are expected to have memoized all of the algorithms be able to implement them while someone is watching, on a whiteboard, in a very short amount of time. In my experience at Amazon and Goo
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by guidoism 6y ago
"Giving up" is not a good summary of what Illich proposes. In fact, it can be argued that what we are doing right now is giving up on education. Education != Schooling. Education is a life-long process. Everybody loves to learn an
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by guidoism 6y ago
Failure isn't a word that I would use to describe schools — They do an excellent job of doing what they are supposed to do. Like Illich says, a single model isn't work for everyone, but let's keep the models that work for the
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by guidoism 6y ago
I have to disagree with you on several points: 1. Schools are ranked by test scores mostly, which is 99% dependent on the education and income of the parents. Even then housing near schools with excellent test scores isn't expensive ex
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by guidoism 6y ago
It's actually a pretty good time to rethink everything. The modern school was designed when most adults were illiterate, books were expensive, and we needed to train the population to work in our factories or join the military. Schools
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by guidoism 6y ago
I don’t think that anyone will be able to learn on Zoom. It sounds horrible.
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by guidoism 6y ago
It’s true only because you and your kids weren’t prepared and didn’t have time to think through the situation. Trying to replicate school at home is a recipe for disaster. Instead, think about what an education means to you and what you wan
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by guidoism 6y ago
Families these days can still do it but they don’t because they are led to believe in paying for convenience and get into a cycle that turns everything in their life into something the market provides. The insidious thing is that once you g
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by guidoism 6y ago
Both are 'old', but one of them was a clean sheet design and the other was a stop-gap processor designed to sell a few units until their iAPX 432 was finished. See "History of the 8086" from here: http://www.r
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by guidoism 6y ago
I don’t think that those are good analogies. Cooking for yourself is more akin to bathing yourself or wiping your own butt. It’s super easy if you grow up assuming that you should be doing those things yourself and unbelievably expensive if
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by guidoism 6y ago
Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237513
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by guidoism 6y ago
This is kind of a dumb article. It's not like those of us in the computer industry don't already know about ARM. Before Apple's announcement you could run Risc OS on Raspberry Pi — It is one of the more prominent install imag
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by guidoism 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea they still made them. I remember on the 8th floor at the Pac Med building of Amazon in early 2000 Jeff giggling his ass off on one of those every day for a week. I'd never seen one since.
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by guidoism 6y ago
I also remember that something got messed up with my hotel reservation and I mentioned it during my interview and then I heard yelling. And um... I was still just a college student. It was a different world for me.
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by guidoism 6y ago
That company was cool at the time. Their website was blank but If you looked at the HTML there was a comment saying “this page doesn’t exist” or something to that effect. I decided to see if sending an email to hr@transmeta.com would work a
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by guidoism 6y ago
I found their PCB on Kitspace and thought it was intriguing: https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/neotron-compute/neotr... Z80-based retro computers are cool and all, but it's exciting to see one based
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Neotron – Family of 80s-style ARM-based Rusty-ROM home computers(github.com)
3 points by guidoism 6y ago|1 comments

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