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by japhyr 7y ago
I don't see how to reply to a comment. For example, if I go here[0] where there are two top-level comments, I don't see any reply links. [0] https://news.python.sc/item/73cc2374-210c-4b6a-aca1-bfb98623...
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by japhyr 7y ago
Yes, exactly, it's a modern day poll tax and many people in power want such a thing.
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by japhyr 7y ago
Totally Wired, by Andrew Smith, is a pretty interesting read. https://www.amazon.com/Totally-Wired-Harris-Dotcom-Swindle/d...
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by japhyr 7y ago
My son hated ClassDojo. Everything was about points, and he saw through the charade enough to see that it didn't really matter, and it was way overused in his classroom. I won't do it, but I was tempted to make a TeacherDojo spoof
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by japhyr 7y ago
You do not deserve to be downvoted. People live in remote villages for a variety of reasons. Nobody "puts" them there any more than I "put" my son in the town I live in. GP may have had a better intention with their comm
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by japhyr 7y ago
The history of alcoholism and suicide in Alaska goes back to the time of first contact with outsiders. When westerners first contacted Alaska Native tribes, those "explorers" tended to be people who were after valuable furs, and m
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by japhyr 7y ago
I've been a math and science teacher for the last 25 years. I have always told students they could use whatever device worked for them, and I have alway been very clear that the only reason TI calculators are so prevalent is because th
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by japhyr 7y ago
I already bought the Dell 27in without the usb-c connection, because I didn't think there was any real difference between that and an HDMI connection through an adapter. If I had known about the wireless interference issue before that,
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by japhyr 7y ago
Clickable links: [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074J79WWJ/ [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NRLNTNC/ [2] https://www.apple.com/shop/product
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Ask HN: MacBook Pro Display Adapter?
1 points by japhyr 7y ago|4 comments
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by japhyr 7y ago
> the kubler-ross grief model That model is really outdated, and was never meant to be the linear model it is so often presented as. I imagine you were speaking lightly, but it's important to call this out. My wife is a grief counse
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Explained: Neural Networks (2017)(news.mit.edu)
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by japhyr 7y ago
I am not in the market for something like this, but one thing I noticed is that your pricing levels do not have much variation. They're $7, $8, and $9, and it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of difference in what you ge
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by japhyr 7y ago
Backcountry camping in Death Valley is magical if you know what you're doing. It's also a place that will kill you if you don't know what you're doing and you get lost, or panic when something goes wrong. Death Valley is
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by japhyr 7y ago
I live in a small town in southeast Alaska, and we are exposed to much less advertising than people in more densely populated parts of the US. We have no billboards, we don't have any large box stores, and we don't have cable TV i
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by japhyr 7y ago
I was a high school teacher in a school that worked primarily with underserved students, who often had transcripts with many academic gaps. So we had to spend more time than usual examining transcripts to make sure students were taking the
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by japhyr 7y ago
Something I didn't see here is allowing students to earn credit for classes by demonstrating mastery. This is often called competency-based learning , but that term encompasses a wide variety of approaches. The larger point of this ap
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by japhyr 7y ago
What makes you say noise cancelling headphones are bad? Are you talking about audio quality, or bad for your hearing?
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by japhyr 7y ago
> No one - not even NASA - realized the obvious at the time; the astronauts were never going to be human beings after their moon walks. They were going to be such and such who walked on the moon. Some of this inability to foresee the imp
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by japhyr 7y ago
I don't quite get this. I'm not logged into SO at the moment. I went to the home page, and the first thing I see is "For developers" and "For businesses". I clicked "For developers", and under "P
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by japhyr 7y ago
Where did you go to high school? I went to Nashua High in the 1980's, and I don't remember any DEC machines at school. I used an Apple II in elementary school, but I don't remember using school computers much during high scho
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by japhyr 7y ago
I know people who love spin classes. They're not just buying an exercise bike. They're buying a really nice bike, and membership in a global community of people who also love spin. It really does seem like getting to go to a spin
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Panel: A high-level app and dashboarding solution for the PyData ecosystem(medium.com)
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by japhyr 7y ago
I just finished Moondust, which is a really good read for anyone interested in the Apollo story. The author was a journalist working on a story about the Apollo astronauts, and he was interviewing one of the men who walked on the moon. Duri
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by japhyr 8y ago
That sounds fascinating! Can you say a bit more about what kind of work you do there? How long have you been going there? Where is it?
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by japhyr 8y ago
I live in southeast Alaska, and anyone who's been in Alaska for a while starts to know people from around the state. We don't always talk about climate change as a global phenomenon, but people are always talking about the specifi
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by japhyr 8y ago
You might be interested in a book called Moondust. The author realized in the early 2000s that at some point soon all of the astronauts who walked on the moon would be gone. He set out to interview each of them about their experiences at th
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by japhyr 8y ago
I am unfamiliar with the concept of CP violation, and this description was really helpful: https://www.nevis.columbia.edu/daedalus/motiv/cp.html
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by japhyr 8y ago
Here's an interesting question: How far should we require students to get in math for a high school diploma? School districts in the US answer this in a couple different ways. Many define the number of credits you need to earn, and man
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by japhyr 8y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "new math".

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