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by japhyr 8y ago
I've been a middle and high school math teacher for 25 years, mostly to at-risk students. Almost all of them have what we call "math anxiety". By far, the most common reason I see it is how they were treated by math teachers.
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I agree that Lambda School sounds too good to be true, but once you start looking they've got real answers for just about everything. I'm a high school teacher, and after watching students struggle with decisions about what to do
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I teach high school. There are ways to hold students accountable if their actions outside of school affect what's happening in school. But you need staff and administration who are all on the same page and working together, and it help
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Does it run well on 16GB of ram, or do I need the 32GB 15" version? I tend to work on a few projects at a time, and I'd like to be able to run a VM without having to shut everything else down. I'm fine to power down a VM when
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I need to run Windows, macOS, and Linux for testing purposes. I've had the luxury of having a different machine for each OS through work, but I'm moving to freelance work soon and won't have that luxury anymore. I'd like
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Photography and Linux(linuxjournal.com)
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The View from Flyover Country Sarah Kendzior is my favorite political analyst today. She has called so much of what's happened over the past few years long before others, and she cuts right to the heart of what's happening. This b
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I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well. Right now I have separate machines for each
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I didn't read that as she "voluntarily signaled to these platforms that she was pregnant". She made social media posts with many clear signals that she was pregnant. She basically said, "I know your algorithms can detect
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My all-time favorite graph is the plot of incident solar particles on Voyager 1 in 2012 [0][1]. That to me is the perfect image of scientific thinking. "We anticipate that the probe will enter interstellar space and see a significant d
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> All technologies are improved with lasers. I love this writing style, clear and informative but playful at the same time.
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Whenever I feel too distracted, I find a half hour or so of reading a book to be really grounding. That either regrounds me for whatever I really need to be doing, or it turns into a few hours of really enjoyable, focused reading. My son is
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> I'd compare falling off a scooter to be similar to falling off a bike I agree, and I've fallen off a bike a number of times. I have a few scars to show for it, and I would probably not be here if I hadn't worn a helmet d
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Poisoned Wildlife and Tainted Meat(nytimes.com)
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Those pinky levers are just amazing!
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Then again, if you learn one well it's not too difficult to learn another one as well. And once you've worked with a couple different libraries, you start to understand the different data models and it's even easier to adapt
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I usually keep a simple text file with names like 'notes.txt' or 'notes-project_reboot.txt', especially for projects that I work on intermittently. Many times these notes files disappear into the past, as these projects
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Modern Django Settings(medium.com)
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I think holding the option key makes the capture shadowless.
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I like to think about my deathbed. We can't take money with us when we die, so what's money for except to live the life we want? So what do you want out of life? What would you do if you had a billion dollars? What would you do if
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> more than doubled from a couple years ago Yes, this is the most unsettling part. Even if we can afford to pay our own healthcare now, it's very difficult to predict how long we'll be able to.
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Absolutely. I'm planning to move into full-time freelancing work next year, and health care is the most unsettling part of this move. It's the most unpredictable aspect of moving into a full-time freelancing role.
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- Pensions are going away as states find they're unsustainable. My state (Alaska) has moved into a defined-contribution model, which I believe is like most jobs that offer any retirement benefits. - Yes, 2-3 month breaks are pretty swe
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> I lay most of the blame on the schools. I'm a high school teacher, and I've been in this world for a long time. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the issue of pay yet. The median pay for teachers in the US is around $50
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I live in southeast Alaska, where we have a relatively healthy population of coastal brown bears. When we go into the woods, there is always a chance a bear could be nearby. Your first encounter with a brown bear in the wild can be unnervin
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Not using an alarm clock. I used to set an alarm for when I wanted to be up. I would hit snooze like a fiend, and end up getting out of bed an hour or two after the time I set the alarm for. I finally realized I could just not set an alarm,
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> Are there more examples of products that did (on purpose) not change significantly? I think Craigslist would be the classic example of a simple design that hasn't changed significantly over its lifetime.
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Road - The story of Joey Dunlop, and the motorcycling family he came from: https://www.netflix.com/title/80079364 Meru - Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk climb the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru in India: ht
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I am currently reading Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, by Andrew Smith. Around 2002, he decided to track down all the people who walked on the moon and are still living, and ask the basic question, "What do you do aft
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That reminds me of a great technique for introducing diagrams. Say you're giving everyone a diagram of mitosis. Instead of giving everyone a labeled diagram, you give out a diagram with the labels removed. You ask everyone to make up a

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