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by keithpeter 8y ago
"End-user computing is becoming less a bicycle and more a monorail for the mind." I shall steal this quote. The humble spreadsheet is just about the only 'programmable' application left on the typical corporate endpoin
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Cameron did the 'either / or' thing three times, once on House of Lords reform, once on Scots independence and latterly on Brexit. Won the first two, came a-cropper on the third. Personally, I'm against referendums of
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by keithpeter 8y ago
I take your point, villages -> local market town probably needed special runs. Big city comprehensive boy myself.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Did you think the project was useful in the sense of getting the parents to think about possible changes and rejecting them? So they as citizens are clear that the current system is sub-optimal but they are OK with that
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: most schools start at around 9am to 9:15am Children who live too far from the school to walk catch a bus, an ordinary scheduled bus on a standard route, or the train# or the metro. They get special bus passes (some get them free, I thin
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Thanks for the reference to John Whitney, new to me, and most interesting. Some of his films are on archive.org and his book Digital Harmony is downloadable as a pdf.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
It will be interesting to see what kind of tooling Torvalds ends up with. I suspect that bit may have been a joke but you could imagine a 'professional feedback generator'. Time out might yield positive benefits. At some point (
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by keithpeter 8y ago
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/modern-day-pilg... I found the pilgrimage alluded to in the article quite interesting. I hope this chap recovers.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Interesting, I'm wondering if the standardised lesson plans and schemes are available on a Web site somewhere, and so I'm googling with my schoolboy French right now. Are your teachers noticeably less busy by the way?
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Can't speak for physical education, but I've taught basic maths to adults for a long time, and I work with English teachers and ESOL teachers. A key concept in teaching is what we call 'differentiation', the idea that di
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK geezer again: and reading about various things in the US, I've realised what a drag on business health benefits are. In UK, you just don't need to think about that.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
They work at home on non-contact tasks including planning coherent sequences of lessons, and 'differentiating' the approach within each lesson for lower quartile, median and upper quartile students. There may also be discrete spec
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Quotes from OA "...shortening school weeks and enacting emergency certification for people who aren’t trained as educators." and "This year in Oklahoma, a record number of teachers were given emergency teaching certificati
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by keithpeter 8y ago
4 day battery life (I charge mine when the indicator shows about two thirds to half), call quality seems good to me, predictive text works like it always did. The camera is low quality but enough for snapping information (e.g. web address a
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by keithpeter 8y ago
"Just hit random until something nice comes out." Reformulate as 'have a system for building new bodies, add a little bit of randomness, and have an environment that selects for survival' and you have life.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Librarians are pretty brutal about shelf space and 'discards' are ruthless and based on readership as you noticed. In UK most public libraries will offer to get a book in on the 'inter-library loan' system - there is usu
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Quote from OA "Having also ruled out broadcasts from “little green men”, Bell Burnell gathered more observations until eventually she found three more repeating pulses of radio waves emanating from different spots in the galaxy."
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by keithpeter 8y ago
A more recent collision https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pleasure-boat-disaster... I think I remember it appearing in a fictional work as well or being alluded to
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Rovelli mentions his paper from 2009 with the title 'Forget Time' in the video. The paper can be downloaded from [1]. I enjoyed the presentation. Talking for an hour on this kind of material with just a piece of string and a coupl
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by keithpeter 8y ago
70+ hours a week is a lot. Any chance at all of carving out half a day even for sitting in a cafe and letting your mind wander?
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by keithpeter 8y ago
I suspect that people generally don't exhibit rationality when making small daily decisions - Kahneman et al . I think that teenagers need to practice filtering and evaluating their use of online services somehow so they can decide
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Possibly of interest. Miller was teaching at Warwick university some decades ago. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1983/04/28/the-karl-popper-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Perhaps worth mentioning that Paul Erdős had a somewhat vagabondish lifestyle as well - I suspect refugee experience. Back in the early 80s, Rudolf Peierls did a talk to about a hundred of us at Birmingham University about the war, quantum
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Desktop end user: I donated to Ubuntu, and to Debian via SPI, and a bit to OpenBSD when they had their funding wobble. Since 2015 I've been using Slackware and bought a DVD subscription (it turns out that the Slackware BDfL wasn't
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by keithpeter 8y ago
If I round each result to 6 significant figures and then use that as the input for the next stage, my bog standard scientific calculator gives me 9.32631 for the final answer. (chained using full accuracy as sibling comment does give 25 of
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by keithpeter 8y ago
https://datagrok.github.io/makebakery/ I'm quite interested in using a directory tree of markdown files to generate a web site so that the directory names become index files showing lists of titles contained withi
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by keithpeter 8y ago
I can't link to the actual magazine as I am on a computer with a permanent internet connection, so I'm saving it for home when I can switch the wifi off. I think that the interview makes some points that will be of interest to HN
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by keithpeter 8y ago
No not really, just playing about (and learning about window display). I use KDE for 'real work'
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Thanks for this, will have to roll my sleeves up and start hacking I think.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK, Birmingham: most local street food places use a lot of salt, as do my neighbours, and most of the 'convenience' prepared masalas mentioned up screen. Oddly enough, the salt levels seem a tad lower in the family restaurants (bi

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