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by quacked 3mo ago
This doesn't go far enough, in my opinion. I think all screens should be banned from schools. No TV, no phones, no projectors, no slides. No shortcuts for anybody, no distractions. Everything handwritten. I know this sounds like I&#x27
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by quacked 3mo ago
I've considered using Lilypond, but I really like the autoplay feature in Musescore, as well as the lack of delay between placing notes and seeing the result.
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by quacked 3mo ago
How do you use it for music composition?
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by quacked 3mo ago
I admit this leans into pedantry, but I think it's important not to conflate "amount of education received" with "amount of knowledge possessed". In the US our people are more educated than they've ever been, b
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by quacked 3mo ago
I understand and somewhat agree with your point, and might have phrased my comment differently. I think my main point is that experts aren't always going to beat "a dynamically simulated extension onto the training material".
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by quacked 3mo ago
The thing that annoys me about AI discourse is that AI is a mathematical technique of rapidly increasing efficacy, and yet everyone personifies it. It would help if every time someone said "AI" they supplemented "a mathematic
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by quacked 4mo ago
> Typing it is a complete waste of time unless getting up close and personal with it will result in some kind of useful and actionable improvement in you or your understanding. I believe this is the general belief about basically every h
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by quacked 5mo ago
> Why? In addition to not having practice as you said, my thoughts: 1. Camera phones and social media have trained all young people to be aware that anything they say or do could be reported on 2. A lot more overt moralizing about power,
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by quacked 5mo ago
How much is a 3D printer that can print durable thermoplastics that I can use for replacement of trivial household items? I thought that would require an industrial setup to do. If you're telling me that I can just start replacing plas
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by quacked 5mo ago
> Years later, this still seems far out of reach. If anything, it seems to have been settled that most non-technicals don't want a 3D printer. They would if you could print things out of durable materials that had weight and structu
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by quacked 6mo ago
The majority of the "more housing = cheaper rent" success stories crowed about on the internet correspond with net population exodus. Austin, Minneapolis, now San Diego. Edit: I think we should build several million more units of
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by quacked 6mo ago
I don't know, I looked at their demo video and it was tile/cards all over the place. I haven't seen an old-fashioned user interface like the kind we saw before 2020 in ages.
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by quacked 6mo ago
I hate it so much. Ah, your website/app/program is comprised of rounded-corner cards in four colors (color/pale color/white/grey), with a dark theme. Your clickable text isn't visually distinguishable from your
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by quacked 6mo ago
> Now that you can just pay 10-20 euro for a streaming service, The nice thing about piracy is that you can find what you want immediately. You don't have to go to an aggregator site to find out where it's available, and then l
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by quacked 6mo ago
It's a service problem. Every new service is a colossal headache to set up payment, remember to cancel payment if you only wanted to see the single event and have no need for the service the rest of the year, find what's playing o
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by quacked 7mo ago
The US had a highly moral mission at the time of its founding; but that moral platform differs significantly from our own today. The adjective "moral" does not mean "in good standing with what I believe is proper morality&qu
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by quacked 7mo ago
The frustrating thing about the empire collapse is that it doesn't need to happen. There are still tons of highly energized and ostensibly disciplined and competitive people here. It's just that the production base was sold off to
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by quacked 7mo ago
Forget modern computers. I booted up my dad's COMPAQ from 1998, running Windows 2000, and was blown away by the speed and logical layout of the applications. I have to grit my teeth using W11 File Explorer because of what I recently re
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by quacked 7mo ago
I take some issue with these kinds of articles that minimize the impacts of "street crime" in favor of the admittedly much broader and insidious effects of corporate crime. Corporate crime generally can coexist with a functioning
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by quacked 8mo ago
I'd be fine with either: - The massive regulatory burdens on American businesses are dissolved in order to permit genuine competition with the globe - Economic protectionism is applied so that the heavily regulated American business ca
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by quacked 8mo ago
What are you talking about? I haven't said anything against capitalism. If anything, the problem with the current scenario is that there's not _enough_ capitalism. How do you propose to compete with foreign workers when the govern
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by quacked 8mo ago
That's a critical question that isn't being asked enough. Americans aren't allowed to compete like that; there are too many labor and environmental protections in place to experience "Chinese working conditions" eve
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by quacked 8mo ago
Well, of course, I agree with you. That's why I said I don't think it would happen. I personally wouldn't mind a world where consumer goods were much, much more expensive and difficult to acquire, even though it would mean th
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by quacked 8mo ago
I agree, but the fact of the matter is that for voting purposes there are two "teams" in the US, and they vote and argue in public down pretty well-defined ideological lines. If you know the two or three most strongly-held moral-p
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by quacked 8mo ago
The two American political parties are so perfectly shielded by their own ideological blinders to avoid any possibility of national protectionism against offshoring and outsourcing that I don't think there will ever be any kind of move
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by quacked 9mo ago
What ICE is doing is naked incompetent fascism and the entity needs to be disbanded with hostility. With that said, no, it's not evil to deport people who entered a country illegally. If I sneak into China, and China finds out, they ar
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by quacked 9mo ago
I completely agree with you, and now that I am far away from being a student (and at the time, I vehemently hated any system that demanded memorization), I regretfully say that sometimes you just have to force young people to do things they
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by quacked 9mo ago
The answer to "why should I know anything" is a value judgement that, if advertised in my top-level post, provides a great deal more rhetorical surface to disagree with or criticize. My main point is that regardless of why anyone
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by quacked 9mo ago
I completely agree with you. Do you have any ideas about what might stem this tide on a grander scale? I live in the country and will homeschool my kids--I think the risk of under-socialization is worth the reward of competency-based educat
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by quacked 9mo ago
I agree with both of your assertions. Most jobs are indeed bullshit jobs in the age of abundance, and while the "point" of knowledge and wisdom is, in a grander sense, to continue in the same vein and contribute to the sum total o

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