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by shantly 7y ago
No one can come up with anything better that provides feedback at least annually for all grades upper elementary and higher, and can be used to compare districts and schools across a state.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Because the United States lacks a centralized system for teacher training or distributing quality instructional materials to schools, Professor Koretz said, states and districts did not always effectively carry out the Common Core or o
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by shantly 7y ago
Similarly, the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen-Million Merits" is sometimes described as being about some kind of possible future, but I'm pretty damn sure it's just depicting now (or, "now" when it was made a
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by shantly 7y ago
Is the interview & decision process as long as some of the ones described for the GSA (for "Program Analyst") on Glassdoor? Those describe a 6-week process on the low end, around double that on the high end, from what I see, a
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by shantly 7y ago
"How come" and just "why" coupled with fairly direct phrasing are a lot better than most of the rest of the suggestions elsewhere in the thread as of this posting, most of which seem highly passive-aggressive.
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I also find most modern "simple" apps and sites really confusing. Especially if they're social. Even Twitter's confusing as hell, despite doing very little. I bounced off Facebook in about a week back in 2011 or so
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by shantly 7y ago
Google-Docs-as-chat is extremely common in schools. Tons of schools use Google docs so they're not blocked, permissions (who you can bring to a doc) are usually wide-open, and monitoring's non-existent if you don't attract at
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by shantly 7y ago
> An astonishing thing happened when we finally made it possible for everyone in the world to tell a computer what to do: We discovered nobody knows what they want the computer to do! I feel this way. I've been at this a long time b
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by shantly 7y ago
If we don't fix healthcare costs it'll be that in 5-15 years, just looking at the increases in costs year over year. It's strangling the economy. After that we very likely have a (lack of) retirement crisis coming in, I recko
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by shantly 7y ago
Seems like the most likely route to success would be for a few big internet companies to set up a .org nonprofit and treat it as the authority, ignoring icann. Fork the tld, in other words.
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by shantly 7y ago
On anything short of a monster TV at a too-short viewing distance I can’t tell the difference between 4K and 1080p. And for a high percentage of the content I watch there’s no benefit to anything over 720p. If I could get HDR on a 1080p tv
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s notation only. I “invented” it as a kid to save space on division problems and reduce the chance of copying errors. It’s the same method as long division (and TIL it already existed!)
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by shantly 7y ago
Holy shit, I didn’t realize the shorter way of writing long division that I invented in early elementary school because I got sick of taking up so much space and introducing copying error potential had a name!
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by shantly 7y ago
> The test includes competitive exam questions focused on mathematical understanding and problem solving skills, rather than advanced math knowledge. Seems like it might be close to a subset of the sorts of questions one encounters on an
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by shantly 7y ago
On targeted advertising the barrier is that you must already have a significant fraction of the personal data Google has before you can start to compete.
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by shantly 7y ago
Is there a problem with that? So long as your CORS headers aren't screwed up for your use case, passing JWTs around via cookie headers should be fine, right?
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by shantly 7y ago
Where else are JWTs coming from? You can't pass the signing key to the client, that defeats the point.
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by shantly 7y ago
JWT is just some arbitrary JSON data, with a few customary fields, cryptographically signed by whichever system issued it. You send it to the client, which may be a browser or mobile app or whatever, and they send it with each request to an
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by shantly 7y ago
You can store & pass JWTs in cookies, provided they're not huge.
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by shantly 7y ago
They let you answer the question "did some other machine I trust find this entity to be a valid user, having this identity and the rights they assert they have?" without asking that machine directly or storing anything about the u
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by shantly 7y ago
Time and resources to comparison shop (in a broad sense) being neither of them infinite, the more we can assure certain definitely- or probably-bad options are absent from the market, the better the market will function. Pro-healthy-and-eff
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by shantly 7y ago
Given the setting 20 years in the future and the situation provided, and the task the students were asked to perform, it's entirely possible they'd at least tolerate, if not reward, some reasonable and restrained invention of futu
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by shantly 7y ago
Interesting. Fussell, in his Class , also calls out the US middle class as a kind of outlier from the rest of the class system, cursed with an abundance of class anxiety but also a distinctive class identity and slew of misconceptions abou
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by shantly 7y ago
> I do wonder if it leads to a modern day society where educated people are able to rationalize the indefensible, as long as it's good for whatever organization/bureaucracy they've aligned themselves with We have good reas
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by shantly 7y ago
This kind of role-playing is a big part of certain types of education. It's basically the whole point of model UN and various games-based massive exercises that kids with a serious interest in government or international relations or w
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by shantly 7y ago
Often much smaller. A few stores like Costco actually print it large enough that you don't have to get up close and squint at each price tag to see the unit price. Usually you can't just scan the shelf and comparison shop on unit
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully that's an incomplete list of examples.
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by shantly 7y ago
If the system resource use were comparable to early and mid 90s applications, too, I'd love it. Always felt too heavy, preferred Gnumeric and similar for personal use when on Linux as a result, when not having to try to inter-op with M
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by shantly 7y ago
Kids used to have to be taught how to use the library. Card catalogue, Dewey decimal system, all that. The kinds of things one may find at a library other than books. People aren't born knowing this stuff and may not realize what can a
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by shantly 7y ago
> The field of education research is also a mess on the level of 1910s psychology, and that's not helping the quality of schools either. The faddish education "research" stuff that ends up being implemented in schools and

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