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by sonzohan 11mo ago
A trucker (CDL) is the only one without extremely high apprenticeship requirements. From there, who thought that you'd need a bachelors to be a barista and pour coffee? It's not just about the raw requirements, but about the compe
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by sonzohan 11mo ago
> Investing in community college programs is one route since they are essentially a business. A 501c3 nonprofit with pretty stringent requirements (accreditation, reporting, transparency), but yes a business nonetheless. > The main pr
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by sonzohan 11mo ago
Community College professor here, in the midst of leaving my community college for a full university. Let me dissect this article with uncompromising scrutiny: > "...have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services,
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by sonzohan 1y ago
This used to be what people did before COVID. Now it's a hardcore seller's market in the US: The car chip shortage caused the resale value of cars to skyrocket. In the past few years my 15 year old CRV, which just passed 100k mile
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by sonzohan 1y ago
Depends on what you need. For general knowledge or broad exploration, there are plenty of general education courses you can take at community colleges. However for specific knowledge that requires lab space or equipment you can't get a
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by sonzohan 2y ago
This is a very late response (I am overseas) but I do like your impassioned comments. That said, I think there might be some misunderstandings about US Labor Laws and operations as they relate to education and unionization. > Professors
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Professor here. We did not create it, we responded to administration prioritizing profit over performance and prestige. They passed the decision down to us instructors by threatening our employment if we failed too many students. Since tenu
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by sonzohan 2y ago
> It requires almost no resources to learn and do. Reading requires an enormous amount of resources to learn and do. While people before had far fewer resources than we do "today" (without discussing what the terms 'then&
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by sonzohan 2y ago
"The idea that learning to read is just like learning to speak is accepted by no responsible linguist, psychologist, or cognitive scientist in the research community" The Reading Teacher 47, 1993-1994 https://archive.or
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Teacher here working in public institutions. ESSER I, II, and III (the funding you speak of) remains a large chip on my shoulder. The problem with education is a lack of funding. Many of the funds you speak of expired without use, and ano
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by sonzohan 2y ago
> It doesn’t cost anything to make sure employees feel valued, unless you’re doing things to hold back their careers But it does. Even something as simple as writing a thank you email has an opportunity cost. In that time a sales person
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Source: I worked at Blizzard and held Blizzard stock during the Activision merger, and then held ATVI stock during the Microsoft acquisition. Also a close friend of mine worked at Spunk during the Cisco acquisition. One of two things happen
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Got a source for this? I'm only finding sources that vehemently disagree, and say the only countries worse for this are Portugal and Canada. Everywhere in the world is better.
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by sonzohan 2y ago
> It's the subscription they cancelled and not the articles. Correct. Before the UC system also cancelled their subscription with Elsevier they reported paying $11 million annually. > The Elsevier publisher's articles are st
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Could you explain the contradiction you are seeing further? Cost cutting and increased personnel funding are not related. Just because MIT library is saving millions by cutting a publisher agreement doesn't mean those savings will be d
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by sonzohan 2y ago
> As much as I despise this system, if you believe that universities can change this, at the level of policy, I am very curious to hear what you propose. MIT did not renew their contract with Elsevier in 2020, a major reason being their
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by sonzohan 2y ago
> does typically incorporate peer review which has significant value. Significant value which is given gratis by said peers, which journals use to boost their reputability and, by association, their profits. Publishers are profiting off
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Not just cheat but cheat using Bluetooth butt plugs at an extremely high level of play ( https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/chess-champ-gets-butt-inspecte... ). Some people have all the fun.
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by sonzohan 2y ago
Ads aren't the real problem though, SEO and dark patterns are. Ads, even when mixed in with legitimate content, are labeled. A user can reasonably infer an ad website's goal when they click on it: to get you to pay for something.
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by sonzohan 2y ago
You would keep the status quo. The problem with Boeing is the replacement of a strong engineering-first culture with a profit-first culture over decades. It's a classic playbook: acquire company, erode product quality and culture for p
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by sonzohan 3y ago
ITT: Security through obscurity is easy. Actual security is hard.
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by sonzohan 3y ago
For which OS?
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by sonzohan 3y ago
Office only, when I spoke to them.
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by sonzohan 3y ago
Have you tried to catch either? A dull knife, assuming it can break skin, is a far worse experience. I have cuts from both, but my scars are only from dull knives.
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by sonzohan 3y ago
IT Teacher (professor) part of a union here. Unions in the U.S. are incredibly weak. U.S. unions can barely represent, much less collectively bargain. That's why software engineers keep failing to unionize. My union wants to pay tenure
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by sonzohan 3y ago
While I appreciate the author's argument against being stalked, or giving information to criminals, they ignore the core culprit: information-as-a-service. Most importantly, the author presents a "No True Scotsman" argument a
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by sonzohan 3y ago
Light-up ocarinas that change color as you play https://youtu.be/z8TVICcIt_0 You can buy them here: https://www.songbirdocarina.com/collections/synesthesia-ocar... P.S. I did something way fancier than
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by sonzohan 3y ago
4gb, ram is king. Past that, hard drive space. Dell Wolf is incredible. Past that, R751Ts are my secret weapon. Both $30-40
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by sonzohan 3y ago
Everything works. Yes there is some fiddling (think getting things to work on Ubuntu 5 years ago) but things work. Edit: yes your specific questions (audio, audio autosense, etc.) work.
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by sonzohan 3y ago
Big Shoutouts to MrChromebox. Please donate to his work. I have asked for support on an issue related to a Dell Wolf and received a custom ROM. Absolute monster of a dev.

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