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by vlark 3y ago
This in-depth podcast from American Public Media sheds light on this phenomenon and helped spark the re-evaluation of many popular K-6 reading curricula: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
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And yet for thousands of years we managed just fine with paper & ink.
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Sure, there's a difference between stream-of-consciousness note-taking/idea capture of brain babble and composing cohesive thoughts in a coherent manner. But the nice thing is that a journal can be either or both, often at the sam
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by vlark 3y ago
And dictating to a device that can provide accurate transcription such as an AI-enabled virtual assistant is just another way to get to the end product of a searchable, indexable digital text. I'd count this as keeping a written journa
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Writing is cheap, portable, and available to anyone who can produce and process written script; the poorest child in the poorest country can be taught to write their ideas in a journal. Video is expensive: not just the personal device &
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by vlark 3y ago
This is the best link on this site today. Thank you.
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by vlark 3y ago
The U.S. is capable of building transit infra. We are incapable of overcoming multiple nesting, competing, and ensnared layers of local, regional, state, and federal bureaucracies to actually get them built, even when there is a taxpayer de
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"former"
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by vlark 3y ago
Thanks!
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by vlark 3y ago
It is today. It used to not be. Blame Reagan when he was governor of California: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-day-the-purpose-of-col...
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by vlark 3y ago
How does your extension differ from Draftback?( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/draftback/nnajoiem... ) Just curious.
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by vlark 3y ago
Want a safe flight? That'll be an extra €50.
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by vlark 3y ago
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a child is a horrible experience and you never really get over it; time moves on but the emptiness persists. I wish you and your family well.
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by vlark 3y ago
Calibre can do this: https://calibre-ebook.com Here's the help page on setting up your own content server: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/#the-calibre-content-server
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by vlark 3y ago
Yes, this exactly: sometimes I don't write things down to review them later, but write them down to remember them now.
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by vlark 3y ago
That Pet Rock manual is still included when you buy a Pet Rock: https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Rock-Authentic-Approved-Original/...
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by vlark 3y ago
That's such an ungodly pairing of actors, thank God Watterson walked away from it all.
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by vlark 3y ago
I can't recommend the Zettlekasten Method enough: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/ You can do it with index cards or you can use software to practice the method and grow your note collection. I now prefer Zet
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by vlark 3y ago
Just wait till they get on about spoons.
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by vlark 3y ago
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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by vlark 3y ago
Ah, Unilad.com, one of the most trusted of news sites! When every single link on the page leads to another page on the same base domain, you know you are dealing with a site that pedals in nothing but clickbait. Move along, nothing to see
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by vlark 3y ago
This is MacOS specific: once I learned you can drag & drop folders from the Finder into the terminal window to get the full directory path, that changed everything. If there was one thing I was guaranteed to mess up, it was directory pa
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by vlark 3y ago
Two words: Cannibal Pigs. http://davegilson.com/scarry.html
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by vlark 3y ago
"Instantly turn our developers' PCs into gaming consoles" is more like it. Cool logo, though.
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by vlark 3y ago
I question the population focus and it's applicability to Western, specifically American, diets. The study focused on 310 diabetic patients in Saudi Arabia. I don't think it is going out on a limb to say that there are dietary dif
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by vlark 3y ago
I have a cheap Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 with a MediaTek MT8183 processor that I picked up for under $79 at a BestBuy Black Friday sale. I run Firefox ESR on it with no problems in the Linux container, no flatpak needed. Here's all you
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by vlark 3y ago
FYI, downloading a file results in it being watermarked on every page (including covers) with the URL of the file, user name ("guest" if not logged in to an Internet Archive account), and date of download. This happened to both PD
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by vlark 3y ago
Exactly. Why does everyone assume mobile means iOS/iPadOS only?
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It's called an oral exam. They are actually brutal.
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by vlark 3y ago
There needs to be a way to do this same thing with MediaTek and Snapdragon ARM-based Chromebooks. MediaTek and Qualcomm need to let their firmware and bootloaders allow ARM-based Linux distros to be installed on bare metal. Too many cheap C

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