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by wharvle 3y ago
What's special is we decided that having a different category for things humans do is useful. It can both be true that everything humans do or create is natural because all of existence and everything in it is natural, and also that
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by wharvle 3y ago
Those of us who were supporting Windows machines in the ‘00s remember when 100% of Windows machines not behind NAT were pwned in minutes, while those with NAT were fine indefinitely. Should a firewall have been doing that job? Yes. Were fir
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by wharvle 3y ago
Stuff on the Internet breaks if I enable IPv6 on my Google Fiber router (been that way since I first got Fiber years ago—though I think Amazon works with it enabled now, which it didn’t before). My T-Mobile connection issues an IPv6 address
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by wharvle 3y ago
My home connection fails because it’s disabled (of course). Kicked my phone over to my T-Mobile cell connection. Finds that I have an ipv6 address, but dies on one of the first tests. It’s 2024 and I have two major US ISPs available and nei
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by wharvle 3y ago
The deeper insight is that every definition of a word breaks down when you try to pin it precisely and in some absolute, universal-context sense to an exact meaning. That doesn’t mean they can’t be very, very useful.
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by wharvle 3y ago
IDK, I did fine with them and find thinking in them natural (I think of fractional division as division, in fact, though I certainly understand the multiplication analogy); I’ve just known enough people who lost track of math at fractions
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by wharvle 3y ago
I re-invented what turned out to be short division (no joke! I wouldn’t learn it had a name until I was in my late 20s) because I hated long division so much, same year we started doing long division in school (4th grade? 3rd? IDK). Fits
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by wharvle 3y ago
One third times one fifth loses a lot of folks. As does addition and subtraction of fractions that don’t start with the same denominator, for that matter. They might figure out what to do to pass the test, but they may not get it .
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by wharvle 3y ago
I’ve seen a later fall-off point at factoring. Feels pointless (the motivations are… distant at best), tedious as hell, lots of guessing involved. “So much for math making sense, fuck this, guess I’m out.”
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by wharvle 3y ago
Anecdotally, it seems like working with fractions is where a lot of people fall off the math-train and never get back on. … yes, that early.
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by wharvle 3y ago
A couple months ago I got a new router and some stuff didn’t work until I turned off ipv6 (I don’t recall what, exactly) I tried that solution early because when I first got Google Fiber the Amazon store website didn’t load, on any machine
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by wharvle 3y ago
Childcare, elder care, home improvement, picking up a piece or two of litter while on a stroll, cooking & cleaning, gardening. These don't contribute to GDP, but if all this unpaid work halted and the people doing it suddenly deman
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by wharvle 3y ago
Childcare, gardening (with surplus to share, maybe!), elder care, home improvement projects. Art, writing. Collecting stories and genealogies for family. Knitting and sewing. People do tons of work even when they’re not being told to, in my
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by wharvle 3y ago
I find that, for me, this is a symptom of specialization and the “day job”. If I can dive into some coding one week and whip the garden and landscaping into shape the next and work on a book the next et c, I thrive working longer hours than
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by wharvle 3y ago
People already do shitloads of unpaid work. I expect there’d be even more of that, under basic income. I could definitely be doing a lot more of that if I didn’t need a paycheck—there’s demand for a lot more of it than I do. Though, sure, i
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by wharvle 3y ago
You don’t get dirty when you plant a tree in Animal Crossing and have to do a bunch of extra laundry. No grit under your nails that sticks around for a couple days and sometimes ends up in your food. You don’t pull a muscle and spend a whol
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by wharvle 3y ago
Eh, it’s been fast in the real world for quite a while. I think it’s due to two main things: 1) Startup time had to be fast because of how it worked in its most common use case (yes, yes, FPM, but still) which tends to encourage or require
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by wharvle 3y ago
Well, once we ID the problem there’s still the “fix it” part. The fact that so much of the world is heading the wrong way on this is not reassuring that we have any realistic hope of doing that.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Restricting spying and indefinite data retention, and making companies responsible for content they don’t just host but promote , would likely kill engagement-first social media and “the feed”. And are things we should do anyway.
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by wharvle 3y ago
1) It’s not as bad if the logo or name is at least the manufacturer of the object. There’s an argument to be made that it’s a form of standing behind your product: this is good enough that we don’t think you’ll come to think ill of us. 2)
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by wharvle 3y ago
Go is what I reach for if my other options might be Java or Python but I don’t want deployment and support to be really stupid and awful. Rust’s close alternative is C++. Maybe also C? I don’t know if Rust can fill its niche of ultra-portab
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by wharvle 3y ago
Looking at weight gain for immigrants and long-term visitors really shows how hopeless this is to fight individually. It’s not that other countries’ citizens are individually making better choices, it’s that… they don’t live in America. Som
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by wharvle 3y ago
The majority of complaints I’ve seen have been of the sort “he says X is true and doesn’t even bother to consider that Y!” … but he does. Like two paragraphs later. He states that specific criticism, and addresses it. Maybe not well! But th
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by wharvle 3y ago
“Tested grades and subjects” includes math basically everywhere. Those weren’t considered here. Again, you may be right, but this study doesn’t really support what you’re claiming.
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by wharvle 3y ago
The main trouble in my city is certain snarley interchanges in which you’ll never make it to the lane you need for your exit if you aren’t, much of the time, way too close to the car in front of you.
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by wharvle 3y ago
My wife taught for about 10 years. Can confirm, at least in our state, the benefits are not the “cushy” state employee benefits that many suppose exist (actually, our state employees have trash benefits, too—you go federal if you want goo
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by wharvle 3y ago
States that don’t require higher degrees often have a wall on the pay scale that’s hit early in one’s career, without a graduate degree. What’s weird about the market for teaching master’s degrees, at least (idk about PhDs) is that this gen
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by wharvle 3y ago
TFA: > Because most did not teach tested grades and subjects, the researchers also looked at evaluation ratings. Both groups of teachers received similar marks from their supervisors. (Borrowing reasthenotes1’s quote elsewhere in the thr
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by wharvle 3y ago
The stress when it’s in-session is pretty bad, though. And a lot of teachers work a summer job to make ends meet, it’s often not time off. The summers off are basically the only notable perk, too. At least in my state. Healthcare’s expensiv
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by wharvle 3y ago
Who cares about responsibility? I want more efficient price signaling. Bringing spending more in line with intent improves price signaling, so, gives us more utility from this whole capitalism thing. Doing this also happens to benefit and s

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