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Delfino

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About Delfino

K-12 computer science teacher, former firmware engineer

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    Comment #39915353

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand and/or Kentucky (US citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (to/within USA) Technologies: Javascript, Python, Java, C++, C#, Godot, Unity, Blender…

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    Comment #39364763

    I went for a Master's in Education and became a teacher. Teaching computer science and math so still STEM adjacent. I'm still teaching a decade later and I've moved abroad to teach…

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    Comment #38945891

    In Thailand at least, this is due to the high number of motorcycles/scooters. They're far more likely to die in a collision (about 80% of the fatalities are from motorcycles)

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    Comment #37428084

    I think the simplest repeating word sentence is using "police". It isn't as impressive since it only employs two meanings rather than three but is much easier to grasp. Who polices…

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    Comment #36038902

    Nice, I knew this site only because I used it to play their Thai wordle: https://buddhistuniversity.net/wordle-thai/

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    Comment #35722318

    When asked in court what was meant by the term "woke," Ron DeSantis' general counsel said "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them…

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    Comment #35131812

    I've used Credit Unions my whole adult life and agree with you. Though I am now in a position that they don't work as well for me: living abroad. I've run into lots of small issues…

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    Comment #35078367

    I switched to teaching at the secondary level and after a couple years teaching in the States, got into international teaching and it has been great. There's good and bad about spe…

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    Comment #31865301

    He said he's going to teach high school computer science. As someone who made the same leap, it's cool to hear! He was really awesome about giving his games to teachers to use in t…

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    Comment #30201505

    Normal is different for different people. It feels much more natural for me to breathe through my mouth. But I suppose the fact that "mouth-breather" is an insult meant to attack o…

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    Comment #30054150

    Yeah, living abroad I am constantly running into issues like this and it's quite frustrating.

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    Comment #29077746

    Recently got my first VR headset. Played around in Unity and did their create with VR course then made my own game - Whack-a-mole in VR. Thinking of participating in GitHub's Game …

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    Comment #28285599

    A welcome change. I identify with one of the mentioned personas: I'm a teacher who has taught game programming and designed and have debated sharing articles from them based on the…

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    Comment #28135483

    I'm in a group for educators that use unity in the classroom and the most requested feature I've seen is having a way to utilize the tool from low power/cost devices like chromeboo…

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    Comment #26299559

    Similarly, I had a prof that referred to it as "becomes" which made great intuitive sense to me. "x becomes x plus one" makes me think of the variable transforming to the new value…

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    Comment #26299546

    iirc in TI-BASIC, assignment goes the other way so you could have "B + 5 -> A" which also helps seeing that the expression would be evaluated before storing (the button to input ->…

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    Comment #24976018

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand (Currently in Delhi, will return to Bangkok after current role is complete, US citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Presently, no. Open to it in th…

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    Comment #24905374

    That this is the warmest October so far. But that statement will be true for subsequent Octobers as well (i.e. it will just keep getting warmer).

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    Comment #24386084

    Neat, thanks for sharing. I'm currently in Chanakyapuri near Chandragupta Marg. I now understand the significance of those names a bit more.

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    Comment #23203067

    I've been learning Blender. Started with Blender Guru's doughnut tutorial then branched out from there. Made a simple virtual pet game where I made all the art myself. I ended up a…

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    Comment #23026886

    I really enjoyed using Explain Everything on the iPad when I was making videos for my math classes. You can have prepared slides, with what you've drawn out pre-recorded but still …

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    Comment #23026829

    Daycare only lasts a few years, do you think raising stops at age 5 or believe that most children are raised by school once they turned school-age?

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    Comment #22864213

    As I understood their comment, they do use bash but not for any ideological reason but rather to get things done.

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    Comment #22769364

    Just a guess: people already spent more time at home than in other areas so if the absolute amount of time increased at home the same as it decreased elsewhere, the percentage incr…

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    Comment #22690204

    Making good instructional videos is tough. Speaking loud enough, clear enough and slow enough to be understandable to as many people as possible with different levels of language p…