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I expected this to be higher up. I used pinboard for years, but finally decided it's not worth the money. Self-hosting this requires very little resources and knowledge. Super happ…

I actually hope more teachers go for the simple overhead option. I do, using an overhead webcam. A physical overhead with the instructor's hand visible has been shown to work far b…

Gaze guidance actually appears to be pretty important [1]. For drawing diagrams, a physical overhead with the instructor's hand visible seems to work far better than digital drawin…

Yes! Educational research supports being casual and conversational. Although for drawing diagrams, a physical overhead with the instructor's hand visible seems to work far better t…

Do you mean the problem with the image from your OBS virtual camera turning green and glitchy? You seem to be able to fix this (in some cases) by using 1920x1080 at 30fps. See http…

Reminds me of my favorite title for a scientific (engineering) paper ever: Shooting Mechanisms in Nature: A Systematic Review http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/jo…

> Technological advances sometimes happen with blind trial and error rather than any theory. Not with blind trials, but technology has historically advanced (way) ahead of theory m…

You’re right, sorry, I jumped on your second paragraph a bit too eagerly. Pet peeve against the “technology is applied science” view. That said, Kuhn definitely does not ask that w…

Science and engineeing may be intimately intertwined, but technology does not "depend on" science in any straightforward way. People were reliably producing alloys before metallurg…

There are both subsidies and loan programs. As far as I know (I am not a farmer, nor do I know any greenhouse farmers very well), lots of it is private capital though. One of the b…

We have, in fact, a dedicated form of local government for water management [1], and: > These regional water authorities are among the oldest forms of local government in the Nethe…

I only scrolled through TFA (added to read later list). I am Dutch though. A lot of these systems require enormous (and growing) up-front investments, not feasible for small indepe…

Yes.