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Good point. Her teachers tend more toward the exception you described. They have conversations about the quality of sources. Teachers definitely follow some links to make sure stud…

Critical thinking is taught in schools. When I think back far enough to my daughter's elementary school education, teachers were trying to develop it by at least 4th grade (9-10yo)…

I tried black coffee for short durations and hated it. So, I'm willing to say my experience follows the conclusion of the study. However, people have wide variations in what they t…

I quite several times over the years, one time as long as 6 months. I go back, ultimately, because I love the flavor. That said, I would never work as early as 9am if I didn't have…

The author seems burned out given his age. (I'm going to assume a male author given how few women were in the field 20 years ago.) I went through the same stage after working for a…

Yes! That was my experience exactly.

My university realized the need for a proof writing course a little too late to help me. Students who did well in the more abstract math classes, aside from the outlier "gifted" ma…

I didn't notice if "participation" meant meals available or actually picked up by kids. Kids, particularly younger ones, who are in unstable households may not get to school in tim…

My biggest problems as a math major at the undergraduate level were proofs. I could muddle my way through abstract algebra proofs but real analysis just didn't click. The oddity is…

I have the same reaction. I suspect a lot of RAM is wasted by os's and applications.

Python is an excellent teaching language. It's simple to install. You follow a tutorial by typing something at the REPL and it gives you results. Learning stuff like importing modu…

Interesting tidbit. I'm take an online course in Mexican cooking. The first unit is making tortillas. The chef covered the traditional way. You take dried corn, cut from the cob, a…

Interesting. Does the domain setup forward to your web mail account?

I think we need to be careful about the free speech debate in this case. Free speech applies to civic life, not your relationship with a business. Near me we have a bar that doesn'…

It's amazingly difficult to get away from. For those of us who had Yahoo email accounts, trying to get people to stop emailing them is a slow drawn out process. My wife and I switc…

Ironically, I ran into this talk by Guy Steele today. He presents the development of the Computer Science Metalanguage. https://youtu.be/dCuZkaaou0Q

"The hypothesis that COVID is man-made is an inevitable result of already existing conspiracy theories about Chinese communist plots and "globalist/NWO" population control programs…

Scared people sometimes look for control over a situation to feel less scared. The hypothesis that COVID-19 is man-made makes it seem like we have some control over it, whereas, th…

It's causing disenfranchised citizens to believe in a global conspiracy to subvert a man with a trail of failed businesses and marriages, as well as, dictatorial aspirations. It sh…

"Well, the client knows his business best, but sure as hell they do not know how to make software best." My "clients" are all internal. As I work with more departments, I realize h…

There's no single culprit, but you hit part of the problem. - Users prioritizing new features over rock solid performance hurt us badly. Basically, we as customers are our own wors…

Tech as it stands today requires a cognitive overhead that I think is wearing down people. It seems like we can make more complex software but we can't make it work smoothly. Peopl…

Seeing Adobe's problem with a release erasing content for a significant group of users made me think about the developers/engineers in the background. Did they have the "oh shoot" …

Yes a hundred times! Part of the fatiguing part is that you have to move frequently between big picture and highly detailed thinking. Trying to keep functional requirements, design…

I looked up Trondheim, NO weather. It's only Rhode Island cold not Minnesota cold. Plenty of people in Providence, RI bike in the Winter. Trondheim also doesn't have the range foun…