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Education funding should be based on equity, and not on debt. And it should be funded by the society as a whole and not by some private for-profit entities. It is outrageous that we make young students debt-laden even before they have any income source. This is not only unethical, it also sets a wrong example for the younger generation.
I found a passion in understanding oneself (thyself?) and trying to understand one's emotions and thoughts, distinguishing them, breaking down and then finding root case + future next steps that help people move or transition their life further. Perhaps its philosophy or some sort of self-authoring programme that helps with inaction, tough situations and The cause is mostly because I felt stuck for too long without n…
The fun part for me is incorporating various mathematical and programming concepts into the storie like functions and boolean logic.
Last night's story involved a subtraction function that would spit out negative M&Ms if too few regular M&Ms were supplied as the input. The characters learned that they had to store their regular M&Ms separately from the negative ones in order to avoid a cancelling-out reaction if they came into contact with each other.
Tonight we will explore what comes out when negative M&Ms go into the subtraction function.
Another popular plot line in these stories involves a baby gate with a filter function that controls who can go through. The functions have gotten more and more complicated as my 5yo gets familiar with the concept, and now I have an idea for a baby gate code injection exploit that I'm excited to tell.
I've posted a few polished versions of these stories to my blog and hope to add more soon.
Mexican food! I've spent the past 3 years learning to recreate good tortillas. I live abroad in Amsterdam and miss it so much after living in California for decades. I even worked in the best Mexican restaurant in Amsterdam for a month just to learn some of the subtle techniques. I'm finally at a place where I can make tacos much better than what I would get here and even back in California. I'm currently working on…
Thanks for sharing
It's raining hard here. I've just discovered our roof is leaking. It looks like some of the concreting that held the tiles up has come loose and a large section will need to be replaced. As I hate heights and know nothing about roofing, so I'm going to have to get a professional in to fix it. This is going to really hurt financially. Not something I'd bother whinging about here normally but this seems like the place…
I had a pretty bad roof leak on an iron / colorbond roof. It was from a stick getting up and under one of the valleys and being just at the right angle to let water into the house. IT really sucked. It was a significant point of stress for me. I just paid to have the problem go away. the money angle hurt, but over a long enough timeline usually these things square up. Good luck with it.
Just need to get it sorted out.
In a way, these tools have brought back the fun of making personal websites or even those silly posters in MS Word that maybe some of you did back in your school days. For the past 15 years or so, "websites" and "blogs" were largely interchangeable, and web design suffered as a result. We are still largely living in a highly templated, single-column, mobile first world.
It shouldn't have to be this way.
The infinite canvas really helps visualize my thoughts as you can draw connecting lines between related ideas, add images, and not have to worry about some grid system preventing you from putting things next to/on top/below each other.
* Collaborative (real time) song creation * Always solvable Yukon Solitaire * Port Quake3 to the web manually * Create a Single Player Aliens FPS game.
I'm here for 9 months, normally live in the bay area. So trying to improve my Spanish from bad to decent.
Also wrote a script to help me work on my slow 6 year old laptop here, and stream the changes to my workstation stashed in a friend's crawlspace in San Francisco, so I can run builds/tests/etc there: https://github.com/nolanl/rp
Might be useful for other folks in similar situations.