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I wish we had raw data showing they paid less in the dollar amount. I believe this happens, I just wish we had a good idea of how common it is.
1) Teachers should be paid more.
2) Teachers shouldn't be pressured to work so many hours off the clock (after school).
3) Teachers may continue to make their own lesson plans, but they should always have available lesson plans available to them.
4) School administrations should protect teachers from harassing parents.
5) The number of administrative employees & administrations in general should be reduced or consolidated. You have some school districts with over 100 schools, and others shepherding just a few. The differences between districts can be very big (especially when it comes to lesson plans).
6) Politics is f-cking us hard here. Education should be easy to fund and a non-issue. The current situation is under-serving our children, and will create a feedback loop of underfunded/undervalued education. I personally believe a lot of allocated funds are spent wastefully on the administration and not teachers.
7) I wish we had online examinations that students could take over and over from day #1 of the school year to improve on over the year. There could be material that requires teachers be present to administer, and others that students can do on their own at home (and possibly cheat on). It would have helped me immensely to be familiar with what we were going to learn about "next month". I first encountered a syllabus with a month-to-month plan in community college.
8) Can't forget this: F-ck zero tolerance policies. Schools need a lawyer on-site looking out for the rights of students.
9) You shouldn't need a masters degree to teach 5th grade algebra. It should be easy to hire someone off the street who can pass a background check and exams against the course they might teach.
10) And then easier ways to account for students so it doesn't take 15 minutes to 'start class'. Longer days that start later (8am) & less/no homework.
I wish a lot of metadata were defined as a database schema, and sqlite lends itself so willingly to becoming the archive/header.
Does sqlite do internal gunzip compression?
I do understand we have MHTML:
I think we'll counter authoritarianism on 2 fronts:
1) Make more information freely accessible. 2) Take existing, accessible information and convey it in a friendly way for the masses.
I thought the objective of a sit-in was to gain service (not obstruct it)? My understanding is that people of color were not served when they were very willing to pay for and make use of it.
At minimum I'd want full-disk encryption programs (veracrypt) and biometric authentication services running from an enclave. Lenovo does this for their fingerprint reader.
It would be cool to have the facilities to say "everything run by this user runs in the enclave", but I think the argument is the same as FDE - don't invite the possibility of a leak by selective encryption. All or nothing.
It would be better if:
1) Microsoft didn't beta-test with actual customers.
2) Microsoft figured out how to update things without restarting so commonly (as I understand, this is due to how files are locked and how dependent services are updated).
3) Microsoft didn't push out unnecessary crap as "critical" or essential/important updates.
4) Microsoft didn't force updates on shutdown.
I mean Apple has made their phones the preferred secure devices of several organizations because of how well they keep them updated. It's a pain for me in IT when an app wants to require a recently-released version of iOS, but I do see the benefit to forced, frequent updates.
I wish we had a simple UI we could bring up to expose cookies to other tabs (arbitrarily). I just want a list of cookies with rows marked in green if they're being sent with requests, red rows for cookies that would normally be sent for the same [sub]domain but are currently not, and then gray cookies that are established from completely unrelated domains. To me this would be better than maintaining tab profiles/containers that are for business/personal/etc. This would be like a one-off UI before you determine if you want to establish a container profile.
Also I want them to take tree tabs seriously. There is a plugin for this, but it doesn't look like a tree at all.. I am grateful for the plugin, I just wish it were a UI effort focused on. I cannot maintain more than 40 tabs open and easily browse through them. I'm tired of the response being "well don't".
I switched to Firefox away from Chrome recently. I am happy with this but I wish they had a friendly UI you could bring up to expose cookies to be shared between tabs on an opt-in basis. Cookies should be isolated per-tab by default. Cookies and other persistent data should be forgotten as soon as the tab is closed. I don't like container tabs, I think it gets confusing to manage tab groups by profile. I want to quickly mouse over and say "expose this tab's cookies to this other tab".
I'm still sad I can't get perfect "tree tabs" going. I have a plugin I use to show parent and child tabs in a tree arrangement but nothing looks sexy about it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/?sr...
I want an actual tree of lines shown to each row/tab to quickly visualize how the tabs were created from parent-to-child. How it currently looks is too busy with borders everywhere. It's functional but not what I envisioned. I can't hide the tab bar at the top as far as I know. I'm just frustrated that I remember trying to make this work in like 2002 and it's soon to be 2019. I feel like browsers aren't made for workstations, but casual consumption. They should enable so much productivity.
I also wish they focused on minimizing and isolating references to various Web APIs, so it would be easier to unreference and orphan them - unreachable from advertisers.
(Unrelated rant?)
Why it's not supported on "iOS Safari"...
And the posting itself is a good way to boost visibility.
What is art?
setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, ...)
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I'm not dismissing QUIC, but it is in your control to redefine those defaults. Maybe in 2020 we'll be grappling back toward [sane] defaults.
However:
1) I have seen it become commonplace to have several generations of a family living in the same house.
2) I have seen my grandparents struggle to afford prescriptions even with 2 pensions and social security.
3) I have seen a sibling fall into poverty despite making bi-weekly efforts to establish an emergency fund. A totaled car was all it took despite full coverage.
4) I have been a part of the crowd commuting 4+ hours round-trip a day to jobs they can't move closer to.
It definitely feels as though institutions are failing us. I don't think social security will fail, but I do think they'll move the goal post on when we can retire.
There are conspiracies and there's anecdote..
1) Working 40 hours a week does not support my long-term goals (house fund, retirement, vacations, etc). Which is another way of saying my job doesn't pay enough.
2) Companies will gladly have someone perform the work of 3 people and replace them when they burn out. It is rarely in the budget to increase staff with additional work (hah).
Ugh. :(