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jsLavaGoat··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
Again, you keep using that word. The standards haven't changed. It's not the standard, this isn't about California's math standards. You're talking about standards, but this is about the framework.

Wealth also correlates with higher test scores. Why? because they are ignoring the framework and doing well with the standards.

This isn't about common core and nothing I have said or you have said changes that.

Even San Francisco rejected the basic premise of that framework's approach to algebra. So it's not just your mom's school either.

Anyway, I'm tired of arguing with your mom indirectly. If any other teachers want to discuss this directly and tell me how I'm wrong, please do.

jsLavaGoat··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
This isn't an adult discussion it's an internet comment forum and cringe policing it is also childish.
jsLavaGoat··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
That's true. But if America is so bad, why are you still in it?

I'm an immigrant to the US. I'm sorry you are so ready to throw away what people went through hell to get.

jsLavaGoat··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
I am a teacher and I write education software for math as a side gig, which I must have because I'm a teacher.

It's rare for any teacher to just discard the standards. And anyone who says "common core" is talking about something from 20 years ago. The new math framework--already years old--has sparked the latest wave of UC revolts and NO standardized testing is part of it.

"Common core" is the exact opposite. When people say that they are referring to the standards and the tests that go with them. Standards are just standards you can teach them or not, but the framework, something entirely different, give schools guidance on what courses to offer and how to approach it.

The latest framework poo-pooed Calculus and Algebra for advanced middle schoolers in the name of "equity." And dissing admissions tests is part of this movement, that gave us the "Data Science" class that UCs rejected. That was supposed to replace Algebra 2 and therefore make students UC-ready. As someone who taught that class, I can tell you it was a joke. And it had zero, nothing to do with common core. Finding a way to link it to those existing standards was difficult at best.

And I promise your mom's school at least gives the CAASPP. Every school in the Bay Area is not not doing that for decades out in the open. Sorry.

jsLavaGoat··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
>public schools that haven't changed their curricula despite common core.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Anyway, most of this has to do with the math framework, not the standards.

jsLavaGoat··on Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0
A language built for the next 50 years will be built, at least in part, for vibe coding.
jsLavaGoat··on University of California STEM professors call for reinstating SAT in math
Nobody could have predicted
jsLavaGoat··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Why are you trying to do that? You should do this totally different thing that I do because I know how to do it.
jsLavaGoat··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, you used the wrong word choice here and this question has 13 other answers that have some of the same words but don't really answer your particular question so it has been deleted. Also, if this remains posted, my not-on-point answer will get less views.

There's more than one reason that forum is dead.

jsLavaGoat··on Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime–Continuing into This Month
Good thing Trump pardoned CZ!
jsLavaGoat··on US–Iran deal reportedly finalised, announcement expected within hours
They cited an Iranian news channel citing Al-Arabiya which says on its chyron:

>URGENT Al-Arabiya Network: Iranian media attributing news to Al-Arabiya without verifying is a "professional mistake"

Fake news.

jsLavaGoat··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Don't know why this was downvoted, Musk is appealing. I'm not expecting people to be civil procedure experts, but it's pretty much high school Government that there are appeals after trials. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-ver...
jsLavaGoat··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
>effectively

right, that's my point. not entirely or literally.

Unless you drop it, there is never a case that is over at the trial phase. Anyone reporting on legal matters should know this language matters.

Also: it's not even "effectively" over:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-ver...

jsLavaGoat··on Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
I am having a different experience than a lot of other commenters here vibe coding with Rust. I am not a Rust programmer or evangelist. I have implemented a drop-in Bash replacement/clone in Rust that passes the upstream Bash test suite and a whole battery of its own. It is a tiny bit faster than Bash itself but consumes a bit more memory. But Codex and Claude both did a great job with it.

I also had it implement a wasm geodesic calculator in Rust and it's amazing and in my use case is better than geodesiclib using the same updated algorithm.

I'm a "C-nile" Rust folks love to hate and did my first hacking in C Deep Blue C on Atari 8-bits. But I'm very impressed with these products and with the ability to leverage some features of Rust with them. (e.g. audit every unsafe instance and define its invariants, etc.)

I also agree with the commenter who said these LLMs are today, at the present moment, good at Go. The only language I notice it seems to be really good above and beyond others at is javascript, I assume because there's so much of it.

jsLavaGoat··on Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Yeah, so they are worried about things like CAS that let you use lots of CLI agents from different companies. The fork I'm using lets me use Claude and Codex, and Gemini if I want, but I haven't much lately. Anyway, that sounds like what's happening. Is that wrong?
jsLavaGoat··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
He lost his trial. That is just the first phase of a lawsuit.
jsLavaGoat··on RISC-V Router
Love this in theory, but can't do it with only 2 ports. I need backup WAN.
jsLavaGoat··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
Both of them got hacked so... yes.
jsLavaGoat··on You cannot sell AI written software
cool story
jsLavaGoat··on Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't
I'm not the one trying to keep a piece of e-trash in use three times the life of one and complaining when it just isn't supported forever for free, so YMMV on whose got the education level.
jsLavaGoat··on Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Notepad "iteration mark" is probably "merely descriptive" anyway (= And did I say they were? I just said it was a thing when someone acted like they were rights in gross like other IP. But thanks for showing off how smart you are! Always love to meet fellow people on the Internet who studied and practiced trademark law like I'm sure you did.

Pepsi isn't abandoned but Crystal Pepsi was close to having been. Thanks though, I wasn't aware you could still buy Pepsi lol.

jsLavaGoat··on Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
Really whips the llama's ass.
jsLavaGoat··on Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
ACKSHUALLY, abandonment is a thing with marks, that's why companies spend money to keep them in minimal use to avoid that, or, like Pepsi, lobby to create "famous" marks.
jsLavaGoat··on Why Capitalism Can't Survive AI
!RemindMe 10 years
jsLavaGoat··on Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't
I get so mad when an ebil corpo wants to stop supporting my 15 year old e-waste.
jsLavaGoat··on CJIT: C, Just in Time
Inspired by Terry. But does it glow?
jsLavaGoat··on AI's economics don't make sense
Ed could have been right, but I think he's a bit of a front runner than ended up being out too far and not accepting that, for coding at least, the tool is useful. And coding is a big business itself. Of course there are always going to be shenanigans to point out, and I'm glad there are skeptics.
jsLavaGoat··on Hume's Is-Ought Problem: Why "The Science Says" Doesn't Tell You What to Do
yeah and for almost 300 years people have been answering Hume by saying, well, that's great David, but learning what "is" puts the meat on the bone of all of your logical frameworks.

the existence (that is, the "is") of global warming imposes moral ("ought") on people who use carbon, for example.

jsLavaGoat··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
I can easily hit the weekly limit on Claude even on the $200 plan. I have yet to ever hit a rate limit on Codex $100. And the results are almost as good. And don't get me started on Anthropic's extra usage scam.
jsLavaGoat··on Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
That's a nice gesture after they seemingly changed the rate at which my credits were being used to like less than half of what I was getting a week ago. But I'm getting tired of all of this changing all the time.
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