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I work in IT. Always have. If I'm in a slump, I go into nature; melt into a forest, preferably where no other human is.
Do you have anything like that you could do? Could be a sport, table top model painting, etc. Something else that doesn't involve a screen.
Working in IT will not improve your mental health. If anything, it will degrade it due to the oft political, and as you've noted, educational pressures.
And skills from those classes were what I brought forward into adulthood. Not the Honors classes. Not the AP classes.
Calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle? I'll go ask ChatGPT or search on DDG cause I sure as shit don't remember.
Identifying a bird-of-prey or what kind of evergreen tree that is? I can still do that. And those were skills taught in elementary.
This goes back to not everyone learns the same way. Rote, rapping rulers across knuckles, teach-to-the-test has always caused an adverse reaction to learning, for me. And I'm not a unique snowflake amongst 7 billion humans.
Maybe the issue isn't so much the test scores, but rather what and how we're teaching. Am I good at math having gone through Honors classes? Not in the slightest way anymore. Did I ever enjoy the books I read in Honors English? Not surprisingly no, I found Jane Austen a complete bore. At the time I would have rather been reading 1984, Catch 22, Silent Warriors by Richard P Henrick, or some Ray Bradbury sci-fi, but those weren't "classics" (why the fuck 1984 and Catch 22 wouldn't be considered classics is beyond me!).
If a kid is resistant to what or how a subject is being taught, there will be near-zero retention of that subject. Despite not remembering how to perform complex calculations in math, I did enjoy it throughout school as when I was beginning to learn more complex math I was allowed to self-pace.
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The linked article reads, to me, like one of those "health hacks" or "longevity hacks" articles; indeed, it comes from a book titled, in part, Science to Supercharging Student Learning.
I get the author's point, based on how we teach currently due to No Child Left Behind. But that policy is a failed one. If I had been going to school after NCLB went into effect, I would have resisted that style of learning. It's boring; it's teaching-to-the-test; it's North Korean-robot-ism. There's no room for creativity or self-pacing.
But there's also no yardstick for creativity or self-paced learning. That doesn't sit well with authoritarians.
Anyhow, personal anecdote vs. scientific understanding and all that.
My surprise when the camera spat out a mini polaroid. I had a bit of a wtf moment (haven't used one since the 90s). But cute, I can see the appeal when taking pictures of people in certain settings, especially a young couple -- it gives that physical, aged feel that I could never achieve with my DSLR.
(In fact, reading the article, I think it _was_ a Fujifilm Instax Mini ... in lilac!)
There's your bit of confirmation bias for the day.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-a...
Disruptive activism has been going on for <human history timeline> in one form or another.
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I was not advocating for killing. Killing is an unnatural process.
Fortunately I live near two of the community-run hospitals and the associated clinic network.
No one said to kill off all of humanity. Certainly 'bad' people have died in the long (short) history of humanity without the remainder of the species disappearing.
Life doesn't occur without death. Death is a necessary component. Life _comes from_ death.
Walk into an old growth forest some time.
Ditto, but I also feel the same way about subscription models.
Bing as of a handful of years ago wasn't all that bad -- in fact, if you lived in the Microsoft enterprise sphere, it was arguably better than Google. Now that Bing belongs to the ad division, it's no better than Google search. Both platforms are defacto promoted ad engines with SEO gaming for results just beyond the ads.
And I'm aware of Kagi, but it's not for the wide swaths of whatever can be indexed out there... it's tough to stomach paying for a utility that has been free since the 1990s.
Yes, it is unrealistic for the North American continent as our population is spread out today.
> Wouldn't we all benefit from distributing people more widely
No, this is antithetical to the protection of the environment. Concentration of population is far healthier for not only individuals (reduction or elimination of polluting personal transport; potentially walk-able locations), but for the environment, as well. Spreading people out creates a far larger impact and necessitates, as you can see in North America, the use of individual transportation and all of the support services that transportation requires, as well as the human requires (more city govt, more FD, more police, more sewage treatment, more... everything).
The op is on the path to produce a vehicle that dumps far greater amounts of pollution into the atmosphere than modern cars do. Whatever environmental "vision" the op has is pure greenwashing. Plainly, it's an outright lie.
How are you planning to offset the enormous amount of pollution you want to create in the mean time? Are you purchasing carbon credits? Planting trees?
Is this where the techbros 'went too far'?
You will not succeed. Guaranteed.
And how is software going to handle the random side-of-the-river 'runway'?
These developers, and they seem to be coming out of the woodwork, are irresponsible and dangerous.
Completely irresponsible. Especially the upfront claim of CBT and the hidden backdoor claim of "not a licensed therapist".
Not sure what your reference to TLS is about; any more specifics?
EDIT: Ugh was thinking SSL! Duh.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/t...
> That goes for any OS though
100%. I was of course speaking in the context of this thread, but yes you probably wouldn't take a Windows-developed app and simply shift it to UN*X without some form of re-thought on the implementation.
...Unless it was a .NET app :-)
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