Angela @ahi@qoto.org

@bibliolater The ten commandments were basically a listicle.

@nomi I think you're doing a good job.

@medigoth No one in my family is a Phd, but I am aware that you have to do a lot of research, write a thesis, and have it accepted by a small group of people.

#chatgpt is impressive and a little scary.

This one was interesting. I feel like I was given a choice on the first part between doing it elegantly or lazily, and my reward for doing it the right way was an easy part 2. I can see why this is a popular activity for students.

I've completed "Tuning Trouble" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/6

Day 3 and the plot lines are only getting more implausible.

I just completed "Rucksack Reorganization" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3

Basic JSFiddle gang here.

I've completed "Rock Paper Scissors" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2

#AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/1

@skanman Both. For instance, climate change is an immense problem. We could potentially avoid extinction by 100% commitment to return to pre-industrial technology. But that probably won't happen. Inventing new green technology allows people to be good the rest of the way. Like if an average car is $10,000, and engineers can create a carbon neutral car that's $15,000, then the public can do their part and spend the extra $5,000, which is a lot more do-able than having no car at all. The puzzle solvers and the daily grinders must work together to fix the problem.

Some people look at an immense problem and say, "How selfish of people to allow this to go on."
Others look at an immense problem and say, "How sad that this problem is so immense." A few look at an immense problem and say, "I have an idea."

@pivoinebleue@mstdn.social You can get a lot of movies on DVD that you can't get on Netflix streaming.

@Davidtoddmccarty

Standards are relative to a time and place. You have proposed a potential standard here: reading at the expected level of a modern 6th grader. (I'm not going to get into the ambiguity of 21% being "functionally" illiterate vs. literally illiterate here.)

Compared to centuries past, when many couldn't read at all, a median level of 6th grade is much better. Compared to centuries in the future, it is, hopefully, worse. It sounds bad because education in America is free up to 12th grade and compulsory up to 10th grade. But that's only if your expectation is an educational system running at 100% efficiency. No matter what system of education you have, some people will not absorb all of the information being presented to them at the same rate.

Student A might attend school until the age of 16 and be advanced in math but behind in English. She might take until the age of 16 to do what some of her peers are doing at 11 and a few were doing at 7. Or she may have hit a personal limit at 11 and been wasting her time struggling along in English class since then. I hope our education system continues to improve at helping people like Student A. But I don't think it's appropriate to discount the intrinsic value of Student A or her intelligence, simply because she has a smaller vocabulary.

If what you've said is true, many jobs in our society are being done by people who have limited reading ability. But somehow we get along anyway. Welders weld, fire fighters put out fires, and accountants keep books. I do my job, and you do yours. I don't see why you have to act so superior about it.

P.S. Do sixth graders know how to correctly punctuate their sentences with commas? Maybe you were absent that day.

@Davidtoddmccarty "Most people are undereducated" is an interesting paradox. What are your criteria for being educated the perfect amount? If more than half the people are failing to meet them, are your standards not unreasonable? Are we not all less educated than we could be?

@lucifargundam But the people who made it had common sense. I'm not saying it should know how to cook by itself, but "food burn = turn off" is well within the realm of possibility.

@lucifargundam If my food is burning, I obviously want to turn itself down / off.

@bjt Not that much, unless we have to upgrade to a new version of Java, at which point all hell breaks loose.

If my #instantpot is smart enough to know that my food is burning, why isn't it smart enough to prevent that from happening?

Some people wander wherever the wind blows,
Watching the weather vane sputter and spin.
I've spent a lifetime just peering in windows,
Wondering whether I want to come in.
The sunlit days are everything.
When folks come to visit, I can't help but sing.
But it's a phase, and when it's gone.
I'm left here to shiver and sulk on the lawn.
Can't climb down the chimney; the roof is too tall,
And these castles I build in the air always fall.
Is a fire in the hearth such a faraway dream?
I cannot let it go.
Now the ties that I banked on are all on the rocks,
And it's kind of like building with alphabet blocks,
Every single community, rafter to beam,
Eventually brought low.
Look to the future; there's time left to labor.
While I've no roommate, I look to my neighbor.

#poetry

@RellaPdx Paint it black.