Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS ๐ฅ @peterdrake@qoto.org
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Joined Aug 2018
Absolutely. This is why I vote for Democrats. They're not perfect, but collectively they pull in a direction that is within 90 degrees of good. Every single Republican senator voted against doing anything to save the planet.
QT: https://pleroma.dead10ck.com/objects/17265a29-c104-484e-9cd4-90539cad2382
@MariaHill I'm shocked it actually happened. Manchin and Sinema deserve a whole fuckton of shit for forcing it to be scaled back. And not to mentio...
Her: I like your brain.
Him: What's so great about my brain?
Her: Well, it's got all those ridgy parts!
Even ignoring price, I would absolutely rather eat a grocery store pizza than go to a Michelin starred restaurant.
Aw, man! I was gonna use those 1.59 ms to plan my classes.
public class Caption {
private static Boolean b;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(b);
}
}
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS ๐ฅ
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#emacs pros be like...
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RT @SteveStuWill
When the excavator becomes an extension of yourself
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1555622201466167296
After getting responses from several sources, I’m leaning toward just grabbing a box of colored cards like the one below and having the students write A/B/C/D on them with sharpies (which also dodges the colorblindness issue).
https://www.staples.com/Pacon-74170-2-x-3-Flash-Card-Dispenser-Box/product_485711
@2ck Yeah, that can also be done with web services like PollEverywhere.
The clickers are needlessly expensive and even the website is another layer of technology I'm hoping to avoid.
@khird Not a bad idea at all -- I was starting to consider that already.
The ColorADD version is neat, but appears to be currently unavailable. It looks like it just adds a symbol to each color. If a colorblind students gets a blue 1, a red 2, a green 3, and a yellow 4, that could work just as well.
Many #teaching techniques (e.g., Mazur’s Peer Instruction) suggest asking a (well-designed) #MultipleChoice question of the class and having them hold up #cards marked A/B/C/D.
… so you’d think someone would be manufacturing such cards. After several minutes of searching, pretty much all I can find are PDF templates to print out and cut apart with scissors.
Closest thing so far:
https://cardsfortheculture.com/products/fact-based-a-b-c-d-response-cards
There has to be a way to do this more cheaply. Also, having each letter a different color would make it easier to read the room.
Driving around to stores searching for products is an infeasible waste of time and carbon, but I can certainly spare a few extra clicks to order things directly from the manufacturer rather than buying from Amazon.
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@molly0xfff My MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) supports two monitors, but (confusingly) only if you plug them into different USB-C ports; I've never been able to get a dock to work.
I've also had problems where whether a peripheral (e.g., a keyboard) works depends on which of the identical-looking ports it's plugged into.
The "Apple makes really solid hardware" argument keeps getting weaker. I'm strongly thinking of going Linux next time.
@freemo Interesting indeed! Hint: this is over-the-counter.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS ๐ฅ
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I can't remember from whom or where I heard/read this quote. "If you work hard enough, you can earn a million over a few years, but you have to steal to get a billion."
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RT @GordyPls
The kids are alright.
https://twitter.com/GordyPls/status/1555321873457881088
From the engraving, you'd think this is a combination Viagra / Ambien.
Care to hazard a guess what it's actually for?
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
