Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
2d ago
And how many high school students will encounter them?
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
As I will never get tired of explaining - the fact that something is racist doesn't make it wrong or false.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Those shirts looks badass.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Bernie doesn't win because people don't want a leftist candidate, even in the primary let alone the general, he would get slaughtered.
On the other hand Bernie was the only candidate in both 2016 and 2020 that had any form of genuine charisma and generated genuine excitement. And his platform at a times was almost what Trump used in 2024. If he hadn't bent the knee to the identarians he could have won if the stars align.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
I think you are wrong here. Because no one bothers to teach kids to understand stuff. We pile things they don't understand on things they don't understand and we are surprised when the only way out of it is torturous inefficient memorization and impossibility of application.
Case in point - history. Take a look where the fertile land, water for irrigation and trade routes go and you will have a pretty good idea what will happen and why.
Physics - I started learning physics at fifth grate - I immediately figured out that most of physics laws are - take a spherical cow in vacuum, multiply everything that affects it add something for initial conditions and a constant to fit the real world data. Suddenly physics became a lot easier. The only thing that annoyed me was S = V0*t + aT^2/2 ... because I couldn't figure out why the fuck that 1/2 division is. And i got it at 10th grade when we learned what integral is.
Education system is like TSA - it is theater, not the real deal. We give engineering degrees for taking exams and writing papers, and not by throwing people on a deserted island with hand tools and getting back 1 month later to check if they have gotten to the early stages of the industrial revolution.
That is because no one explains what are monads the right way. The answer is simple - those are your side effects, but wrapped in complicated syntaxis because Haskell people need to feel superior. The same way our informatics teacher explained pointers - this is just address in memory but you can abuse them to do fun stuff. Applying something right is easy once you grok the nature of it.
Let's get pointers - if you know what is pointer you can design a class from first principles - it doesn't take huge jump to create a memory blob, put some header information - congratulations that is struct. but let's put another blob attached to it with pointers to executable code - now we have a class. But i want to modify already existing class - well just play with the blobs values a bit - you have inheritance.
But we educate usually in the opposite way - we give everything around the concept and hope for the light bulb moment that people see the concept instead of the other way around.
Do you think that the school does that in 12 + 4 years? The sciences need comparatively few things to really grok to be able to figure out everything else. Physics is 3 pages of formulas, inorganic chemistry is 2, math and geometry ditto (honestly you shouldn't bother remembering theorems - you should be able to quickly prove them on the spot when needed). I was able to read and write at age of 5 - and i was hardly among the most gifted. To know programming you only need to understand recursion, pointers, boolean algebra, hash tables, monads and O(n). That takes an afternoon. I think you really overestimate how much does it take to be mediocre at something - and mediocrity is what schools aims for. And kids are pretty good at investing in stuff that really interests them and becoming gods. Check games.
When people were having problems with integrals in Math 101 in college - I was just explaining to them - it is just the area of a function. Guess what - they understood it in 15 min.
Literature - change the books that are studied and kids will read them and fast.
The school is a combination of daycare and job program. This is why it is so inefficient.
For some reason unknown modern society severely underestimates kids intellect and overestimates their wisdom.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
This might lead you to wonder if maybe you should learn something from the wealthiest racial group in America. But no, the author doesn't suggest that. Send your kid to work at McDonald's, good for them, builds character. Who cares if Asians take 25% of Ivy League seats and conservatives find themselves increasingly locked out of the American elite?
Modern education is a total waste of life. You spend 17 years to learn something that should take 3-4 at most.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
Also, bras are a terrible undergarment for fat women. Bring back the chemise and stays.
Bring back thin/fit/toned women. Make waist great again.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
We should wait for audio analysis. The timing of the switches being turned off critical. To the precise millisecond.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
And yet no one thinks about the dogs in Kharkiv and Kiev ... somehow they have not committed group suicide after 4 years of war. And somehow the dogs survived somehow for a hundred years of fireworks before 2015 when this madness started in earnest. And to think that almost all breeds have started as hunting dogs... I find the efforts to ban fireworks extremely annoying. The fact that they have limited success even in my god forgotten eastern european country is troubling. The more working class neighborhoods are still using a lot of fireworks but posh places are silent on new years eve.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
Never half ass a genocide. One of the most important lessons of history.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
"up to a third of programming is now done by AI" does seem to be a straw in the wind. Yes? No? Just means they're not hiring new junior staff?
It is a bit like saying a third of programming is done by hibernate and spring. Even if true, doesn't mean what you think it means.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Nevertheless, there are no white poor performance countries and no black high performance countries.
Argentina?
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
This is for an effortpost that I am not qualified to do. But I think it is combination of two things - women entering the workforce and being single - they just have different buying patterns than men. As every geek that has been forced to buy more expensive and with shittier spec laptop for his girlfriend just because this is such a nice shade of blue. And the other is that marketing stopped selling products, they started selling desire, status, dreams.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
In a free market the better product wins. In the last couple of decades the better marketed product wins. Which is not optimal for customers
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
Not quite. The first part - selfishness is usually nudged to be somewhat aligned with the society's interests by the free market. Before Madison avenue takeover of the american economy companies were actually competing with producing better and cheaper items. We had similar boom with electronics in the 80s and 90s, game industry in 2000s. We have such with chinese phones and cars. All those people may have been passionate about their products, but they were passionate about money too.
The second part - yes there is also tragedy of the commons, but just by the nature of the system - the commons are smaller. So there is less tragedy to be had.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
The Juche (kim whatever) guy said it straight face. And in a way the stick works ok up to a point. You can squeeze more productivity. But you rarely can squeeze passion, innovation, and creativity this way - so probably you are doomed to stagnation.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
You can read the guy's program yourself
rent freeze, state built housing, free public transport, state owned grocery stores, free childcare, - all of this paid by wishful thinking and unicorn dust. Close enough to socialism. His tax plan is for 10 billion from my understanding for his whole term mostly by the rich.
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
One of the most common jokes in the soviet bloc was - we pretend that we work, they pretend that they pay us. And neither GULAG or their equivalents in eastern europe were productive. And they beat up people.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
That clip from step by step perfectly illustrates my opinion on what essays usually degrade to https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9RPNH7YhtU
And don't get me started on Java. My opinion of the language and the ecosystem is not as high as the one about the essays.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. I am fairly sure that Marx's ideas didn't include people being boiled alive by NKVD but that is what we got in the end.
The problem with socialisms are two - people are selfish and tragedy of the commons. For the first the only socialist solution that works so far is to beat them into submission. For the second - there is no found cure yet for people not giving a shit for the common good under socialism.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
High school teachers say most essays are now written with AI
They should also be banned with the Geneva convention. Making students write essays is probably the most wasteful way to use a functioning brains.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
(Drinking cum out of skulls is, uh, certainly a choice).
This guy is a reverse duke nukem.
They devour everything that Tylor Sheridan shits out. Btw - one has to wonder why he is rarely praised as a feminist, when he has the best written and not annoying female characters around.
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