Muffi @ Muffi @programming.dev

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That sounds more like enabling than being nice. It can be nice to be honest and confront someone when they are being an asshole.

I am Danish and have been to Greenland. This is seriously impressive, because the people of Greenland are the absolute nicest I have ever met.

Story time: I was getting a lift from a local on his boat, when we passed a small dingy out in the middle of nowhere. The two Greenlanders (a mother and son) in the dingy waved us over to show us all the salmon and cod they had caught. Then they refused to let us leave, before giving us half of their fishy riches. The mother told us "if you had a giant apple tree in your garden, wouldn't you share the apples with all your townsfolk".

I fucking love Greenland and their people.

Using an Æ without being able to pronounce it is both offensive and hilarious to me as a Dænish person

Distance will not provide you any additional safety when the nukes start flying anyway. Come back and your last time here with us.

The rate of growth has declined, but very few richer countries have had a decline in absolute population numbers.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/

Why would that matter? It's a political and economical union, not a geographical one.

Occasional moisture is fine, but don't let it collect sitting water.

In my experience, the best pipeline is GDScript > Python > (HTML/CSS/JS) > Then branch out depending on needs/interest. My students are 10-15 year-olds, and throwing them directly into something like C# would not work.

Almost all students are extremely aversive to coding at first. Godot is brilliant in the way they can build most things visually at first, getting them invested in their games before programming with all its debugging and hair-ripping is introduced.

I also recently discovered the Block Coding Addon for Godot, which has been a game changer for my dyslexic students.

After the Unity debacle I switched to using Godot in my classroom, for teaching programming through Game Development. It's been a huge success! It's a much more user-friendly engine for beginners, and it's so lightweight that even a bunch of shitty school laptops run it with no issues. Love Godot!

I've been to Montreal/Quebec a handful of times. Felt just like Europe, just with bigger dumber cars. We can definitely let you in, but only if you promise to swap General Motors for Volkswagen ;)

Honestly just try to avoid American companies like the plague. Used to have a couple of Makerbot printers, and the support is some of the worst I've ever experienced. Switching to the European Prusa printers was an eye-opener as to what good quality printers and support actually is. Shout-out to Prusa!

Sorry mate, I have absolutely no idea. I live in Copenhagen, and only own a bike and don't have a drivers license.

I'm Danish, follow your heritage and come back, it's pretty great here

"Decentraleyes" is such a good name, damn!

If you can't bite it, it doesn't exist.

Imagine telling Americans during the second red scare, about the political climate of today. History is weird.

I run a Makerspace and teach technology to kids. I don't think they are getting worse, but the difference between the lowest and highest skilled is bigger than ever before.

Those who are interested, learn so fucking fast and so thoroughly, because they have things like YouTube tutorials and Discord chat groups with like-minded nerds to teach themselves. BUT at the same time, it's easier to just remain a consumer, and never gain any deeper knowledge.

I think curiosity and attention are quickly becoming the most important skills by far.

Trying my best in the Makerspace for kids I help run. They actually love it!

I get discarded ThinkPads from local companies, and the only way to make them useful is to slap some Linux on there, and then basic stuff like Blender, PrusaSlicer and Godot. It's been a huge success, especially when we do a Capture-the-Flag tournament, where they have to hide and seek memes using SSH. The feeling of being "a real hacker" seems to be very motivational for the youngsters.

My municipality also bought all students Chromebooks. Then they proceeded to block Google Drive on all government and school WiFi, because for some reason they thought OneDrive was the only safe and therefore allowed cloud storage. Fucking hilarious.

Exceptionalism and nationalism has more to do with the propaganda people are being fed, and less with the actual reality they are living. It will take more than a hard downturn in quality-of-life I think.