Doubletwist @ doubletwist @lemmy.world

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Actually the average would be LESS than 1 of each.

I'm on this very project right now.

We've still got two months to go. At the average rate so far, if that rate holds, could result in ~56 more mass shootings before the end of the year.

Why not both?

There's a long history of desperate people taking actions that they KNOW will result in their own death/destruction. What makes you think the powers that be in a rapidly failing Russia would never, ever take that chance?

I don't know about 'automated' education, but we 100% SHOULD have been using technology as an education AMPLIFIER for a long time already. No AI needed for that.

My wife is in education and spent over a decade teaching science at an alternative public school (the "You've fallen behind due to illness, pregnancy, or family issues, so come here to catch up" type, NOT the "You're a total delinquent, here's a 'prison classroom'" type) that did self-paced learning.

She had recorded a ton videos of herself teaching all of the various concepts/standards that were required by the state for her subjects. She also had assignments ready for the entire course, and labs which could mostly be done by the students with minimal direct interaction by the teacher.

So the kids would come in, check in with her on what was the next thing they needed to work on, then would watch the video on their Chromebook and then do the assignment or lab. She'd be there for them to ask her about anything they didn't understand, or for whatever help they needed.

There were of course some labs and assignments that they would schedule to be done by the whole class at a given time, when it was necessary, or made more sense.

So the kids who picked it up quickly could finish a semester worth of work and learning within a month or two, leaving her more time to spend helping the kids who were struggling with a given concept.

It also gave opportunities for the kids who had mastered a concept to be able to help those who hadn't.

I see no reason similar methodologies and technologies couldn't be employed at regular schools to amplify the ability of teachers to educate students and give the teachers more time to help the ones who weren't picking things up as quickly, without holding back the students who were.

Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Sure, there are plenty of musicians who had a bigger impact on music as a whole, but NOBODY I've ever seen was more in tune with the universe than Stevie when he was playing.

As far as I can tell, he didn't actually play the guitar. He just acted as a conduit to channel music directly from the universe through a guitar. I don't think he ever once had to pause and consider what to play next when he was improvising, it just flowed out of him non-stop.

He had already started getting even better, having finally gotten sober, and it kills my soul every time I think about what else he could've given us had he not gotten on that helicopter.

Donald Trump proves that's a lie...

I read books/ebooks.

Or I read the back of the cereal box, over and over and over...

My wife did work at a district that was 'year round' 3 months on, 1 month off.

Only 6 weeks off for summer? We were off almost 3 months every summer. (Usually about June 2-3ish and the next year started the last week of August.

My cousin believed all the anti-vax shit that people like RFK Jr espouse.

He didn't get his kids vaccinated, and his 16yr old son died of Covid.

He STILL supports, and is a fan of RFK Jr and his anti-vax shit. It's kind blowing.

Play the game in whatever way is most enjoyable to you.

Love the Newman's. Not quite as good as my grandmother's but pretty good. I'll usually tweak it a little bit to make it even better, but when when I can't it's good.

In other news, the surface of the sun is hot.

Apple doesn't do 'cheap'. They charge A THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS for a damned monitor stand after selling you a $4-5000 dollar monitor that doesn't come with a stand!

If you are expecting to do anything in the Apple ecosystem 'cheap' you're going to be in for a bad time.

In addition to what others have mentioned, you also can't use USBC adapter for the headphones and charge it the same time, without getting another weird, likely flaky, and definitely more bulky adapter.

Which are packed with conservative judges who happily twist their interpretation of to serve their partisan views.

I've never originally seen, heard, or read anyone complaining about the wrong color bubbles except for iMessage users.

The article is just about Samsung and Google poking fun at Apple about it.

What I want is for all of the companies to, use a common (preferably open) standard for messaging as a default. I don't give a shit which it is.

Ideally they would all do so voluntarily because it's the right thing to do for their users. Since Apple refuses to let anyone else use iMessage, RCS was created, and made available to be used, even by Apple.

But apparently Apple can't be bothered to play nice with others no matter what because all they care about is squeezing every possible dollar they can out of their suckers, I mean users.

I didn't say it was FOSS. I said that unlike iMessage, which Apple refuses to allow Android to use, RCS is available to be used by Apple if it so chooses.

Yes, a FOSS protocol/standard would be better, and I hope we have one done day that is actually available and used by default by both iOS and Android (and any other future players in the field). But until that happens, RCS is at least allowed to be used by other companies so it's at least a small step in the right direction, even if Apple continues to stubbornly refuse to use it.

It's not about people wanting to stop using iMessage. It's that over half of the mobile customer base CANNOT use iMessage because apple refuses to allow it. If Apple had created a solid Android app for iMessage, RCS would never have been created.