Trafficone

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[–] Trafficone 1 points 2 weeks ago

What really bums me out about this thinking is that it suggests

  • you stop learning after highschool
  • knowledge needs a broad utility to be taught

That sucks. I'm not saying everyone needs to know everything, just that there are things you know that aren't "useful" that enrich your life.

[–] Trafficone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see what you're getting at, and you're not wrong to think about how the lessons we teach kids from the minds and skills we want them to have. There's positives and negatives to the liberal arts education, and it could be said that it is just as much of what is left out then what is kept in. The choice to teach about mitochondria and not the Krebs Cycle is odd from a scientific perspective, but if you know about endosymbiosis then it's a lot harder to accept that all organisms appeared independently a few millennia ago. But once you view a liberal arts education from this perspective then you see these biases everywhere. For example, how many world history classes talk about the Tamil Kings, or the Warring States period of China? It's a lot easier to other a region you don't know the history of.

So we have to ask, what purpose should education serve? What knowledge and skills should we expect people to have by the time they reach adulthood? Add what is the best way to disseminate those?

[–] Trafficone 2 points 3 months ago

Holy shit looked up the temps in San Francisco and yes it's 15C

[–] Trafficone 7 points 3 months ago

"Bridge jumping challenge"

  • TikTok shitposter
[–] Trafficone 6 points 3 months ago

This is because the microscope blocks photons. OP should use a gamma camera or x-ray to see through the microscope body.

[–] Trafficone 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A drink company in Japan came out with a drink called 'nanchatte orenji' which looked a lot like soy sauce.

[–] Trafficone 9 points 5 months ago

Blender is the gold standard for what a runaway success of foss looks like. I'd love to see FreeCAD get there, but they'll need significant investment to do so.

[–] Trafficone 3 points 7 months ago

This is great. I totally bounced off of crank/crankstart, but I think I understand this toolchain better

[–] Trafficone -2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

snakes are wild animals, they're inherently a dangerous predator

That's how you sound. Have you been outside?

[–] Trafficone 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I could easily run from a shark. They don't even have legs

[–] Trafficone 37 points 7 months ago (18 children)

I don't know why the question was asked in the city. Go out to the forest women and ask them.

In general, people and bears don't want to hassle each other, doubly so for those in the woods. If you encounter either, you're probably going to be fine. However, bears won't stalk you, pretend to be friendly to gain your trust with the intention of harming you. Men won't go into a blind rage because hibernation season is around the corner and you're standing between them and a delicious tuna sandwich. Honestly if I'm alone in the woods I'd rather encounter an animal than a person because I was in the woods to be alone.

If you are in the woods and encounter a man or mountain lion

  • make yourself look as big as possible
  • maintain eye contact
  • demonstrate you are a threat
  • don't trust his lies

If you encounter a bear

  • avoid getting between a mother and her cubs
  • take extra precautions to bearproof your food at your campsite
  • back away slowly while facing the bear (without maintaining eye contact)
  • under no circumstances should you fight a bear
[–] Trafficone 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The dang old ESL filter makes it impossible to recognize bad English out in public. My wife got a shit that reads "force of the nature" and neither of our brains perceived the "the"

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