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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • Speaking of not teaching things kids have to unlearn later, I’ve often wondered why we don’t just start teaching math with the expectation that you solve for “x”.

    i.e. Instead of

    2 + 3 = 
    

    Write

    2 + 3 = x
    

    This would prime the child to expect that math is about finding an unknown and you’ve already introduced the unknown that will be most prominent in their academic career. This will also reduce the steps necessary when teaching how to balance an equation as you no longer have the “well actually you were always solving for ‘x’ we just didn’t write it, so you didn’t know, also we’re never going to use ‘x’ for multiplication again.” stage.

    But I’m not a teacher, parent, or child psychologist and this is just my blathering hypothesis based on watching my peers struggle with math for years.




    • History shows everything I’ve ever been to including the “nope that top result in my search engine actually didn’t contain the search string anywhere in its contents and is thus useless to me.” pages
    • Bookmarks are for things I routinely go to for years
    • Tabs are useful results for the projects I’m working on now.
    • Pinned tabs are the pages I visit multiple times a day.

    None of those is a substitute for any other.




  • This isn’t one of those instances where freedom of speech is allowed.

    I love how you just reiterated your erroneous point verbatim without clarification.

    Be respectful of others.

    Not sure what that has to do with this discussion or my comment.

    Gonna ignore you now since you don’t have an answer to my question.

    1. I have answered your question in a top level comment; your not liking the answer doesn’t mean I haven’t answered.
    2. That’s your right as much as it’s my right to answer your question as I see fit or to point out the dichotomy of your actions and words.

    It seems you don’t actually know what freedom of speech is.

    Freedom of speech means the government can’t get you in trouble for what you say.

    Freedom of speech does not mean what you have to say is valuable, relevant, or required to be protected, platformed, or promoted by private capital or individuals. Lemmy instances by and large are not products of governments used to curtail your right to say what you want–they’re private entities who’s own freedom of speech and association allow them to make a determination about whether you’re an acceptable entity to keep around.

    If you think you’re an acceptable entity to keep around when no one else does, feel free to start your own instance.










  • To me this smells of typical subsidizing of a product to capture market share then lock in that market share. Anything I’m missing?

    That’s exactly it.

    From their email:

    What you get:

    2,000 code suggestions a month: Get context-aware suggestions tailored to your VS Code workspace and GitHub projects.

    50 Copilot Chat messages a month: Use Copilot Chat in VS Code and on GitHub to ask questions and refactor, debug, document, and explain code.

    Choose your AI model: You can select between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT 4o.

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    Access the Copilot Extensions ecosystem: Use third-party agents to conduct web searches via Perplexity, access information from Stack Overflow, and more.

    So it’s just a rate limited thing meant to get you signed up and then cut you off right when you get used to it. I get access through work and well, it just sucks.


  • Different operating systems have their own interfaces to allow user level programs (like games) to communicate with hardware. This is a great-over-simplification, but one OS may understand something like “drawTriangle(x, y, z)” while another may expect “drawPolygon([x, y, z])”.

    There are software projects to attempt to translate commands meant for one OS for a different OS (such as “Wine” or Valve’s “Proton”) and those work fairly well in cases that: 1) there’s an analogous command, 2) the analogous commands have been accurately mapped, and 3) the analogous commands operate in user space.

    That last point is the primary reason why, despite the best efforts of developers, some games still cannot work across OSs. Operating systems are built on top of different levels with the lowest being the “kernel” (of “kernel level anti-cheat” notoriety) and the highest being the user space (where you interact). Both Windows and Linux have these, but the boundaries around them, what they can and cannot do, and how to interact across those boundaries differs between each system.

    So when a Windows game installs a driver to monitor everything that your computer does that driver (kernel level anti-cheat) is tailored very specifically to the extremely powerful, low level, and unique Windows kernel. Linux cannot run that natively. If the game pretends that spying on you is an essential component to launch then the game will not launch. If, however, a game is perfectly happy to just stay in user space where it belongs then it will probably work fine with the available translation layers.