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Extra curricular poo poo also sucks if you have like say, a single parent who works all the time and you don't live near the school so you absolutely have to take the bus or you are hosed for getting home. Plus it costs more money and stuff. Basically it sucks being poor in America, shocking news.
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Jerry Cotton posted:You learn how to open a bank account by going into a bank and telling them you want to open an account. People are idiots. I've had staff in their 20's that act like it requires skill to open a bank account and I've had to coach them to just go f'n ask for one! That's not even the worst buffoonery I deal with. I have person from a neighboring company in my building that always plugs up the toilet on our floor and gets poo poo on the seat. He literally is unable to wipe without getting poo poo on the seat. He won't poo poo in his own suite. He comes down to our public bathroom in the hall and blasts rear end. I often see him scurrying away and I know that I'll have to call maintenance. He's a financial adviser at an investment firm.
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May 26, 2016 03:33
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I'm beginning to think Bluetooth headsets are becoming obsolete. It wasn't long ago that you would see lots of people walking around with them jammed in their ear whether they were talking or not. Now I never see them in public but I see more people than ever with the white corded earbud mic. I work around a lot of truckers and they all still use the Bluetooth earpieces, but giant industrial looking ones. I'm guessing the hassle of making sure those things were charged and paired at all times might have led to their decline.
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May 26, 2016 03:57
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Talk-only headsets are obsolete, but over-the-neck a2dp (stereo music) ones are everywhere
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May 26, 2016 04:03
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I'm beginning to think Bluetooth headsets are becoming obsolete. It wasn't long ago that you would see lots of people walking around with them jammed in their ear whether they were talking or not. Now I never see them in public but I see more people than ever with the white corded earbud mic. I work around a lot of truckers and they all still use the Bluetooth earpieces, but giant industrial looking ones. I use one at work, but you're right, it's really only good in certain jobs or situations where you can keep it readily charged. Sure, I can pair my BT headset to my smartphone, but it's got a weird proprietary charging base that's bulky and not very portable  sucks because it's got great range and clarity.
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May 26, 2016 04:41
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Light Gun Man posted:Extra curricular poo poo also sucks if you have like say, a single parent who works all the time and you don't live near the school so you absolutely have to take the bus or you are hosed for getting home. Plus it costs more money and stuff. Basically it sucks being poor in America, shocking news. The 7pm activity bus was awful bull poo poo and was my #1 motivation for getting my license on time. That and girls. I'd also like to echo frustration with the lack of critical thinking being taught in red states. I just finished teaching a Stats 101 class to a group of college freshmen and advanced high school seniors. Only 3 of my students could reliably plug numbers into a formula. God help them if they had to explain the reasoning behind probability calculations. Obsolete tech: calculators that aren't graphing. Every single one of my students used their phone or a TI-83. The college had a rule that only standalone calculators could be used, but gently caress that. I'm not making 20+ students in a community college waste money a four function calculator. I'll just monitor the room like a creep to prevent the more obvious cheating.
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May 26, 2016 04:50
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joshtothemaxx posted:Obsolete tech: calculators that aren't graphing. Every single one of my students used their phone or a TI-83. The college had a rule that only standalone calculators could be used, but gently caress that. I'm not making 20+ students in a community college waste money a four function calculator. I'll just monitor the room like a creep to prevent the more obvious cheating. My training/certification institute uses them on exams to mitigate cheating. All candidates have to surrender their phones and are given cheap calculators with our logo to use. They have to give them back, but surprisingly they still get stolen sometimes. It's a bigger deal for us because we have major accreditation at stake, so we need to keep to strict security standards.
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May 26, 2016 04:57
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I'm beginning to think Bluetooth headsets are becoming obsolete. It wasn't long ago that you would see lots of people walking around with them jammed in their ear whether they were talking or not. Now I never see them in public but I see more people than ever with the white corded earbud mic. I work around a lot of truckers and they all still use the Bluetooth earpieces, but giant industrial looking ones. For me, Bluetooth headphones will generally be A Thing because I'll forever want to listen to a podcast in bed, despite being a flop-around-to-get-comfortable kind of guy. (the only damage I have to my phone has been forgetting that I had wired headphones in one night.)
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May 26, 2016 04:59
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joshtothemaxx posted:I'd also like to echo frustration with the lack of critical thinking being taught in red states. Riiiiight, only in the "red states"
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May 26, 2016 05:12
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Malachi Constant posted:As a newly-minted high school physics teacher this as been the most frustrating part of my first year. If I ask my students a question that requires then to infer something about reality based on math they are baffled and annoyed by what they perceive as a nonsensical and wholly alien type of question. (Example: You're pushing a box along the floor. Given that force = mass x acceleration, if the mass is constant what happens to the acceleration when the force is decreased? [Yeah, really. They think it's just a math question and don't bring their basic logic to bear.]) That seems like... really basic reasoning, though. The sort of thing you learn to do as sanity checking when using a calculator: is the biggerness/smallerness sticking properly? Are kids seriously that messed up coming into high school now?
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May 26, 2016 05:31
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I had an argument with someone who insisted that all objects have the same terminal velocity because galileo proved it. Like... dude. Have you ever dropped a balloon?
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May 26, 2016 05:37
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chitoryu12 posted:The extracurricular activities aren't usually part of the school day. The school day is 7 to 8 hours, but activities like band rehearsals, Color Guard, theatre, and sports are held afterward. It's also expected for any students with cars to take up a job to pay for their own gas, and poor students often have to work to help their family. At my high school, band was an actual class that took place during school hours and gave course credit. Marching band and theater were extracurricular though.
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Tunicate posted:I had an argument with someone who insisted that all objects have the same terminal velocity because galileo proved it. I suppose you think someone will be triggered by your physics joke
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May 26, 2016 05:53
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I doubt he's posting from a total vaccum
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May 26, 2016 06:16
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Pham Nuwen posted:Riiiiight, only in the "red states" Fair enough. But I've definitely had a shittier experience teaching Middle "Muslim foot washing stations" Tennessee than rural Virginia.
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May 26, 2016 06:53
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MisterBibs posted:For me, Bluetooth headphones will generally be A Thing because I'll forever want to listen to a podcast in bed, despite being a flop-around-to-get-comfortable kind of guy. Wireless headphones for music is awesome and they're getting better all the time. I have a pair that I use for when I'm doing yard work or cycling. I was referring to the ones that plug into one ear for phone calls. Usually with an obnoxious blue led. Those things were super popular a few years ago but now the people that used them, or would have used them just use the wired headset mics. My headphones have a mic for phone calls but I never use them for that. If I get a call I just hold the phone up to my head like god intended.
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May 26, 2016 08:16
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Powerlurker posted:At my high school, band was an actual class that took place during school hours and gave course credit. Marching band and theater were extracurricular though. Ours was the same. Band referred properly to a class that taught instrumentation and was a course credit, but had other stuff like marching band and rehearsals for performances that took place after hours. Theatre was extracurricular (except for some summer plays that were offered as credit, which unfortunately led to a flood of people who didn't give a poo poo about acting being thrown into the ensemble of Grease that were a total pain in the rear end to work with), but the Acting classes were course credit during the school day and were almost exclusively populated by the theatre kids.
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May 26, 2016 08:21
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My Science teacher had a practical series of classes on brewing ginger beer (non-alcoholic of course). But, being Australia - some of us read the next few pages in the textbook and half the class ended up with alcoholic stuff that was pretty darn tasty. Our Mathematics teacher however was a bit of a loose canon. He created a 'fun project' where we all get a bag of fun sized candy bars and gambled on horses coded in an excel document with all sorts of calculations on the odds etc. He also taught us not balancing checkbooks, but balancing a huge number of credit cards in a way to delay paying back debt. He was interesting.
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May 26, 2016 09:06
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joshtothemaxx posted:Obsolete tech: calculators that aren't graphing. Every single one of my students used their phone or a TI-83. The college had a rule that only standalone calculators could be used, but gently caress that. I'm not making 20+ students in a community college waste money a four function calculator. I'll just monitor the room like a creep to prevent the more obvious cheating. You do realize most calculators sold these days are non-graphing non-scientific calculators used for simple calculations by people who work with numbers a lot? Table-top calculators are just so much easier and faster to use than using Windows Calculator or whatever (  at using a phone calculator app for actual work) because you don't have to switch between windows or anything. And small pocket calculators are used by like a million or more warehouse and logistics workers.Of course applications should be built in such a way that no-one ever needs to do simple calculations but applications are both designed and written by nerds and nerds are literally poo poo.
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Keiya posted:Are kids seriously that messed up coming into high school now? Eh, I don't think it's a now vs. then thing--throughout history, kids have pretty much always been idiots.
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Trabant posted:There are three big reasons I can think of: Gee how the gently caress does that happen? http://betanews.com/2016/05/16/google-paying-20-an-hour-to-sit-in-self-driving-car/ quote:Google will require the drivers to have a bachelor’s degree It's a total mystery, must be those people who didn't go to college aren't trying hard enough.
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mostlygray posted:People are idiots. I've had staff in their 20's that act like it requires skill to open a bank account and I've had to coach them to just go f'n ask for one! What? Don't people wipe while they're still sitting on the toilet? I don't think I could even manage to wipe in a way that leaves poo poo anywhere but the inside of my toilet, unless I stand up and start twerking. So many questions.
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Non Serviam posted:What? There's a picture that explains it all.
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Jerry Cotton posted:You do realize most calculators sold these days are non-graphing non-scientific calculators used for simple calculations by people who work with numbers a lot? Table-top calculators are just so much easier and faster to use than using Windows Calculator or whatever ( I use my iPhone calculator when doing things like hand scoring exams, because I could subtract 15, 8, and 31 from 100 in my head....but I really don't want to spend the effort. It works just as well as any "real" calculator, and you can turn the phone sideways to expand it to a bunch of other functions. The only flaw is that there's a very slight delay between pressing a "button" and the calculator registering it, so if you're a fast typist you can try to add 4+3+5 and accidentally type 43+5.
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chitoryu12 posted:I use my iPhone calculator when doing things like hand scoring exams, because I could subtract 15, 8, and 31 from 100 in my head....but I really don't want to spend the effort. It works just as well as any "real" calculator No, it doesn't. As you yourself very clearly point out in the very next sentence?
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LMAO use Matlab or Scilab like normal people, jeez.
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Jerry Cotton posted:No, it doesn't. As you yourself very clearly point out in the very next sentence? I meant that in terms of functionality, it does exactly the same thing. You plug in the numbers correctly and it'll spit out the exact same answer. You just can't type at lightning speed without messing up.
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Non Serviam posted:What? Are you saying you wipe while you're sitting on the toilet?
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atomicthumbs posted:Are you saying you wipe while you're sitting on the toilet? I see our next derail has been chosen.
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chitoryu12 posted:I meant that in terms of functionality, it does exactly the same thing. You plug in the numbers correctly and it'll spit out the exact same answer. You just can't type at lightning speed without messing up. Yeah it's basically an issue that it works fine but you can't really touch-type on it like you can with something with physical buttons. Which when doing actual work is generally something you want! I mean I'm sure there is someone out there who has practiced enough on their phone to be able to touch-type but show me that person and I'll show you a nutcase
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chitoryu12 posted:I see our next derail has been chosen. I submit pooping out of your butt will be obsolete soon given Jerry Cotton's significant contribution to the reverse method.
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peter gabriel posted:robots Butts Robutts
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Shugojin posted:Yeah it's basically an issue that it works fine but you can't really touch-type on it like you can with something with physical buttons. Which when doing actual work is generally something you want! We've had useful touchscreens and smartphones for, what, less than a decade? I guarantee your grandkids will be giving you poo poo about this
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ryonguy posted:We've had useful touchscreens and smartphones for, what, less than a decade? I guarantee your grandkids will be giving you poo poo about this Probably, but as it stands there is no way to build that but pure repetition that becomes counterproductive once you change the screen size and therefore the button placement. Maybe once someone figures out a non lovely way to do haptic feedback or we all agree on a correct phone screen size. E: malapropisms Shugojin has a new favorite as of 01:41 on May 27, 2016 |
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atomicthumbs posted:Are you saying you wipe while you're sitting on the toilet? Yes. Isn't this how everyone does it?
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darkhand posted:Butts Yup, can't even remember the last time I fired up the old robutt
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ryonguy posted:We've had useful touchscreens and smartphones for, what, less than a decade? I guarantee your grandkids will be giving you poo poo about this He's talking about touch screen and precise movements. I think everyone can agree touchscreens are good for certain applications using gestures, but definitely falls apart for pixel point accuracy, or even simulating actual tactical feedback. I think touchscreens in cars are possibly the dumbest thing, it removes being able to rely on muscle memory and keeping your eyes on the road. Because you can just feel around on actual buttons, like OK here's the volume so the next button is station 1. Same for TV remotes.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah it's basically an issue that it works fine but you can't really touch-type on it like you can with something with physical buttons. Which when doing actual work is generally something you want! Your phone doesn't have physical buttons?
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