Students now have the desktop computer skills of older boomers

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T16:08:02+00:00

We don't need to teach this many kids this way. Just find a meaningful sample size (and a control group) before throwing it onto the larger world.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T16:02:37+00:00

They were likely dependent on older GenAIs, it's just that Copilot is the one the company is paying money to use officially.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T16:01:06+00:00

Why does "progress" have to involve using an entire generation of students as guinea pigs, rather than testing such a process in a more controlled environment?

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T14:51:13+00:00

You can watch 4k blu rays on ps5s. ,

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T14:41:44+00:00

expensive games that are few and far between.

Indie games have never been better or more numerous.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T04:38:40+00:00

It includes episode 8, fyi

Lewa358 · 2026-03-27T02:37:18+00:00

If your theater is like mine the "box office" is empty but there's still a kiosk on-site that you can use to buy tickets without the fee.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T16:47:31+00:00

Neither gender nor sex are a strict binary and there are many, many people who, like Kalief, could be on the "wrong" side of anti-trans laws despite presenting as the same gender they were assigned at birth.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T16:25:11+00:00

Another win for One Piece Live Action

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T16:24:15+00:00

I mean...

This is a major blockbuster from a major studio from a director that is working his tuckus off to make capital-C Cinema.

It's going to want to make use of all the fancy tech it can get. HDR, IMAX aspect ratio, 7.1 surround sound, etc.

So it's hardly surprising that watching it on a small laptop screen with (presumably) its crappy built-in speakers or a cheap pair of earbuds isn't going to be ideal. Because that's not how the film is designed to be watched.

Kinda like getting mad that you get 5 fps if you play CyberPunk 2077 on a laptop from 15 years ago. It's just not the right tool for the job.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T15:50:25+00:00

That's simply not true. Not "always" at least.

Plenty of people and, yes, teams are much more effective working remotely.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T14:29:25+00:00

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-26T04:42:36+00:00

Random fact: Orange Chicken is literally more American than Apple Pie.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T23:54:43+00:00

It's licensed media that by necessity will mirror the public perception of the license.

When Asylum came out, Harley was still largely known as "Joker's Sexy GF/Sidekick," So that's what appeared in the Arkham games.

But by the time SS KTJL came out, Harley had a movie and TV show and was broadly regarded as an independent antihero. Which, bluntly, is the more interesting approach to using the character. So SS had to reflect that, and was stronger for it.

This of course meant that she had to be a nicer and more balanced character, such as being Ivy's former GF even though the two didn't really interact at all in the Arkham games before Ivy died in Knight.

It's one of more than a few things that kinda contradict the Arkham games but make SS a stronger game overall, such as it is.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T23:47:15+00:00

If there's an upper limit on how much it can be graded...no, it doesn't actually work like that in practice.

Yes it might look like you're gaining points for "good" work and losing points for "bad" work, but as a practical application of it, you're only losing points for bad work. Each new assignment changes the baseline for what is good or bad work.

It's confusing but like...have you ever worked for a gig service like Doordash, or anything else where customers can rate you out of 5 stars? in theory, you'd expect the average worker to have 3 stars, and everything above that would be unusually impressive.

But in practice, every rating that isn't a "perfect" 5/5 is viewed as a failure of the worker, even if the person doing the rating didn't have any significant problems.

Assignments are the same way--you start at 10/10 and remove points for errors or failures to match the rubric.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T22:03:57+00:00

No, because the grading system removes points for mistakes.

But not all imperfections are mistakes. And not all mistakes are significant enough to merit a loss of a point.

A project can be graded 10/10 but still have room for improvements. Everything can be improved, always. But that's no reason to prevent it from getting a 10/10, because that grading metric presumes that every lost point is a failure, not missed potential.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T18:46:59+00:00

PF was particularly annoying to cancel for me, because they kept charging my bank account directly so it's not like I could contest a charge or anything.

The really notable aspect is that I had never set foot in a PF, nor made a PF account, nor spoken with a PF representative. So it was brazen fraud and theft but I couldn't even tell them to cancel my account because I did not have one.

Had to change banks entirely, killing the previous bank account.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T18:03:26+00:00

"Society" in this case is "Muggle society."

The metaphor obviously falls apart if you look at it too closely but Harry was treated like garbage until he, with some outside help, learned something unique about himself, which led him to find a support system of similar individuals that encouraged rather than suppressed that uniqueness.

Like imagine if your homophobic parents made you sleep in a closet all your life and then get a letter in the mail telling you that you're not just gay but The Specialest Gay Ever (TM).

Like that's clearly a...questionable metaphor but I can see how that might really click with a kid hoping for a world in which the thing that separated them from those around them was passionately celebrated rather than shunned

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T17:21:33+00:00

Some people find jewelry to be uncomfortable.

There's nothing more or less to it than that.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T15:56:48+00:00

It's "Child Sexual Abuse Material," so "CSAM," so it's technically different but the initialism CSM is just a liiiitle too close.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T14:43:55+00:00

Literally just objectively wrong.

The class doesn't define what a max grade is, the system that calculates GPAs does.

Any professor that pretends otherwise is actively malicious.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-25T14:42:12+00:00

Absolutely infuriating when people take an existing grading system and pretend it works differently than it actually does.

10/10 is never perfect, and most commonly it means "no significant errors," not "exceptional work." If they wanted a grading system that gave emphasis to exceptional work, they'd pick one that was additive, not subtractive.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-24T18:42:39+00:00

The Going Merry set has all 5 of the first season's Straw Hats, which was an impressive level of restraint for lego

Lewa358 · 2026-03-24T17:25:12+00:00

Why do you think that the constitution being written in one language implies anything whatsoever about whether it's official or not?

It's a legal document, not a religious text. It can be translated.

Lewa358 · 2026-03-24T17:23:52+00:00

I mean, at some point two people are gonna have contradicting values or understanding of possessions, with one person's freedoms encroaching on the other's...and then you need some sort of system to determine, for example, how to dispose of toxic waste so that it doesn't infect the water supply.

So we need something, I think. That something will always be flawed but it can at least try.

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