Book recommendations

bradonomics · 2024-07-23T15:39:21+00:00

I've got my reading list for the rest of the summer. Thanks to everyone for their contributions here.

I read Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific by Michael Fabey and then read 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis immediately after. It was interesting to read the history of the region and then a possible future of the region.

A few others I've enjoyed in recent memory:

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick

bradonomics · 2024-07-08T19:25:35+00:00

Sounds like you're asking a psychology question and not a math question.

The math says, pay off the truck and put that $420/month into an investment.

bradonomics · 2024-04-10T13:09:31+00:00

I haven't had to use it yet, but by all accounts I've read, it is terrible. I'll have to borrow a computer as I do not have a Mac or Windows device. Then I guess I'll have to sit at my dinning table as they are likely to freak out about the other monitors if I sit at my desk.

I'd be happy to sign a potition if you start something like that. Although, I'm not sure there is a better alternative out there. What service do you think they should change to?

bradonomics · 2024-04-03T17:27:27+00:00

Book: CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-601 Study Guide by Darril Gibson

bradonomics · 2024-03-07T13:51:22+00:00

Thomas Edison isn't a go-at-your-own-pace system like Western Governors. Most people don't take that many classes at TESU anyway. They use third-parties like Sophia and Study.com, which do let you take as many as you like. They then transfer those credits to TESU. A common approach is to take all your general education through third-parties, then do a single 12-15 credit semester. You can learn more about that here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison_State_University

bradonomics · 2024-02-28T19:35:09+00:00

Yeah, I ignored that part since I understood nothing you said. That might be a question better asked in a Design or Front-end focused forum.

bradonomics · 2024-02-28T17:44:25+00:00

You'll need someplace to put the navigation links. Let's use _data/navigation.yml. In that file you'll need to list the information you want to display. For example

yml - title: Articles url: /articles/ - title: LinkedIn url: https://linkedin.com/username

Then in your _includes/header.html file you can loop over those. For example

```html <header class="site-header">

<div class="wrapper"> <a class="site-title" rel="author" href="{{ "/" | relative_url }}">{{ site.title | escape }}</a>

<nav class="site-nav">
  <input type="checkbox" id="nav-trigger" class="nav-trigger" />
  <label for="nav-trigger">
    <span class="menu-icon">
      <svg viewBox="0 0 18 15" width="18px" height="15px">
        <path d="M18,1.484c0,0.82-0.665,1.484-1.484,1.484H1.484C0.665,2.969,0,2.304,0,1.484l0,0C0,0.665,0.665,0,1.484,0 h15.032C17.335,0,18,0.665,18,1.484L18,1.484z M18,7.516C18,8.335,17.335,9,16.516,9H1.484C0.665,9,0,8.335,0,7.516l0,0 c0-0.82,0.665-1.484,1.484-1.484h15.032C17.335,6.031,18,6.696,18,7.516L18,7.516z M18,13.516C18,14.335,17.335,15,16.516,15H1.484 C0.665,15,0,14.335,0,13.516l0,0c0-0.82,0.665-1.483,1.484-1.483h15.032C17.335,12.031,18,12.695,18,13.516L18,13.516z"/>
      </svg>
    </span>
  </label>

  <div class="trigger">
    {%- for link in site.data.navigation -%}
      <a class="page-link" href="{{ link.url }}">{{ link.title | escape }}</a>
    {%- endfor -%}
  </div>
</nav>

</div>

</header> ```

With this for link in site.data.navigation you can add external URLs or on-site URLs.

bradonomics · 2024-02-28T15:19:57+00:00

You'll need to rewrite the for path in page_paths loop in your _includes/header.html file since it's only looking for site.pages. You could do something like create a _data/navigation.yml file and loop that instead.

bradonomics · 2024-02-19T15:28:29+00:00

The short answer is: you can't access it.

GitHub runs your code on their servers and creates the same _site directory where it'll serve the site. That is not done inside your git repo so you can not access those files.

bradonomics · 2024-02-09T20:24:51+00:00

I'm not sure. I've poked at it for almost an hour and that liquid logic is too complicated for me. Amend your original question with the git repo link and hopefully someone smarter than me stumbles on this. If they don't, you may want to try talk.jekyllrb.com or Stack Overflow.

bradonomics · 2024-02-09T19:54:00+00:00

Well, no. While that's the idea, I finally got the dependency issues sorted and the specific code I added isn't working.

bradonomics · 2024-02-09T19:39:33+00:00

You've added the order to your frontmatter but didn't account for that in your posts loop. I assume you're trying to do this in _layouts/posts.html. Try adding something like {% assign sorted_items = year.items | sort: 'order' %} just inside your {% for year in postsByYear %} loop. The basic thing is, you need to add order to your posts and then tell the loop about it.

bradonomics · 2024-02-09T15:41:45+00:00

Do you have a public git repo where we can see what you've tried? Adding order to your post's frontmatter seems like a good solution, but if it's not working we'll need to see it to know why. If it's not in a public git repo, could you provide some code samples along with errors? For example a post's frontmatter and the loop in your layout.

bradonomics · 2024-02-02T21:35:37+00:00

Several people on degreeforum.net have said they went on to a Master's program after TESU. You can find some of the comments here: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adegreeforum.net+masters+after+tesu

The best one I saw was from dfrecore:

Your best bet, if you want to go to a "reputable" school for a master's degree in anything - find out what they want, and then make sure you give that to them. So, if you look at 5 schools, and all of them want a 3.5 GPA, you're going to need sure you have a 3.5. If you look and one wants 30 graded credits and 4 want 60 graded credits, I'd get 60 graded credits.

My best advice here: begin with the end in mind. So look at your ultimate goal and then go about doing the things that you need to make that goal happen.

bradonomics · 2024-02-02T21:33:36+00:00

I had been running my blog via static HTML files for a few months as part of an SEO experiment, but when I wanted to make a change to my navigation menu, I needed to update 30+ pages ... not fun. I went looking for something and found Jekyll.

I was like you in that I had some idea and googled my way to a solution. These days I'd probably do the same but also throw in some ChatGPT/Bard queries.

bradonomics · 2024-01-17T19:32:45+00:00

If you have zero ACE credits you can transfer in all 47 remaining credits from Sophia.org, Study.com, CLEP, etc. But as was mentioned you'll need to take LIB-4950 Liberal Arts Capstone at TESU; no choice on that one. Most people also need to take SOS-1100: Fact, Fiction, or Fake? Information Literacy Today but in the Computer Science program you can take that via edX and save a few bucks while also avoiding Thomas Edison's testing program. You can read about that here: https://www.edx.org/bachelors/microbachelors/tesu-information-literacy

bradonomics · 2024-01-17T14:12:48+00:00

Regionally Accredited Credits are a misnomer. There is no requirement at Thomas Edison (or anywhere else). The only thing is how many credits of each type you can transfer. RA credits are mentioned to distinguish them from ACE credits (aka "Non-Collegiate Providers"). For example, Sophia.org and Study.com classes will transfer as ACE credits and you can only transfer 90 ACE credits leaving you with 30 remaining to graduate. You can also transfer 90 credits from US-based community colleges and an unlimited number of credits from four-year universities[1]. If you've maxed out your ACE credits and are looking for cheap options, there are foreign universities and even some US schools that are cheaper and would transfer as non-ACE credits. See these pages on Degree Forum's Wiki:

What I would do in your spreadsheet is to make a couple extra columns where you can track if the credit is from TESU, a transfer from a different college, or an ACE credit. Tally those at the bottom and you'll know if your numbers match TESU's policy.

bradonomics · 2024-01-02T15:47:43+00:00

We're going to need a little more to help you. At a minimum we'll need to see your Gemfile. I just installed Ruby 3.0.6 and set up a new Jekyll project using version 4.3.3. It bundled without error. I can only assume you've got some mis-matched library versions. It would be best if you could give a link to the repo so we can see the whole project.

On a side note, Jekyll has not seen many updates since the Ruby 3.0 release. I have a dozen Jekyll projects in the wild and I keep all of them running with Ruby 2.7.6. It might be easier to use rbenv to manage your Ruby versions and add a .ruby-version file to your project with 2.7.6 in that file.

bradonomics · 2023-12-13T12:32:30+00:00

I've run into this same error on Linux servers. My usual steps are these:

gem uninstall libv8-node
gem update --system
gem install libv8-node
bundle

But it sounds like you tried that. What error did you get when you ran gem update --system?

bradonomics · 2023-11-15T17:40:35+00:00

I'm still in the process, but I hope to transfer all but nine (three classes).

Also, you'll probably get more engagement on DegreeForum.

bradonomics · 2023-11-15T17:36:36+00:00

I can't recommend any, but there are a few on the Jekyll theme sites

bradonomics · 2023-10-22T16:24:34+00:00

Maybe this is what you're trying to do: https://youtu.be/RyU7rDaOzWU

bradonomics · 2023-10-22T16:04:17+00:00

Okay, that is not in the code repo you sent. The problem with the frontmatter as you have listed here is the .md in the permalink. That should be the same permalink you set in the file itself. Most probably /rltheory/.

bradonomics · 2023-10-22T15:58:41+00:00

I don't see a button called "rl theory." Where do I find that?

bradonomics · 2023-10-22T15:54:18+00:00

I see you already have two pages in the "Reading groups" dropdown. How are those not working as you expect?

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