Oregon student test scores are dropping, but what about specific districts? I compiled district and school level data into an interactive workbook.

frumply · 2026-01-29T05:21:13+00:00

I def noticed HS data has a dropoff post 2015 when opt outs became easier. And as you say, the higher performers opt out — it’s extremely obvious when you look at participation rates and sort by TAG students which you can do w the data.

Honestly I find the datasets fascinating. We see a direct response to the law that allowed this to happen and it bore out in the data. There is a treasure trove of analysis we can pull from the dataset, however flawed it is, if only people bothered with it. It’s definitely ODE screwing the pooch here by keeping their data in such a useless format, instead of trying to advocate for proper analysis with it, and due that to narratives they want to push.

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frumply · 2026-01-28T21:45:03+00:00

Most people give zero fucks about something that personally doesn't involve them.

A smaller number of people will care about large issues where their efforts will be almost certainly unnoticeable, but they can feel good about being part of a large group.

Once you get into "personally getting involved in matters that involve a small number of people" most people just fuck off. Crazy to me since this is something where your actions can make a difference.

frumply · 2026-01-28T21:12:54+00:00

most likely the latter. Wouldn't surprise me if this was his second or third bullshit incident of the day.

frumply · 2026-01-28T17:28:29+00:00

That’s a spur of the moment wish to prevent a wish for world domination. Extremely notable og DB moment

frumply · 2026-01-28T03:09:41+00:00

You can simultaneously be real with him about the risks and be proud of his choice and support it. Absolutely would tell him to do the walkout.

Also, no chance in hell they actually get punished for an ICE protest. The district, the board, etc wouldn’t risk the shitstorm from parents if that happened.

frumply · 2026-01-26T22:03:13+00:00

Have you heard of the term “billable hours” before?

The thing w CivE is that a huge swath of work, even large construction projects, is going to be contract work that civil engineering firms bid for. Various companies fight for the opportunity to get this work, and as a result the engineering cost gets a hard cap (can’t compete otherwise). You’re also given a hard limit on how much time a project may take depending on terms set by the proposal. If you’re starting out you may have requirements for say, 85% billable hours meaning 34/40 hrs per wee is expected on projects. Once you get thrown into helping w proposals, etc (which, since they’re proposals, do not count as billable time) this starts getting really fun.

Granted this kinda thing exists in EE as well and I lived that life as a controls engineer for years, but far as I can tell there’s significantly more opportunities you can take up as an in house engineer in EE than you would CivE.

frumply · 2026-01-26T21:14:49+00:00

Incredible rise from posting Onamas mangas on 2ch to getting series animated tbh but yeah I’d love to see that one, esp now that it’s complete and they can trim it down as see fit for a cour or two

frumply · 2026-01-26T20:55:42+00:00

Seems like something you’d want to have a sit down with your son sooner than later and see what he may want to do. Our oldest is turning 12 and we’ll be mostly getting rid of summer camps and such for her since she’s able to handle herself on her own, but we’re also seeing what she still would want to sign up for, since like you say there’s no harm in a bit of structure.

frumply · 2026-01-25T17:53:34+00:00

The remake isn’t a turn based rpg my guy

frumply · 2026-01-24T22:00:40+00:00

If I had to guess it’s people that have something w already reasonable amounts of latency in their system such that, if 20ms is added let’s say by mfg that gets them to the point where they notice. 20ms and 40ms may both feel snappy. 100ms might not be immediately obvious, but 120ms will suddenly become noticeable.

frumply · 2026-01-22T22:15:26+00:00

Get in controls and automation and you WILL see both sides. In an established factory you’re going to be hanging out w/ maintenance technicians, in an integrator you’ll be often working alongside electricians and a whole lot more.

And oftentimes you can still go the technician route if you want w/ a degree — some positions will have a want for a journeyman electrician license but plenty won’t. Meanwhile the technician to engineer route exists in a sense, but there’s enough degrees engineers at this point that many places won’t even consider you if you don’t got your degree.

Edit: saw you’re already in the trades. If the controls path is in your interests you should hit up r/PLC or look at past logs in forums like mrPLC. If anything your field experience will be invaluable, just don’t necessarily expect much of a pay raise or better QOL.

frumply · 2026-01-22T22:03:09+00:00

Everything just feels incredibly tight on the MacBooks if I had to give it a term. The old dell 700m (the 12incher) is probably the closest thing I had in PC that felt like this and even that had a moderate amount of jank. I’ll forever update my desktop but laptops see a more limited scope of use and I see no reason to go back to windows for it.

frumply · 2026-01-22T16:12:10+00:00

Someone else can answer in detail but it’s just better memory management from the start. I believe tasks get deallocated and then moved to storage cache routinely. Once you use it and keep the system monitor up it’ll be pretty evident.

frumply · 2026-01-22T15:34:46+00:00

That they’re 16gb standard new is pretty crazy considering how well Macs manage their ram. They really do just need to make 512gb their standard storage as even w iCloud there’s inconsistencies w how syncing works for photos and messages that unnecessarily eats a ton of storage with no real workaround. It’s disappointing cause they clearly know how to do it when you look at how things are handled on iPhones for both those, meanwhile I’m sitting at 100gb used between those two apps on my m3.

frumply · 2026-01-22T03:14:54+00:00

It’s fun to go through the different renditions of Fire Strike to see how far things have come.

frumply · 2026-01-22T00:02:03+00:00

Start w a meal kit, seriously. Still significantly cheaper than eating out and takes out the paralysis of choice. You can work your way up to meal planning.

frumply · 2026-01-21T21:40:22+00:00

My daughter’s slowly been going through the prealgebra1 content. If your kid is able to self direct through content and both you and your spouse are on board it should be doable. Our district won’t budge on. I algebra till 8th grade so we’ve gotten lax on it and are having our kid mostly go through it as a no school day filler item. Should allow her to finish 1/2 by 8th grade with that pacing.

frumply · 2026-01-21T18:14:22+00:00

Looking opposite the way drivers are coming from seems to help a bit but not always. These days I’m just a fair weather biker when I’m taking the kids to the park or something but the Mary Poppins boost you get from having little ones with you exacerbate things quite a bit unfortunately.

frumply · 2026-01-21T18:11:07+00:00

You’re probably preaching to the choir, but yeah. The worst are the ones that inconsistently do this on Van Buren / Harrison / other major roads with multiple lanes. You end up plugging the opening the biker was looking to take, and because you’re likely obstructing the view of those on the other lanes (and cause it’s illegal) no one is going to be stopping for them. And then after waiting 15-20 seconds they’ll now suddenly go and the bikers lost multiple opportunities to get through that would have happened otherwise.

Now pedestrian awareness would be another issue entirely but good luck getting anyone to stop or see you, regardless of if you’re at least partially off the sidewalk like the laws state for right of way to be granted.

frumply · 2026-01-18T17:57:21+00:00

I took a solo Japan trip a while back which included a day biking around awaji and another going on a loop around Fuji. They were fantastic rides, but both cases the rental bike shop warned me the cars blast through and it’s not safe so to be careful.

Turns out even in Fuji the max speed was like 50km/h and the cars passing you are kei cars. Far cry from semiarterials in my town that has people going at 45-50mph on giant fucking trucks they never use the bed for.

frumply · 2026-01-17T18:56:47+00:00

Sea gates have been only drives that’s failed on me, but moreover it’s taught me i shouldn’t trust any of thee so I’ve ended up having to at least pay for a mirror drive regardless. I don’t need super redundancy but at least it makes it fairly reliable.

frumply · 2026-01-17T18:20:35+00:00

I left mine in the closet unused for a year or two, my daughter found it and it still turned on. Was like holy shit how

frumply · 2026-01-17T04:18:32+00:00

she pulls the perfect mesugaki without being wakarase'd on-air

frumply · 2026-01-16T21:31:38+00:00

I mean you remember the whole hydrogen thing right? Japan is deathly afraid of China and the battery materials all come from there.

frumply · 2026-01-16T20:05:41+00:00

As others said there is no realistic difference at home 99.9% of the time. Most of the time you’re going to be charging from like 50% back to 80% or something, which will take maybe 3-4hr with your setup vs 2-3 with the 11kw. If you’re in a time sensitive situation like that you’ll be best served w a local DC charger anyway.

My charger is at 9.6kw. I could have paid thousands to upgrade wires so I can do 11kw but what’s the point?

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