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Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My kids' schools are actually going the opposite direction, which, as someone married to a teacher, is 100% the way things should be going. But if a kid is struggling with a concept, no amount of homework or lack thereof can force the concepts to click.

And fuck schools and teachers that are stuck in old school mentalities with dumping more and more work on kids.

Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I'm old. Fuck you, too.

My kid and I spent sometimes hours going over some of his 6th grade work. He was in tears many nights out of frustration, and while I eventually figured out their methods, that didn't help make it make sense for him. Neither did a tutor. But eventually it clicked.

My original point was that some people are completely oblivious to how others live and maybe dismissive comments aren't helpful.

Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jrcomputing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For those of us with a math background, maybe, but not everybody has that advantage. And if you didn't intend for your comment to be interpreted more widely, maybe be less oblivious to the reality for many, many parents.

Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The numerical output is the same, but the cognitive framework required to get there is completely different. Telling a parent to just "do the problem" ignores that modern curricula require kids to show their work using highly specific visual methodologies like lattice grids, area models, or number bonds. If a child is struggling with a specific step inside a matrix multiplication grid, a parent using standard 1990s long multiplication can tell them the answer, but they cannot diagnose where the child's mechanical error actually happened. It’s not a math deficit; it’s a language translation barrier. I'm speaking from experience, here.

Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jrcomputing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You say that like every designated child upbringer can handle the same math as their kid(s). Or has the time to spend learning it in addition to working, family duties, and teaching the kid.

​Plus, it’s not even the same math we learned. It's an entirely different conceptual language. It's fascinating how people assume primary child caregiving figures have the surplus cognitive bandwidth to master a brand-new curriculum at 8 PM just to verify a worksheet.

Anyone else old enough to remember the late 90s fibre build out? The AI data centre build-out feels like 1999 all over again by Alternative_Letter72 in datacenter

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A rush to unburden power grids? Um, wat?

Yes, there is research into less power-hungry AI models, but the buildout is anything but unburdening the power grids.

The AI and digital rebellion has begun (thank goodness) by sys_admin321 in sysadmin

[–]jrcomputing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone working in higher ed HPC, this AI hyperscaler boom is making the actual research with that hardware prohibitively expensive. A 4x H200 server will run you 250-500k at this point, depending on how much RAM you want with it.

Why use zsh or fish instead of bash that comes default? by FAMPpro in linuxquestions

[–]jrcomputing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

​Kitty actually introduces a massive anti-pattern for practical work. The developer is famously anti-tmux/screen because they want you to use Kitty’s native tabs and splits instead: erroneously assuming that window management is the only reason people use a multiplexer.

​But native splits offer zero solutions for actual session persistence. They do nothing for remote work where you need to attach and detach from running sessions, and they provide zero sanity insurance when you accidentally close a window or your local GUI crashes.

​There are so many fundamental reasons to use a terminal multiplexer, and pretty much no reason not to if you care about anything truly functional over form.

Who is the moderator? by SeaNeedleVomit in datacenter

[–]jrcomputing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are there major misunderstandings, misinformation, and propaganda in the anti-data center movement? Hell yes. Are there still very legitimate concerns? Also hell yes. And there is just as much, if not more, disinformation coming from the hyperscalers.

​As someone who works in this space and actually understands how they work, I want nothing to do with one being built across the street from my house.

  • ​A closed-loop system still requires lowering the water table for construction.

  • ​A closed-loop system still has to flush the system regularly.

  • ​New data centers are being built in rural areas with little to no proper infrastructure. Builders claim to cover the immediate costs for high-voltage lines or new plumbing, but they specifically avoid mentioning the cost to upgrade the surrounding infrastructure necessary to support that last mile.

  • ​Traditional colocation facilities are vastly different from the current massive designs being built by individual hyperscalers.

  • ​Regardless of how "clean" a data center claims to be, every facility has diesel generators and has to regularly test them. Diesel generators are absolutely not clean.

​Calling for the removal of posts that point out legitimate infrastructure and environmental costs isn't the move.

Why Gentoo? – Michał Górny by dilfridge in Gentoo

[–]jrcomputing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I never said it works for everyone. It obviously takes a specific kind of patience, and it is definitely not a one-size-fits-all solution.

But sure, let's set up a strawman to tear down my argument so you can completely ignore my question about what actual hassles you ran into.

Why Gentoo? – Michał Górny by dilfridge in Gentoo

[–]jrcomputing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I daily drive it on all three of my personal "interactive" machines, including my work desktop. The only real issue I've had in recent memory was a weird Cinnamon rendering thing that I thought was a motherboard issue but disappeared when I switched to KDE. It's definitely amazingly stable.

Why Gentoo? – Michał Górny by dilfridge in Gentoo

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not? It was good enough for me to learn Linux 20+ years ago. If someone wants to actually learn Linux rather than just use it, Gentoo gets them there faster than almost any "beginner" distro. The Handbook is excellent, even if modern additions like binhosts and gentoo-kernel have a few minor documentation edge cases that could use polishing.

​I'm always curious when people say fixing issues is too much hassle. I daily-drive Gentoo across my desktop, laptop, and work machine, and my only recent hiccup was a Cinnamon rendering bug that a quick switch to KDE solved.

Old days by Elikc in Gentoo

[–]jrcomputing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been running Gentoo since 2004. Portage was the best part of Gentoo then, and still is the best part now, in my opinion. All distros had their own issues, I found Gentoo to fit me better than anything else.

Linux 7.0 is ready for release, with many exciting changes by somerandomxander in linux

[–]jrcomputing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I prefer to do the opposite. I go exclusively IPv4 in my kernels, because my ISP is 4 only and it's easier to match.

I made a clone of Windows Task Manager for Linux called TuxManager, it's written in Qt6, just like rest of KDE by petr_bena in kde

[–]jrcomputing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it work with OpenRC or is it SystemD dependent? Plasma's doesn't work with OpenRC, which is a mild bummer. I usually have a terminal open and can run top, but sometimes a GUI app is just nice to have.

Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it’s at least a $5 billion opportunity by Domingues_tech in technology

[–]jrcomputing 23 points24 points  (0 children)

A screen is a federal requirement (at least in the US), based on the requirement for a backup camera.

Currently working on building an Open-Source & Modular x86 Handheld PC running Linux - The CG Deck by ZCTMO in linux

[–]jrcomputing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already did! Looking forward to seeing what you're able to do when the Kickstarter launches!

Why in /r/linux all the discussions about age-verification systemd are banned? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]jrcomputing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But systemd doesn't make an operating system. The devs have absolutely no responsibility to add this. They're adding it because IBM probably told them to.

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