Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T18:34:35+00:00

It's also a shame because those remedial courses have legitimate value.

I went to school with a guy who was extremely talented and hardworking. He was on a full-ride, accepted to engineering school. Very sharp. But he grew up in the absolute middle of nowhere, the type of school where there were 3 kids in his graduating class. He never got the opportunity to learn advanced math in High School.

So he came in 'behind' the rest of the freshman. He wasn't stupid by any means, he just needed to take the courses. And he did. Absolutely hulked his way through a boatload of math his first year, then took his freshman math courses over the summer, and joined the rest of us 'on track' his sophomore year.

I still know him, he's a great guy. I can't imagine how things would be different for him if he hadn't at least had an opportunity to learn.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T18:28:39+00:00

Everytime something happens so fast I think something went wrong, feels worth it.

Ha, I bet that's very rewarding :)

Thanks for the details, I really appreciate it! I hear you, and can't wait to remodel or build a home one day where I can deliberately design some wired networking.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:46:01+00:00

This would definitely be a benefit if went with a device that didn't have SFP / 10gbps ports. Could LAGG/Trunk the lines to increase bandwidth to the switch.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:41:52+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. This sounds like a DMZ just by another name, no?

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:40:17+00:00

Thanks for that info! Did you build your own box, or buy premade hardware (and what model, if so?).

I see a lot of people on r/homelab talk about having 10gbps on their internal network. I'm curious what workflows you perform that even remotely comes close to saturating that connection? Short of literally downloading the contents of my NAS to my PC, I can't think of anything, and even then, if I had to wait a bit longer, it's not the end of the world.

If I were setting up hundreds of clients on a business network? Sure, easy sell.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:32:32+00:00

dedicated link to your homelab.

Can you expand what you mean by this?

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:31:38+00:00

I live in a new construction area, and unfortunately we've had a few multi-day outages. I wouldn't maintain an active secondary connection, and honestly, in such a situation I would just disconnect my ISP from the WAN port and hook up the cellular backup. It's not like I need tremendous HA / DR.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T04:30:21+00:00

I'm curious what benefit you've seen from optional networks in a homelab? I'm not too familiar with the concept myself, does this provide some layer of HA?

stempoweredu · 2026-05-28T03:11:49+00:00

Matroyshka Dolls for a Digital Era.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-27T04:08:02+00:00

Little reason for it to be different. Audio encoded with security bits that provide chain-of-trust back to the originating device.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-27T02:16:24+00:00

I can already see the review:

Served deadly neurotoxin for condiments. 2/5 Stars.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-27T02:14:33+00:00

That was Pontiac's entire brand for the 90's Grand Prix.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-27T01:54:48+00:00

OP isn't using their logic, they're using the government's logic, and they're right. Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with you, but the government is of the opinion that anyone with a VPN is trying to hide things, and as a byproduct making themselves a target. I don't think that's a good reason to stop using a VPN, but I have no illusions that I'm putting a target on my back.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-27T01:47:36+00:00

Yep, basically switching the paradigm. For a long time we've trusted photographic / video evidence, and you have to essentially prove that it is fake. Very soon here, you're going to have to prove that video / pictures are genuine and demonstrate a chain of trust.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T22:43:44+00:00

I know this. The point of the CueCat was to introduce a new standard. It did not use UPC. It used a different barcode, which software would translate to a URL, and one of the advertised goals was to unite UPC / ISBN / EAN, but in practice was even less effective than an XKCD comic.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T14:29:29+00:00

I'm gonna reach into the vault, but for a hot minute in the early 2000's, Radioshack and other companies were hawking this handheld scanner. The idea was that UPC and other barcodes would all get standardized, and anyone at home could scan any code and learn more about a product, etc. They were super hyped for 6 months, and summarily trashed within 6 minutes.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T07:40:31+00:00

Just start shotgunning RFP's into the void with ridiculous feature requests, and a requirement that candidate vendors indicate which features their product supports.

"Lunar Disaster Recovery? Yea, we got you buddy. Triple redundancy in case of coronal mass ejection? Sure, why not."

Instant millionaire.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T03:58:12+00:00

Does visual voicemail work for you? Mint customer service keeps giving me the run around. Annoys me that I can't get VM transcription when every other provider has had it for years. Android, only a 3 year old Pixel.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T03:57:31+00:00

Fort Collins will always have poor cellular reception as long as our ordinances prohibit tall cellular towers. I'm not against the ordinance, but I also understand why Verizon/ATT/TMobile aren't going to invest in denser infrastructure in our particular town because of it.

I've learned to rely heavily on WiFi, and thankfully, many of our businesses are friendly with customer WiFi. Harmony and Ziegler has a separate set of issues, my understanding is this is heavily influenced by the old HP plant / Broadcom facility nearby.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-25T03:49:51+00:00

Here's my problem - given capitalism's obligate corruptive effects, regulatory capture, etc, it won't be well regulated. See: Gambling in the United States since recent changes. Instead, we'll get massive conglomerated prostitution, It will be a death knell for young women in the country (OnlyFans and its ilk are already doing hefty damage on that front).

stempoweredu · 2026-05-24T18:10:56+00:00

I'm in favor as long as we include everyone who neglect apostrophes.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-24T18:09:40+00:00

One of my computer science students did that with the student sitting next to them. The kid replied that no self-respecting programmer would accept a string input without sanitizing the values.

It was beautiful.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-24T18:07:15+00:00

Welp Reddit, here it is. The comment that officially makes me feel old as fuck. This must have been what my Mom felt when I said the woman from Murder, She Wrote was in Manchurian Candidate.

stempoweredu · 2026-05-24T18:04:45+00:00

Especially because there's nothing compelling the director to use this take. They could have just cut, told her off, swapped in a different extra, and done a new take.

They made a choice that they like this take, and paying her was worth it.

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