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base3··on Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets
This is the difference between education and training. Use of Proctorio is prima facie evidence you're wasting your tuition. (100% original content, hereby placed in the public domain.)
base3··on Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
This is what I do. I write INSTACART on it. Everyone loves cash.
base3··on Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study
Tylenol and generic equivalents
base3··on Testosterone Treatment and Alleviation of Depressive Symptoms in Men
As noted by Captain Jack... https://youtu.be/tMN0SO3SHZ8
base3··on More than ‘know thyself’: on all the other Delphic maxims
The root certificate
base3··on Studying impossible systems with analogues
A classic (quirky) electronics textbook teaches basic electronics with analogies from high-school physics (mechanics and acoustics).

Dynamical Analogies, by Harry Olson: https://archive.org/details/DynamicalAnalogies

It's in the public domain. I love it so much I had it printed and bound.

The book is based on lectures given in the 1930s & the math is nothing like what we use now. I can't follow a lot of it. But the tables are intuitive & the explanations are very clear.

base3··on Why you should not use Google Cloud
I didn't write that article, but last week I came to the same conclusion and began my migration from GCP to AWS. I admire Google's tech but Cloud Platform lacks fit and finish. It's not fully productized. It's not even fully documented. (Is it indolence or arrogance to publish a link to the source code as the only explanation of an important API?) I'm sorry, Google, you ignored me when I was crushing on you. Now I have Amazon.
base3··on Cal State L.A. turns the most low-income students into top earners
I had a privedged international education and taught at Berkeley and Chicago, but the hardest working student I ever knew was an undocumented refugee who started at CSLA and transferred to Northridge for his junior and senior years. To save bus fare, he slept in the bushes at Northridge. Last year he got his BS and found a good job. He supported himself through school as a sexworker. I'm in awe of his grit and endurance. We need schools that can accommodate hard-working students who succeed despite unconventional lives. And We need such people of remarkable courage and character to become leaders in corporate life. I'm proud to support the Cal State system with my taxes.
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