mariodiana

Since you're using Biblical language, I just want to point out that you're not Biblically accurate. Murder isn't the original sin.

Yes. But I'm adding that learning methods should be explicitly taught, to where they become second nature to the student.

I'm may be a little off-topic here (but I don't think so).

In my opinion, elementary school (grades K-5) should really focus a good deal on rote memorization, but only if this focuses on teaching every kind of game and technique to facilitate that kind of learning. By that I mean making flash cards, learning to create and use mnemonic devices, etc.

I just asked ChatGPT, and got something like 15 different techniques, some of which can be used with kindergarteners, all of which can be used by grade 5.

There are always going to be "boring" things to learn. These things are often no longer boring once you know them by heart. In fact, they're often extremely valuable to know. I think by grade 5, if kids are going to be taught anything, they need to be taught the techniques that they can use—on their own—to make learning fun.

They're telling us that iPhones are going to be getting so big, we're going to have to buy it its own custom pocket.

I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a screen and asked my boss — a little too loudly — if we were at an auto parts store.

"Shhhhh! That's the Terminal!"

I'm nostalgic for an old World Wide Web (which never really existed, thanks to GeoCities and such), and wish that we could form a sect of "Puritans," break away from the High Church, and sail away to some top-level domain of our own where we'll consider any outbound links heretical.

I'm 58, and have needed reading glasses for the last 10 years. Want to try something fun? Increase your default text size on your iPhone, and then just watch how many apps — native Apple apps, mind you — have their UI screwed up to the point where they become unusable!

Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today.

According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.)—sent letters to Apple, Google, and Research in Motion (BlackBerry's parent company) urging the removal of such apps […]"

So, we have precedent where four Democratic senators pressured Apple to remove an app that allowed people to evade law enforcement.

Is Objective-C discussed at all?

Unless I'm mistaken, I remember some years ago the Apple Store blocked a DUI Checkpoint app. Has that changed?

My understanding is that your characterization is true of the Articles of Confederation, but not true of the Constitution. The federal government's power is delegated from the people.

At the top of the Articles, it's pretty clear that the delegates of the states have come together to establish a league of states. At the top of the Constitution, it's explicitly stated that "We the People […] do ordain and establish."

I'm not going to downvote you. But Rawls never applies. Rawls is a big scam. At root, it is relativism wrapped up in the august raiment of state-of-nature social contract theory, whatever his protests to the contrary; and the relativism in this case is what "feels right" to him and his fancy neighbors living in Cambridge.

Exactly. Children belong with their parents. And if their parents don't belong here, then Q.E.D.

I anthropomorphize A.I. not for its sake but for mine. I figure that my brain has evolved to interact with other humans, so maybe my thinking is better stimulated when I pretend I'm talking to one.

The fact that this would require a constitutional amendment makes me think this is more about collecting names to later pester for money than anything else. I wouldn't even take it seriously.

"Make bank. Troll the libs." The people behind this see it as a win-win.

Deep breaths, people. Deep breaths.

It's sad that late-binding languages like Objective-C never got the love they should have, and instead people have favored strongly (or stronger) typed languages. In Objective-C, you could have your User class take a delegate. The delegate could either handle messages for students or employees. And you could code the base User object to ignore anything that couldn't be handled by its particular delegate.

This is a very flexible way of doing things. Sure, you'll have people complain that this is "slow." But it's only slow in computer standards. By human standards—meaning the person sitting at a desktop or phone UI—it's fast enough that they'll never notice.

Sunny's. I know it was actually a dance bar. I hung out a lot at Rooney's and sometimes the OMI.

On the one side of Sunny's was a gym. On the other side was a Sears catalog showroom. Above the Sears were two apartments. My friends and I lived in one of them. I was a music major, as was another one of us. The other two were graphic design and communications, respectfully.

The Sears was at the end of the street, at the start of which was the police department. It was a one-way street, so the cops were always traveling past. My understanding is that the Sears eventually turned into a topless bar, after the Sears showrooms went out of business.

Where did you work at the school? I worked for a short time in the food service. I waited tables at the Topiary Tree. I also was part of the wait staff for events at the president's house.

Graduation weekend 1989 at SUNY Fredonia, my housemate's father was visiting. We were four guys sharing an apartment right next door to the biggest party bar in town. At some point during the night before ceremonies, in the midst of our revelries, my one housemate went out through one of our apartment's windows and onto the roof, followed immediately by my other housemate's father. The cops were, at that moment, in the street breaking up some kind of fight outside the bar. A cop turned and shined his flashlight on the two of them on the roof. The two of them, visiting dad and my other housemate, in response, gave the cops the finger. Good times!

OOP dweeb here. Since "Door" is an object, shouldn't the behavior be encapsulated and accessible to the client only via messaging? Then, we have "open", "close", "lock", and "unlock" -- and however this is implemented is the object's business, and implemented according to current business rules. The business rules may change, but the interface won't.

If we want to know the Door object's state, that's another set of messages.

If the door is open and locked, we don't know what's supposed to happen until we reference the business rules, which is what a lot of people on here are alluding to. Maybe we have a deadbolt, but maybe it's fine to assume that the user is going to unlock the door if necessary before closing it, and that the closed door is now in an unlocked state until the "lock" message is sent.

However this is implemented, our tests will only be on the Door object's interface, and we'll be testing the business rules.

So, the trick here would be to purchase a ticket with a major airline, pack a no-no in your carry-on, and then bypass TSA security by adding yourself to the Known Crew Member list of a small airline using the third-party FlyCASS system, via the SQL-injection. You'd then board the major airline with the no-no. Is that the vulnerability?

As my good fortune would have it, I'm called to jury duty two weeks from now. I doubt I'll be sat though. Should I be, I'll keep the above in mind.

"Candid Camera" required people to sign a release for the scene to be aired, no?

I agree. Inflating the money supply (for example, via cheap credit policies) distorts the economy and creates malinvestment. Unadulterated consumer demand is eclipsed by the artificial demand created by the newly created money. The new money isn't distributed uniformly and immediately in an economy. It starts out somewhere. So, in this case, one of the distortions is in the housing market.

Working people are perfectly willing to purchase homes they can afford. In fact, it is safe to assume that it is one of their top priorities. If affordable housing isn't being created, something is amiss. See above!

I also don’t understand people on a tech forum not being more sympathetic about the economy’s troubles. Is tech not in a recession? That’s ludicrous. Tech is in a bad way.

Wayback Machine archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240401233215/https://www.econo...

My understanding is that it’s the other way around. The Jews despised the Samaritans. The Samaritans were the hayseed, “deplorable” Israelites left behind when Israel was conquered by the Persians and the elites carted off to Babylon. When the elites returned, they who became the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the Temple, but they who became who we know as the Jews spurned their offer.

Perhaps this is essentially more lawfare against a party antagonistic to the political aims of Washington players. We know that our national (as well as state) law enforcement entities have been alleging for more than a decade now that Apple's encryption practices stymie their efforts to catch "bad guys." What better way to put back room pressure on a company.

The Korean women want careers, and if they're open to having children, they want husbands who are willing to split the housework and childrearing fifty-fifty. Going by the article, the complaint is that it's hard to find potential husbands open to that arrangement. Also, going by the testimony of one woman quoted in the article, apparently some of them, when they do find a husband agreeable to splitting the housework—in this particularly case, the dish washing—find that the husband doesn't do the housework to their satisfaction.

I don't have a solution for these women, but I notice that the BBC spent a year interviewing Korean women, but no Korean men.

I think a solution for the Korean men who maybe want children and wives who neither want careers of their own nor who insist that the domestic duties be split evenly would be something equivalent to the United States's H1-B Visa: namely, aspiring Korean husbands should be able to sponsor and marry foreign wives when no suitable native born candidates can be found.

All over YouTube are fresh faced kids telling you how to make 10 thousand dollars a month with a sure fire side hustle. At some point, even someone like me who can be a bit slow on the uptake has to realize it's too good to be true.

I still don’t get what they’re trying to say. The more parts of your brain that are able to interact with one another, the more likely you are to be diagnosed with ADHD?