Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Found Pica's copy of "Optimal Hairball Placement: Getting Them in the Arch!"

And it explains a whole lot. Apparently the center of highest traffic hall, just before dawn is the best location to ensure you "get 'em"

Today I had to explain to a kid what a check was which they understood after some context, but then explaining how you had to go to the bank and use and envelope to deposit checks shocked them.

It occurs to me that the whole tradition of giving people a "giant check" for a sweepstakes may not be as significant as it once was.

Also giant checks are perfectly valid if they have all the details, so I wonder if photo deposit works on them.

@omatto.bsky.social

You would think.

@WeirdWriter @nellie_m

Ah.

@RnDanger @ryanprior @PetraOleum

If she laid systems with more variables on you ... you would have figured it out.

@ryanprior @PetraOleum

We were doing Riemann sums! Which I think are almost a little cruel if you don't write a program. But, few students have the foundations in programming to do this efficiently.

So, instead most teachers only give dead simple problems with easy calculations which are.. I think boring. As if it wasn't boring enough already.

The interesting thing is seeing how changing the parameters improves the result.

@ryanprior @PetraOleum

I had a math teacher who let us use graphing calculators but we had to erase programs before the test (fair) I asked "but I can write a program during the test?"
"why not?"

That was when I started like math TBH.

@nellie_m @chris_hayes @TheBreadmonkey

This isn't true?

https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114004721042096665

@ryanprior

I sometimes forget that I have a very low threshold for busy work. And a high level of excitement for finding a way to avoid it even if it MORE work.

@PetraOleum

I don't really get it. All I wanted at that age was a program to do all that stuff.

Student: But instead of writing a program to reduce the fraction could we just do it by hand?

(She came around after I showed her some of the fractions we needed to reduce for the spirograph project.)

@dalias @jbowen @MastodonEngineering

Yeah, I don't see why I should help keep people who do nothing but harm famous and important seeming in ways that go beyond the harm that they do and any effort to stop them.

Which is why I really don't want to hear any gossip about a whole collection of names that dominate the news. This seems to be part of what keeps them powerful and I don't know why more people can't see this.

@WeirdWriter

Oooo good to know!

@WeirdWriter

I did. You are underestimating my laziness. LMAO.

@bri_seven

Oh, and I can't prove it but I literally call this place "the place that shall not be named" Any post that links to the fedi gets zero traction even if it's the kind of thing that would otherwise get a nice set of comments otherwise.

I legit think it's blocked ... possible with some innocent excuse such as "sauropods.win" and other fedi servers aren't on some list of sites that typical generate "engagement"

@bri_seven

Posting recent pet photos will get traction. And it's shocking how many people are miserable there ... and trying to do very good work in a bad place.

@bri_seven

I've been off for years. Came back in the past month because I really need to gather up some people and get them out of there.

It's like an air-lift operation.

There Is More To Design Than Making A Rounded Rectangle.

(this clap hands thing is more work than I thought it'd be to type. Last time I do THAT)

It's not totally WRONG however, I shall waste my money at disreputable little tech show booths and on tindie, thank you.

It's nice to reconnect with old school friends but if Facebook shows me one more titanium minimalist object of dubious utility with a name a like "Frok : titanium cutlery disrupting the common fork" or whatever I may just bounce out of sheer annoyance at the targeted ads.

It's like being trapped in one of those old "future tech" videos from vsauce from the early oughts.

I guess they have me tagged as some kind of "early adopter, huge nerd, will buy any crap" person.