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New comment by cheesecakegood in "Elon of Ed-Tech"

cheesecakegood — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:12:45 +0000

If your "features" page doesn't actually contain even an iota of actual information, but does contain a copyrighted image from the Limitless TV show right next to a buy now button, you're not gonna make it. Sorry.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

cheesecakegood — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:07:05 +0000

Except when I recently put XFCE on my old macbook air laptop as a trial run, within the first day I found it nearly impossible to do something so simple as add an application to the taskbar/dock. Something about AppPkg's not showing up by default in the taskbar adder? I finally figured it out, but no icon - just an invisible square. And guess what? If I decide the update the app, the whole thing breaks again.

I have a degree in a tech-related field. I do things on the command line on purpose every week. It should not be this hard even for me to so something so simple. It is not even remotely ready for regular joe end users.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:51:40 +0000

Needs qualification. Research shows trial and error learning is very durable, but it’s not the most time efficient (in fact it’s relatively poor, usually, on that front). The two concepts are a bit different. Yes, trial and error engages more of the brain and provides a degree of difficulty that can sometimes be helpful in making the concepts sticky, but well designed teaching coupled with meaningful and appropriately difficult retrieval and practice is better on most axes. When possible… good teaching often needs refinement. And you’d be surprised how many educators know very little about the neuroscience of learning!