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New comment by peterder in "Nobody cares"

peterder — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:14:02 +0000

Patton Oswalt has a bit on this and its too true. The problem with the DMV isn't the DMV or its employees... its the general public who can't be bothered to read basic instructions.

New comment by peterder in "Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged"

peterder — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:57:20 +0000

There's a lot of sensor-integrated parts that are difficult or impossible to repair and very expensive to replace.

New comment by peterder in "Nitrous Service Shutdown – November 14th"

peterder — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:06:02 +0000

Depends. I spent some time teaching high school students. A large portion of them will not write any code after taking the class.

Teaching them how to install and configure an IDE is a pretty useless skill in that context.

Instead, even if they never code again, teaching them a little bit about how to think like a computer and some basic computer skills (many of them were almost computer illiterate) seemed like a much more valuable use of time.

New comment by peterder in "Nitrous Service Shutdown – November 14th"

peterder — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:02:05 +0000

As a former volunteer CS instructor (for high school students), the cloud IDEs were great for use on school owned hardware that got wiped randomly, often had boot issues, etc.

As long as the students had a working machine, they'd be able to get to their projects regardless of whether it was on the machine they used the previous day (without have to deal with git/etc).

In my professional life I would never use these tools.

New comment by peterder in "When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me"

peterder — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:23:34 +0000

This organization can probably help her directly with the prosthetic hands: http://www.ln-4.org/