@Reluctant_Weeb@WashedOutGundamPilot Yeah having engaging teachers that know their subject matter makes a huge difference. Of course, then the working conditions have to be appealing to people skilled enough to make it in the actual field. That said, sometimes that’s achievable by industry conditions being terrible in a given region, though it’s not great for morale to admit to students that one of the best achievable outcomes for them if they learn your subject is becoming a school teacher of that subject.
@WashedOutGundamPilot >Now they've fixed the maths problem boys are being outperformed across the board. Was the fix destroying the curriculum to lower the bar, while also constantly demoralizing the demographic that was previously succeeding in maths?
@WashedOutGundamPilot Man they love downvoting truths they don't want to hear. >Also reeeee you're being condescending If someone being condescending to you makes you defensive and unreceptive to what they're trying to tell you, congrats, that's one of the points proven about why your education tactics are failing.
@givenup@SKracket@LordMordred@WashedOutGundamPilot If he did, I imagine it was in the context of "it would be better to have a like-minded group of parents to better share the load" rather than "no you have to send them to the meat grinder"
@SKracket@LordMordred@WashedOutGundamPilot same, I have half-siblings on each side, my father's children track his height, my mother's children track their respective fathers' heights
@skylar@lanodan@ocean@coolboymew >the good memories folks have must come from back when they were owned by IBM. A lot of it feels like a cargo cult a few generations down the line when nobody has even seen first hand what a proper laptop is supposed to be.
It's easy to think the chiclet keyboard isn't a problem when you don't have a T60 sitting next to you. It's easy to think 16:9 with a 3cm bottom bezel and 2cm top bezel is an acceptable use of space if you don't have a laptop that was actually designed to fit the panel chosen. The TrackPoint is a rare feature and the best pointer on them... except other laptops have better touchpads, and the Tex Shinobi's TrackPoint blows the Lenovo ones out of the water.
But that's ok, because ThinkPads are built with serviceability in mind unlike consumer jun- wait what's that? One of the SODIMMs is soldered? Who cares, I can still get 40GB running at a lower frequency because of mismatched memory channels, nobody should want 64GB anyway, ThinkPad Master Race!
@lanodan@ocean@coolboymew They can do everything they want to on it, including things artificially restricted from being done on general purpose computers. They don't care about 5 year product lifetimes because they planned to trade up to a newer model in that timeframe anyway.
@lanodan@ocean@coolboymew the market forces make sense when you realize smartphones are some people's entire computing budgets and they sell or trade-in their previous model
@feld@lanodan@ocean@coolboymew >form factor I would have purchased a Pro Mini with USB-C had one existed. The only thing that stopped me from impulse buying a 13 Mini last year was the realization that I don't have a single Lightning cable and it didn't come with a charger.
I just want to go back to the pre-phablet era and have a Galaxy S2 sized smartphone that isn't deliberately worse than my 2019 midrange.
@coolboymew@ocean Price differential makes you feel like you get some form of value on the upsell. Without the gimped model below it, you'd just look at the sticker price and think about how expensive it is in isolation.