@fu The idea is that your teen probably needs to successfully finish school, so she isn't still doing that same low-wage, no-benefits job thirty years from now. And yes, that does happen.
What these pollies are trying to do is give companies compliant and helpless workers, so they don't have to raise pay and benefits enough to attract currently unwilling adults.
Even in SoCal, I knew a girl who quit high school because $FAST_FOOD_PLACE promised to make her a manager with a sizable raise. A year or so later, after the promotion and raise hadn't come, she changed to another FFP employer ... according to someone from the old neighborhood, she wound up perishing in a suspicious single-vehicle crash a few years later.
That said, if you and your spouse are home schooling your kids, one of you should be the relevant school principal. City Prep's principal has no record of how well students from outside that school are doing.
@fu @lnxw48a1 I think what we are seeing play out is what George Carlin was talking about...
>Governments don’t want well informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. >They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it. – George Carlin
Recall that the hat and the turtle belong to a continuum of shapes denoted Tile(a,b) for edge lengths a and b. The hat is Tile(1,sqrt(3)), and the "turtle" is Tile(sqrt(3),1). All members of that continuum are aperiodic except for the equilateral polygon Tile(1,1). Dave became curious about Tile(1,1) after seeing Yoshi Araki playing around visually with its close relative Tile(1,1.01). (2/n)
Because Tile(1,1) is equilateral, it permits a wider range of adjacencies, which then allow it to tile isohedrally using equal numbers of unreflected and reflected tiles. (3/n)
Does that matter? Hang on, there's one more step! Because Tile(1,1) is equilateral, and because we're not using reflections, it's easy to modify its edges to *force* it to tile without reflections.
These shapes, which we call "Spectres", are "strict chiral aperiodic monotiles": shapes that are forced to tile aperiodically, and can't use reflections! If you objected to the hat because of its reflections, this is the shape for you. (6/n)
Polymer chemist Henry Aaron Hill was born OTD in 1915. He did an organic chemistry PhD at MIT, then became a research scientist & later vice president at North Atlantic Research Corp. In 1977 he was elected president of the American Chemical Society – the society's first Black president.
Deflection of starlight by the gravitational field of the sun was observed during a solar eclipse #OTD in 1919. This was an important piece of evidence supporting a central prediction of Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity.
@peterrelph There appear to be some faint star trails in it? I can't tell if it's that, or if it's artifacts. In either case, I think this is just an image of totality, and not a plate used to measure the position of the stars.
@CorioPsicologia Cuando yo hice la universidad el online no existía, pero recuerdo durante la carrera haber soñado que aprendía a volar y que eso me hacía sumamente feliz ya que significaba que no tenía que tomar el tren nunca más. Lástima que fue solo un sueño 😆
Look, I also like interesting tech, but imo it is grotesque to give these pitch deck summaries without offering any comment on the zillions of ways it will be abused.
Sure, I guess it’s impressive tech, but so what? If you can’t offer any insight into how to prevent abuse, then give it an honest name like ConsentEradicator or PrivacyViolator. Be honest about how these tools will be used and abused.
@mcnees I can see it being good for pro photographers with crap in the background they don’t want in the shot, problematic exposures, custom portraits for holidays, boudoir, wedding, photography arts. Currently the pros use tools to isolate subject from background so they can lay in a new background and/or fill a pattern.
I bet 90% of it will be the objectionable use cases and evil intent folks though.
If you haven’t found your Sunday night rabbit hole yet, take a look at the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales. It’s like a Dewey decimal system for legends, tall tales, and folklore.
@mcnees I only know of this because it’s featured in Seanan McGuire’s urban fantasy book series, Indexing. Fun reading, especially for those who love folk & fairy tales.