Today in reading the headlines...
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@Zerosquare included for free with your next mug purchase!
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@apapadimoulis Do you sell the mugs?
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@apapadimoulis I too would like to purchase a mug if they are on sale.
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They’re coming for the weebs!
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@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
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@apapadimoulis Problem is, my eyes are bigger than my mug cabinet. I work at home now, so no one would appreciate what a 1337 g33k the mug would make me.
Plus, I already have about 20 mugs I don't use.
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@jinpa so what you're saying is that, if I send you a pre-paid shipping label and ask nicely, I can get one of your unused mugs!
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@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@jinpa so what you're saying is that, if I send you a pre-paid shipping label and ask nicely, I can get one of your unused mugs!
TDWTF mug swap!
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@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@jinpa so what you're saying is that, if I send you a pre-paid shipping label and ask nicely, I can get one of your unused mugs!
TDWTF cultural mug
swapexchange program!
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@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@jinpa so what you're saying is that, if I send you a pre-paid shipping label and ask nicely, I can get one of your unused mugs!
Hmm. I'm a procrastinator, so I can't guarantee if or when I'll get around to it, but I'd hypothetically be willing to send you 2 coffee mugs and a shipping label with the hope of receiving one of the highly esteemed The Daily WTF coffee mugs.
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And I'm just sitting here thinking that I've got basically no chance with friggin international shipping.
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@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
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More proof that David Niven can make anything better.
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@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
And I'm just sitting here thinking that I've got basically no chance with friggin international shipping.
Yeah, I looked up the price of a prepaid USPS International label and it was a bit crazy.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
Lots of uneaten salmiakki.
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@Rhywden said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Dragoon said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Jaime said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Why should my results change depending on if all the classmates are geniuses or morons?
More interesting question: how do you compare the capability of two teachers, or two curricula if the outcome is fixed?
Issues with tests aside.
Give both classes a test from an independent third party and the class with the test results falling at or better then the bell curve is the better teacher.
Not really. The last years I regularly taught three classes the same topic in the same year. I covered the same topics and they got the same tests.
Our grading system goes from 1 to 6. A 1 is the best grade, a 4 is passsing grade, 5 means you failed and a 6 means that you failed epically.
This year, one of the three classes had an average of 2.1 in the first exam, the second had an average of 2.9 and the 3rd one of 3.6
Your assumption relies on an evenly distributed amount of skill and diligence among the classes. It also ignores class dynamics which can play a huge role in the overall performance of a class. Sometimes you just need one clown to completely throw your preparations in disarray.
Maybe universities shouldn't need to grade at all, and there should be a separated entity for accreditation where people find there is a need (like doctors where one that didn't learn could be deadly)
People that are just out of university aren't being easily hired. If you need to prove yourself with something else, all that the extra work for testing was a large unecessary frustration.
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@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
I think would be cheaper and faster to print it in those customized mugs place in the country of the customers than send it to another country
@Polygeekery an idea for entrepreneurs, a CDN of mugs!
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@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
And I'm just sitting here thinking that I've got basically no chance with friggin international shipping.
Yeah, I looked up the price of a prepaid USPS International label and it was a bit crazy.
Sometimes I keep thinking that just a few centuries ago, before the automobile, I would barely know anything about someone 100km from here, and other countries would be just some black&white photos and would barely feel like real places, and most I would know about them would be hoaxes and misinformation.
Well, most of what I know about other countries still is from reddit and tdwtf anyway.
I'm just rambling, disregard this
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Rhywden said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Dragoon said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Jaime said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Why should my results change depending on if all the classmates are geniuses or morons?
More interesting question: how do you compare the capability of two teachers, or two curricula if the outcome is fixed?
Issues with tests aside.
Give both classes a test from an independent third party and the class with the test results falling at or better then the bell curve is the better teacher.
Not really. The last years I regularly taught three classes the same topic in the same year. I covered the same topics and they got the same tests.
Our grading system goes from 1 to 6. A 1 is the best grade, a 4 is passsing grade, 5 means you failed and a 6 means that you failed epically.
This year, one of the three classes had an average of 2.1 in the first exam, the second had an average of 2.9 and the 3rd one of 3.6
Your assumption relies on an evenly distributed amount of skill and diligence among the classes. It also ignores class dynamics which can play a huge role in the overall performance of a class. Sometimes you just need one clown to completely throw your preparations in disarray.
Maybe universities shouldn't need to grade at all, and there should be a separated entity for accreditation where people find there is a need (like doctors where one that didn't learn could be deadly)
People that are just out of university aren't being easily hired. If you need to prove yourself with something else, all that the extra work for testing was a large unecessary frustration.
That's what universities did for quite a long time in Germany, by the way. When I started we still had our "Diploma"-system. This meant that you usually finished your studies with a diploma. Sometimes you got a distinction if you excelled in one way or the other (cum laude / summa cum laude) but no real grade. Of course there were some exceptions like the really fucking stupid system they still have in law - where you can theoretically gain 18 points but gaining 9 points already puts you right at the top (only 15% achieve this grade and a mere 3.5% go beyond that).
But then we needed to adopt this Bachelor-/Master-system and that meant exams everywhere and every time. I was lucky because I still ran the old system and thus could care less about the grade - I just needed to pass. Only at the very end I had to take several graded exams - but as my subjects are in high demand, the final grade also didn't matter.
This grading stupidity is the reason, by the way, why several universities in Germany have their own tests now to determine who gets to study medicine. Those tests try to determine your skill level in the subjects which actually matter for getting through the whole study course (after all, medicine is an expensive subject for universities and everyone who drops out is quite a lot of lost money).
The university of Heidelberg also found that study success does not depend as much on your final school grade but more on the age you began studying - the older you are, the more likely it is that you drop out.
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@Rhywden grades have been diluted beyond reason. Everybody who used to get a Realschule degree gets an Abitur now, even the high-functioning idiots. First semester uni is spent teaching all the math you should’ve learned at school. You write a bachelor’s thesis, you’re basically at a point of “I went through all this trouble, how can you fail me now”. And a “barely passing“ grade now means 2- (very roughly B- for the Americans) instead of a 4- (D-).
Don’t expect somebody with a 2+ or 1- to be any good.
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@topspin I ruefully smile whenever I see an employer (or anyone, actually) ask about GPA. If you sort first by difficulty of college, then it has meaning, but if you sort first by GPA it's a joke. An A at Strayer is easier than a D at Harvard or Cal Tech or Hopkins.
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@jinpa said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin I ruefully smile whenever I see an employer (or anyone, actually) ask about GPA. If you sort first by difficulty of college, then it has meaning, but if you sort first by GPA it's a joke. An A at Strayer is easier than a D at Harvard or Cal Tech or Hopkins.
Doubt it now. My experience is that the more educated they are the longer it takes to toliet train them. The name and rank just gets them past the hr drone.
I did my masters in this area.
I expect something that's working by Thursday, then.
Academia and getting something working by this time next week are two very different things.
If you go corporate and are starting out I would recommend getting those pieces of paper. They’ll land you in a higher pay grade and that compounds well.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
I need new glasses and/or more caffeine. I read that as
What other tat do you have in there? Any knickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@jinpa said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin I ruefully smile whenever I see an employer (or anyone, actually) ask about GPA. If you sort first by difficulty of college, then it has meaning, but if you sort first by GPA it's a joke. An A at Strayer is easier than a D at Harvard or Cal Tech or Hopkins.
Doubt it now.
I always get a kick out of it when my brief point is solely about the relationship between two things, and someone thinks they're refuting me by saying something about the general category both those things are in.
My experience is that the more educated they are the longer it takes to toliet train them. The name and rank just gets them past the hr drone.
I did my masters in this area.
I expect something that's working by Thursday, then.
Academia and getting something working by this time next week are two very different things.
If you go corporate and are starting out I would recommend getting those pieces of paper. They’ll land you in a higher pay grade and that compounds well.
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@jinpa Wasn't refuting you. Just adding my experience. If you want to feel attacked, go right ahead.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
Oooooo! That reminds me of something I acquired a couple months ago. At our seminar, there was a guy from Mongolia who trains in aikido. At the after party he passed out patches from his school:
It kind of looks like a guy doing aikido, and apparently says aikido in Mongolian. Not planning on parting with this, but happy to taunt you guys with how cool it is.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
I think would be cheaper and faster to print it in those customized mugs place in the country of the customers than send it to another country
@Polygeekery an idea for entrepreneurs, a CDN of mugs!
Isn't that what Amazon does?
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@Carnage said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@sockpuppet7 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
I think would be cheaper and faster to print it in those customized mugs place in the country of the customers than send it to another country
@Polygeekery an idea for entrepreneurs, a CDN of mugs!
Isn't that what Amazon does?
No, Amazon requires you to use their warehouses to distribute your mugs, takes 60% of the revenues from them, and then launches a line of competing mugs to undercut your pricing.
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@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
No, Amazon requires you to use their warehouses to distribute your mugs, takes 60% of the revenues from them, and then launches a line of competing mugs to undercut your pricing.
And if your mugs don't sell, storage fees eat up the other 40% and it becomes cheaper to just give Amazon your mugs to
donate to charitydump in a landfill,
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Doubt it now.
@jinpa Wasn't refuting you. Just adding my experience. If you want to feel attacked, go right ahead.
No, I'm not about feelings, just truth.
But I understand that not everyone is.
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@jinpa said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Doubt it now.
@jinpa Wasn't refuting you. Just adding my experience. If you want to feel attacked, go right ahead.
No, I'm not about feelings, just truth.
But I understand that not everyone is.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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@boomzilla said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor @jinpa not planning on a mug sale anytime soon... but if you ask nicely and are able to send me a pre-paid USPS shipping label, I just may go to the store room, pack one up, and drop at at the post office for ya
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
Oooooo! That reminds me of something I acquired a couple months ago. At our seminar, there was a guy from Mongolia who trains in aikido. At the after party he passed out patches from his school:
It kind of looks like a guy doing aikido, and apparently says aikido in Mongolian. Not planning on parting with this, but happy to taunt you guys with how cool it is.
Are you sure you are showing us the front end, not the back end?
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
There's also some TDWTF stickers, buttons, and a bunch of Naturalist Games and ABC++ Programming Language Board books.
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@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
And I'm just sitting here thinking that I've got basically no chance with friggin international shipping.
Yeah, I looked up the price of a prepaid USPS International label and it was a bit crazy.
It's ridiculous. Domestic rates rates have gotten stupidly expensive too...
Apparently there are some services that get like 80% discount rates. We used to use Shippo for everything when we sold stuff.
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@apapadimoulis said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
What other tat do you have in there? Any stickers or badges? Genuinely interested.
There's also some TDWTF stickers, buttons, and a bunch of Naturalist Games and ABC++ Programming Language Board books.
$42 for an envelope! I'm getting paid and hammered tomorrow so I might send you one for stickers.
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There is no way the article can live up to that headline.
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Straying a bit into the gaeage but
The headline is gold if your read MTG as: Magic The Gathering.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Limerick gardai
There was a young garda from Lim'rick
Who caused quite a fuss with his...
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@HardwareGeek
There was a young garda from Lim’rick
Who caused a stir with his gimmick:
Double entendres or three
When all were delighted to see
A more suitable rhyme for his… shtick
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
The headline is gold if your read MTG as: Magic The Gathering.
I always do.
Filed under: how else would you power the space lazers
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Justice has been done.
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@DogsB fuck the gym. I’d eat all of them, then die happy.
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No.
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@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
No.
The headline is entirely correct, the breeding season has ended, as scheduled, and the bulls should now be removed from the cows for the safety of both parties.
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@Dragoon said in Today in reading the headlines...:
the bulls should now be removed from the cows
At least wait until they’re finished first
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@Dragoon said in Today in reading the headlines...:
The headline is entirely correct, the breeding season has ended, as scheduled, and the bulls should now be removed from the cows for the safety of both parties.
Last time I talked with a cow farmer here, he told me that they stagger breeding across the whole year to get a continuous supply of beef at the correct age for slaughter. So for them there no longer is a "breeding season."
Also, it's unlikely his cows ever saw or touched a bull.
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@DogsB well, at least their market works, unlike the streaming market that is fundamentally unviable.