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Breaking down Trump's foreign policy and the historical parallels to the Monroe Doctrine. Also, a historical breakdown of the Monroe Doctrine and historical ...
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L'Argentine paie le prix de son soutien au génocide perpétré par Netanyahu à Gaza.
🚨 Urgent : Des touristes israéliens impliqués dans d’importants incendies de forêt en Argentine. Ces touristes ont utilisé une bombe M26 IM, un type de bombe fabriqué en Israël. L'armée d'occupation l'a utilisé lors de ses opérations à Gaza.
Il convient de noter que le président extrémiste de l'Argentine, Javier Alejandro, est un extrémiste, un sioniste et un partisan du génocide à Gaza.
As Americans abroad, we often feel both responsible for and helpless to fight the rogue state that our democracy has become. What can we do but bear witness and stand in solidarity with those the Trump administration has harmed?
I’ll be at the vigil in Athens today (7 pm Plateia Mavilis) with this sign:
Η πολυαγαπημένη ιστορία του Σταύρου Τσιώλη Ας περιμένουν οι γυναίκες μεταπηδά από την 7η στην 9η τέχνη. Η ιδέα γεννήθηκε από τους Μάριο Ιωαννίδη και Κατερίνα Νανούρη του Chaniartoon Press,…
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Es la barba, que da mucha autoridad. Tenéis que dejaros barba.
Ahora fuera bromas, lamento mucho que siempre estemos con las mismas. Como tu dices, hay quien debería pedir disculpas. No por haber hecho un crimen ni nada, sino por decencia y por aprender a ser mejores en un futuro. Además esta es una de esas ocasiones en las que admitir que te equivocaste y disculparte es lo correcto y no tiene ningún coste asociado.
UNMASKING I.C.E. We are publicizing the names and faces of two I.C.E. agents who have been spotted kidnapping people on multiple occasions across the greater Portland area. These people are a threat to our community. They do not deserve peace or anonymity. No safety for the Gestapo scumbags at I.C.E.!
In the -american supported- dictatorship nobody speaks about: Modather Mohamed Abdelhamid, an engineering student at #Egypt's Helwan University who has been detained since 20 October 2023 for participating in demonstrations in solidarity with #Gaza., has written a harrowing letter from inside prison.
Shared by the Youth and Students Office of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, the letter details the reality faced by dozens of young people prosecuted for peacefully expressing a humanitarian and political position that, in essence, aligns with the Egyptian state’s declared stance.
He asks why there is such “obstinacy in stripping away freedom”, stressing that he committed no crime punishable by law. He affirms his belief in the rule of law and insists that he merely exercised his constitutional right to peaceful protest. His participation, he writes, stemmed from support for the Palestinian cause and rejection of the crimes and massacres committed against the #Palestinian people.
When teaching a group of students new to coding I've noticed that my students who are normally very good about not calling out during class will shout "it's not working!" the moment their code hits an error and fails to run. They want me to fix it right away. This makes for too many interruptions since I'm easy to nerd snipe in this way.
I think I need to let them know that fixing errors that keep the code from running is literally what I'm trying to teach.
Me: "OK everyone. Next we'll make this into a function so we can simply call it each time-"
Student 1: "It won't work." (student who wouldn't interrupt like this normally)
Student 2: "Mine's broken too!"
Student 3: "It says error. I have the EXACT same thing as you but it's not working."
This makes me feel overloaded and grouchy. Too many questions at once. What I want them to do is wait until the explanation is done and ask when I'm walking around.
I think they become anxious when their code isn't working the same as what I have up on the projector and they want to get it fixed RIGHT AWAY so they won't fall behind.
Then when one of them starts calling out they all do it.
I may take some time to explain this.
This never happens when I'm teaching math. Something about coding makes them forget some of their manners, and become less self-sufficient. "It's broke! I'm helpless!"
I work closely with a CS teacher snd I am a language teacher and just this past Friday we had a conversation about this exact phenomenon, which we both experience. I think because they can use their first language 'perfectly' and I think because their devices work 'perfectly' they think it should be easy to do right the first time and panic when they can't. They don't know what 'perfect' looks like in math so maybe they're more patient with it. 1/2
My students aren't lazy, but they *can* be a little perfectionist: scared to take risks or sit with not having the answer right away.
They are really upset when their code won't run... but staying calm and *systematically* looking for the cause of the problem, knowing that if you just work through the tree of possible causes you will find it is not something they are good at.
I think I need to teach this.
Maybe I will give them some broken code and we will find the errors together.
maybe reiterate at the start of the demo, and even put up a short statement on the wall so you can point at it rather than answer! Should drum it in quickly
1. There *is* an error in your code. It's probably just a typo. You can find it by looking for it in a calm, systematic way.
2. The error will make sense. It's not random. The computer does not "just hate you"
3. Read the error message. The error message *tries* to help you, but it's just a computer so YOUR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE may be needed to find the real source of error.
4. Every programmer makes errors. Great programmers can find and fix them.
Things to Try: * look for typos * look at what the error message indicates.
If these don't work consider reverting your last changes to the last working version of your code. Then try making the changes again, but be more careful.
If you can't revert the changes, start removing bits of the code systematically. Remove the things you think might cause the error and run the code again. Isolate the change or code that causes the problem.
"I usually have clear me/them speaking parts in the course. While I speak, they listen, which I enforce up to the last whisper.
Also, the "me" parts only take 15-20 minutes each"
This is how I normally teach (although with middle school students I keep "me" bits to under 8 min each) this is why it's so annoying when they call out during these sections. Something they wouldn't ever do normally.
Something about coding and seeing the error makes them not see it as "time to listen"
So Your Code Won't Run: great! Errors like this that stop it running completely are much easier to track down than errors that just give you the wrong answer. Or give you the wrong answer _sometimes_.
I think CS students and also everyone else should use the list, but in reverse order. 1). Calm down, you’ll get over it and find a fix in no time. Everyone does. 2) Read the error and read it again. It tells you pretty much where, or sometimes even what exactly is the problem. Fix is right there. 3) The error makes sense, it is not magic. Ever. 4) It is probably a typo, you’ll find it after competing the first 3 points. Go to 1).
what I'm trying to convey is that there is a *reason* why the code isn't working and it will make sense in the context of the rules the got dang computer is trying to follow.
It might be annoying or silly, but it will "make sense"
I know what you mean, and you're perfectly right when it comes to sane programming languages. However, C++ compilers have a habit of spewing out error messages the size of a Tolstoy novel in response to mistakes as trivial as a missing comma. Now I assume you're not teaching the kids C++ as that would be quite irresponsible.
assigning code broken in specific ways & having a rubric for teaching the troubleshooting sounds like it should be SOP for coding courses, is this not normally part of the curriculum? 🤔
(def not dumping on you, asking as an Old who is a self-taught potato coder who never did a CS degree & feels like the way I learned basically anything that I do know was: type it in from a magazine or other source / modify working code that’s similar to what I need -> make mistakes in transcription / tweaks -> code doesn’t run or runs with errors -> troubleshoot the mistakes -> learn stuff 🙃)
Learning what error messages are and what they can tell you is so important. It's so different to many other subjects where you don't get that kind of information when something goes wrong, plus they will have grown up using computers of various kinds where an error message really is just a cryptic string of words that they can't do anything with.
this sounds fantastic - very keen to hear how it goes. I often find myself and others not able to break down an error message or missing a key part that's right in front of me.
Some languages, frameworks and IDEs make it easier than others.
i have freshmen with the same behavior. I think the immediate feedback of the computer is a double edged sword. I don't know about your students, but mine don't even read carefully what the error message is (not even talking about the fact that the errors are written in English, not French 😱). All they see is "I did like the teacher and it's not working. Therefore the computer must be right."
Maybe some direct instruction troubleshooting lessons?
Distribute code broken in specific ways and show them how to tell which problem is showing up?
The calling out is definitely contageous, I recognise that. Can you structure in class troubleshooting time as you go - perhaps each kid has a visual token so you can see at a glance who needs help and who can give it? Something like a card with different colours front and back for 👍/👎?
have a look at some of the stuff Phill Bagge wrote about Learnt Helplessness philbagge.blogspot.com/2015/02… and ways to work around it. I remember him doing lots of related work on it about 10 years ago.
This is helpful for me. I had a hard time understanding why one student was upset, almost to the point of tears (they are very sensitive) that the error message said "error on line 32" but, really the problem was the way they originally named the variable.
"Why couldn't it just say the error was on line 4? 😢 I tried everything I could to fix line 32. 🥺 😢 "
My sweet child... it's just not that smart, not like you.
Maybe it could help if you give the explanation you just gave at the beginning of the class - even with a little example of an error they common encounter (e.g. path wrong or typo)? I think the idea that how to understand and solve problems (errors) is what you want to teach is not obvious when people think about coding but also reassuring. And emphasising what works for you (and why) - e.g. ask questions when I make my rounds - could also make students feel more comfortable to say what works for them.
I’ve only ever taught university students, so I wouldn’t know if this works for school age kids. But I have felt flustered myself when attending programming workshops even after a decade of programming semi-regularly - maybe indeed because there is the fear of falling behind during the lessons.
in my experience the jump from teaching scratch, where there are no syntax errors, to python is huge.
None of the courses ive taught (not my own) included anything covering how to deal with parser errors and i think its an entire lesson in itself. Not sure any students i had would have the patience to follow that lesson as it would be hard to have the "i made the computer do something" pay off.
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Does anyone know of a performant, well-tested C++ implementation of an interval tree that you can attach values to? I know of: github.com/ekg/intervaltree which has bugs & is very slow, doc.cgal.org/latest/Interval_s… which looks amazing but appears to bring a lot of baggage & I don't know about performance and boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs… which I hear is slow. Help?
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@matrix BFG edition is pretty good. I'm playing it now. There are parts that were clearly designed for you to not have a flashlight. Good ideas on paper, but very poorly implemented. The flashlight really saved it.
Max Schrems kritisiert die geplante #DSGVO-Reform der EU. Er fordert eine differenzierte Regelung, die große Datenkonzerne strenger reguliert und kleinere Unternehmen entlastet. Die gegenwärtigen Pläne würden das Grundrecht auf #Datenschutz untergraben und #KI ohne ausreichende Regeln einsetzen. Das Interview ist wirklich spannend. netzpolitik.org/2025/dsgvo-ref…
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Archie wasn't actually *my* dog. He was my neighbor and landlord's.
Don't get confused now -- my neighbors were a couple named Josh and Henrik. It just so happens that I am also Josh, and had a dog (Berner) named Henrik. The fact that we all lived together and also had the same names is entirely coincidental.
But Archie, (other) Josh's dog, was sometimes a handful for them but was always an angel for me. I found out that Archie passed away this week. 🙁
I've always wondered if the reason why they did this is because they knew having any sort of sex would result in a kid so this was the best option for them where they could satisfy their sexual desires to some degree without the risk of starting a family or going through all that traditional stuff.
I often worry that I'm doing something that annoys people, at work, at home, online, on the bus anywhere... and they are just going to be annoyed but never explain to me what I'm doing that's so annoying.
Then, "out of nowhere" someone will blow up at me and be *so mad* when I didn't even know what I was doing wrong.
This has, of course, happened a few times before. It's why I don't enjoy talking about people in a negative way when they aren't around.
I think this happens to introverts more, and the less expert your social skills the more it's likely to be you.
Do you think that applies? It does for me.
My social skills are very ... synthetic, none of it comes easily. I kind of follow the recipes of how to be nice, they do mostly work, but it's very baffling.
Yeah, I was partially doing the "it me!" post. It's absolutely an introvert thing I would assume fairly common.
I'm with you 100% on all this really. I generally don't like talking about people behind their backs and what very few times I ever tried to do it just to fit in it went specularly badly anyway.
In college a group of girls in my year (really good-looking popular kids) decided that I "thought I was better than them" when I was really intimidated by them and apparently talked about this for months before someone brought it up with me "why do you hate Jane, Jill and Julie so much? I think it's awful how you treat them."
I was so shocked and sad that I made everything awkward by going right over to them and asking what was going on.
This is all true. But I also try not to get too worked up when I find out others have been talking about me behind my back, provided it's not too outrageously malicious. I figure people do that all the time about everybody and it's not worth worrying over.
I struggle with this one. Sometimes there are people in the community who are just not gonna change a certain type of behavior, and the behavior is annoying but not, y'know, criminal. I can see why people want to complain behind the back of that person; it helps them cope with someone who they want to maintain friendly relations with. Still makes me uncomfortable, though, and I usually don't unless the framing is "how do I better cope with the thing that won't change."
yes. and i continually need to re-learn which folks just need someone to listen to their complaints. my natural tendency is to then say: how can we fix this? but (and it still surprises me), this seems to just add another problem to the person’s list? learning learning learning…
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