youngalfred

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're all smaller* than the next northernmost on the chart.

Tokyo is 35 North and new York is 40 North - there's no European city larger than new York between those latitudes.

Next is new York (40 North) and Moscow (55 North). There's no European city that is larger than Moscow between those bounds.

But it depends on what you define as the boundary of the settlement for population purposes. You might include Istanbul (41 North) there if you define population differently. This list has Istanbul in front of Moscow population wise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You could use 0 and 180 degrees longitude

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

On the other hand, an argument for uniforms would be that they remove a whole raft of problems with grey areas.

Without a uniform, you'd need to have a policy about 'acceptable' clothing - profanity, slogans, sun safety, workplace safety etc which would all be up to interpretation by students and an administration.
And you know that students would push the boundaries, and the 'line' would be constantly redrawn every week.
How short is too short on sleeves? What words are inappropriate on shirts?

Uniforms remove this - you're either in the approved uniform, or you aren't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm trying to train my son, who loves chasing pigeons, not to chase magpies because they remember you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Well it is the most isolated captial city in the world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Second the hybrid. I had a nice one - bronze face and the gold hands would move to indicate notification type etc. had some complications for step count etc. It looked great, I reckon it'd be even better with a small eink screen to show who the message was from etc. Kind of like the withings

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Galaxy watch 5 pro would be best of the Samsung ones for that - lasts two days and does all the stuff. It's got nothing on a Garmin for battery life though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Just a rant from me - every one of the videos in the 'breaking news' section of my YouTube is about this. No problem with that.

But every single one of those videos is from Sky News - we're talking 7 videos - and have a guess what they have to say about it!

How is that equitable YouTube? For reference, I don't think it's an algorithm thing because I never watch sky videos. Mainly ABC ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Replacing a fuse

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

First time I've seen the distinction 12nn and 12mn for noon and midnight - I like it!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (14 children)

I've also found (I'm a teacher) this generation is far less proficient at search. They (generalisation) type a whole question into Google, and read the Google created text box to get their answer, taking it as gospel - regardless of if Google has completely gone off the mark.

Contrast this to a generation that grew up with needing to refine search terms with key words, who can find far more relevant info quicker.

It's hard to get them out of the rut and teach them to be more critical of sources. They're so used to having what they need served straight up for them. LLMs (AI) are feeding into this more - they struggle to believe that AI hallucinations exist until I show them.

Again all this is generalisation - when I say 'they' I don't mean 'all'.

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