I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days.
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Here in Minnesota, the snow days are when it gets below -35 F or when the snow is too thick for the buses to run.
@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
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@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
@sundogplanets @futurebird @hallvors
You have the real cold-weather gear.
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@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
@sundogplanets @michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors Kids deserve snow days. :)
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I remember when I was working two jobs and in grad school. I got home from teaching my night course at the community college and stayed up studying Galois theory till three am convinced I'd do poorly on the comp the next day.
I woke up and the whole city was silent, covered in soft sparkling white snow.
I went right back to bed after reading the email... then studied in a more healthy way that weekend.
Those snow flakes were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
Lovely story!
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If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.
I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.
@futurebird I’m reminded of my kids school having a short winter holiday. Which has lead to kids missing school days because of covid, or other infections because they traveled back from visiting family just before school starts again. But it could allow parents to start summer sooner.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird It's so ridiculous. If I were a parent in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Six, I would simply shut the laptop and tell my kid(s) to go play in the snow. "Sorry, they won't be online today, they're 'sick'. Yeah, bad cold, going around. They'll be fine tomorrow."
Everyone needs a break, and no break hits quite like a snow day when you're a li'l nine-year-old. I have so many fond snow day memories. Kids have enough going on. We should let them take a day off to be kids.
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If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.
I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.
@futurebird @barrygoldman1 I so hate the "mandatory number of school days".
There should be a mandatory number of scheduled days, but with no make-up requirement for any sort of closure necessitated by weather/emergency unless it becomes extreme. Then what to do should be decided by actual people, not inflexible policy.
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I remember when I was working two jobs and in grad school. I got home from teaching my night course at the community college and stayed up studying Galois theory till three am convinced I'd do poorly on the comp the next day.
I woke up and the whole city was silent, covered in soft sparkling white snow.
I went right back to bed after reading the email... then studied in a more healthy way that weekend.
Those snow flakes were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
@futurebird @meltedcheese Baltimore called off school for a hurricane when I was a teacher and similar sleep deprived and the storm went out to sea after an hour of rain. I invented Saint Murphy who gives you a break when you need it out of the blue
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird We recently had a one hour remote session (snow day) which my child was very excited to participate in. They used it as a means of being in charge -- selecting which device to use, where in the house to set-up, and practiced the remote-in process. This session was an hour. While I had no remote learning as a kid, I can understand and support these short "check-ins". For mine the routine matters. I can also understand that it may challenge some families, or teachers, esp. if all-day.
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@futurebird We recently had a one hour remote session (snow day) which my child was very excited to participate in. They used it as a means of being in charge -- selecting which device to use, where in the house to set-up, and practiced the remote-in process. This session was an hour. While I had no remote learning as a kid, I can understand and support these short "check-ins". For mine the routine matters. I can also understand that it may challenge some families, or teachers, esp. if all-day.
@futurebird At their age they have no control over when, how, or where they go to school -- and it is expected that they go. A very short session where they have control, meet expectation, can see their peers, and spend the rest of the day in play at homr seems like a positive. That was our experience, anyway. All criticism thus far voiced is absolutely valid. I expect our experience is the exception.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
Absolutely.
And to that end, everyone should get to mail it in, adults too.
Bc work is fucking stupid everyday.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird Yeah, around here the kids get AMI days, which are packets they do instead of school. In reality, this is just trying to get out of the mandatory minimum school days so they don’t have to add days at the end of the year.
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Absolutely.
And to that end, everyone should get to mail it in, adults too.
Bc work is fucking stupid everyday.
God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
Our elementary district's policy is that the first legit snow day -not for extreme cold or a burst pipe- is a full cancelation for kids to play and have the day. After that, they do e-learning days, which is good so summer break can start on time.
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I could see maybe MAYBE making it a day where kids who need extra help can set up small meetings to get extra help.
Something like "office hours all day"
But you are correct that the kids who need that most? They don't have wifi at home that's working right now. They don't have a laptop.
That would be fair. It could lead to a few kids getting the extra attention they need.
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God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.
Exactly. No one was put here to work.
We were put here to enjoy life. To enjoy friends and family. To relax and have fun.
Working to death for some company that will never give a shit about you is one of the dumbest goals anyone could ever have.
Planning to work until you're 70 or 75 is ridiculous.
We should be figuring out how we can work less not more.
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God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.
@futurebird @RVLara23
> I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.-Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
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As it was in my youth...
Dad had my 5yr old self sledding in the front yard. In South Fort Worth.
Good times.
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@futurebird @RVLara23
> I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.-Kurt Vonnegut
A freaking MEN
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird Everything that can be done to give a child a fleeting moment of magic, should be done, because each memory adds 1MP to their mana pool, to cast spells to benefit the next generation.
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@halcy (personally I think Project Gold looks fantastic)
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@halcy and this flattening isn't necessarily a bad thing. I picked up the term "art directable" from one of the Blender Project Gold videos talking about their amazing digital painting tool. The foundational tech you use or allow in a production has an expressive range where it works best, so, if your expressive range is a procgen digital painting tool like the one Project Gold used, then you can makes something that looks like Project Gold more easily than if you did not have that tool.
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@halcy that is roughly the idea (really it's a hierarchy of people working together, like any other kind of big team). that is possible at this scale because the tech flattens everything out to make it more "art directable" (to borrow a euphemism from the Blender folks), and that means there's less internal training that has to be done to get everyone approximately on the same page, among other production benefits.
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@justine eheh enjoy! I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun with it.
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@wolf480pl yes. But with additional benefits such as working channel binding.
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@aeva I mean, I Guess, and I know very little about how games are made at scale, but I'd have guessed that there would be someone, or a small amount of people, who are responsible for the vision / vibe / Art Direction, for everyone else to work within, and that that's not a full circle overlap with whoever delivered the engine
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@daniel do I understand correctly that WebTransport is a next iteration of WebSocket, this time over QUIC?
So this would be the third way to use XMPP in websites, after XMPP over BOSH and XMPP over WebSocket?
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@aeva @halcy that's one way to see it, but this sounds like an invitation to be different just out of spite, and that's not motivation enough.
what i prefer to think about are principles and deconstruction: why do we render it the way we do? the first thing that always matters to me is readability: does the player get a good sense of the 3d world they are in?
unable to do much more but scale what it has got, AAA even often violates that, to the detriment of fun.
