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Comment Backwards (Score 3, Insightful) 218

Learning math helps you with programming, not the other way around.

I was able to apply Trig in high school and derived 2D rotation and translation equations using my TI-85 back in the late 90's. I had a little demo moving and rotating around a wireframe track.

It makes no sense to go the other way of teaching trig through programming. Programming is an application of math. Lots of domains require different levels of math. And then coding can be used to reduce workloads by automating calculations.

Comment Nothing more reliable than the floppy disk (Score 1) 85

Meanwhile, there are already solutions developed for old machines that allow users to plug in a memory card to a device that acts like a floppy drive to the computer so it can read and write to it just fine.

There's just no profit motive to do the right thing so they pretend they need to keep using unreliable ancient tech.

Comment Why would a future student already have loans? (Score 1) 441

This is a one time federal action. Compared to the ongoing action of states taking 18,000+ per student per year in taxes from residents to pay for the cost of universities.

Arizona state is 10,000 for in-state, 28,000 for out of state. Meaning the state takes 18,000 from tax payers to cover the difference. Be sure to refund your state if you got in-state tuition.

Comment In-State tuition (Score 1) 441

The state of Arizona is taking 18,000 per year per student at Arizona State to pay for their education so the student only has 10,000 to pay instead of the 28,000 out of state students pay.

Be sure to call up your local state government and ask for the receipt so you can pay the bricklayers back.

Comment Re:old (Score 1) 423

"I'm old enough to remember when conservatives in the US were about conservative values: family, freedom, liberty and religion."

Only for White people. They're the KKK.

"They Called Themselves the KKK" is essential reading. What the Klan was saying in the 1800's is no different than what Conservatives have been saying for decades.

Comment Nothing New (Score 0) 423

People are allowed to post whatever they want on their own servers.

The alarm is how prevalent the Klan has become. And no, there was never a time when Conservatives were not horrible. Who do you think was beating the people on the Freedom Bus? If Conservatives were riding the Freedom Buses, they wouldn't have a problem teaching history.

The Klan has always been about "freedom" and "liberty." Just not for anyone not white or male.

"They Called Themselves the KKK" is essential reading.

Comment Only Theater Chains can offer this (Score 2) 38

AMC already has a movie pass like this. Any third party can only cost more money than a movie chain doing it itself.

Unlike GrubHub, etc, which brings delivery to anything, there is very little overhead for a movie theater chain to implement a rewards program because there are very few independent theaters as it is and the chains already have rewards programs and mobile apps.

The local Harkins chain in Arizona has popcorn rewards which makes it trivial to add movie tickets as a subscription just like popcorn. And frankly, it's the concessions that people spend all the money on, so Harkins is smart to focus on loyalty at the concession stand rather than at the box office. A free popcorn costs Harkins 3 cents in product and $1 in labor. A free ticket costs them $6 they still owe to the studio. The consumer doesn't care if they get a $7 free popcorn or an $11 free ticket. It's better to save families money on the food and collect the money for the studios.

Comment Wikipedia is the starting point, (Score 5, Insightful) 106

not the ending point for basic research. It's a great place to get some important keywords and a summary of what you're looking into.

Names, places, dates, etc. can be researched further.

It also often links to other more prominent sources for you.

Anyone who tells you not to use Wikipedia has no idea how the internet works.

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