Great, and the kids will have generated their reports with AI too! We get to burn energy and have no learning happen; win-win!

Good point about modular arithmetic. I hadn't thought of that.

I see analogue clocks all the time (Ottawa, Canada). The clock on our parliament building is analogue. There are tons of analogue clocks for sale. And a lot of high-end (non-smart) watches are analogue.

Americans, boisterous assholes that we be, own our problems

LOL, thanks for the hilarity.

If we are going to do it properly, we will use enormous rocket boosters to slow the rotation of the Earth until one year is exactly 100 metric days!

In 1982, I wrote a program on the TRS-80 CoCo 1 (original model) that quizzed you on reading an analog clock. It drew a clock and gave you multiple choices to read the time. Each time you got one correct, it reduced the amount of time you had to answer by one second.

I should resurrect that for modern machines...

In Dutch, 6:30 is "half zeven". Good luck with that. :)

Yet MSFT et al. seem compelled to push it on us. Well, The Generative AI Industry is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous

I agree that sometimes people go looking for deep meaning where there isn't any. But in order to grade a review of a book, the teacher does have to have read it. Otherwise, the student could make things up and the teacher wouldn't know any better.

Yeah. Remember local computer magazines? Those died out about 20 years ago. I used to write a monthly Linux column for our local magazine.

We read The Stone Angel in Grade 11 or 12. It had some pretty steamy descriptions of sex in it.

In 1987, a bunch of parents complained about it to a school board in Western Canada, but the board refused to remove it, which was the only correct decision. AFAIK, it's still taught in high school.

Some choice, sure, but I'd constrain it to a choice amongst a few books. Otherwise, everyone might pick a different book and it'd be hell for the teacher to grade their work because the teacher would have had to read all those books too.

But Russia's OK.

No idea why parent was modded Troll. Trump really is trying to kill NPR and PBS.

I think it's important for kids to read material that's relevant to their lives and material that is not relevant to their lives. I remember reading "The Tempest" in high school. It's not regarded as one of Shakespeare's best, but I absolutely loved it. It was completely irrelevant to my life, but was a wonderful fantastic tale.

I generally didn't hate any of the books we had to read in school with only one exception: Lord of the Rings. I just could not get into that book and it was a real chore to finish it. But I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stone Angel, and Huckleberry Finn, none of which were relevant to my life. They were just great stories well written.