I thought we all agreed upon Phoney Stark? Were you not at that meeting?
Oh. Well that wasn’t the point I was addressing but ok.
I read differently into that. Some of my gay mates would totally spot if a woman wore the same dress twice. I might not.
My wife is still on Mac OSX, but my son has embraced Mint. I’m a bit cheesed off that there aren’t (obviously) many kid friendly programming tutorial resources, other than maybe getting a sub to codeacademy. Other than that, all good.
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And now I’m locked out of the house with no phone.
Brown… that may explain it?
My wife has brown hair, brown eyes and an olive skin complexion. I’m your typical scandi with reddish-blonde hair, blue eyes, skin that burns like paper. Our child has brown eyes, red hair and olive skin that actually tans. It’s bizarre.
Ok I’m sorry for the hyperbole but this is the first time I’ve seen this.
This, is a work of modern shitposting art.
Bravo.
I used to love your card games before you got all political. Your mom used to love you before you got so fucking stupid.
lol
thanks! from your comment I think I’ve managed to track it down. if anyone else is interested: https://shop.pianoworks.com/alfred-music-elementary-method-for-the-piano-opus.html
That looks like a good practice book. Anyone know which one?
$124,111,680,000 if you’re curious (24x365x2024x7000).
Welcome Chelsea. Will check out your album. If you like 80s alt, have you heard Electric Youth? Bit of a retro synth thing going on. My fave is The Best Thing.
I just searched in vain for any clips. There’s no recoding distributed yet. :(
It took me a while to realise what this was. I thought a bigger kitty was eating a smaller kitty’s head.
Ok. Permission to ask a mad question. Apologies in advance.
If black holes ‘suck’ everything in… could there be the equivalent of the ‘other side’ of one, that’s mysteriously ejecting a tonne of plasma?
Not saying that’s what this is, just prompted the thought.
Can you recommend a book for me please?
I’ve basically been ordered to pick up any fiction book and read, after a friend discovered I’ve not read anything but non-fiction for a decade.
The ones I’ve enjoyed in the past have been short, fantastical or sci-fi (think Aldous Huxley, Ian McEwan), but crucially with amazing first person descriptive prose - the kind where you’re immersed in the writing so much you’re almost there with the character.
I liked sci-fi as the world’s constraints weren’t always predictable. Hope that makes sense.
Any recommendations?
Edit: I’m going to up the ante and, as a way of motivating myself to get off my arse and actually read a proper story, promise to choose a book from the top comment, after, let’s say arbitrarily, Friday 2200 GMT.
Edit deux: Wow ok I don’t think I’ve ever had this many responses to anything I’ve posted before. You’ve given me what looks like a whole year of interesting suggestions, and importantly, good commentary around them. I’m honouring my promise to buy the top thing in just under 4 hours.
Update: Advice re son learning to program.
Hi all,
A fair while ago I asked the community here advice as my 8yo lad wanted to experiment with programming: Old Post.
Thanks so much for all the words of wisdom - there’s still stuff we can explore in the replies.
Thought I’d just give a little update.
So I installed dual boot Linux Mint / OSX on an old intel MacBook Air (dual boot in case his homework/school stuff needs it, but he hasn’t used OSX much!).
It was much easier than I thought it’d be. Perhaps it’s just the hardware/OS choice, but I don’t consider myself to be ‘properly’ technical and it was a breeze. Perhaps the only difficult part was creating a bootable OSX restore disk just in case I destroyed the OS… it’s almost like Mac really don’t want you to be doing this.
He’s working his way through foundational courses on programming, in codeacademy, and using scratch as usual. So far, so good.
Is there an IDE you’d recommend that has some element of a tutorial to it?
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Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program
Hi all,
My 8 year old is asking if he can learn how to program. He has asked specifically if I could set him up with a ‘programming kit with lessons’ for a Christmas present. I’d like to support this, and it seems like it’s not a transient interest as he’s been all over scratch, and using things like minecraft commands for the last year. I have an old (pre 2017) MacBook Air I can set up for this. How do I / what would you advise I set up for him, to a) keep him safe online (he’s 8!) and b) give him the tools he needs in a structured way.
I am not a programmer. I know enough bash/shell and basic unix stuff to be dangerous and I was a front end dev a very long time ago, but I wouldn’t call myself a programmer and don’t know what concepts he needs to learn first.
Hugely appreciate any advice, thanks.
Edit: So I posted this then had a busy family day and came back to so many comments! I will methodically go through these all, thanks so much.
A couple of things on resources: he has expressed interest in 3D worlds and I noticed comments on engines, but wonder if that’s too advanced?
Totally agree with the short feedback loop rather than projects that take days.
He has an iPad 6 and I’m happy to pop a Linux distro on the Air, so certainly open to that.
So many links to research. Hugely grateful.
Advice for an old timer please
Hi!
So, I used to play hockey at school/uni, mostly on ‘banana’ rockered freestyle inlines.
Now I’m somewhat older - it’s been a while since I’ve been on blades, but I’ve regularly skated on ice, I would say I’m intermediate but more used to ice than tarmac.
My son is getting into in-line skating and I’d like to put on some wheels again so we can knock a puck about.
What would be a good (but not bank breaking) skate for me? I’d like a hockey stance but I’m thinking I might need something I can rocker (or just buy different wheel sizes I guess?).
Any suggestions hugely appreciated.
Have got vs Have
Hi folks.
Can I ask: Is it better to say “We’ve got to get going” or “ We have to get going”?
I hear the former in conversation and it slightly irks me. I think it’s because of the redundancy (?) in the sentence. Which is better, grammatically? The latter feels cleaner. Am I wrong?