Slatlun @ Slatlun @lemmy.ml

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Came here to say this too

My mom was going for a math degree when I was around that age. I was naturally curious about what she was studying. What stuck with me though has been ways of thinking and concepts. It has been a really good thing for me in real life as well as academically.

My suggestion would be to focus on concepts and lean hard on why. The practical 'how' is something that takes lots of time to learn and is incremental (addition then subtraction and so on). The why can be highlighted in movement, natural shapes, thoughts on time/light/infinity, and things like that.

Calculus specifically I would approach by asking how many sides does a ball have. Is it one, zero, or too many to count? The 'right' answer doesn't matter in this context. The important part is to learn that they all kind of mean the same thing if you think about them in different ways. Calculus uses thinking about it as too many to count to answer questions that are hard to answer when you think about it as zero.

If that's true why aren't the sugar water pools in rainbow order. Folks, let's not get tricked by fake news. The real threat is rainbows and, of course, double rainbows.

Totally, my union got us bonuses in our last negotiations. The lower your salary the higher your bonus. The only way to have it be fair at all as I see it.

That would perfect for sure! It pays to keep lab equipment around some times :)

https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/soil-texture-analysis-the-jar-test/ a better description and photos

You can use a methodology from soil testing for this that doesn't require extra gear. Sieves (like with soil texturing) will give you a faster more accurate answer. Here it is:

Get a narrow glass jar. Fill it a little way with ground coffee. Fill with water. Shake. Set on shelf and wait a few hours up to a day.

The larger pieces will settle first and the finer settle last. You can see the sorting of them through the glass. If you use consistent amounts of coffee and the same container, you can measure depth of layers. I.e. this grinder makes .5cm of fines to 3cm of ideal to .2cm of too large.

Bonus is you can use this method for making cold brew, so you don't waste the coffee or water.

No kind of expert on the idiomatic use, but the literal translation makes it feel like the monkey is going after something without a plan for where to land. I would expect it to indicate impulsivity

It is your choice on sanding. Sanding down the crack/tape area below grade will make the flattest patch. The alternative is feathering out your joint compound further to hide the bump. You'll be surprised how thick tape seems when you're going for a smooth finish.

I like the flat (presanded) option because the bump option bothers me even though nobody else sees the difference.

You might want to use mesh tape on the big cracks to help stop recracking. I would poke around and see if the whole section is damaged too. You can replace large chuncks of drywall pretty easily and cheaply so no sense keeping damaged drywall if you're doing work anyway.

The biggest issue is what caused the crack to begin with. If it is settling, make sure there won't be any more of that before doing a repair to the crack.

Credentials - working on a house with foundation problems and water damage

I gave blood routinely for years and years. Hours of my time on public transit and in the chair. Then, one time, I was sick and canceled because that is expected (nobody wants sick blood). They called me twice daily while I was sick to reschedule. Each time I said I would reschedule when I was healthy, but they didn't stop calling. It made me think of them as some telemarketing predators that are profiteering on my good will. True or not that feeling made me not go back.

Thanks! It does work for predictive text and correcting while typing, but doesn't check for misspellings in typed text. Probably good enough

Interesting, it doesn't "spell check", but it does suggest words from its own dictionary for predictive text. Maybe I don't need the checking if I can just look at predicted spellings. Thanks for the thought.

Definitely agree

Thanks! Good to know

Username checks out. Not sure if you were waiting for that...

I don't know specific products, but ANSI does puncture resistance certification. You could use those ratings to find something comfortable that isn't snake oil

I'll take weapons that are as dangerous to the wielder as anyone else for $500...

Of course, the world population was probably less than a quarter of what it is now, so a higher percentage defintely died. Probably because of the relatively crappy health care at the time

Phragma means a divider. My guess is someone was saying these tiny bugs are extremely (mega) separate (phragma) from their relatives.