@AryiaDm @rae_wymer You can feel free to email me. (you know how to find it.)
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Michael Ball
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Michael Ball
@_mball_
Lecturer @UCBerkeley, working on #CSEd #a11y #EdTech I build @Gradescope, @CSPBJC & @SnapCloud I enjoy☕️ 📷 🥃 #GoBears
San Francisco Katılım Temmuz 2008
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@oliverjohansson The Daily Cal is writing an article about this. If anyone has anything to comment reach out to @rae_wymer
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@SleepwellCap @benthompson Lifetime warranty is back which was a big ding against them.
Though Rimowa bags are also heavy unless you get the essential series.
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@benthompson Is Rimowa really worth it and better than Tumi? been thinking about for a while (don’t like that they don’t have an extension option for carry ons)
Lifetime warranty is attractive though!
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The biggest fraud in travel is the Briggs & Riley Essential carry-on, and I question the sanity of everyone who recommends it. It’s a great bag THAT TIPS OVER CONSTANTLY. It doesn’t matter what other fancy features it has: this alone makes it unusable. Back to Rimowa.
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@likaigu @benthompson Ugh - same here. My two wheel version is definitely more stable but I can’t fit the same tall items in a clamshell split and want 4 wheels. :/ the Briggs expandy bit has been very helpful too.
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@benthompson Four wheels are essential for me unfortunately when I’m cradling a toddler in one arm. I’ll let you know if I come across anything worthwhile
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Michael Ball retweetledi
The @uaw2865 strike is over but @UCPrezDrake wants to impose the costs of paying workers a living wage on the already strained budgets of campuses and departments. Say no to puntive austerity, sign this letter cucfa.org/2023/02/reject… @uc_faculty @UCAFT @AFSCMELocal3299 @CalYDSA
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@crystaljjlee Students like that are amazing...and also stressful in a different way. :)
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I gotta say, nothing quite prepared me to have a group of students who (1) told me that I assigned too little reading and (2) voluntarily, when presented with a when2meet for times from 9 am-5 pm, all chose the 9-10 am option.
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@macosken Hearing the intro music is always a trip down memory lane! :D
Podcasts were still so fun when we had the iPod, but I definitely don't mis needing a computer just to listen to morning news. We've come a long way!
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How over COVID is Apple? A “silent war” over a long held grudge, and “Mac OS Ken” turns 17. 17 Years Later - MOSK:01.26.2023 macosken.libsyn.com/17-years-later…
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Michael Ball retweetledi
BART Board just approved my proposal to institute 30 min grace period for $6.40 excursion fare! We'll soon stop penalizing riders who enter a station and don't ride BART, especially when it's due to BART delays.
Thanks @JaniceForBART & staff for working with me all year on this!
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@jsnell @robot_or_not Berkeley faculty here — the Kiwibots were remotely controlled and not autonomous. They definitely got stuck - and would wink at passersby. Not confirmed if that was a human, but many found it creepy.
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This is awesome. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while.
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I'm excited to fool around with new ways to write code using blocks! snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev/p…
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@pconrad @AustinCorgiBart @ShriramKMurthi @michaelhilton @samth @guzdial @Bootstrapworld @KathiFisler @EvanMPeck As a tweet - yes, rhetorical. But you're right!
And yes - reassuring there's no silver bullets in a way, else some folks might get the wrong impression of TAs!
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@_mball_ @AustinCorgiBart @ShriramKMurthi @michaelhilton @samth @guzdial @Bootstrapworld @KathiFisler @EvanMPeck @_mball_ I'm treating the question as rhetorical.
In the off-chance you really want to discuss strategies, DM me. (Full disclosure: i have no good suggestions off the top of my head. Am willing to brainstorm, but not on Twitter, during an active labor dispute.)
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1/ "What programming language should I teach?" is the least productive question to ask in computing. There's a good reason: it's the wrong question to ask. The reason language wars feel pointless is that they're a symptom of this problem. Here's why: ↵
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@AustinCorgiBart @pconrad @ShriramKMurthi @michaelhilton @samth @guzdial @Bootstrapworld @KathiFisler @EvanMPeck Whoa why didn't I know this existed?
By chance @pconrad can you help answer what to do when all the TAs disappear? Asking for...many friends...
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@pconrad @ShriramKMurthi @michaelhilton @samth @guzdial @Bootstrapworld @KathiFisler @EvanMPeck This is THE paper to use as a starting point. We've dug up other open curricula, but this is the research starting point. We need more research and materials in this area. Otherwise we're all gonna be reinventing wheels!
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@lxeagle17 I find British cuisine deeply ironic given the expanse of the commonwealth over the past century.
...like at least pick up something good about other cultures?🤣
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there is no flavor here. it is just bland. it is as if you figured out how to strip every ounce of character out of the ingredients in the process of making the dish. like the inverse of cooking.
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Pray for me, Twitter friends — I have been taken to a British restaurant in Arizona. I have never in my life seen anyone walk out of a British restaurant satisfied with the food and I do not think I will be the first to break this trend.
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@guzdial But I say this as someone who feels too near to many programmers who seem to think only good things can happen from code. (I say this both about Academics and Industry folks)
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@guzdial I don't except we disagree much—and I bet we'd both argue that CS focuses more on the 'micro' level of things going wrong (eg bad function inputs). What I care more about is the context in which programs live—and also empowering folks to empower others by avoiding mistakes
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Used to be that knowing how to start a fire was a critical skill. Maybe you'd add kindling to embers or even learn to use flint-and-steel. Before you went off into the woods, you'd know how to start a fire. You had to. 1/5
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@lxeagle17 Clearly you're quitting because you secretly put big big bets on that exact number, right? Right?
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@ShriramKMurthi @guzdial @AustinCorgiBart @pconrad @Bootstrapworld I don't think they're necessarily mutually exclusive.
If short-lived code is distinction we do still need to know what is important and why to CoP to make suggestions.
But I do think deeply understanding the 'why' is important. eg. How necessary is correctness? is v interesting
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@guzdial @AustinCorgiBart @pconrad @Bootstrapworld For instance: If industrial practice is unethical, unfair, etc., you'd apparently just suck it up, because it's not our job to "change"? No tech ethics can be taught to students until the CoP tells us that's what they want us to teach? We have no agency here?
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This makes me sad - but @UCBerkeley and @Berkeley_EECS need to take notice!
We cannot be driving away smart and capable and empathetic instructors from our classes.
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17
Officially handed in my notice to quit my lecturer position at UC Berkeley after the fall semester finishes. It’s been an amazing 2 years, but I’m exhausted, and given that I actually have a main full time job as an ML engineer for an amazing startup already, I just have no time.
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I needed to look at the terms of the Amex Purchase Protection / Extended Warranty agreement.... it excludes insurrections. Though the last updated date was 1/1/2020
...can they predict the future or the actuaries just really ahead of the times?
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@EvanMPeck Yea! I agree there's a lot of value. @davidjmalan had a good convo at GitHub Universe which I haven't listened to.
I think we need to organize a panel/BOF next @SIGCSE_TS
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