Tim Höfer

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Tim Höfer

@timhoefer

Designer

Berlin, Germany Katılım Aralık 2018

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·1d

@VolkerPetzer Es ist jetzt sehr wichtig, das jeder Trockenbauer mit einem Jahresgehalt von 50K brutto in Sack und Asche geht ("sich hinterfragt"), weil ein vom Kultur- und Medienbetrieb hofierter Fernsehproduzent seine perversen Neigungen nicht vernünftig kanalisieren konnte.

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VolkerKetzer@VolkerPetzer·2d

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @ShadowBannedUSA @Michael_Druggan Unlike what the red lines in the charts suggest, I wouldn’t assume a clear direction at all. Pay might matter at the margin, but I don’t think it reliably leads to better outcomes.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@timhoefer @ShadowBannedUSA @Michael_Druggan Right I agree the effect size here is essentially unusuable but you don’t think that it’s directionally correct?

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Michael Druggan@Michael_Druggan·3d

I'd rather bomb Iran, hands down. Most teachers are low IQ ideologues, subsidizing demand is a terrible way to fix housing affordability and we already spend way too much on healthcare.

James Fishback@j_fishback

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @ShadowBannedUSA @Michael_Druggan Even after adjusting for CoL, Germany pays teachers more than Finland and Poland, yet student outcomes are similar. So there's no simple link between teacher pay and student performance.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@ShadowBannedUSA @timhoefer @Michael_Druggan This is confounded by cost of living of course. You’d have to compare teacher salaries relative to local COL.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @ShadowBannedUSA @Michael_Druggan These aren’t real values but model outputs (as the note confirms). The chart makes it look like better pay more leads to better student results, but both axes are model-adjusted. The correlation may be partly created by the method.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@ShadowBannedUSA @timhoefer @Michael_Druggan Your anecdote is meaningless. The data argues against your personal experience.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @Michael_Druggan For most people, maybe. The best people are not motivated by money but by purpose. This is why paying teachers more will not fundamentally alter the quality of applicants.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@timhoefer @Michael_Druggan They got an engineering degree to make money. For most people, a degree is a means to an end, not a lifelong passion.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @Michael_Druggan Because you became an engineer to engineer things.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@timhoefer @Michael_Druggan Yes at a 60k salary point I agree. Now if you pushed it to 90k with summers off, the pool of talent goes much higher (particularly for STEM). Why make 75k as a new grad engineer when you could make 90k as a teacher and have summers off?

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @Michael_Druggan Sounds like the teaching profession primarily attracts the 'likes having summers off' crowd, not the vastly smarter crowd.

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rune@runeindark·2d

@timhoefer @Michael_Druggan To enter academia you’d need an advanced degree and plenty of people don’t want to do that. Also some people like having summers off.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@runeindark @Michael_Druggan Salary is a lever, but why would a 'vastly smarter person' decide to become a teacher instead of entering academia or the private sector? I don‘t think the quality of teacher candidates would change much.

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rune@runeindark·3d

@Michael_Druggan If you doubled teacher salaries overnight, you’d have vastly smarter people lining up to be teachers. Not a hard concept to understand.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·2d

@Michael_Druggan We keep throwing money at the administrative-educational complex, yet the results get worse every year. Every single issue with education always has the same non-solution: 'We need more funding.'

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·3d

@webdevMason I am convinced the 'hardships' of parenting are a feature, not a bug.

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Mason@webdevMason·3d

I also get criticized fairly often for having anti-natalist takes that are actually just an honest accounting of how challenging parenting can be, and I think Erica Komisar lays out the rebuttal best here

Diane Yap@RealDianeYap

I like Romy's content but I wonder if she realizes how potently anti-natalist most of her descriptions of son are. She has expressed concern about the birthrate, but I bet most people reading her posts conclude "That sounds awful, I definitely don't want that."

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·3d

@UltraLinx Clean

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Oliur@UltraLinx·4d

Might just be the best watch I’ve bought. 36mm daydate.

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·4d

@cschneido @blocktrainer @RomanReher LFG ⚡️

Christian Schneider@cschneido·5d

Unheilige Allianzen und orangene Pillen: Der @blocktrainer war bei mir in Ehrenfeld. 4,5 Stunden @RomanReher Origin Story. Jetzt auf Apple Podcasts, Spotify und YouTube. Video im Kommentar 👇

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·4d

@jameygannon It has a playground character that makes experimentation a lot more fun. Like FruityLoops for Gen AI.

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techbimbo@jameygannon·5d

I have a theory that node-based interfaces will win because from any screenshot you can immediately tell what’s going on, especially compared to linear prompting interfaces. This is extremely important for onboarding and adoption. The node-based stuff is largely a visual preference and kinda a gimmick (it’s no different functionally, at this point), but i’ve found it does make tutorials or client walkthroughs much easier

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·5d

@jstn Such a cool interface.

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justin ouellette@jstn·5d

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·5d

@jstn I‘m a Microprose Maximalist

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@cschneido LFG

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Christian Schneider@cschneido·5d

Coming up 4,5 Stunden

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Tim Höfer@timhoefer·5d

@thisisgrey Agreed. I would love more commercial options for projects with smaller budgets. Especially from independent foundries. But the pricing and licensing models make it really difficult to get excited about making the case for a non-free typeface.

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thisisgrey@thisisgrey·5d

Thought — While browsing a type foundry, I configured a lifetime use of one typeface family, and the cost climbed to £120k. Buying fonts has been stuck for decades in two modes: free and exorbitant prices. Can we please have reasonable prices?

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