jim

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Just because you can get part of your education remotely or through self-learning didn't mean "anything can be learned online".

And if you were hiring a math tutor for your kid, would you prefer a self-proclaimed expert from watching YouTube videos or would you want someone who got a degree from a credentialed university? And even if you don't care, why are you surprised that others would be skeptical of the YouTube expert?

Remote learning can be fine for some things, and self learning through informal channels are also fine, but it's not a full on replacement for formal education in all cases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No sorry, that's just fundamentally false. You can't just learn titration techniques from watching a video. You can't learn phlebotomy without an instructor watching you do it to a patient. Hell, you aren't learning how to drive a car from playing a video game.

And I'm not sure where you are pulling the "if you are that powerful" from. You really have an ax to grind don't you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Ah yes, I'm sure the formal training received by doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and engineers is just an over-hyped "education" that can all be replaced by online MOOCs.

There are real problems with education, especially with the costs, but "anything can be learned online" is the worst take I've heard in a long while.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I feel the opposite. We should have mandatory voting for all federal general elections. Treat it like jury duty or taxes - voting is a civic duty. You should be compelled to cast a ballot even if you leave it blank because you have no preference.

Of course, this can only workwith automatic voter registration and 100% mail-in ballots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've said this before to other people, but over time, those tools eventually became what Airflow and other orchestration tools are: defining DAGs and running scripts.

When I was using SSIS, eventually, every task was a C# or PowerShell executor instead of using the built-in functionality. So glad for Airflow and other modern tools today.