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SmartmanApps

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#dotNet #dotNetMaui with #cSharp UI
Maths/Computer Science teacher/tutor
Facts aren't "arbitrary"
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poppastring, to random
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Dear Creator/Blogger/vlogger/Reviewer/developer/etc.,

Please keep sharing your content, even if someone creates something similar, your point of view and voice remains valuable!

Some folks will love your content. 🤗
Some folks will hate your content. 😡
Most will completely ignore your content. 😵

Either way just keep sharing!

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
It'd be great if you could get someone, anyone who is responsible for your Maths programming to read https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158 - in particular when I covered the topic of e-calcs https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 where I covered the DIFFERENT ways that the different MS products do it wrong. The Windows "standard" calc says that 2+3x4=20, in "Scientific" mode it says that's 14 but also says 8/2(1+3)=8/(1+3), etc.
signed,
Maths teacher/tutor tired of hearing "but my calculator says you're wrong"

shoq, to random
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There is just no question in my mind that the culture of the fediverse (by any name) is a better model for civil discussion. But oddly, even many of its biggest champions have largely returned to Twitter, or pivoted to Threads, which may be a step up from Nazis, but that’s a pretty fucking law bar.

SmartmanApps,
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@shoq
I noticed that and I'm thinking some of them aren't checking where the engagement is coming from. I recently, in a rare moment, engaged in some conversation there (I was all up to date with here, so, oh well, let's see what's happenning there), and one time I got back on I had 8 notifications, but I checked the profiles and 7 of them were likes from porn bots (and only 1 of those 7 was "this profile is hidden due to suspicious activity").

developerjustin, to Blog
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Woah, just now learning about Tusks from @bardi

I’ve been posting about wanting blogging to feel more like posting on here forever and…I think this gets me there. Why bother hosting a #blog and all of that hassle when your #Mastodon account could literally be a blog?

It’s amazing what a well-maintained API enables in for client apps like this. When the UI is in play, Mastodon effectively becomes infrastructure

🧐

#indieWeb

From: @jonathanreed
https://techhub.social/@jonathanreed/112462234679954283

SmartmanApps,
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@developerjustin @bardi @jonathanreed
Yeah, that's basically what I did with https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158 - each week I covered a sub-topic with a 6-7 post mini-thread, and now I can fine-tune link to specific parts/posts when needed. i.e. the whole push for this is summed up by when I talked about e-calculators (the bane of Maths teachers/tutors) at https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 having covered all the relevant mathematical theory by that point (which I can also link to specific posts as needed).

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

SmartmanApps,
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@RickiTarr
Gotta get some Aussie representation in there :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9edIBvlrlg

poppastring, to VisualStudio
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Windows application development is now an installation option for Visual Studio. This of course include #Arm64 #visualstudio :visualstudio:

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
And speaking of I created a for it a couple of months ago at https://programming.dev/c/windows_dev

web_goddess, to random

Why did no one tell me that Sydney Sweeney “Anyone But You” romcom is a riff on Much Ado About Nothing?! It’s charming af. You had me at Bryan Brown as Leonato. 😍 (But any Sydneysider will laugh at some of the geographic liberties taken…)

SmartmanApps,
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@web_goddess
I like playing "Spot the Sydney landmark" when watching "The Matrix", were the streets have been given American names, the cars are parked on the right-hand side of the road, but you can see Australia Square, the Harbour Bridge, the Martin Place fountain, etc.

SmartmanApps, to fediverse
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Sneak peek of a graphic I made for a talk I'm giving next week about the #Fediverse - choose your po... I mean UI for today's Fedi-mission 🙂

F.A.B. - Fediverse Adventure Begin...

#Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed

poppastring, to random
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I was terrible at chemistry coming out of school.
But I just randomly saw a YouTube video of someone doing molar calculations and decided to see if it made more sense now.

It is totally intuitive! I sadly remember when I first started that course that it felt like it would never make sense.

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
As a Maths teacher/tutor, I see a lot of students who THINK they are bad at Maths, but what I invariably find is their arithmetic skills are actually poor (the standard is to be able to answer an up to 12 times table question in 2 seconds, and we're talking not even close for these students), which is like trying to build a house on faulty foundations. Invariably once I start getting them up to speed with it they start feeling CONFIDENT with Maths now, and don't hate it anymore!

futurebird, to random
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"You'd expect this from Joe Scarborough he's a far left opinion commentator."

-Fox Anchor

Joe Scarborough served as a Republican in the FL house. And ... as a member of the far left I'm deeply insulted. As I think Joe would be too. We are in crazy town.

"far left"

SmartmanApps,
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@futurebird
Is "far left" the new "Socialist"? 😂

obeto, to random
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OMG!!!

For years, the antivirus software company #avast harvested information from users’ web browsers without their consent.

And SOLD that data!

Though I have never used any of their products, I pray that this company is sued into oblivion.

What an abhorrent deception! https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

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@obeto @rodhilton

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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On one hand, I’m very dubious of AI-generated recipes as they could generate some dangerous recipes, on the other hand, TikTok hacks and YouTube short have been lying to an entire generation of cooks about what is possible.

Basically, don’t trust any recipe online without thinking through it critically.

https://youtu.be/BU3bTBWnvT4 Ann Reardon has been doing a great job on her YouTube channel.

SmartmanApps,
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@khalidabuhakmeh
"YouTube short have been lying to an entire generation of cooks about what is possible"
Reminds me of a Youtuber who had a video "How to make English tea" in which she used a teabag and put it in the microwave 🤣🤣🤣

SmartmanApps,
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@varsock @otto
Oh god yes! Each instance of VS22 takes up more than 1Gb of RAM - what I'm doing right now with this piece of code does NOT need 1Gb of memory! Have they not heard of lazy loading?

atoponce, to ChatGPT
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Why large language models are not intelligent, exhibit #64338.

#ChatGPT

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@atoponce

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SmartmanApps, to mastodon
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Another BMI (Big #Mastodon Influx) kicking off. What did the manbaby say/do this time?
#ElonMusk #Twitter

claresudbery, to random
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Imposter syndrome is something we often talk about, but what do we DO about it? I think our industry has a major problem in the way we make each other feel about our skills and experience. As a teacher, trainer and technical coach, I spend a lot of time trying to help people get over their insecurities and get them to a place where they can not only learn effectively, but enjoy learning (rather than feeling insecure about what they don't know). >>>

SmartmanApps,
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@claresudbery @codinghorror
Someone posted a link to this on programming.dev (I saw it there first). As a teacher (and dev frustrated with poor documentation), here's my further info on how to effectively teach... https://programming.dev/comment/7378514

SmartmanApps,
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@BrianTheeBiscuiteer @DmMacniel
I see now there's some confusion. When it said "toggle button", I thought a Switch was being discussed, but when I clicked on the OP I see it actually does mean button, so we've got some people talking about switches and some people talking about buttons (and yeah, a switch should show current state, but a button should show what would happen if you clicked it).

SmartmanApps,
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@calcopiritus @starman
Buttons/switches trigger an immediate action, whereas checkboxes usually do not (such as on a settings page, where no changes are applied unless you click "save").

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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WARNING: Latest Visual Studio update causes older Android emulator deployments to fail "Emulator is not ready to be used"

https://programming.dev/post/7754605

#dotNetMAUI #dotNet #VisualStudio #AndroidDev

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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#dotnetMAUI #dotNet
Re: having a MAUI community on programming.dev
https://programming.dev/comment/5181779

SmartmanApps, to mastodon
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So, I remember a while ago seeing a list of services that support signing in with your #Mastodon account such as #pixelfed but having trouble finding that again (I'm sure there was more than just pixelfed) - anyone know where such a list is? @feditips ?
https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-sign-in-with-mastodon-streamlining-sign-up-and-login-on-pixelfed

SmartmanApps,
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@lysdexic @Eezyville
Probably just the MS version of Apple's "reimagined" (where they copy a 5-year old Android feature and then try and make it sound "new and innovative").

SmartmanApps, to mathematics
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Hey #Mathematics people. Do you want to be able to follow all the different #Math tags in the one #Maths column? Here's how! (with thanks to @tokyo_0 for telling me where to find this setting)

  1. Go to preferences
SmartmanApps, to mathematics
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Thread index https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158

Before I say what it is, I am NOT posting this as clickbait (which is how it's often used)! 😂 I'm posting this as a Maths teacher who knows this topic inside-out and wants to help people to understand it better. There are MANY mistakes that people make and get the wrong answer, and I'm going to cover them in bite-size chunks each week for a few weeks

So 8÷2(1+3)=? What is the answer (bonus: and WHY is it the answer)? #Maths #Mathematics #MathsMonday

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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#dotnet #dotnetmaui peeps, I'm on #bluesky as well now, and let me tell you, you're not missing out on much. There's not really many .NET peeps there (we have a much more thriving community here) but I figured I'll post there sometimes because...
I still have a presence on #twitter too, and that's so as to try and keep funnelling people to here. 🙂 I figure I can use Bluesky for the same thing. In marketing they talk about having a sales funnel. Well I have a #FediverseFunnel #mastodon #fediverse

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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Guide to Mastodon for and peeps by @SmartmanApps
Firstly, if you're not on https://dotnet.social why not? 😂 Run by the awesome @styx31 if you want a cool handle (and cool place to hang out). 🙂

Next, if you haven't already, you want to go to https://fedifinder.glitch.me - it will export a CSV of the people you follow, which you then import into Mastodon and it finds whoever it can from that list and adds you as a follow to them.

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