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I mean, no evidence says he wasn't also poisoned yet

Also, the part no one ever brings up: No per-program volume control. Ugh. That was so actively irritating until they finally added it (was it in XP? or not until 7?)

I think what they let you do is write mini add-ons using the API and support JS in an in-browser editor. Then you have to enable the add-ons. I guess equivalently you can do the same things with an IDE and any language, but it felt like they "officially" supported JS.

yeah ok that one's fair

GSheets lets you run python code? I thought they were all js-based

edit: I misread, you're saying LibreOffice has Python support, nvm

wait when did this get unbundled with netflix itself? totally would've picked up a few discs but not worth actually signing up for this to do that lol

Boaty McBoatFace was NOT a debacle. It was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get kids interested in climate science with programs like "The diary of Boaty McBoatFace" or "Zoom call with a Boaty McBoatScientist" all around the world in classrooms. Hell, even in high school I would've taken an elective that was doing actual work if it was Boaty McBoatFace-themed*.

*not to say that I'm young enough to have been in high school at the time, but that it would appeal to kids that old

The debacle was that they were too stuck up to realize what a gift they'd been given and completely squandered it. Boaty McBoatFace was beautiful. For a couple days, the internet cared about science in the absence of technology.

paint opens a bit faster, and often I want to just draw some stupid rectangles with 5 words and 4 arrows real quick and screenshot it and say "look here's the mock-up"

Artemis has this, currently the overall app is in beta & you have to be using an account from artemis.camp (until the kbin api is fully rolled out to all instances)

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think that you're quite understanding the role of school? In school they teach you one programming language so you can learn many. You might be the most comfortable with Java, but you'll quickly see why you need to witch. And sure, we were taught how to use a bunch of Mac-only programs, but more than that we were taught how basic UX of programs works, how to use the internet, how to search with keywords, I think a bit later on Google existed and we were taught how to use the advanced search. All of this is very transferable knowledge, even if you feel most at home somewhere.

Also keep in mind most kids in school are not blindly doing what school says to do outside of school and building heavily into the ecosystem they were told to do. Certainly not those who are using APIs.

Anyway I guess my point is, it is much better to learn something than nothing, and foundational knowledge is the point. In this case, it does not matter so much what you learn, and you are best off deep diving into something kids already have a bit of familiarity with, so that they can build onto existing knowledge.

Edit: Although, I would agree with you if this is like, an advanced LLM programming class. In that case for sure an OSS version should be preferred. But this sounds like basic LLM literacy?

I mean, we were all taught to use Macs in the classroom. That didn't stop my parents from having a Windows machine, and from me preferring Windows my entire life (except for maybe the first 2 years of computer instruction at school or so). Sure it's not OSS, but the skills are vastly transferrable & will serve you for the next couple decades until we have a new paradigm shift.

ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon

lol