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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by Spooky23 on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:43AM (#21891267)
That’s like saying that calculators eliminate the need to learn arithmetic — the reality is that fluency enables you to do more.

Knowing things is more important than ever. Googling crap on your phone is also too slow and too failure prone.

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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by behringer on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:29PM (#21893730)
Hey I can just look up a simplex noise generator on Google! Oh you need me to develop a noise generating algorithm from scratch to meet a certain set of requirements? You better hire someone with a proper education then.
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