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Open School Data Analysis of New York Public Schools K-12

https://www.openschooldata.com/For New York residents it has super detailed breakdowns on how each school district is spending money in the areas of special education, the outcomes of their spending and what else the districts are spending money on. What's shocking is wealth districts are spending more and getting worse els scores then the bronx .

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Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:16PM (#49744523)
Its and odd name choice and very close to venix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venix
Re:Dolly Parton has died on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:04PM (#49442462)
I know what you mean, 16rpm makes more sense .
Re:Dolly Parton has died on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:58PM (#49441261)
Then you will love "The chipmunks at 16 speed"

https://chipmunkson16speed.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1

I completely get the cable tv bit. Grew up without cable just OTA tv and Radio . I remembered how i would feel left out of the cable tv connection / conversations . Then I eventually moved on to living in the city and not really watching TV except simpons reruns and the news hour on pbs for many years . The parallels reveal how we just need to go out to social place outside of our homes . The pool, a restaurant, bar , library, a club a religious place and be involved. But more importantly we all need our own opinions again, and not to be so offended when you disagree.
For my wife, when on lantus and novolog ( no pump ) the overnights were always high blood sugars . The pumps definitely help , but in retrospect she also stopped eating gluten around the same time. The no gluten diet helped a lot .

Side bar having been around the dexcom for 10 years now . The old/original audible alarms were easy to understand. Low crescendo for going low , low repeats for low alarm and the reverse for high events. With the x2 and g6 i literally have no idea what the beeps mean anymore. This alarm fatigue is bad and i wonder if this contributes to the authors issue too. Was there some warning she missed?

also it didn't give here 40 units the pump failed .
My wife is a t1d and has the same pump. It sucks their support staff has no idea how the thing works or what its failure modes are. My wife once had her x2 tell her it gave here a 40 unit bolis out of the blue . This would have killed her. While in the er support from x2 said something like "there is no way for it to do this .. you must be wrong.. are you reading the display correctly .." All in all the x2 plus dexcom was supposed to be a closed loop cgm plus pump. It rarely cuts insulin delivery on low blood sugar, or it does it way too late to matter .
I would like to believe this is a cover story for IBM to make parts for the DoD latest weapon . I would like to imagine its a cover to make parts for some new government super computer. But its IBM its probably nothing even close to that . Its more likely a nice way to get the stock back at $315 and make nothing.
The NYC BSD Users group presents SRB for a fireside chat.
Re:IBM Announced VMware Replacement on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:03AM (#48107670)
IBM announced today its VMWare replacement Red Hat Openshift Virtualization Service . Designed to give users a landing zone for existing VMware VCF workloads and a path to Containerization .
Re:Demand for autism care is soaring on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:21PM (#47644908)
I am a bit older and i grew up in New Jersey, and it wasn't much different. My teacher once told me she was going to cut my finger off because i always counted with them . Punk rock saved my life .
Re:National Grid: Live on Friday March 27, 2026 @12:40PM (#47545008)
Any way to do this for the part of National Grid that operates in New York and Massachusetts?
I agree, CNN has always had a weird angle to its bias. I am by no means a FOX news nut . I really think a lot of american "news" now is similar to How The WWF ( World Wide Wrestling Federation/ World Wrestling Entertainment) isn't a Sport. CNN , FOX, MSNBC/MSNOW , Newsmax etc aren't news but unfunny entertainment.
Yann is going to sell you the opportunity to sell people the opportunity of better AI .
Also teach your kids to read using "The Science of Reading " . Not guessing, not looking at pictures for clues . Phonics, steps and patience.
Re:SmartOS on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @09:19PM (#46714425)
I ran a fairly large SmartOS with project-fifo.net as the controller for a number of years . We also had the amusing time with Pluribus networks switching too. When they started they were also a Illumos based switchos . Bhyve on illumos came out of Pluribus and happened partly due to a number of FreeBSD users heckling the "SUN GODS" over why the official kvm port was a piece of shit .

In any case in the 6 years os smartos we never had any dataloss from failed disks, sure fifo and smartos had their warts but lx-zones works amazing well and i think we got Garrett D'Amore to go back to BSD land for some time . In the end we had to jump to VMWARE when Heinz gave up on fifo.

snarl/howl/chunter

https://project-fifo.net/ https://www.arista.com/en/support/pluribus-resources

Re:Apple Creator Studio on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:10PM (#46627557)
liquid metal / glass whats the difference its all shiny and amorphous.
Re:Verizon outages reported across U.S. on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:08PM (#46627545)
I feel like vzw abandoned sane things like otp for k8s ai and blockchain ( or whatever nonsense tech goes here ). otp was probably deemed antiquated and too hard to maintain.
Re:Apple Creator Studio on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:03PM (#46609676)
So can i use this to purge the liquid metal from MacOS 26 ?
Re:I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:44PM (#46561420)
SOB now i am going to be texted by some AI trying to scam me . Fantastic!
Re:US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:06PM (#46227188)
How long before someone connects The secretary of commerce howard lutnick, to his company bgc partners ownership a oil and gas shipping broker , poten and partners . Poten had a desk specifically for Venezuelan crude, which Venezuela can not really domestically refine at scale. Their crude is mainly refined in Texas , and Louisiana . So we seize their tanker on the way to where exactly? Also do we even know if it was carrying crude to be refined to fuel or bitumen . Who owns the cargo, where is it being refines , who insured the boat , who insured the cargo. This story has too many holes in it to make sense . Whatever happened to the Epstein files ?
this is what the va is for , americans pay piles of money in taxes , and still the helping vets scams exist .
Re:Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @05:31PM (#46051623)
Personally, living with two T1D ( type 1 insulin dependent diabetic, the autoimmune disease not to be confused with the i am old, fat and over eat disorder) when your blood sugar is too high or low , you act weird , you are in a fog . Long term effects of the swings and sustained levels cause brain damage, not necessarily traumatic brain injuries but damage nonetheless.

So i can see the correlation for T1D and undiagnosed T2D cases Alzheimers. Now having a parent with both T2D and Alzheimers when they were taking rebelsis there was a change in their overall mood and activity , but i saw the change was "hey your sugar is under control, and no i am not your buddy from the army" . To be clear the difference is the fog of being unclear about what's going on like you're drunk , vs the grand delusions of seeing a different person that's not there .

This should have been obvious for the researchers.

Mr Let's Paint is also featured on WFMU 91.1FM / wfmu.org morning show "Wake n Bake" . On friday he does a "radio theater " version of his run paint cook inspiration thing. its amazing to hear .
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:39PM (#45740208)
Then what sort of feel good stories about AI would we have . The US needs to adopt a single flat income / corp tax, government provided healthcare, and move on to the rest of life.

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