Could you elaborate a bit more on your note taking workflow? I have an ipad and a macbook but I haven't figured out the best way to use them together that doesn't involve connecting with a cable and manually dragging files around in the finder. (The corporate admin has disabled icloud, which doesn't help).
I have a lot of pdfs on the laptop. I'd like to send one to the ipad, jot some notes, and send it back in a seamless way. Or generate a quick drawing on the ipad and easily add it to a document on the laptop.
I use notes and notability, each of which syncs using icloud. I also use the feature (I don't know the name) of the shared clipboard which also I think uses icloud for authentication.
Finally, if I, say, download a PDF from my computer, I can open it from the ipad because my downloads folder is in iCloud. This one, at least, you could use use if your company permits a different cloud provider.
Even if a passport was required, I think the same problems would appear. There are plenty of people with no interest in ever posting on Reddit. Some of them might be convinced to allow someone else to use a bot to post on their behalf if there is money to be made.
Any suggestions on a puzzle game like that? I recently finished Stephen's Sausage Roll (excellent game!) and I've been looking for something else that will let me feel clever.
Yeah I use swiftkey with the arrows and number row. Also I have it set up so the keyboard appears in the middle of the screen where my thumb can actually reach. I have no idea how anyone can use one of today’s giant phones one-handed with the default keyboard.
Reading this article I realized I didn’t even know how to cut and paste on android, and I’d long ago resigned myself to deleting and retyping.
How do you take backups of your session? Is there a built in UI, or another add-on? I’m a heavy user of tree style tabs and would love to be able to “save” a window with 100 tabs in a complicated tree, close the window, and be confident I could open it up again later with the tree structure intact.
What does it mean here that “the shareholders will take a hit?” Do the shareholders normally receive some regular payments that would stop (or be reduced) in that situation?
I know nothing about finance, but the stories unfolding this week have me interested to learn more about how all this works.
The bank has deposits and capital from its shareholders.
The bank promises to pay the depositors interest, and the bank collects interest from the loans it makes.
If the bank made good loans, the difference between the interest it pays and the interest it collects increases the bank's capital, and at some point it may pay dividends to the shareholders.
If the bank made bad loans, and some of them are not repayed, the losses come out of the bank's capital.
If the capital goes below some regulatory threshold, a corrective action must be taken. The bank can raise more capital, or get acquired. If a corrective action is not taken, the FDIC takes over the bank, and either sells the bank, or closes it and distributes the remaining assets as follows:
First, to cover deposits up to the insured limit, which is $250K per account. Then to deposits above the insured limits, then to creditors according to seniority, and finally, if there's anything left, to shareholders.
In other words, shareholders takes the first hit, then creditors, then deposits above the insured limit, and finally deposits below the insured limit.
If the deposits below the insured limit take a hit, the FDIC covers that from its insurance fund.
Thanks for your comment. It sounds like you have learned these lessons through a lot of experience - do you have any suggestions on a book to read to get the very basics of teaching?
> When they train you to teach...
I started a job as a professor this year and never got any of that basic training. Before this I was a postdoc reading papers and writing code all day. In job interviews my lack of teaching experience wasn't seen as an issue. The faculty would say, "oh teaching isn't so hard, you'll figure it out quick enough." So far I have been muddling along ok, but I have this anxious feeling that there are a lot of aspects to this that I don't know that I don't know, and don't know where to get started on finding out about them.
I did receive a bit of training, but as I said, I didn't find it to be too valuable.
I was extraordinarily fortunate to have just such a colleague as I mentioned. I consider her to be a genius when it comes to pedagogy. We went together and observed a great Professor teaching. She pointed to me lots of things, but one stuck to my mind: "Did you notice that he was wearing a tie? He doesn't wear a tie when he's in his office, or on the hallways of the Department, but he wears a tie when he teaches". That's respect for your students and for the action of teaching.
My Dad was a teacher. One day a former student of his told me this: "I remember the day he came and taught us X"(where X was a great poet - my Dad was teaching literature, not math). "He was wearing a black suite and white shirt and tie. That's how much he cared about teaching about X." I was impressed. I realized that kids care. And they notice. They notice if you put the effort, and they appreciate it.
Good luck in your career. I don't know of any book. I'm not a teacher or a Professor anymore. I work in the industry, but I do take interns every year, and in a sense that's a teaching (and research) experience. I enjoy it a lot, my next intern will join exactly one month from today. And just like I was preparing for my kids in the past, I'm preparing a lot for this intern. I hope he'll enjoy the experience.
The basics of good teaching is a mindset. “You’ve got to love your students. It’s as simple as that”, a colleague of mine once said.
You could look into some of Kieran Egan’s writings:
Cool idea! The Mac OS dashboard used to have a feature where you could save a cropped view of a web page as a widget, which would automatically refresh whenever the dashboard was opened. I used to use it to show a couple of weather radar and forecast maps. Sadly it was taken out in more recent versions.
I definitely recommend it! The tour I did went around the tidal basin and visited all the major monuments on the western half of the mall. I really enjoyed the stories and factoids from the tour guide—she pointed out a lot of stuff I had missed on self-guided walking tours. I think the tour agency to was somewhere near the GW campus, but I forget the name.
I have a lot of pdfs on the laptop. I'd like to send one to the ipad, jot some notes, and send it back in a seamless way. Or generate a quick drawing on the ipad and easily add it to a document on the laptop.