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		Spooky23 on Dec 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I asked my students to turn in their cell phones a... 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.

behringer on Dec 27, 2019 [–]

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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