The UX on this small child is terrible
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The real problem may be in your educational system, whose operating hours may be incompatible with the standard, pre-set clock phase that most models naturally acquire at that age.
I suggest contacting your local school board to continue troubleshooting.
Now, disabling the wifi after 4pm or completely, that would be a different question.
What's even more crazy is that often when I attempt to silence the low battery warning by placing the Small Child in the charger, it often refuses to begin charging until the battery has been entirely depleted, so along with not being dismissable, even attempting to charge the Small Child does not stop the low battery warning consistently! I believe this is likely a bug, but I haven't yet been able to consistently replicate it to file a bug report despite experimenting with various charging and usage schedules.
That was fantastic...thank you. :)
SmallChildAsAService 2.0
> Q: How do your parents know exactly how to push your buttons?
> A: They installed them.
But the truth is evolution installed the buttons in parents as well as installed instincts in the children enabling them to push those buttons whenever they need.
That reminds me of one ours pulling the film out of three 35mm film canisters.
We solve this by having a tiered eating system that starts with some salad or veggies, if they don’t eat, they clearly aren’t deathly hungry; dessert is available at the end of the meal if they finish.
Note this may require a family eating culture that includes salad et al. With every dinner, which is not the norm in America.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/foods...
I don’t buy the saturated fats thing either, except to the extent that they are a source of calories. If you have links to some studies that indicate negative outcomes vs the same caloric intake from other sources I am willing to read them.
My parents always steamed them to hell and put almost no salt on
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/20/french-childre...
Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots.
They'll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the veggies in front of them!). Offer them crisps or biscuits or even just fruity-yoghurt and they'll scoff it down super-fast because presumably it tastes nicer.
Can't blame them really.
Maybe my family just bought bad carrots, but they all seemed to like them. I don't know.
While "sugar addiction" has it merits, the main problem here is the parents who are toyed around by a little egoist... and they are happy to oblige.
Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there's something called "diet peanut butter" (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is "diet peanut butter"???? Peanut butter is this rich, delicious oily food. It doesn't need a damn thing to be a great treat. But in the U.S., it's not only typically salted, they add a large amount of sugar. That's already insanely stupid. You want to cut out the sugar? Just enjoy the plain amazing peanut butter on its own!! Nope, they made "diet" by swapping the sugar for xylitol or something. INSANE.
P.S. I live in and grew up in the U.S., I'm judging my own country.
I'm not American but I hate both. They're bland foods.
We actually had some customers tell us later that they wouldn't have kept buying our milk due to the unpleasant flavor, except that they knew it was temporary.
B) Many with experience with milk-generating livestock will cite that the feed has a meaningful effect on the flavor of the milk.
Why would human breast milk be the exception to both of those premises?
The real danger of alcohol for breastfeeding is that it can impair the mother’s ability to properly hold the child, among other things.
Obviously I don’t advocate drinking and nursing, but if mom does have a couple glasses of wine with dinner she shouldn’t be wracked with guilt if she has to nurse.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1709087/?page=1
On the cruciferous vegetable thing, I can say that it is a real phenomenon at least for some babies in certain circumstances. One of our babies was particularly prone to gas, and we had a few horrible nights. Finally, after the worst night of crying we'd ever had, it dawned on us that my wife had eaten a salad with raw brussels sprouts and also eaten cooked brussels sprouts that night. Once she cut out the brussels sprouts and went easy on the broccoli, the problem mostly went away.
Whatever the chemical in brussels sprouts that causes gas is, evidently it is active at pretty low concentrations at least for certain babies.
Arnisia ameletita doesn't even have any non-Greek results at all. https://www.womenonly.gr/kreas/arthro/ameletita_aganaktismen...
"The composition of the recipe for negligentness is the product of deep study by the entire staff of pandespani, which dedicated its energy both to the symbolic significance of the proposal and to the gastronomic one.
In order to enrich our indignant recipe with meanings and symbolism, members of our team, due to three days, rigged to Mani in order to find the most angry instruments from the well-known butcher shop of the Kourakos Brothers in Areopolis, but also to the popular one in Argos for potatoes, because of the slow salaries that the "castrated" taxpayers cover.
With these and with them, yesterday we found all the pantespanic contributors and we pinched our neatness in two different ways"...
It is. It's a recipe site, but this particular article was written during the period of austerity measures and protests, and has some humoristic references to the era.
Note that amelitita means "unmentionables", and those are basically the testicles of the animal.
This recipe however is for bovine "unmentionables", not arnisia (lamb) ones.
I has a typo in my spelling. Spinantero is basically a composite word for "splina" kai "entero", the Greek words that are the ancient etymology of english "spleen" and "enteric". And the recipe is exactly that, speen and other meet wrapped in intestines, and grilled with spices etc.
>Arnisia ameletita doesn't even have any non-Greek results at all.
Ameletita is literarlly unmentionables (basically "testicles"), and arnisia is means "from lamb". So this recipe is easy too (though the recipe site gives one for bull ameletita).
And yet I've seen it on TV shows in both the U.K., and Australia.
This lead to a lot of truly regrettable food — when my grandmother did home economics classes the focus was always on things like having enough calories for manual laborers on a budget, cooking thoroughly to avoid the chance of disease, etc. which really emphasized meat and carbs, and techniques like pressure cooking (which allowed you to eat cheaper cuts of meat). Enjoying your food was not a priority. Her children were quite happy when she got into California cuisine back when that was new.
My daughter ate olives, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, cabbage, whatever really, from age 2 to 3.
Now she's older and there's a bit of "asserting my independence" thing but she still loves Brussels sprouts.
The one thing I cannot deal with is Beets. Which is the only food my father hated.
We only offer what we're eating and, unsurprisingly, he has learned that as normal. That doesn't mean he eats everything — bitter flavors really are a learned taste — but he'll eat enough of it to get proper nutrition and understands that rejecting dinner means getting a second pass later rather than something else. We're also not monsters so there's always some high-probability staple in the meal so it might be that e.g. he eats the fish and sweet potatoes/kale chips but not the squash, which is acceptable. There are also some amusing outcomes: I haven't had asparagus tips in a year or two because he eats those happily but not the base.
Having grown up in an immigrant household where the children’s plate is just a smaller version of the adult plate, is this a thing in American households? The kids eat an entirely separate meal-course from the adults?
I know baby food is processed but once a kid gets teeth, they’re just given what the adults eat.
My grandmother would have banish from the table if I had ever even dared to ask to eat something separate.
Well, except for eating out, I guess. And even then an adult sharing with a child is not that rare.
My wife grew up in an immigrant family, I grew up in a half-immigrant (but largely Americanized) family. This was an element of culture shock for her. In American culture the norm is that everybody eats whatever they want to eat, and it's considered rude (sometimes even abusive) to try and control someone's food. We have obesity & diabetes rates to match. In most immigrant cultures food is considered a communal experience, where set dishes are put out on the table and it's considered rude to decline or ask for something different. You see this in restaurant customs as well, where servers at American restaurants will come around and ask each person (even the kids) what they want and then bring out individual plates, while in say Chinese restaurants the servers will go to the oldest male at the table, ask for the order, and then bring dishes out family style for everyone to eat.
It's extremely difficult to raise kids against the culture they're immersed in. Our infant will eat anything - even broccoli, celery, carrots, etc. Our 3-year-old will only eat dino nuggets, or on rare occasions, noodles or rice. When our 3-year-old was an infant, he ate everything too. But he gets snacks, occasionally lunch, and occasionally parties outside the home, and in the course of that, discovers that he really likes spaghetti, dino nuggets, and PB&J sandwiches. Hence, that is now his meal, and he knows that it is possible to have them, and he won't eat anything else when placed in front of him, even things he previously enjoyed.
(I suppose we could just not buy dino nuggets and he'd be fine; he's been fine whenever we run out and I explain that we just don't have any. But it's just not that important to me. Like I said, in American culture, the norm is that if you have the means to make yourself or your family happy, you should do it, and it's not that hard to get a 5 lb bag of dino nuggets from Costco when we go.)
I remember several restaurant visits. I was old enough (12-17) to order from the adult menu without comment in most cases, although in a fancy place I did have all the waitresses coming to look at me eat snails.
Elsewhere, waiters sometimes said "are you sure he/she will eat that?" when my younger siblings made their choices, or "I see you guys really are from Europe, American kids don't eat XYZ".
(I have eaten chicken/turkey nuggets perhaps 3 or 4 times in my life. From 2005, many schools in Britain were banned or limited from serving them [1]. Sodas are also banned.)
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-food-stand...
That's kind of a bullshit cop-out. Way too vague and general to be a "norm". I make my family happy by helping lower their risk of diabetes and heart failure, so I guess I do subscribe to it. (I'm not directly knocking your choice to feed dino nuggets) but I think your general point is a bit shitty. I have many friends and close extended family that have successfully raised their children vegetarian or vegan - I don't care to do that but I am pretty strict about food choices in young children - it usually sets them up better even in the teen year as I have seen 1st and 2nd hand. It can be challenging - but extremely difficult is hyperbole. Young children get the vast vast majority of their food from home, one birthday party isn't going to force themselves to go on a hunger strike and starve to death. A daycare should be respecting dietary restrictions especially if you're providing the food.
That is a perfect example explaining the huge problems with (child and adult) obesity and all the health-related problems originating from it, which are also very much "the norm" in American culture.
"Let's optimize for short-term happiness! The only reason why you maybe shouldn't do that in a particular occasion is because you lack the money!"
With the same reasoning you should also probably buy and take crystal meth if you can afford it. It's definitely a powerful boost for happiness, you can make the whole family happy as never before with just one small lump of the stuff!
In my home, we are trying to instill a little bit of that. Veggies, meat and carbs first. Then fruits and on occasion dessert. My kid knows if he wants fruits (he loves fruit) / dessert, he needs to finish his veggies. Meat and carbs we don't insist too much. My kid eats a no-spice version of what the adults eat. This is mostly cause his day care provides bland food and his taste buds are too sensitive.
That said, kiddo doesn't like shrimp (yet!), and I love shrimp, so on shrimp nights he gets something else.
My ex and I did not even think of doing this with our kid.
Dessert is considered "equal", so we place it on their plate. However, that also means that they can't raid the pantry for snacks afterward.
It seems to be working. Our oldest ate celery and peanut butter the other day, which is pretty unexpected to us.
- It's owned by Smucker's. I normally dislike anything from Smucker's, but Adams is a nice exception.
- If you get the giant jar from Costco, the oil separation is a significant issue. There's a simple solution: dump it all into a big mixing bowl (with the help of a silicone spatula), mix it, and pour it back into the jar. I did it last time I bought it and it was worth the 10 minutes I spent.
- Once it's mixed well, if you give it a quick stir every time you use it, the oil doesn't separate again.
Why are all zero-sugar-added PBs not homogenized? It seems unlikely to me that sugar is the primary homogenizing agent in e.g. Skippy. I dread opening a new jar of peanut butter to the point where I will look for other things...
I went in the opposite direction. I put a small portion of meat on the dish. When it's over, I put some vegetables; rinse and repeat until the portion of food is assimilated.
It seems like giving small goals is helping with going through the entire dinner and not having a choice minimises building up dislike for a specific food.
I think the reasoning for the second phenomenon is something like:
1. I can eat potatoes or chicken. 2. I like potatoes. 3. I'll eat potatoes. 4. Remember that dislikeChicken++ 4. Go back to 1 until I'm full
The project managers have had a look at some of the competing products, and felt that matching features would be more competitive vs fixing existing bugs.
My best friend runs a similar service called "chosen family" and my early adopter title is "godfather" (i like that one, very mobster), but otherwise the service is basically the same.
If you're at all unsure about investing in small child or puppy, take a look around for a similar service to help with the decision!
I have the 2017 Small Child Pro and mine tried to eat a cigarette butt that she found in a mud puddle but at least she doesn't roll in goose shit.
I mean sometimes I feel like mine is a much older model in a small casing.
function sass-back (sass): return sass
I'm not sure why, but sass-back seems to put sass into a panic. It temporarily stops all system output while it tries to restart and initiates "stare".
The child fails to respond to any further verbal input and emits some sort of sound akin to a hyena.
Such bug-features are always handy! I wonder if it's consistently reproducible in other dogs, maybe there's some source code behind it that may be useful in other species?
Our dog had the same behavior, but sterilization introduced a regression bug and she is now constantly hungry and begging for food.
It did solve the problem of giving her medicine, though: just present it as food and it's going to be devoured.
Perhaps "not eating vegetables" shouldn't have been presented as an option, but instead "we eat what is on offer today, there is no special menu".
More often than not, it's spoiling the kid with sweets, pizza, or perhaps just cooking their favorite dishes on demand every time (as opposed to as a love gesture once in a while), that prevents them from enjoying and appreciating a wider range of food.
Once somebody has been hooked on the quick-fix of a burger, for example, it's difficult to learn to appreciate the deeper textures, tastes, etc. of vegetables and other more refined recipes.
I try to get creative with my vegetables so that not only my kids eat them more, but so do I.
and by creative I mean "add lots of different flavours, herbs, and spices to mask their otherwise dullness to make them exciting"
I've gone so far as to watch exotic cooking shows on YouTube with her to see if any vegetable dishes or different ways to prepare them are interesting. I deserve a fucking Michelin star with all I've learned about cooking vegetables for her. Despite this, vegetables are bad and "Mmmm actually, kids don't have to eat vegetables."
What is “stock”?
Personally I love them and will happily eat a meal consisting of nothing else, but as I eat a lot of takeout food due to my work setup, it's surprisingly difficult to get a dish full of good vegetables that way.
> ((IEatVeggies)child).justDoIt() > Cast error: Not a IEatVeggies
So in the REPL (very confusing and error-prone UI there too, by the way)
> print typeof(child) > IAmHangry
Unbelievable! There isn't even a direct conversion from IAmHangry to IEatVeggies. This type system is just completely insane.
This is about customer obsession, relentlessly following the needs of our audience. I know the engineers are always complaining that without vegetables we'll create significant tech debt but there's no time for that right now. Maybe next quarter. The customer wants desert and the customer should get it.
While I admit this current strategy does not directly lead to a health business, we're aiming for scale right now and scale up is what we're gonna do. Did I mention that "stick things in the outlets" is coming next quarter?
Always start with the vegetable course, if the child is hungry, they will eat the vegetibles. Keep other courses out of sight, otherwise it leads to distraction. Then the next course is something filling. This tends to improve performance metrics and overall ability to function. Finally the third course is something they really enjoy eating(desert)
All your favorite Small Child features are now buried 5-layers deep under confusing menus that are apparently different on each version.
I found it under:
Late Night -> Food -> Sugary Foods -> Milkshakes -> Make Your Own -> Enable Small Child Fun Mode
Although the updates take very long and happen every night, the improvements are really minor, but at least they’re there. So we’re hoping to have fully functional and independent models after maybe 16 years or so.
Fortunately our V2 has also reached the point where we have been able to retire our bug reporting and pager setup as it now has its own implementation of this functionality. Although sometimes the reports are less than ideal, such as this evening what it filed a bug report, very loudly, 30 Min after going to bed that it was wearing the wrong pyjamas and the correct ones being it’s Toy Story pyjamas, which were in the wash…
Oh and don’t get me started on the sleep mode, it’s more unreliable that a Linux laptop and plays this horrible wake sound with no clear way to disable it. From what I’ve read on support forums this is happening to other users too.
For example, my advice on sleep mode failures is to use the Erlang method: let it crash. We don't even look at the monitoring dashboards for our newest product anymore.
My experience has been that once I understood it it became very simple, but learning it was hard since none of the documentation is complete and it often only covers the small child that the author of said document had.
One piece of very practical advice that I picked up from some docs somewhere though:
For some reason adults easily understand that kids needs to learn to eat, learn to walk and learn to speak and later write.
For some reason however many of us think that kids just should know how to sleep.
Most kids however doesn't know how to get a good nights sleep however.
Some general advice in that regard:
- Don't let kids over a year fall asleep with anything they cannot keep during the night (food, parents by their side, music, film etc.) We all wake up about once an hour to see that things are still OK. This is good thing. For small kids this check seems to be mostly that things are exactly as they were when they fell asleep. Not knowing about this mechanism can drive a good hearted parent mad since they'll go to extreme lengths to make sure their kids are happy - including waking up once an hour to help the kid fall asleep again. (Case in point: I did this for months until I realized my kid woke up once an hour because she always fell asleep with a bottle of milk and consequently woke up once an hour the rest of the night to tell us things weren't right until she could have some more milk in her bottle.)
- Some people recommend letting one year olds crying themselves to sleep until they "learn to sleep". I recommend against it. What small kids seems to be afraid of is that parents disappear. Training the kid to realize that parents are there and will check back even if they don't cry seems to help a lot. In other words: if kid cries, pop your head in and say the some very few carefully selected nice words, but more importantly and somewhat counterintuitively if the kid does not cry, have a timer on short intervals and make it boringly predictable to the kid that you will show up even if they don't cry. What I found out was that as soon as my kids realized I would come back with boring precision even if they just played with their toys they stopped shouting or crying: I cannot know what they think but I guess somewhere along the lines of "no need to bother crying if dad shows up in exacly 2 minutes 40 seconds since he was here 20 seconds ago"
We didn't set a timer, but we usually gave her 5-10 minutes to calm down before popping back in.
If there's one thing I've learned though is that every baby is actually different (and it's not just a saying). For example, we've been bottle-feeding the baby right before sleep (nap and evening) every day for two years now, which I understand is against the usual advice of not feeding the baby immediately before putting her to sleep, but we found that she sleeps much better throughout the night and it didn't seem to cause any issues as long as we burped her properly before laying her down in the crib. YMMV though.
Maybe even add a bookmark for it, filed under a new tag: bragging_rights ;-)
But please remember I did not come up with this, see sibling comment (pjgalbraith). It seems the method is called the Ferber method although I learned a modified version from what I found when I looked it up[1]: the way I learned it was to increase by two minutes each day, not more, ie first day 1 and then 3 minutes, second day 3 and then 5 minutes etc. I believe this will be even gentler and it has worked wonderfully for both children and adults.
Now to your question:
> Got any tips for when they wake up freaking out in the night?
Two things:
Once kids learn to associate bed with relaxing on their own they can often find their way back to sleep easily but not always.
My rule of thumb has been that if they have been asleep and wake up I walk in immediately as soon as I can so to make sure they aren't worried about being alone. Then it is up to ones judgment as a parent: if it is just old habits, start the countdown timer. If however they are scared (nightmares etc) stay a bit longer or if necessary take the child out of bed and hold them.
This is easier to judge if one arrive quickly because otherwise it is hard to know if they were scared when they woke up or if they became scared after thinking they were alone.
[1]: https://www.parents.com/baby/sleep/basics/the-ferber-method-...
I’d heard of the Ferber method before and we tried it a bit to no success. But just hearing the same idea framed as “the parent checking back in regular like a metronome”, rather than “the baby needs to learn to self settle” just clicked in my head.
Thanks for the tips, will keep trying this and see if it sorts out the late night wakes too.
And, since you mention it: like a metronome is a good way to think about it. I used to use a digital timer or a phone but anything with fine grained resolution is fine I think, the point seems to be to be predictable.
Also I try to remember to point out that I go back also if the kid doesn't cry.
Some people think if the kid is silent then they are about to fall asleep and we should not wake them.
In my experience if the child feels safe they fall asleep with no problems even if I walk in and out.
On the other hand, if they haven't fallen asleep that will teach them that if they don't cry I won't look after them, at least that is what I think.
It doesn't suppress the audio notifications.
I remember hearing that one researcher joked that the worst case scenario is that whales end up being really boring. That's not true. The worst case scenario is that we decode their language and realize that they're all constantly screaming in pain and terror.
Of course, for the Star Trek nerds, the real worst case scenario is that we discover that they have a complex language, they use it to speak to aliens, they have no chance of surviving rising ocean temps, and the aliens are coming back soon!
1 - actually nothing
2 - maybe something
3 - actually something
So, your ask was understood as "throwing your food on the floor". Better ask to "eat off the plate".
And then you have the nerve to complain when the developers try to unionize? You should be lucky that they tolerate your crap - you need them more than they need you.
Cats? Fuck that, those assholes want or don't need you.
* Results not guaranteed, past performance is no indication of future results. Please read the instruction manual for all possible upgrade scenarios.**
** You believed that shit? Actually, we lied, there are no instructions and everyone is just improvising all the time!
(Evil laughter)
I'll just be over here in a corner trying not to cry...
Certainly more interesting features get activated. But at least with my model, the error reporting got a lot more complicated and the input acceptance rate dropped considerably around the time the product turned 15 years old.
As you say, the reporting is inscrutable, so I'd guess there are still a few bugs to be worked out.
"Don't eat your boogers."
Holds finger out to me. I wipe it off.
"Don't pick your nose, blow it instead. No, don't pick my nose either."
Its possible that nose picking and similar behaviors by kids are important for helping build the immune system.
It seemed really weird for a few years, when conspicuously talking to yourself went from being a "this person has a serious mental illness" indicator, to being a "this person has a cell phone" indicator.
"No, there's no good reason you have to do it this way, but you do."
I don't actually say that to him (he's 3), but I say it to myself a lot. And the "Don't pick my nose, either" isn't a joke, that's verbatim.
I suppose if people used hand sanitizer after every nose picking, then maybe it be less of a problem?
Sorry about the copy link, but it seems that The Onion has removed the original story.
I guess that explains a lot.
Mine is 2, so most of the situations so far are just about English rules. (Though every language has stupid inconsistencies)
But there are many things like this in the world. I'm looking forward/dreading trying to balance "OK, from first principles, you're right. But in order to exist in society, you need to do something differently. It's important to recognize when you need to try to fit in. And also important to recognize when it's worth breaking those rules. And even if you choose not to break them, you should be aware of the underlying purpose or lack thereof"
I think it's an impossible task. My kid is going to hate it. I'll do my best.
The one that blew my mind was, when you're out in the yard, playing with the running hose, and you decide to come inside for something, don't bring the running hose with you! Turns out kids don't automatically know that.
If it's dry, I can't blow my nose... Unless there is some method I am not aware of.
I wake up breathing freely, regardless of position. If I stay still, I can get about an hour max of no concern breathing/existence. After that time, or if I sit up, I have between 3 and 15 minutes before mucus seems to accumulate in my nose, lungs, and throat simultaneously. It starts as a mild cough to clear the airway, which I always think will be the end of it because it's a "clearing" or "productive" cough with a little spittle and/or grating feeling. Then, about 3 seconds later, some kind of loop triggers, and I cough dryly and unproductively until it's time to inhale. This repeats sort of randomly for several rounds, never really obstructing breathing and producing no obvious mucus; after a cough, I can inhale and exhale freely through my nose and mouth both, and nothing stops a full inhale/exhale cycle.
After 3-6 of those cycles, mucus magically appears everywhere; the mouth I hale and exhale becomes ragged and wheezing, the nose inhale becomes nearly impossible, and the coughs produce globs of white mucus that must be spit out or swallowed.
Sometimes it all disappears after a few rounds of this, but that's maybe 1/50 chance. If this cycle goes on for more than 5 rounds, the esophagus starts chiming in saying hey maybe I can help, and the rest of it jumps in too. Now every cough becomes a prelude to a gag, which may or may not become more. If the gag causes any output in the form of vomit, it (the vomit) is strangely not acidic like bile, nor does it contain any fragments or traces of recently consumed food/liquid. The vomit is purely aerated mucus, and causes zero pain while going the wrong way through my system. This goes on until the mucus is all gone and I breathe fine in all ways for the rest of the day, with maybe a brief encore 12 hours or so later, but inconsistently. I have no idea what this is and neither do doctors I've seen.
I am 100% sure this is the wrong place to document this and irrelevant to the rest, but it struck my mind while reading this comment as a thing to write down fully for the first time, and I trust instinct in this regard. Maybe someone needed to hear/read it, or maybe I just needed to get it out properly, who knows!
I have nothing like that, but for me personally all mucus-related stuff (sneezing, gummy eyes, frog in throat) is are controlled by drinking water. Can serve both as preventative and cure, but it gets the mucus membranes working normally again.
My issues have been resolved by controlling reflux and they rear their heads again when I allow the reflux to return for more than a very brief amount of time (ie. I stop paying attention to the food and drink I consume and my intake of <things that trigger my reflux> becomes too high for a sustained amount of time)
You purchased the DIY version. With this version, you are expected to continuously update the programming. Most people seem to focus on higher level programming using a language of "ivy league".
Either way, you are expected to keep the programming updated at your expense. Without it, your Small Child unit might fall behind other versions and become a negative influence on other Small Child units.
This is blatant Programming as a Service propaganda. Keeping your Small Child unit updated is possible using the GNU/Homeschooling suite, even if self-hosted operation does take more effort compared to managed offerings.
Scheme is much more useful.
The whole "child" thing is great for DIY enthusiasts, but totally impractical for the rest of us.
"MEET OLIVIA! THE COVID-19-ERA AMERICAN GIRL DOLL"
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/meet-olivia-the-covid-19...
Almost too close to the eventual truth.
Apropos that this has just grabbed HN's top spot https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-childre...
/s
I've really enjoyed this thread.
Although, as I understand it, some of the training materials for new employees has gotten better over the years.
https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Willems-Guide-New-Arrivals/dp...
Definitely feels that way…
It also comes with almost no defaults. Self preservation algo is non existent from the beginning.
That said, OTA upgrade is the best I have ever seen in any systems. From speak nothing to tornado of words in just 1-2 nights.
Will assess a first post-launch retrospective meeting 30 days after the release, with the hope the patch list length will remain short.
Good luck to everyone.
Good news is, you might be lucky and get decent hardware setup with a functional sleep-module from start. If it does not, get a comfortable couch.
(And congrats to the addition! Best of luck and PM me if you need someone to listen to your parental suffering or joys).
So you may be on to something for high priority / safety alerts...
Anyway, what is a 'Mandarin-immersion preschool', can anyone enlighten me?
I am not sure that your son will keep the language, once he is out of the preschool. A second language is a very fragile posession, as far as i know...
Since my son left the preschool, he's been doing online virtual lessons with a lovely woman we found in Guatemala to keep it up, and fortunately his new school has a heavy emphasis on foreign languages. They have different Spanish classes depending on the child's ability, and they put my my son in with the kids who are native speakers at home. Our only problem is that the teacher sends communications to (presumed Spanish speaking) parents in Spanish, which my wife and I have to Google Translate!
I think allowing us to have a bit of fun on a single post is fair enough, but it can't keep happening or the balance will shift too far.
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/q157668-mystery-solved-...
I’m a doting parent. That one grandparent upthread has an excellent comment that was humorous and apropos.
I’m only commenting now out of curiosity if there are others who feel similarly that this reminds me too much of the rest of the Internet.
My cofounder and I tried to implement some firewall rules, but our Small Child seems to bypass them with little effort.
My cofounder and I recently introduced v6.0, and while there’s a familiarity to the operations, it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier to operate.
It is like starting all over again.
PASSWORD TOO SHORT, MISSING REQUIRED FIELDS, ETC
HR apps are the absolute worst.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. We understand you're experiencing some growing pains on-boarding the product, but are confident you will soon come to love and appreciate the unique quirks your Small Child.
I've shared your concerns with our engineers and they've made a few suggestions I'd like to pass along:
1) Have you read the documentation? It sounds like you've reversed the direction of the Storytelling port.
2) High-pitched scream notifications are locked in the stock ROM. They prevent you and your Small Child from remaining in Sleep Mode beyond the rated limits. Per your request I've submitted a priority ticket to adjust those limits, and we expect to push an update in roughly 13 years time to default your Small Child to Silent Mode and implement extended Sleep capabilities.
3) Your Small Child's visual design was inherited from the fusion of two disparate legacy platforms, both with outdated graphics. Although the resultant "look and feel" is a bit clunky, perhaps even unseemly in places, rest assured our highly acclaimed design team is hard at work on a complete UI overhaul. Our roadmap follows the industry-leading Tik-Tok model, and just like your favorite OS, periodic cosmetic refreshes will decorate the canvas with more diverse visual elements including tailored themes, customized styles and individualized artwork rendered in perpetuity on ink-enabled skins.
You mentioned "less is more". You might consider the Young Adult upgrade pack which includes a more minimalistic, uncluttered theme. It's still in beta, however, and some users have reported unwanted activation and missing overlays when their unit is left in proximity with other similarly upgraded models.
4) The UI-string translation mistakes you encountered are a result of outsourcing to a third party. We cannot warranty development that did not take place in-house.
4) To meet your aggressive delivery deadlines we shipped a Minimal Viable Product. We appreciate you relaying the roadbumps you encountered during your user journey. You can expect improvements over time as we tweak the internal systems and fill in missing features. In particular, we're investigating the inconsistent poop latency you reported and believe it's the result of a race condition. An interim patch comprising a disposable posterior accessory is available in the meantime to users on a subscription plan.
5) Some of the bug reports you've filed have been closed and marked as "Could not reproduce", in spite of repeated efforts by our overworked and exhausted QA team. But don't fret - our latest platform collects enhanced user telemetry and will automatically broadcast it to servers hosted by a third-party when you and your other stakeholder commence the v2.0 initiative later this year.
Thanks again for reaching out to us!