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Well being able to serve in the military at 18 around weapons that potentially kill but you can't have a bear for another 3 years does sound a bit contradictory.

You're telling me I have to switch to using my brains tokens now?

That's an odd take in my opinion.

Is driving a car on your own ok at age 15? why 16 and not 15? Why not 14? It's ok to drink in Australia at 18 age, why not 17, or 16? Legal drinking age in the US is 21, why not 18 like it is in Australia? Why not allow 20 year olds to smoke, not just 21 year olds.

Its because it is the legal age in which we have established people as adults where they're given more liberty as opposed to safety.

> “We need to stop treating kids as if they’re idiots”

There is a balance here, yes kids are smarter than we probably give them credit for. But they're also more vulnerable when it comes to their social circles, as well as addictive habits.

Social media causes issues with us adults, let alone our young kids who also get caught up in the same messes.

You can throw all sorts of arbitrary "perhaps this is why" topics at it to potentially explain why kids have been struggling with their mental health and its decline. Its likely not one thing but a combination of things, of which social media is thought to be the predominant reason.

> not even a meaningful correlation between the amount of time kids are on social media or on smartphones and their mental health

There have been a large number of studies and meta-analysis that show detrimental impacts of short form video content on people in general not just kids. Across their attention spans, their reward centers and also its algorithmic ability to push content to minds who struggle to ignore it, or which creates false anxieties through content which generalises mental health or relationship issues.

There is something I find strange about buying a display and as a feature to put that on the back of another display (Phone) for the purposes of reading. I'd rather have a separate device with a larger screen and take advantage of that.

We're pretty crap in a capitalist society to think about those things ahead of time. Firstly, the idea that AI could "runaway" was simply a concept or a thought it wasn't baked into a real product that could do that. We're now getting close or perhaps we are at that point of where you can't race at speed for investors without now considering a real kill switch.

You could say this in hindsight for many times in which disasters or engineering issues have occurred.

Eventually like most things in tech it will become cheaper and the average person will have these capabilities. Right now they can't but they will.

Why don't you therefore just wait until indexing is done?

Tide pod challenge

Well no you get up to 256kbps and I've had my Airpods for over 4 years now with now issue in battery.

Relax.

Its interesting though because I have a car with excellent speakers and I am extremely glad that I can plug my phone into my car and play music through the Lightning port, it sounds drastically different between that and playing it through the Bluetooth connection.

I am looking to purchase a new car and through test driving it has a better sound system on paper with more speakers and a subwoofer and the sound is limited by the performance of the Bluetooth connection.

And so do you, its not a big deal

Carpenters and powertools sounds more like handwriting or typewriting vs using a computer to write.

AI feels like something else entirely. You're not even doing the writing or the thinking, you're telling someone else to do it and they "do" it.

It's more like a carpenter walking into a factory and saying to someone I want to build xyz and it builds it immediately.

If I am relying on the model to do the writing without any context or learning on how I want it to write then yes. However if I build skills that have learnt how to write in the way I want them to then I find they write very well, or at the least how I want them to as opposed to how they do natively.

And what would you do in any other car? You'd also maneuver a stalk which is almost no different from pressing a button

The average person isn't going to have a clean-room setup and we're not looking for perfect here just marginally better when it comes to a bedroom.

If you put a standard sized air purifier with a HEPA filter in it into a room it will absolutely lower the dirty air of the room. Because over time you're lowering the particle count.

If I turn my air purifier on in my room even with the door open the air quality sensors improve their readings quite dramatically.

Its happening in other industries as well, as legal and contract management teams have stepped up their maturity in considering these things.

I work in Consulting and we're seeing this across our industry as well. Multiple clauses popping up around no or limited AI use, which comes from those organisations being risk averse, through not knowing how to deal with the reputational risk if AI were to cause an issue.

We see some organisations being very strict on no AI usage, to other organisations naming particular platforms or particular classifications of information, which is a smart way to go about it.

I've seen this across so many other subreddits as well /r/formula1 /r/cycling etc

And its always very obvious that its an AI developed front end, they all look so similar.

It's certainly software being developed at speed by anyone with a level of tech interest. Which is great but its frustrating when the native solution provides said feature.

It depends on the reference data, case companies are of course good at measuring these things given everything that needs to match up when building a PC to begin with. Therefore I would assume that case manufacturers measure it but add on an amount for assured clearance.

However of course it matters for Noctua as they want their coolers to fit and be assured they can fit into common/popular cases.

My thoughts are that if you take a case and a cooler, the assumption needs to include AMD and intel sockets and potentially multiple different generations of both that may have a sizeable difference in height between each other. Unless you take your measurement from the thickest of those as a safety net. A quick Google says that they can vary between +/-3mm typically.

BF2 was great, BF3 was definitely better, not that there was anything at fault of BF2.

I disagree with Fortnite and PUBG, whilst PUBG is a little clunky it did usher in a completely new game style AND importantly introduced much better situational audio which other games didn't have.

Nobody is saying it is okay.

I feel like its human psychology that as we get exposed to the world and we learn it, we feel like we form an understanding of the world around us at a sufficient level to survive in our current circumstances. Then we have all sorts of stimuli and feedback that tell us whether our understanding is correct or not overtime. Sometimes we challenge that understanding and realise that we were wrong. Life is an iterative process of that.

Then as we move into building a career, we essentially need to understand a topic or field to a degree that we're useful enough to sell it or provide it as a service compared to others.

Do I understand some things more than others? Perhaps. Do I need to understand everything about a particular thing to be knowledge on it, perhaps not.

> Unfortunately, when information is not directly in front of us, our memories and conceptions of it are shaky at best―but our egos are still intact.

I have often found this when as part of my job I have been exposed to a particular area of my field. But years later when presented with questions about it, whilst I can't extract all of the information I have learnt, but if my memory is jogged the information comes back. For example, lets say you learnt a particular skill 5 years ago, but now you struggle to perform it. Egotistically you know you've been able to do it, but your lack of training in recent years prevents you from doing it.

Coming from Australia where current temperatures in London are normal summer temperatures here, it amazes me there's such push back in using air conditioning.

I appreciate there are infrastructure differences, however our homes don't have great insulation either and there is high use of AC's as its not even a question.

Using AC isn't a luxury, its a necessity in some places particular where there's children or elderly.

I like how the article points out that it's the small bits of overconsumption (e.g. Nutella) each day that amount to obesity. Add in less physical activity and eating less fibrous foods like vegetables and you're multiplying that issue further.

Overtime is a recipe for obesity.

When it comes to losing weight its important to remember, its easy to gain fat, its a task to maintain fat and its hard to lose fat. Therefore a little calorie deficit requiring a little hunger and restraint is how you reverse it.

Also the fact that in one of the examples the individual simply ate no vegetables.

> He also worries restrictive diets could carry psychological risks for adolescents, whose relationship with food is still developing.

As opposed to a relationship with food that causes overconsumption?

Adolescents still form a relationship with food from a young age, hence why we're talking about young overweight people. I'd rather teach them about nutrition and potentially how to eat the same amount of food but that has much less calories.

If their current diet reflects an overconsumption of calories then they may need to learn how to restrict through eating better foods. Because without a level of restriction of overall calorie intake they will continue to gain weight.

Sometimes I feel we're reluctant to have a conversation around consuming less food when it comes to losing weight. In order to lose weight you need have some level of hunger and that's okay, we don't need to go and reach for something.

That's right. Further the SBS was introduced to allow more ethnic broadcasting of content not in English following the war in around 1970.

Not a bad approach

Yet I can watch the world cup and the tour de france for free in Australia from SBS on TV and streamed online.

So much greediness

It could be, but it also might not be?

Most things have second order effects, having a consistent sleep schedule may allow more healthier second order effects based on a more regular sleep pattern than duration. Duration also doesn't mean quality either.

Well in another example, I might put my arm out of the window and feel the wind moving fast on my arm and wrongly assume my car is going fast when it is simply windy and I am stationary.