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I hope they aren’t all realising zero isn’t zero somewhere as well. I could really do without that headache today.

If you want a steamer, look at psychotherapy. That makes philosophy look sane because no one tries to apply it.

Mostly holding on still. Apple just bumped the hype a little more and gave it a few more months despite MSFT’s inherent ability to shaft everything they touch.

I moved about 50% of my capital back into ETFs though before WWDC in case they dumped a turd on the table.

I’m a miserable cynic at a much higher level. This is top level grifting. And I’ve made a shit ton of money out of it. That’s as far as reality goes.

I wake up every morning, stare at YAML, and think this.

Good luck to them.

That is exactly what it is!

Yeah softening them up for the next round of fines for not complying with chat control…

They're bloody awful and should be taken outside and shot. Even the expensive 3M ones. First they are unreliable and wear out. Secondly they melt when you inevitably screw up. Thirdly there isn't a ground plane so it's basically a nice board of little capacitors and inductors to argue with.

For the last 35 years both professionally and as a hobbyist I've just soldered stuff to bits of copper clad board. On one-off items like test rigs etc, these are then screwed to the inside of the lid of a Hammond box.

Also see AN47-26 "breadboarding techniques" https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...

(check Appendix F in particular)

Is there a decent tutorial or book on getting over the hill? I can do some basic stuff in it but it's just not catching like other languages do.

Similar thing happened to me in the 80s.

I learned never to take anything of value into school.

My kids learned the same thing in the same way.

You can decline this at any age. What can they do? Well turns out at that point they can only threaten to or apply violence or confiscate it until you hand over the details, none of which are "reasonable in all circumstances" as quoted in the legislation.

So the correct answer is to tell your kids to tell them to get fucked and call you. At that point, remind them that the device is your property, decline their request and they can only threaten you, which is 100% illegal.

I am more worried about the teachers from experience than the other students. Some of them I have encountered over the last 15 years of having three kids at school have been right nasty pieces of work and should not be in a position to have power over a minor.

I've seen this before. To quote a barrister friend of mine, regardless of the law, it mostly depends on how big a stick the person having their device confiscated wields. The stick in this case is connections, parents etc. They rely purely on submission to enforce this policy. A simple "no" removes consent and their ability to do anything about it. If after that it is forced upon you, then things get "interesting" to quote him because it depends how they try and enforce it.

For example the barrister friend in question's daughter had her phone confiscated and it went missing in custody of the staff. The school disclaimed all responsibility but paid the moneyclaim out for a new phone quietly when the relevant stick was wielded and removed their policy of confiscation immediately as they worked out it was a liability. Turns out that while the law says they can do this, it doesn't mention anything about having no duty of care of other people's property at the same time...

This article is mostly fluff. There's garbage in encyclopaedias as well and little possibility of finding errata. It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad.

Teach your kids critical thinking instead.

At this rate of headlines, The Grauniad will be shutting their app and web servers down shortly and moving back to movable type and newspaper boys covered in soot.

My phone helps gets me to places I can go and touch things. And take photos with it. It's just a tool. Encourage those uses. It's not the device, it's the users' choice in how they use it.

Yeah I only played games as well. They teach you how to solve problems. I am grateful for this.

Well my youngest (13 year old) daughter uses it for Google classroom scheduling at school, transport status (TFL), payments, online banking, checking weather, taking photos and editing them, tracking her running and cycling, listening to music etc...

While not essential for any of these, it's a tool which you can leverage for all of these to improve things.

Edit: not to mention the iPad+apple pencil which is just another way of creating art...

Well the article promotes an extremist position to solve a sub-issue which is the problem. It sells clicks. Then again it's The Grauniad so I expect nothing less. It's less than objective these days.

Well I should say lack of variety. Games are healthy, communications are healthy, education is healthy. Too much of any of those at the sacrifice of any other is not.

100% agree with this on all points.

Crap time is fine. Not everything has to have educational value or they will get burned out. Variety is the problem.

No that’s basically the law. What is extremism is depriving them of what is an essential tool in these times.

Teach don’t preach.

As a parent of three I’d suggest that it’s probably the best to teach them to use them as tools not entertainment.

As I quoted elsewhere, any extremist or reductionist position makes things worse for them.

My kids are better for their iPhones. They have no access to social media and policies in place to make sure they are tools and not sources of entertainment and addiction.

Absolutes on either end of the spectrum just lead to extremism which helps no one. This headline (the article one and the HN summary) are just extremism via reductionism. You can reduce this entire thing to a point but it deprives them of their instinctive tool using and building mentality.

They seem to be used for making cheap shitty music videos for bands I’ve never heard of mostly.

This lines up with my whole theory around AI which I expect extrapolates to the commercial and enterprise scenarios as well based on how quickly I've seen stuff canned already at my org:

1. This is really cool! How amazing! We can do so much with this.

2. User activity drops off fairly quickly.

3. Oh they want money? Lets wait until the trial expires.

4. Not renewed.

As was elegantly put elsewhere, I want it to do the washing up while I create the art and write things, not create the art and write things while I do the washing up.

Which is exactly what the personal context thing is about, so what the hell is this complaining about?

As for the parenting advice, it sounds like it comes from a poorly written textbook written by someone who watched an TV advert about a child's bedtime. Note: parent of three / professional terrorist negotiator. That's not how it goes down most of the time for most parents. The reading and activity time is mostly opportunistic until they get to the point they read their own books and want to talk about them. Best to spend time teaching them to read when they are not burned out and exhausted as well.

Well they don't sell them until 12th of July here so I'm going to go and play with one first.

I haven’t bought mine yet because I was waiting for people to ask this question :)

It's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.

From experience working with these people for many years, it is mostly because they are fuckwits. No joke. Literally no objectivity or capability to reason about logically. The first vendor that gets in the door and shows them a shiny turd and they sign a contract which is difficult to get out of.

Anyone who is technical in those orgs is either very junior and stepped straight in a cow shit out of college, has a pension they are counting down to or is so utterly disinterested that they don't give a shit about anything other than the coffee break or the end of the day.

My capacity in those orgs was the overpaid consultant who came in, looked at what they were doing and told them they were stupid in a huge word document and then leave with a pocket full of cash with no changes ever being made.