georgebcrawford

In Australia the most commonly scammed demographic is under 25s.

Improvement in what way and over what previous phone? The parent mentioned a number of metrics.

That’s not true.

You can swipe up from the bottom, just as you described. That brings up the app switcher.

Or you swipe along the bottom in a straight line (no arc, no corner) to go directly between apps rather than choosing which one. Good for rapid switching.

I’m 90% sure it’s the exact same for Android. I switch every year or two and the most recent was in August I think.

Yep, trash.

An essay is a good gauge of how one can organise their thoughts, argue a position, respond to a stimulus.

In short it’s a good way measure thinking.

> essay writing is no longer a viable form of assessment.

Of course it is. In person, with an unseen prompt/question. By hand or not doesn’t really matter as we can airgap or just monitor via software when in class.

I'm an English teacher - I'll be sharing carefulwords with my students and faculty. Thank you, it's bloody great.

I agree until your last sentence. Pubs closing can be devastating.

Pubs are often the centre of a community, especially small ones. Not even small towns. Traditionally they have been centered around drinking, but this is changing. Much like libraries had to adapt to falling reading rates, pubs have had to adapt to falling alcohol consumption.

The hard part of this is that food and wage costs are often covered by alcohol costs, though where I'm from the government has exercised vice taxes to make this less tenable. More customers doesn't necessarily mean that much more profit, for a host of reasons.

I hope pubs find a way forward.

Source for my rambling: worked in and managed pubs for a decade. They're not just for heavy drinkers.

I spent 30 seconds and the first word that came to mind was drivel.

As an English teacher this shit makes me hate LLMs even more. Like so much techbro nonsense, it completely ignores what makes us human.

Good point, you did ask in good faith for an explanation and just fired off a quick comment that didn’t serve to further the discussion!

Not danger as in being kidnapped by government agents, danger in terms of being denied a job or insurance or anything else.

Your comment is extraordinarily naive.

Good point. Music is much more personal, perhaps?

He was successful at Air NZ from memory. But they're completely different jobs. For example, he cut services and jobs which helped increase profits. Not uncommon for an airline. The same approach when running a country is disastrous and not uncommon for out of touch neoliberals like Luxon.

His management experience at Air NZ has not correlated with strong leadership. Compare him with the previous PM (Jacinda Ardern) and most Kiwis, even the right, would agree she handled things better. A few lefties like myself think she could have done more (especially wrt to housing policy) with the immense political capital she had just before Covid, but oh well.

You didn't ask for any of that sorry!

New Zealand isn’t on that list, but two parties generally take 70-80% of the vote. Last election (~65%) was an outlier due to the two leaders being pretty unpopular.

However, NZ has a proportional voting system that leads to coalitions forming governments. This is considered a good thing, but can lead to…interesting outcomes. The current government is very much the dog being wagged by a couple of nasty tails. Current PM is a weak “I've run a company so can run a country” type.

I have the same router as the OP article - it ran at 72C until I did [this](https://phasefactor.dev/2024/01/15/glinet-fan.html#choosing-...). Currently running at 60C!

Because they're often acting as a bulwark against powerful MNCs.

> The metaphor of assigning a literal monetary value to one's opinion reinforces the idea that contributions are transactional and that their "worth" is measured through an economic lens. That framing can be exclusionary, especially for people who have been historically marginalized by economic systems. It subtly normalizes a worldview where only those with enough "currency" - social, financial, or otherwise - deserve to be heard.

No. It’s acknowledging that that perhaps one’s opinion may not be as useful as somebody else’s in that moment. Which is often true!

Your first and third paragraphs are true, but they don’t apply to every bloody phrase.

> This relegates the use of AI to personal choice of learning style and any misuse of AI is only hurting the student.

I'm a teacher. Kids don't have the capacity to make this choice without guidance. There are so so many that don't (can't?) make the link between what we teach and how they grow as learners. And this is at a rich school with well-off parents who largely value education.

I’ve lived here 15 years and seen two snakes, zero deadly spiders, zero crocs.

Yes, I’m on the city fringe. Like millions of others here.

> every single child here in Australia is learning on a school issued Chrome Book

Many? Most? Possibly, but absolutely not every single one.

That's only partially true for me. Recommendations? Not at all.

Subscriptions less and less. I can think of two that I regularly watch, and even those I'll just binge their most recent 2-3 every couple of months.

For me it's Ctrl/CMD+L "y [thing I'm searching for]" Enter.

I've dabbled with tools like PinchFlat to archive/stream via Jellyfin but there's niggles I haven't tackled.

Whoops, I didn't see parent comment and thought the reply was to the submission. It seemed massively out of context but absolutely wasn't :-)

Curse HackerNews' narrow indents!

Oh! I've long struggled with the narrow indents on Hacker News comments. I thought this was a reply to OP.

Thank you.

What does autism have to do with it?

"beat of a different drummer."

I really want to check if it's drum or drummer, but will refrain and live in hope that it was a clever joke

This is so upsetting to hear. The librarians at my school are amazing. The students don't know how good they have it, but us teachers certainly do.

Nowhere did they mention social media :-) but emails and Teams work just fine - though one of my students mentioned they can't initiate chats. I'm sure there's workarounds. I just keep my students off laptops as much as possible.

Blocking games websites is like playing whack-a-mole. Our IT dept took all of our Year 7 and 8 students out two classes at a time, installing software or doing something to block a raft of websites.

They were back playing Retrobowl etc a day later. It was pretty funny.

It indexes based on tags. You could theoretically have every file in one folder and still browse by artist/album/genre etc.

Is that what pikapods is? I ask out of ignorance, not "somebody is already doing that".

I 50/50 agree with you. My issue is the bait and switch feel it has to it, for both artist and audience. Spotify holds all the power. They already pay less for Discover Weekly streams, instead using that old music industry classic "exposure". If they really care about artists (like their marketing claims), perhaps they can add a filter for playlists that contain PFC vs not?

I'm just rambling without much explanation sorry, but I'm gonna hit the reply button anyway!