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Fair point but I'd argue that self defense and knowing how to fight helps but I was a year younger than everyone else (skipped a grade) and was fairly small for my age until I hit a growth spurt (which coincided with when I changed school by graduating middle school and went to high school). I'm not sure I would have been half as successful when I first was bullied.

The thing too is that I'm also not convinced abstinence on something that's part of society and that your kid will have when they grow up is that useful anyway. Social media is unfortunately needed to function in society so learning to use it reasonably (and not in an addictive manner) has value too.

That said, yes I absolutely will teach my son to fight back, violence in some circumstances is a useful tool to have.

I had a strong sense of identity, I had good results, a good family life, my parents had my back, etc.. That didn't stop me from being bullied or pissed on while being held down by fucking assholes. So, I'd say, you either don't know what bullying is like or you're overly naive. And by the way, having my parents having my back and telling my teachers about the bullying just made things worse. It only improved when I changed school and punched the first guy who namecalled me.

Anyway, to respond to your points:

> What you’re describing doesn’t sound like parenting to me, it’s giving in to peer pressure.

What I'm describing is knowing how society works and planning around it. It doesn't mean that I would give unrestricted access to social medias, it also doesn't mean that I would not be there to guide my child about how to use them, what the dangers are etc...

I'm saying that straight up abstinence is not a good idea and doesn't work if your child lives in a society that doesn't abstain. There are also perverse effects whereby preventing your child from completely accessing social medias, you end up with a child who just hides it from you.

> If your kid’s peers all gain a liking for drugs or gambling or some other vice and they bully your child for not partaking, are you going to tell your child to participate?

I'd probably consider switching my child to a different school.

I also guarantee you that a teen who is not in the loop is much more likely to be ostracized and bullied in the offline world.

So, yes you might try teaching your kid that they're not missing out that they can find more meaningful way to spend their time in the real offline world but, the fact is, they go to schools with kid who overwhelmingly are not taught that and who will dislike your kid for being different. Your kid doesn't live in isolation, he lives in society and, during school years is when social pressure to conform to the group norm is strongest.

I'm speaking from experience here, I've been bullied as a teen, I definitely would rather avoid my son going through a similar experience.

I'm logged in and the link doesn't work.

So, thanks for the screengrab! I'm always a bit annoyed by people cleaning comments like this to move it to chat when stack exchange chat is so bad and somehow always has messed up timestamps.

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> Today, CFEngine is widely known as the configuration management tool that was replaced by Puppet, Chef, and then Ansible.

That brings back memories... I always wondered where they disappeared to.

My phone (a samsung s21 ultra) was snatched from my hand while I was using it to check google maps in Barcelona. I tried to remote wipe it 5 minutes later at my hotel but it had already been disconnected. So the thief was very quick at removing the sim card.

I checked online since and it seems that even with the advent activation lock, there's still a lot of phone thefts in some countries. They just sell the spare parts and can make 100 to 200 euros between the screen and battery.

I'd imagine with John Deere tractors, there's quite a few parts that could be resold so an activation lock wouldn't necessarily reduce the value by that much.

Yup, lived in Japan before moving here and definitely matches my experience :) The one other store besides Nitori and Ikea was Muji. I bought a few furniture from them which was decent. Definitely more adapted to the Japanese market in term of dimensions.

It also depends on the region. Here in HK, Ikea is very expensive (about double the price I used to see in France), to the point where it's cheaper to get a wardrobe custom made in good quality plywood exactly according to our dimensions than to buy a wardrobe that's close to the dimensions we need in Ikea.

Can you elaborate on getting planted with drugs by a deranged cop? what happened? How did you get out of that situation? Were you able to prove your innocence?

Thanks for this, easy to remember :)

That's Profession by Asimov Great novella (which I discovered on HN many years ago :)) https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

I assume he does but he wanted to simulate how a random person who doesn't know his friend could get access to her data.

Yup, same here :(

The rise of professional airbnb renters have also lowered the quality quite a bit. When a lot of listing were for apartments that the renter used for themselves part of the year and rented on airbnb when they weren't there, you could be sure to have decent bedding, etc..

Instead in professional airbnbs, there's a race to the bottom with extremely bad mattresses, uncomfortable beds, heaters that don't work to save money.

Airbnb reviews are well known to be unreliable because negative reviews tend to be deleted for not providing enough details, not being factual etc...

That makes sense for cards but if most of the payments are SEPA transfers, then it doesn't make that much sense since there's no chargebacks for SEPA transfers.

Maybe the issue is a fraud system designed for cards that's not well thought out for other forms of payments.

What differentiates the older Star Treks from the shows that have come out in the last 20 years is the optimism. Instead of a depressing vision of the future, Star Trek dared to show a better future. Instead of only having conflicts drive the story forward, Star Trek's main drive was the thrill of discovery, asking questions about what it means to live in this Galaxy.

I miss having shows that convey a feeling of hope for the future. The current mostly dystopian grimdark sci-fi is an easy way for unimaginative writers to make their world feel more real at the expense of destroying that hope.

It's sad that even the new Star Trek movies (post 2009) and shows courtesy of Alan Kurtzman and J.J. Abrams have completely lost that spirit of the previous Star Treks. Instead it's a bland insipid take on the Star Trek universe by people who have no clue of what makes Star Trek Star Trek and do not respect it.

I agree, it's not for the average user. I'm happy to root my android (mostly because android backups really suck otherwise) but would definitely not recommend it to most people. I think it took me an average of 2 hours every 6 months to keep hiding root correctly.

Am I the only one who is very tempted to try it? It looks delicious.

Then again, I used to go to a small yunan restaurant in Shanghai that served fried bees which was a great appetizer with beer.

I disagree, I have a harder time paying attention to people speaking than reading. Reading is faster, much faster than waiting for people finish a sentence.

Then again, maybe you're right, I don't process auditory language and when I was in university, I skipped classes to instead read the textbook back to back without a teacher distracting me by yammering around.

> [23] Mr. Ginther responded the same day, directing Ms. Jenkins to “pay the balance on our visa (less the $7500 deposit)”. He added: “Will let you know on the cedar when we make a decision.”

That email clearly expressed that he did not intend to pay for the cedar yet.

Actually, this thread has prompted me to find some time to rewatch it but I remember finding the plot meandering and slightly non-sensical unlike Chihiro's or Mononoke. I thought it was beautiful (like most Ghibli's movies) but it's the movie from Hayao Miyazaki I least enjoyed (also the only one I've only watched one).

For reference, my two favorite movies by Ghibli are Only Yesterday and Totoro and my top three movies from Miyazaki are Chihiro, Totoro and Nausicaa (with Mononoke coming close behind)

Yeah, another decent alternative I've seen was a test with a few multiple choice questions where each question needed quite a bit of reasoning and where you had to give the reasoning to get the points. The multiple choice question was a way for the teacher to quickly know if you had the correct answer and for the student to verify their answer against possible answers and see if they might have made a mistake but the teacher would still need to review the half a page of reasoning for each question.

It can be done decently but it's much easier to write and much more common to see bad multiple choice questions.

Exactly, I strongly believe that any test at a secondary education level should be open book. We should be testing for reasoning and capacity to apply knowledge not rote-learning.

It's also why I believe that in most cases multiple choice questions have no place in any well designed tests because it's extremely hard to create multiple choice questions that actually test the application of knowledge versus the regurgitation of rote learning.

When I was in university (grande école) in France, luckily all tests followed that format, they were open book, very few questions that needed deep detailed answers and were about interesting problems. Even finding tests from previous years and doing them was actually fun (tests were never reused).

I did an exchange in the US at RIT and most tests had very boring rote learning questions. For example in a computer graphics class: Which company were voting members of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board? Which year was the first OpenGl specification released?. I still remember those questions because I was shocked by how utterly stupid it was to have those on a test but, in general, 25 to 50% of the points of any tests was on those completely irrelevant, useless questions that anyone can google for.

Cheating is a problem for universities that never had proper testing standards. But that's a symptom of incompetence on the part of professors and of universities not making the choice to ensure that tests have to be well designed.

Absolutely, Only yesterday shows the nostalgia for one's childhood in a way few movies do. My Neighbors the Yamadas is also really worth watching

it's certainly better in term of storytelling than some of the worst Ghibli's like Howl's moving castle, Tales from Earthsea (to be fair Hayao wasn't involved with the second). In general, I'd place it in the middle, not as good as the greatest movies but still quite good.

I think that animal abuse is not the same thing as littering but that the type of people who litter are also the same type on irresponsible people who will think that leaving a rabbit to fend for themselves is no big deal. Either they are clueless and think that rabbits can fend for themselves or they do not care about the consequences of their actions as proven by littering.

It's more convenient to send an ebook via calibre to my kindle than to my kobo. I configured send to email on calibre, so it's just one click to send via calibre. On the other hand, I love the pocket integration on kobo whenever I want to read articles and the overdrive library integration is great. It's why we have both a kobo and a kindle shared between me and my wife.

Besides this, from an ergonomic point of view, the kindle oasis is better than the kobo sage, it's lighter, feels better in hand. The Kobo forma is better than the sage in term of ergonomy but when I had mine it broke after 13 months.

I've never seen a bank accepting more than a single device with an active instance of their app.. I would be over the moon if they did but they don't. So, last time I broke my phone, it took quite a while to get access to my bank accounts again.