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Children still need to be able to explore the world themselves, I would say most of the time kids spend above 3yo should be without a parent facilitating their activities.

Also, adults have lots of responsibilities other than making sure children are playing constructively. Requiring over-the-shoulder collaboration for all online activity isn't realistic, especially when you have more than one child per parent.

Banning youtube has been a no-brainer for me. The loss of the "smart" shows is a cost well worth reducing attention addiction.

So if the govt stops paying them they'll continue to do the work for free?

You described two different things: a psychological effect first, and then a market. The elephant example isn't mere-exposure.

Also, I'm not an expert on this but do we see more sensless killing by kids playing violent video games? This is usually the counter example to the exposure argument and I haven't seen it properly argued against.

My understanding is that the original use of AI was to describe algorithms that solved complicated problems, but only sometimes, and usually through heuristics. As opposed to provably correct algorithms like Dijkstra's.

I think that's how we still use it.

His mom telling him he's "neurodivergent and won’t survive at a smaller company"... unfortunately I am familiar with this type of mother.

I've worked in places with both. I always have my own notes/planner system using text files. Being able to use weblinks to reference emails is a killer feature of even the most ascetic web client. My outlook messages always got lost in the sauce even with folders. (And searching in Outlook was always bad for some reason.)

For all we talk about "learning" being the purpose of a college education, the true purpose for students is accreditation: to get a degree to get a job. Take away the degree and very few people will attend college.

This article (and the few P&T committees I've sat in on) makes it sound like faculty have created the same environment for themselves. "Just publish something" so you can have numbers on the board, so you can promote. Remove publishing requirements for tenure and I'm guessing the volume will drop off precipitously. Journals are accreditors for tenured positions the same way colleges are accreditors for the labor market. (Or so it seems to me!)

Can't you select Chatgpt as the model in cursor?

That's an AI produced accessibility description so I thought it seemed wrong. But more directly from the article text: This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope.

In order to access the internet you are required to enter into a contract with a corporate entity. That's not because the internet is "theirs" (like Facebook's servers and systems are Meta's), but because the network layer was design with the assumption that companies would do the work of setting up ISPs, core routers, peering agreements, etc.

I'd like to see a P2P protocol that doesn't assume this but instead is designed to be completely decentralized, and anyone running the protocol can join. This protocol would provide addressing routing like our current IP protocol, and TCP/UDP etc can run on top of it. Would this be a separate "internet" or could it have gateways to the proper internet? Preferably the latter. There are obvious technical challenges with routing, addressing, mobility, all in a decentralized way but are they truly impossible?

Ok, so as I understand it, yggdrasil and cjdns are virtual P2P networks that offer the normal layer 3 routing services, but built on top of the existing internet. So they still require ISPs and internet backbones, etc.

Are there any projects attempting to build a worldwide P2P network that can replace the IP layer? Like a mesh network that can operate without verizon, cisco routers, etc? I know of some mesh network technologies aimed at small disconnected networks but nothing consumer-facing and supporting anything more than a few thousand nodes.

Whenever I think I've cracked the code on something and know better than everyone else, it's often the case I haven't accounted for everything.

From his PPS:

> until I planted my bare foot on that bare concrete floor a few inches from the submerged power strip, at which point I felt a mild but discernable tingle in that one foot.

I'll give up a clean toaster in exchange for not getting myself into those kind of situations.

Ha, I'm the opposite. Every time I'm writing python I have to stop and think "is it response.json or response.json()?" And then I think about how Ruby (I think nicely) solved the attribute/method decision problem.

I don't think you'll be able to compete with Spotify for personal recommendations. But there's a fatigue that comes with being kept in your recommendation bubble. I want to hear something new and good and different! And not corporate-approved like Pitchfork (rip). Through the grace of god Hype Machine is still running and still highlighting some solid tracks.

Strangers' preferences can be better than a personalized recommendation, if they are cool strangers.

Last edit: I seem to remember a study that concluded that people who listened to a wider range of music types spent more money, or were more lucrative advertising targets. However, there are fewer of those kinds of listeners.

> but 1:1 tutoring is just so much more effective than basically any other kind of educational context

Do we know how much of that effect is the "personalization " of 1:1 learning (something AI can replicate) vs the effect of interacting with another human (which AI might not be able to replicate)?

I was going to argue that you don't need to be an ornithologist to know a robin, at least in the US where they seem to be 1 out if every 3 birds you see here. But I just asked 3 people around me what a robin looks like and no one knew... I guess even if you're surrounded by something you still have to have the curiosity to look up what it's called.

I've owned several cars (Ford, Subaru, all ICE), and never went to the dealership after buying the cars. Are you buying high end European models or electric that require dealership maintenance?

Baking bread is more correct, but in my experience "to cook" is generic enough to include baking. If someone has something in the oven and I ask "what are you cooking?", it's not weird.

On the other hand, "cooking bread" is like 2/10 weird.

The September issue aside, 20€/mo seems pretty reasonable depending on how often you can go. Especially if there is a coach involved. Typical gyms in my area are about $20/mo just to access the machines and weights. Specialized gyms like Crossfit are all >$100/mo.

Hmm, I just flew American Airlines last weekend in a 737 and there was a barf bag in the seat. I've always found them when I looked.

What have you replaced lightroom with? That's the one thing Adobe makes that I haven't found a good replacement for.

I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. Are you saying that the US govt should make it illegal for people in its borders to communicate with people in those countries?

If I'm at all worried about having accidentally committed secrets in the past, I usually create a new repo for the public release with a fresh git init.

Cities also like them (alot) since they assume costs that cities usually pay for. Neighborhood parks are usually maintained by the HOAs. Less commonly sidewalks, roads, and water lines are maintained by the HOA.

Nothing gold can stay...

> Southwest of Cleveland, OH, there was a cluster of now removed waypoints: WHHAT, THATZ and MYMOM.

Well it's being kept alive in the DoD as "tactical chat" [1]. Although the article is from 2015, watchstanders do still use it today.

[1] https://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/

Well, that all Siri can do right now. If it could add something to my grocery list (3rd part app) or tell me what the gym schedule looks like tomorrow (in another app), or turning navigation voice on or off while driving, I would be doing that a lot!

That article basically says the same - that they're less effective after a time (and if you're trying to save your life with them, less effective could mean deadly)

It does try to suggest that "there could be bacteria growth", but the article hedges and seems like it barely believes that itself. I'm sure some of the syrups could grow bacteria possibly.

I went through the same process a few years ago. Your requirements are very similar to mine. Amplenote is what I settled on. Cross platform, quick UI, and very good in no-network and (even more commonly) poor-network conditions. Even the web app uses local storage and works offline.

Oh, I thought this was going to be a semi-rigorous discussion on computability. It's actually just another "GPT-4 still fails at these prompts" essay.