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> I cannot put my finger on why I dislike this comment so deeply but I am a parent and I suspect you are not.

I am also a parent.

> I do agree though that parents should deeply love and support their kids which is what it sounds like you are trying to say.

Loving your kids is not a moral obligation, though most do (for the record, I love mine very much). Supporting your kids is a moral obligation, whether you love them or not, incurred by creating them.

> And in turn, your kids should do the same despite "generational differences".

I disagree. Our kids will never be morally obligated towards us in any way. We can only hope to have loved and supported them enough for them to love and support us back of their own volition.

On the contrary, from a moral standpoint you owe your children everything. You forced them into existence without their consent.

Though I agree that doesn't have to mean conforming to societal expectations of ivy league schools and so forth. Food, love and a roof over your head goes a long way.

I'm not qualified to interpret results, but this paragraph stuck out to me:

> Using mice for the study, the researchers found that heart muscle also decreased in both obese and lean mice. The systemic effect observed in mice was then confirmed in cultured human heart cells.

So it also happened for already lean mice (though no mention of whether they still lost fat), and for cultured human heart cells (so not a by-product of needing less muscle to pump blood through a shrunken body).

This looks like such a fun product. Similar to another commenter, I don't think it's all that useful, since the tactility of the physical dice roll is such a big part of tabletop gaming (for many people at least). But to me, watch complications are not so much about utility as they are about being cool for its own sake.

I would love to see something like this made into a mechanical watch complication.

If you programmed a machine to flip a coin in the same exact way every time, would you not expect the coin to land the same way every single time? If you program some randomness into the machine to simulate human flipping, then you'd simply move scrutiny from the coin to the machine's programming.

I think the result could be better described as "humans tend to flip fair coins to land on the side they started".

I usually understand "dark matter" to be shorthand for the discrepancy between theory and observation. The explanation might indeed be matter that is dark, or it might be solved by entirely unexpected observations and/or changes to theory.

It's an observation on what it takes to win for this particular "side", not a moral comparison of the two.

I hate that my first thought was "why isn't the apple music button monetized with their affiliate tag". Thanks for doing something cool for cool's sake.

I agree that for the act of learning, the tactility of paper is a huge benefit. But for preserving and recalling notes and highlights, electronic wins. I can have hundreds of books or papers on whichever device I'm on and look up notes and annotations I've made over several years.

I've tried figuring out how to get the best of both worlds, but maybe you really just need to decide which trade-off to go with.

Massive +1 to Zotero. And 7 is out of beta now!

I recently went back to school and started using Zotero again. Reading and annotating books and papers on iPad, and then having access to all of my notes when writing on desktop is such a simple but amazing feature.

That part immediately made me think of a particular scene from Silicon Valley.

This reminded me very heavily of the False Hydra creature from Dungeons & Dragons.

If the salary is market rate for that person, I suppose it's by definition a fair deal. I've seen startups hire "founding xyz" two years after they started. Looks to be a vanity title in many cases.

I think we used the solutions as a vehicle for discussion, rather than settling on a "correct" one. Though I can't recall for certain, it was well over a decade ago.

Yours is a good supplement, whichever method is otherwise used. I'm partial to cheap, analog solutions. Though, installing quality signage on a large campus can quickly become more expensive than a simple app.

Reminds me of a UX course I took many years ago at uni.

As an exercise, we were asked to come up with a solution to help people navigate campus. There were so many suggestions for apps or interactive touch screens. Someone suggested installing terminals where you type where you want to go, and then the floor lights up with directions. Someone else did the same, only it would launch a drone for you to follow.

I suggested hanging printed paper maps on the walls with "you are here" stickers.

> extends to include Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish

* cries in Faroese *

That stuck out to me too. There is a (not universally accepted) idea that language itself determines our capacity for understanding, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. While it traditionally relates to humans, I've been casually working to apply it to LLMs as well.

I want my regular drinking water to be as free of microplastics as possible, but is contamination from plastic containers dangerous enough to be of any concern during an emergency situation?

On the other hand, the lack of synchronization might be a selling point for others, who militantly support "local only".

Solid highlighting is important to me. Zotero does it fairly well, but doesn't support freehand highlighting on files that lack OCR.

I've recently gone back to school after a decade in tech.

You can care about two things at the same time.

This looks really good, thanks for sharing. Like other commenters, I use Zotero and will probably stick to that for the near future. The main feature for me in Zotero is sync'ing across devices. I usually read and annotate papers on iPad, and love that my highlights and notes are synced for when I write and need to reference them on either my MacBook or Windows desktop.

Your note-taking solution seems far superior though. Sometimes I wish we could smash together different software into just the right thing for us.

More anecdotes incoming, but I'm regularly told that I share traits with my father, with whom I don't share DNA. To the point that people who aren't aware that we're not biologically related have remarked that we look alike - which is amusing considering we're different ethnicities.

If they maintain that pace, it will start compounding incredibly quickly. If we round to 2 years vs 2.5 years, after just a decade you're an entire doubling ahead.

Psychiatrists are called doctors. Psychiatry is something that a medical doctor specalizes into.

Therapist is a meaningless word, because it's not a protected title. Anyone can call themselves a therapist without third party certification of any kind.

For many things, yes. Local plumbers will often get most of their work via word-of-mouth, for which doing good work is necessary. In which case, being terrible at marketing to me signals that your work is good enough to stay busy without trying.

Note, there is absolutely nothing scientific about this claim of mine. Just a made up heuristic that seems plausible to me.

That's part of my evaluation process when I need non-technical services like plumbing. If the website contains the relevant information but is an eyesore, I feel that they prioritize doing good work over fancy marketing materials.

> While ChatGPT can efficiently collect information on the internet, it can’t react to a change in temperature like a cultured cellular system can, he wrote.

Is there a qualitative difference between an LLM looking up the temperature on the internet (or getting it from an attached thermometer) and an animal brain receiving it from a thermoreceptor? The latter may be more integrated, but it sounds functionally identical to me.

Obligatory I have no mouth and I must scream.

That makes sense from a psychological perspective. People generally don't take kindly to artificial scarcity, while natural scarcity (such as number of plays being inherently limited by an otherwise good-enough medium) is much more acceptable, and sometimes even valued.

An interesting anecdote that feels relevant is Wu-Tang Clan's album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which was only released as a single physical copy, and no accompanying download or streaming option. That's an extreme form of artificial scarcity, but that became a part of the artwork itself.

Startup idea: DRM-locked audio files that can only be played once.