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They said they ask a question analogous to asking about founding Tesla, not that actual question. They are just using that as an example to not state the actual question they ask.


Indeed but the idea that this is a "cope" is interesting nonetheless.

>Your test is only testing for bias for or against [I'm adapting here] you.

I think this raises the question of what reasoning beyond Doxa entails. Can you make up for one's injustice without putting alignment into the frying pan? "It depends" is the right answer. However, what is the shape of the boundary between the two ?


I don't think I've ever powered a computer down completely outside of troubleshooting issues or restarting for updates since the 90s.


I did, routinely, with my ThinkPad until a month or two ago. See, it would surreptitously turn itself back on (to hit Windows Update!) and kill its battery overnight. I tried turning everything off; didn't work.

Just over a month ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442490 was posted. I went into the BIOS, changed the "sleep mode" to "Linux" (at least ThinkPads still consider this), and... in sleep mode, I lost about 2-3% of battery overnight. Tops. I still hibernate for most situations, as I don't use the laptop much, but when I know I'm going to be using it often, it's nothing, and it works the way things were supposed to.


The regressions in standby/suspend are staggering inthe last 3-5 years. Peak stability was with my t480s, just proper s3 support. Currently it's hit and miss with this silly s0ix shenanigan.


This is awesome. I listen to a video game history podcast with the founder of the video game history foundation, https://gamehistory.org/ , and the one thing he constantly brings up is to send him any and every person in the game industry with fun stories, weird bits and bobs of prototypes, and anything in between. If you've got the time I know that dude would love to pick your brain!


I didn't know about that site! I've queued up a few of the podcast episodes already. Thank you for the reference!


From a bit of a ways into the article

"Ahn says she would like to see penalties for parents who make unfounded accusations against teachers or practical measures put in place so that mandated changes can be adopted in classrooms, such as removing a disruptive student elsewhere to allow teaching to continue."

So, it seems like they don't even have the power to make a student leave their classroom without fear of retaliation at the moment.


If you send a student somewhere outside of the classroom, the parents can argue that 1) you deprived him/her of educational opportunities; 2) you mentally abused him/her by sending her alone into the dark, scary corridor; and 3) you damaged his/her self-esteem by doing this in front of all the other students. If the parents are in a particularly vindictive mood, they can probably get a psychiatrist to back up their bullshit, too.

None of these charges are likely to stick under the revised legal framework, but the mere threat of a lawsuit can be tremendously burdensome to a young teacher just out of college. The teacher who committed suicide in Gangnam last summer was only 23 years old.


Tangent: 4?! My son is 2 and a half and we have just gotten to the point where he will even pay attention to a tv for more than 10 minutes (and only for peppa pig of all things).

I'm really thought it was further away than that for any sort of gaming or real computer use, but I have no gauge from growing up in a house without anything but a tv till I was almost in middle school.


When my kid was 2 ish I introduced them to TuxPaint. Turns the speakers on, pick a stamp of whatever their favorite is (dinosaurs? butterfly? fish?) Put your hand over their hand and select the stamp and then select where to put it. Once that gets boring show them pick color, pick stamp, place it. After that show them pick size, then color, then stam, and then place it.

Kept my kid busy, she loved being creative, and it's way better than watching some video.

After an hour she looked at me, looked at her hand, and said "ow". I got her a smaller mouse ;-).


I’ve taught a 3 year old his first letters with “bambam” and “gamine”. I don’t know that’s it’s as healthy as off-screen play though.


It depends on their role models. When I was a toddler I saw my older family members playing games and I wanted to do what they did. I learned how to load commodore games from the command line at age 5, maybe 4.

My kids had only a casual interest in games until age 6 when the older one discovered minecraft.


Wasn't that part of the intrigue when computers and games had cables and cartridges and you needed to crawl behind the TV to connect it when you wanted to play? The romanticism is lost. I wonder for me, getting involved back then was hardware related.

Thankfully Lego remains.


My 4 year old can unlock our phones, open the Roku app and put on a few different shows. She also has learned how to use Google transcription to send text messages to her cousins, although Google still hasn't figured out how to transcribe Armenian, so they are usually a little jumbled.


I had a few Super Nintendo games under my belt by age 4. I think the best thing you can do is surround your toddler with potential interests and hobbies and let them naturally gravitate toward what interests them.


As a counter point, why give them screens so young at all?

I am someone without children, so my point is much less valuable then the others already below. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/23/screen-ti...

https://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gate...


As someone without children you don't understand that parents need to rest after couple years of constant taking care of children :) I was the smartest about raising kids when I didn't have them yet :)


The only way to really keep your child away from screens is to keep them out of the house entirely. They are going to see your computer and your phone and want it. 4 year olds understand a lot about the world, so it's not like you can just pretend you don't have these awesome toys.


They grow up quick! And one of the super fun things about Roblox is most of the games are very simple and there are a practically infinite number of them. It doesn't take much more attention than your 2.5 year old has for a kid to drop into a game, walk around for a bit, get bored, and drop into something new.


As a 46 year old with what I suspect is undiagnosed ADHD, this is exactly what I tend to do with PICO-8


All kids are different, but our youngest (of four) started playing roblox at 2.5 — we have no idea how/why. Interactive stuff seems to keep them attentive longer, and most importantly: Engaged & thinking.

Now the house sounds like a perpetual LAN party.


I'm not sure if the popularity increase is angular getting more popular, or front end development getting more popular.

Vue has a similar track over the last year https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue

React is gaining even more quickly https://www.npmjs.com/package/react


And for a counter observation I saw lines out of nail/hair salons and bars in Atlanta the day Kemp dropped shelter in place at the beginning of May. I'd say I see 1 in 8 people wearing a mask anywhere that doesn't explicitly require it, and then people mostly wearing them improperly otherwise.


I live in a place where mask rules are not enforced. There is a growing split between places people gather without masks and places people gather with masks. Unless completely unavoidable I only go to places where everyone is wearing a mask. I think there is a similar filtering mechanism happening with everyone that prefers being around mask wearers, and those that prefer not wearing masks.

Seeing one place where people are not wearing masks is not a reasonable sample, and doesn’t show a complex story that is happening.


I haven't read this, but I know quite a few people who recommend this book by John Duckett http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/

These are resources I used to learn grid and flexbox. http://cssgridgarden.com/ http://flexboxfroggy.com/

The site I inevitably have open looking some how to do something with css https://css-tricks.com/


I personally love this trend. It's one of the first sites I've been on in a while that I didn't have to bump up everything to a readable size.


Serious question: why don't you increase the size of text on your OS as a whole? Or browser default zoom at a minimum? If you're having to bump up the size individually on most sites, it seems like the problem is that your computer is misconfigured, no?

Regardless, the point is that it's important for body text sizes to be roughly consistent across sites, so that you can find the zoom level that's right for you and stick with it, rather than have to adjust it for each new site.


Is there something similar to this for someone without a bachelors degree?


I think Oregon State does but I suspect the quality of online CS programs drops radically quality from OMSCS.


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