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She was 14 at the time but she had restrictions because she was preparing for the high-school entrance exam which is quite tough.
A finalised standard was what I had in mind. QUIC, much like SPDY was, isn't more than a Google protocol for only Chrome right now.
That's a fun point: we aren't differentiated eukaryotic cells in an organism, each fixed in our purpose. We're humans with malleable brains that can—if some disaster befalls us—respond by finding the people with the specialized disaster-response knowledge and learning from them. We don't have to pre-load the compendium of all human knowledge into every human; we can just communicate skills as they become needed.
We pretty much already have remote control tractors via autosteer. The operator is a meat weight making sure nothing catches on fire.

Autosteer, of course, is only useful off of public roads, what with all the pesky pedestrians and other vehicles.
Event tracking is probably the best way learn more about your uses. It's something I will definitely look into as soon as all the basics are done.

I've created an issue for it if you want to keep an eye on the progress: https://github.com/electerious/Ackee/issues/40
It's strange that Baumol's Cost Disease and Why are the prices so damn high? are not mentioned. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wh...
HK is too isolated from the mainland to cause a chain reaction there. So the only way to get China to allow them to have democracy is to make the cost of a crackdown greater than the cost of retreating for the communist party's calculations. I would say the outside influences would want to keep it purely peaceful for as long as possible. Any big violence would give the chinese the opportunity to crush them under a plausible reason. Let it build up until the HK government is forced to incrementally support the HK people.
That's my take as well. yhat, datascience.com, and Domino Data Lab were the first players in this space. Domino has a webinar and trial project to see how these platforms approach this type of workflow. https://www.dominodatalab.com/resources/webinars/web-apps-in...
The thing is, it is a backwards way to look at things. Regular students shouldn't need to deal with frustrations of windows machines and learn all the skills needed to solve issues with OS just to perform their school-related tasks.

I, personally, see the value in those skills, but for students who are not interested in it, it is just an unnecessary hassle and a source of frustration. It's like saying that having an easily repairable, but not that reliable or user-friendly, car is a good opportunity to learn problem-solving and basic vehicle maintenance skills. As someone not interested in that, I just want a reliable device that will drive me in comfort and convenience from point A to point B without making me worry about having to fix anything.
> The typical American diet is very high in fat and protein

The average American eats significantly less fat, and more carbohydrate now than fifty years ago.

Interesting how this trend appears to track perfectly with the rise of obesity...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a3.htm
I didn’t see much useful information to base this on, but drones could theoretically be much more accurately targeted and thus use less pesticide.

Plus, a far more portable solution when you’re dealing with something that’s moving quickly across a region.
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I hadn’t thought of this before, but I think you are onto something critical about Go.

In a different life, I worked deep in C# and the bowels of the CLR. New versions of C# were both exciting (woo, LINQ, anonymous things, lambdas, and a dozen others each release) and frustrating (ugh, visual studio doesn’t have specialized tools to handle this new stuff).

I’ve been writing Go for 8 or 9 years now and I value the tool chain improvements far more than the language features. Race detection was a godsend. Indeed, even taking away capabilities (or just being more strict) has been valuable—like when multi-threaded access to slices became an error.

In this release, I don’t much care about the new literal prefixes. But I’m excited about the improvement to defer performance and the improved range check panic messages.

In a sense, other languages make it easier to to write new code with each release, but every iteration of Go makes my old code better too.
And doubles have some 2^50 NaN's. It's possible to create a tagged pointer of either a double, 32-bit integer, pointer or a small string and still have space for more.

Sadly the original Mozilla link is broken. https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representatio...
Yeah, zero days, phishing and coopting servers to send exploits to specific targets are what I meant by targeted attacks (and some of those overlap).

You're probably right on the quantum computers of course, but I like comparing it against what was publicly know about say cryptanalysis vs what the NSA knew in the DES days, and also similar situations in the ww2 days.
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> The hacker's language

No, that would be C. (In both senses of the word 'hacker'.)
More efficient if you're starving and need some calories immediately without having to gather grass.

Not efficient in terms of environmental resources invested.

How much grass being eaten by the lamb resulted in a pound of lamb? How much water did the lamb consumer per pound of weight?

From the article:

>a plant-based burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 45% less energy, has 99% less impact on water scarcity, and 93% less impact on land use than a ¼ pound of traditional U.S. beef.
Declining testosterone levels in men not part of normal aging
I'm fairly surprised Amazon doesn't incentivize its use outside of that use case, though. It's presumably cheaper for them to deliver a week's worth all at once, labor wise, and they already do $1 Kindle credits for slower shipping.
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It's completely optional.

I've had this for a long time, so I don't know why it's being presented as a new option.

I do think Mozilla managed the Pocket acquisition poorly (relative to the standards I would expect Mozilla to hold itself to...other companies do far worse without being criticized, but that's irrelevant...I used Firefox when it sucked because of the greater trust I placed in Mozilla) but since then they've done a decent job, considering it's their version of the read it later features every other browser has.
> It boggles my mind that the average house in Vancouver or Toronto costs ~20 years of average wages (Assuming you don't eat, sleep under a bridge, and don't pay any taxes.)

If you're sleeping under a bridge, are you renting out the home you've bought? If so, won't that recoup your costs sooner?
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We also have porous guidelines for our kids. The ones that worked the best for us are:

* Only creative / educational games (including minecraft), and those for less than 2 hours per day. They don't get games that are heavily optimized for addiction.

* No screens in their bedrooms ever. As my oldest got more of a social life, we noticed the drama of friends kept following her around and she never naturally escaped from it. Once we stopped letting her have her phone in her room her ability to deal with drama bombs improved drastically.

* No video apps at all for the younger kids.

Screentime makes it reasonably easy to enforce this stuff on iPads, and the original Screen Time (https://screentimelabs.com/) is even better on Android.
How much older is older?

I'm 46 years old, been programming a computer since I was 10 (TRS-80 Color Computer 2 - with the "melted" keyboard - not exactly ergo), and I currently use a classic Model M (not a Unicomp - a real one made by Lexmark, that inexplicably has the flow-thru option on it for some reason - bit of a unicorn from what I gather).

I've used keyboards in my career of all types, including ones on a VT-100, VT-220, and WYSE-320, 370, and 380...

I have never had any RSI issues. Not saying it can't happen, but one would think something would've happened by now...
Not sure if it's the same, but in France school was from 8AM to 4:45PM. Which makes sense if you have one or both parents working typical business hours. In my case I paid the school to supervise our son for an extra hour and made sure to conclude my business by 5:30P.

In the US school is typically 8AM to 2PM. There is very little time between classes and the kids have to scramble for the next class. I also found out our son has been missing lunch because the cafeteria line queue is too long to accommodate all the students.

In the US schools attempt to do more with less they have stripped any joy out of the educational experience. No recess, fieldtrips, or extracurriculars. And arts and sciences are a pale comparison of what they used to be. Labs and lab equipment has been replaced by online videos and virtual learning.
I've never heard of Googie architecture, I always thought it was just called space-age modern. I have always found it very interesting, now that I know what it is called I can appreciate it more. Sadly we recently lost a movie theatre that was built in this style, it was in disrepair and nobody that wanted to keep it had the means to preserve it.
Almost all of these policies have exceptions for disabilities.

Most technology seems to be used to detract from learning: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract... rather than enhancing it. Obviously there are exceptions, like spaced-memory repetition software or some computer science classes. But focus and concentration seem to be in short supply, relative to technology.
They're less likely to run over pedestrians.
You're right, I was thinking of the school board. School boards seem to be major proponents of ipadification.
Homotopy Type Theory doesn't really contribute much to logic (it's basically just type theory with a few extra rules) or programming languages (computer-assisted proofs are easier in HoTT, but that's about it).

HoTT is a foundations of mathematics thing (think ZF/ZFC), so it's a bit weird to see it on the list. But it's kind of hot right now, so you see it just about everywhere.
Honestly, and I don't think I'm snarking (but would have to reflect a bit on it), "0b", "_", and signed shifts are probably going to make Go more pleasant for me than generics would have. This is my favorite release in years.
How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously?
I am a conservationist! I hang out in and around these communities and I am disheartened to see my comrades being anti-science and often straight up luddites.

Are you really trying to say that it will be cheaper by kwh to use solar / wind than nuclear? This is easily disprovable by simple googling.

Here's a giant study that shows that by 2050 you could cover 1/3rd the US total energy requirements using JUST nuclear in 169 square miles. The same with solar would require 1500-4250 square miles. Do you think this is reasonable? What about the environmental impact and labor costs of decentralized generation and maintenance of literally thousands of miles of solar panel.

Here's an MIT study on how we basically cant solve our immediate problems without a strong investment in nuclear: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-mit-energy-future-nuclear.html

The "numbers" on this, as you ask for, are really well covered. We need to have a diverse energy portfolio of renewables: no one worth listening to will contradict this but the simple fact is that by all accounts you can't generate the required amount of energy in the next 10-20 years without nuclear. Nor should we!
I vividly remember recess going away after 6th grade and it bummed me out hard. It's usually replaced by PE or some organized sport, which felt strictly worse in overall enjoyment.
I remember reading somewhere that a future version of Android would be able to tether an existing WiFi connection but I can't find the article. I hope this Android 10 contains this.
It's painful to go to a hotel that has a captive portal and not be able to use something like a Chromecast. Would be super useful to sign in once on your phone and then share that WiFi with other devices.
> Why would anyone prefer to go to a restaurant [...] if the same food could be served at your own home...

Because the food for delivery gets sent in plastic or foam buckets, which creates waste and ruins the presentation.

Anything crispy also gets steamed into mush on the way.
The US, a majorly non-industrial country today, is the second major producer of GHG's behind China, a country who exports a load of their products to be consumed by the US. Even so, before China became the power it is today, the US historically produced the majority of CO2 for decades, so in cumulative, is most responsible. The US consumes more calories in food per capita than many other countries, more electrical energy per capita, and so on, not to mention the way our sprawled country is set up happens to distribute such goods and services in the most inefficient means possible in terms of GHG production.

I really don't like cheap anti-Americanism that is fashionable in some circles, but when it comes to climate change, the US is in fact the major player when it comes to GHG's. People seem to like to "both sides" the argument to be fair (which is a laudable impulse) to all sides, but a look at the actual data makes it clear the US is the main responsible party when it comes climate change. It's one of those times where extremist voices from say climate activists happens to be truer than what one thinks.

That said, of course it still has to be global. The thing is due to the actual magnitude, even if the rest of the world's consumption went to zero, the US alone would further the climate catastrophe because we produce a large fraction of it.
If they want to get together and form a group dedicated to the principle of "give us more money", that's cool (to the extent that Indian antitrust law allows it) and I have no objections. But they won't get much media traction that way.

What they're doing instead is telling the media they've been cheated - that they deserve more money, and Zomato's acting unethically by giving them the advertised service for the agreed price. I'm not sure that's an honest way to look at the situation.
And the other point of view, directly from Mozilla:

> We're certainly aware of how significant ad blocking extensions are. This release required a great quantity of features with only a six month timeline until now.

> We already support a very limited set of the WebExtensions API to offer features like Reader Mode. Rest assured that more features will land in the coming months.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298143

This reads like FUD to me. The dev team know how important extensions are to their users. Can you provide a source that implies Fennec will be EOL before Fenix has extension and/or ad-blocking support?
> firefox with adblockers and reader mode is a MUCH better mobile web experience

Oh, I fully agree. But just having a better, faster, less ad ridden browser is not enough. The sheer networking effect is propping up Chrome on Android.

I only had a few issues with some videos playing.
... We're getting more and more into an age where mobile hardware doesn't matter anymore, because it's become so fungible. And Samsung will do very badly, because they're hardware is good, but their software sucks so bad.
I consider "getting around technical restrictions" to be a big part of learning about technology! Fortunately I'm better at restricting than my younger kids are at finding workarounds. My oldest got pretty good, though, but she's has to learn to learn to manage her own distractions anyway.
Consider by not contributing to the Apple Ecosystem you create a better environment for developers and customers.
The tone of this post concerns me.

What comes across is that Google is not collaborating with Mozilla over the Manifest v3 changes.

Instead of using and appreciating the engaged Firefox developer ecosystem we have PM conference rooms in Google mandating huge changes based on... well they've been shady so far about their choices on Manifest v3.

The other thing that keeps bugging me about this is -

We need a tiered App store for browsers. Part of the lockdown Google wants to do isn't wrong but its driven by having WAY too many bad actors and shoddy developers in their Chrome store.

If you have an opensource web extension, a reasonable community and with reproducible builds? You can use more powerful API versions.

If you are jrando bizplan #2000283 you get the kinda trusted tier.

Frankly if Debian had a web browser extension "store" with 20 things in it, I'd use that exclusively and turn off both the Chrome and the Firefox store 100%.
It's a pretty common story for people to discover they have an undiagnosed psychological condition after they have an experience where they say "doesn't everybody do <x>?" and someone says, "No, John, nobody does that."

Like, when the rest of us say 'voice in our head', we mean it figuratively, not literally.
>Something about the school procurement process that knocks all the nuance or subtlety out of the goals.

The people authorizing the deals, administrators and school boards, aren't incentivized to improve outcomes, they're incentivized to make the people who put them there seem like they're doing something valuable.

If parents could choose the schools they were sending their children to, instead of being saddled with whomever the state has appointed to run a particular school, they'd pick schools for which evidence has proven better outcomes. Sure, they might be swayed by flashy tech, but as other comments have said the push for tech didn't largely come from parents.
That is also my experience; I posted this in a sibling thread but it's also relevant here: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract....

It seems apparent to most classroom instructors that most tech is a distraction, not an enhancement. Obviously exceptions should be made for disabilities and there are some uses—spaced-memory repetition software or some computer science classes can use tech effectively. But in most classes it's detrimental rather than helpful.
There are really innumerable problems with using solar or wind (or even hydro, for these reasons) to serve a society that requires stable power generation. And we haven't even gotten to the environment impact of producing, and then throwing out!, battery tech at scale.
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