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Wonder if the new solution potentially decreases (or increases) the volume of banal surveillance.

Don't forget to discuss the bubbles, winters, surveillance, and the hype.

A colleague shared her productivity tool: Sticky Notes. She has them on her screen with the more immediate items listed on a sticky on the top right side of her screen. The one on its left has higher level / bigger items, and so on (a decimal system?). Her focus is on clearing out the top right one, and disassembling the higher level ones towards the right.

Postscript: Installing it on my laptop needed going through some IT bureaucracy. And my #1 procrastination creator is filling out forms. Guess they'll just keep paying me the same for less work.

Indian Alien here. I'd suggest more sleep. I would bet a fair amount of $ that average scores of Indian kids who take GRE / SAT would be higher than citizens born in, ahem, God's Own Country. Admittedly, those would be kids from the middle / upper middle class. To afford pilot school you'd need to be from those sections anyway, or from the air force. So I'd not consider language to be a factor here. Although as the top comment says, wait a week or two. Or maybe more.

Off topic, as someone who travels to India 1-2X per year .. it's more common to see women Indian pilots. I'm only mentioning this unusual stat as your comment shows a kind of regional bias.

One reason I always refuse to get Apps and get pulled into the surveillance world.

A thousand times yes. One word: " Enshittification" captures what has become of the web.

I'm patting myself on the back. After reading the first couple paragraphs, I went Eh? and came here to the comments. Thanks everyone for saving me the time.

I love it that the Tech Tree goes all the way back to a stone tool. It reclaims the word Technology. If we asked a youngster to describe Technology they might point to a phone or a computer. Noooo .. it is "is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals" (Wikipedia). Phones and computers are a small subset of Technology.

Hate the $megacorps too, soPurism sounded like a good idea. But half the links on their site are broken. It makes them look like a scammer unfortunately.

$99 per month?! For some half baked software? I need a car, not a parasite.

The parking lot of a nearby struggling mall is full of new unsold Teslas. It's a beautiful sight, and hope the parking fee continues to help the mall.

"Getting Started in Electronics" by Forrest Mims, if you don't know basic electronics. It's a delightful hand drawn book, even if you do. Also some basic tools. Then, all you need is a broken gadget. If you search for the symptoms, and the name / brand of the gadget, you'll find the most likely causes. Open it up and check for the simplest / most probable cause, and work through them.

My most recent fix was on a washing machine. After ruling out the simpler issues .. it turned out to be dry solder on the main relay on a rather hairy looking control board. Before this the drain pump had died .. it was amazing technology shipped home by someone on ebay for $20!

Robotics is a large multidisciplinary area, comprising of parts of ME, EE, and CS fields. Before you go down a particular path, it may be good to step back, and note down things which you actually enjoy doing, and how they might relate to one or more of these fields. After all the drama wears off and you are up late working on something .. it's important to enjoy what you are doing. Not just trying to catch some hype about the next big thing or the tech giants or AI or whatever (or something your friends or parents told you).

The top comment refers to a course around a small mobile robot. Maybe you could go through this, and try to build a bicycle which would balance itself and drive a 100 yards in an empty, safe parking lot. That will certainly involve ME, EE, and CS! Who knows where that might lead?

Extremely cool, Thank you for posting. I've been to three total solar eclipses and there is sense of immense and awe at the event. Images and videos like this are really wonderful to see.

PS: Not sure why this hasn't got more upvotes or comments here!

I am going to develop real estate on a toxic dump. It will be beautiful. Prices will shoot up and I'll get rich. All the neighborhood kids will become CEOs.

Interesting idea. But that lecture mentioned typos. Now I am irritated the author built "a software" to reply to emails.

A Google Chrome extension to hide your secrets? Wouldn't that be self contradicting?

Sometimes I strike my head against the wall to communicate distress.

Aside, as a SQL data analyst working with undocumented or poorly documented dbs and business processes .. notes are a lifesaver. Important / obscure details are easily forgotten. I used to use paper but confess to now using OneNote (hate it and hate MS, but it works).

The other place where typed up notes are extremely useful is with business users and meetings that go back and forth ending in confusion. A shared screen with minimal notes that the requester sees (and agrees) works wonders in bringing focus.

He's my hero!

I might have a tip to share with him though. I use a Garmin to navigate, it's pretty decent. I can give up traffic reports for the reduction in surveillance. Regarding new cars with a GPS which cannot be removed: I am on the lookout for a new car now. However, I'll continue to use my 20 year old Toyota until I find a good car without a GPS in it.

How about we just call it "Advanced Algorithms" and drop the hype?

Minor quibble: On the chart at top, "Inverse correlation" would show up as a hyperbola. The line is more of a negative correlation. Just sayin' :-)

Wikipedia.

Also F-Droid (Android apps), ACLU, Doctors without Borders, PBS.

Some 20 years ago my kid's first grade teacher did something that motivated the kids to read a lot. Each kid had a small notebook where they would list books they read and the date. The parent had to sign off on each item on the list. When they completed 10, they would be eligible to pick a toy from a basket of dollar store junky toys she had in class. I think it was not just the toy (because they could get enough toys at home) but also the competition and recognition.

Would like to suggest a possible need to the dev wizards on HN, and also request pointers to something good that may already be out there:

I would like a phone app that would disable anything that a user doesn't actually need (not something like the existing google android feature that identifies apps that haven't been used in x months). It may ask a user what they actually need (for example, calling, SMS, a browser, etc.). The app would identify all the software/apps on the phone that are not required for the above needs and identify / disable them (say for example Location services). When you get a new phone one could start off with an absolute minimum.

It would need ongoing updates, as the app universe and surveillance technologies continuously evolve.

This could be applied to any faith. Likely many people would find that faith was also true? So they are all true simultaneously? But they also contradict one another, and have people killing each other in their "team's" name?

AFAIK there hasn't been any evidence shown for any of the faiths yet.

Nice idea. Do you have a timer .. like after a half hour of playing it recommends them to go outside and play (after checking with parents)?

Upvoted. Anything that creates off ramps from the surveillance for advertising industry is great! Even tiny ones.

This is nothing. My kid discovered dark matter (in middle school).

Worse than a Boomer who got his and pulled up the ladder is a Boomer who got his, pulled up the ladder, and lectures a youngster to go live in a miserable cold place in the middle of nowhere with no heat.

Thank you. I still feel the stackexchange post misses the forest for the trees (and weeds). Take a look at the NOAA global map showing coasts that have semidiurnal tides (that is, one in roughly ~12 hours) [1].

Most all of the coast of Africa is semidiurnal. So is east coast of North America, a lot of South America. Bay of Bengal, a lot of Europe. If you see the map on the RWU [2] site it shows Greenland and the north coast of Russia (although stretched due to the latitude) are also semidiurnal. This is a major part of the global coastline. The simple mental model explains this. I feel that going to partial differential equations, fourier series, etc. etc. is a little too complicated.

[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides... [2] https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/11-3-tid... -