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I was diagnosed short-bus autistic in elementary school twice.

But I also have Williams Syndrome, which gave me empathy and a fondness for people and their stories.

So while I was bullied mercilessly I also had friends. Deep, lifelong friends I still have today.

Project-based learning / assessment is much more common now.

Students have to explain their process when they present their projects, and answer questions, which ensures they did the work.

These projects make up most of their grades.

This article was a good read, but the writer doesn't seem to understand how model-based image generation actually works, using language that suggests the image is somehow progressively constructed the way a human would do it. Which is absurd.

I've noticed a lot of this misinformation floating around lately, and I can't help but wonder if it's intentional?

After the video game crash, retailers (particularly department stores, where most major purchases were made in the 80s, usually on payment plans) were extremely resistant to stocking another console (and consumers were resistant to buying one -- they had been buying home computers like the Commodore 64 since the video game crash to better justify the expense.)

The redesign was intended to position the NES more as a home video accessory and remove it from the tainted video game category, hence the front-loading (like a VCR) so that it could fit into an entertainment system / TV table. It may seem silly from a modern standpoint but it was all about perception, and it was what was needed to successfully 'reboot' the video game market in North America.

I recently returned to Melbourne after being away for 5 years. They've been building a lot, particularly in the Western suburbs, and in satellite towns. Also there are a lot more people working remote / hybrid and living farther out in the country. A house in a smaller city like Bendigo is $400+ a week. But I expect this has been driving prices in Melbourne down -- but I'd hardly call it 'affordable' at ~$500 a week for a small house.

LLMs are a useful tool but they are basically idiot savants.

They still need someone with higher reasoning skills (eg humans) to verify what they cough up. This need is likely to continue for quite some time (since LLMs simply aren't capable of higher reasoning).

Learning to code effectively using LLMs is probably the best path forward, from a career standpoint.

3D WebGL Logo: https://turtlespaces.org

Has a 2D physics engine and can use GLB models, among a bunch of other modern features...

Can't check out on Amazon.com.au, gives error page

This could be great for extracting text from old magazines; traditional OCR gives you a bit of a mess you have to clean up, but this looks like it can properly identify columns and track the flow accurately (and extract images!) It appears it can convert magazine layouts to markdown too

If you can tolerate pregabalin (Lyrica), it's better at masking pain while causing less brain fog

Where do you live, so people know not to move there? Jesus.

Yes, in Australia what and how much of it a doctor can prescribe is tightly regulated. Many medications require a specialist referral and approval. Any medical procedure requires a specialist to sign off on it.

That and there is often a 'gap' that needs to be covered for GP and specialist services, although that tends to be balanced out by much cheaper prescription costs. (Prescriptions in Canada for example easily cost 2X as much).

However, Australia has a two-tier system where you can buy private insurance cover that can cover the costs of gaps and allow you access to private hospitals. This insurance is much cheaper than the equivalent US versions.

We have the how, but now we need to discover the why?

Even a large confluence of connections like this would likely still have had local switchboards.

When you made a call, your local operator would have connected you either to a local number on their own board, or to another local board as needed. That second operator would have then connected you to the desired number.

Each board would only have limited connection lines to each other board (or to a branch exchange). So if all the connections from board A to board B (or to the branch exchange) were in use, the caller would have to try again later.

My school had one, it wasn't perfect and there were occasionally gaps between scanned lines but it let us scan in photographs and newspaper clippings for local history projects.

I drove down to SF a couple years back and people there drive like lunatics.

> About half of the drivers who got tickets were going between 16 and 20 miles an hour over the speed limit, a Chronicle analysis found, which incurs a $100 fine, though the amount is lower for people who qualify as low-income or receive public benefits.

Get caught here doing 30km/h over the speed limit and they suspend your license.

Ah yes, that old Russian chestnut that any moves to make Western civil society more resilient are portrayed as an omen of military aggression against them. Sorry Boris, not everything is about you.

> Commercial use rights for songs made while subscribed

LOL oh hell no! Why would anyone use this if a perpetual subscription is required to maintain the rights? Absurd.

I wrote an article about growing up with CED:

https://paleotronic.com/2024/01/27/the-horrors-of-capacitanc...

When I was a teenager, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. People would call in at all hours to download (ahem) 'Public Domain' (wink) games off of my Atari 130XE and its array of half a dozen floppy drives. It was kind of noisy, but it always lifted my spirits when I'd hear the drives start grinding.

My female cousins did learn how to load and play games on their Commodore 128, but of course that fell by the wayside when they got an NES.

It was a lot easier to get a game going on the NES.

If you have a new Macbook the built-in camera does it

Cute, I love it! Thanks for sharing this.

It would be just a little bit better though if the paddles just missed the ball when the time changes rather than entirely stepping aside.

But still wonderful, nevertheless.

We got Claude to shim our ClayGL frontend and drop-replace it with Three.JS in a weekend. Now, there was a lot of cleanup to be sure, but it still saved a ton of work!

If you want to make them oldschool, there's turtleSpaces Logo:

https://turtlespaces.org/weblogo

We're in the midst of upgrading to three.js with all that it offers (materials, shadows, etc.)

Wouldn't their complaint be solved if ad blockers actually loaded the image (thus generating an 'impression') but didn't actually display it? Or displayed it with 0 opacity, or what-have-you?

Then everyone wins except the advertiser / ad network.

Despite having almost all of the prerequisite conditions (heart murmur, lazy eye, left-dominant, hernia, poor motor skills etc.) this was ruled out for me when I was a child due to exhibiting a high-IQ (~130), and I was repeatedly diagnosed with autism, despite being outgoing and high-EQ (and horribly naive!).

When I got older I began to develop connective tissue disorders and spasticity, which were incapacitating until I found treatment. I was diagnosed with EDS but that may also have been not-quite-correct, since apparently these issues are also common in WS.

Also, it apparently _is_ possible for people with WS to also have higher-than-average IQs. God, life is so frustrating sometimes!

Can confirm, it creates slides though, not whiteboard animations. Although the slides are in color and have graphs, clipart, etc. (but they are static and the whiteboard drawing is cooler!)

It created an 8 minute video explaining my Logo-based coding language using 50 sources and it was free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZW75burwQc

Yes, upper and lowercase characters are different tokens, and so mixing them differently will yield different results.