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itronitronon Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

Whenever my sister and I had to share a single food item, like a brownie. Our mom would have one of us cut the item in half, and the other would get to pick their half first. Deciding which half was never a casual assessment.

itronitronon Scientists invent "slime" – could be used in medical, energy, robot applications

Maybe we need a washing machine that acts more like a car wash. Basically you take a shower with your clothes on and then stand under a giant fan to dry off.

itronitronon Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)

How do you avoid annoying everyone around you, or does being CEO mean you don't have to worry about it?

itronitronon Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

Today I learned that some tech stacks are sophisticated, I suppose those are for the discerning developer.

itronitronon Balcony solar taking off: 1.5M Germans have them there must be something in it

Wouldn't the property owner have an incentive?

itronitronon Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation

Interesting, the Mill has a number of various startups as tenants now. I think Monster used to have it's main office there.

itronitronon The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem

You might be interested in the book "Empire of the Summer Moon"

>> https://scgwynne.com/product/empire-of-the-summer-moon

Although I will strongly caution you that there are some very disturbing details in the book that relate to how some people have mistreated/dehumanized other people. Definitely not okay for children to be reading.

The book touches on how the buffalo were hunted, and the types of 'characters' that excelled at it.

itronitronon DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

Thanks, that makes more sense.

itronitronon DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

It's not violating HN's "intellectual curiosity" rule as many people are genuinely curious about this.

itronitronon DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

>> it's not enough to demand that we unflag more stories about a specific $Topic that some users feel strongly about. That argument doesn't work because there is always such a $Topic going on.

Your line of reasoning doesn't make any sense.

Flagging the story hides valuable information, and if the topic is always going on then there is clearly interest in the community.

itronitronon Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)

> But How Do It Know? The Basic Principles Of Computers For Everyone

https://archive.org/details/jclarkscottbuthowdoitknowthebasi...

itronitronon Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]

and are they hiring?

itronitronon Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]

2 bottles of gelcaps? that seems ill-advised

itronitronon The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

It's a myth that the bar is lowered for DEI hires.

itronitronon What really happens inside a dating app

Presumably, men who get less matches would have more sex when they are in a relationship versus when they are not in one.

itronitronon Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

I was a bit underwhelmed by the video as it just looks like hyper-real computer graphics.

itronitronon Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)

As a colleague of mine used to phrase it, "yeah, I could learn that new thing but then I'd have to give up an episode of Gilligan's Island" ...

itronitronon Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

Sounds like this could inspire a simple test as to whether someone should have access to classified information, which would also positively indicate their more mature than a twelve year old.

itronitronon ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did

The author focuses on their experience as a teen with ADHD, but having been a parent of three teenagers, and having been a teenager myself, I think that the educational system is generally asking something of teenagers that they (the teenagers) can't yet provide.

But that is minor compared to how badly some classes are taught. Every time I've helped one of my children with a class in which they were genuinely struggling I realized that the instructor was not capable of teaching the material (usually because they assumed the students already knew what they were talking about).

itronitronon Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets

can't be "First Emperor" if it's known that someone else was in charge before you

itronitronon Google offering 'voluntary exit' for employees working on Pixel, Android

>> Employees have until Feb. 20 to enroll in the exit program. Those who volunteer will find out whether they’ve been accepted on March 25, a memo states.

What a fucked up company to work for.

itronitronon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency

The data is corrupt now that Musk and his team have primary access to it.

itronitronon Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

"Collectively, de Valk and Marucchi contribute around 10 hours per week to various aspects of the WordPress open source project."

Is that all it takes these days?

itronitronon Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

and also:

Forking is Beautiful - WordPress News >> https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/spoon/

itronitronon Samsung Display to Begin Mass Production of Rollable OLED for Laptops

in case anyone needed the TikTok form factor on a laptop

itronitronon Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

"Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen

https://web.archive.org/web/20200329225058/http://sundown.to...

itronitronon Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts

>> forever destined be the butt (...) of jokes.

Just like Uranus (and everybody else's)

itronitronon Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years (2018)

You may want to suggest they watch this as well >> https://archive.org/details/hogans-heroes-s-01-e-01-the-info...

itronitronon Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years (2018)

What does it mean in this context to be the opposite of this?

itronitronon YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email

Funny how the companies doing the scanning to enforce copyright are also the same ones building generative AI capabilities off the copyrighted data.