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leed25d··on We're Training Students to Write Worse and to Use AI to Prove They're Not Robots
Prompt: I would like to try a little test. I will give you a short piece of text, and you render it as though it were written by a tenth-grader. Here's the text:

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

Response:

That's a fun exercise! Here's the headline rewritten in a tenth-grade voice:

Schools Are Making Kids Write Bad on Purpose to Show They're Human, But It's Actually Making Them Use AI More

leed25d··on Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend?
I use Bitwarden
leed25d··on Why isn't packaging part of Python core development?
""" Basically, they’re separate because Guido doesn’t care about packaging. That’s really what it comes down to. When packaging started to become a thing, we just didn’t have any interest in it, and so it never became a core dev concern. It just never came up—it was just not our thing. """

That's the way that junior programmers think. Marketers too.

leed25d··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Notice the article dateline
leed25d··on Ask HN: Can We Do Science on the Mandelbrot Set?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)
leed25d··on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
Sean: check out silverthreadinc.com

I am not affiliated, blah, blah, blah.

leed25d··on [dead]
GTFO
leed25d··on 'Security through obscurity': Swedish cabin on frontline of possible hybrid war
Oh, yeah. Put a picture of it on the effing internet. Smooth move.
leed25d··on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
Emacs, etags, elpy.
leed25d··on Free Old Time Radio Shows from "The Golden Age of Radio"
I am glad to see that 'Johnny Dollar' is one of the offerings. I used to listen to that radio drama with my grandfather; it is a fond memory.
leed25d··on What features would you like to see added my virtual web OS?
Is it too early to start thinking about applications? Like Visio, for instance, or Inkscape.
leed25d··on The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life
pimpin'
leed25d··on If the Nobel Prizes were designed today, what would change?
There would be a Mathematics prize
leed25d··on Coding Boot Camps
> Most coding bootcamps are very profit driven and not really interested in the needs of their students. He will be much better off in the long term.

I have worked with several people who have gone to coding boot camps. None of them have been able to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of a working programmer.

I think these coding boot camps are a waste of money.

leed25d··on Ask HN: In the Apple event, why did the speakers use similar hand movements?
So, you responded to a request for a description with an hour-and-a-half-long video? Dude, do you have some kind of TLDR? Or are you a shill for Apple?
leed25d··on What tool, technology or process in front-end development would you improve?
I would replace the whole ECMA / Javascript ecosystem with a LISPy model.
leed25d··on Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?
Practice this phrase: "Would you like to supersize your meal?"
leed25d··on Best stack to learn today for web apps?
I like Pyramid for a WebApp framework. It is very malleable and it has a large and vibrant user community.
leed25d··on Best stack to learn today for web apps?
MySQL. A lot of sites use it.
leed25d··on The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
I always look askance at a blanket statement.
leed25d··on Tech companies can't find good employees, and it's their own fault
Geeze. Imagine that. Could it have anything to do with their brutally medieval interviewing cycles?
leed25d··on Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does that mean they're intelligent?
I would say that if plants can respond in a way to touch, for instance, you might wonder wether or no they are _sentient_
leed25d··on Ask HN: If an existing language had browser support, which is the best fit?
Lisp. It is possible to write a tiny Lisp interpreter. With its macro support, Lisp is infinitely malleable and can be extended as required.

I have often wondered why Javascript was so widely used instead of Lisp to begin with.

leed25d··on Ask HN: Anyone lived/living in a war zone/instable country?
The entire planet is unstable nowadays. In case you haven't noticed, we are teetering on the edge of a global conflict.
leed25d··on Ask HN: Is this the best way to build Google alternative?
Sounds promising.
leed25d··on Where can I find a good software engineer to pitch my start up idea
Please be a little more specific about "...good software engineer...". Software engineering is a very broad field.
leed25d··on Ask HN: Human vs. Computer in Rock Paper Scizzors
> ...conditions that humans could then exploit through marginal and expected creative digression?

High-level professional poker players know all about this.

leed25d··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your messy stack of Markdown notes?
I use Joplin and I use Joplin Cloud for synch.
leed25d··on Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool
I like Joplin
leed25d··on Are financial markets unwitting Ponzi schemes?
Unwitting? No, I don't think so.
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