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Pretty solid win-win

> "We want the ordinance to provide an opportunity for people to think about how they use smartphones," an official said.

“If you enjoyed the {service}, please rate me 5-Stars, anything less is considered negative poor service”

Not sure if part of a broader trend, or a simply reflection of it, but when mentoring/coaching middle and high school aged kids, I’m finding they struggle to accept feedback in anyway other than “I failed.” A few years back, the same age group was more likely to accept and view feedback as an opportunity so long as you led with praising strengths. Now it’s like threading a needle every time.

Confused why this comment is downvoted, as it seems like an appropriate response. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Woz a few times over the years and even getting to spend a few hours with him on two occasions. Your last sentence pretty much sums up what I feel, along with that you can tell he just enjoys being helpful or just make others laugh. I’ve met plenty of other people with similar net worth where I cannot say the same.

Edit: no longer gray by the time I typed this.

Clinically ADHD and suspected APD here. I also have excellent hearing in both ears (20k+ hz), but I’m shit at understanding conversations in noisy environments… especially if my wife is speaking. Her voice is markedly harder for me to process than other people’s when there’s background noise. She used to assume I was being ADHD and not paying attention, etc, and get frustrated, but after years of me visibly focusing on her with unreasonable intensity while listening, she started accepting it. It’s always ironic that my hearing is usually noticeably better than any friends or family (both in frequency range and noticing sounds), but I’m often the only one who can’t fully follow conversations at a restaurant/bar/conference/etc.

Article footnote mentions this with the caveat that it requires some dexterity that young children may find challenging. That aside, I think the two games make a great complementary pair and switching between provides a nice contrast for kids.

“He {something}, only to die anyway.”

Sure, this is true for all of humanity. What’s your point?

Because… what does god need with a starship?

I’m not crying, you’re crying!

Unfortunately, private sector has a say in this as well UA lobbying. Intuit and H&R Block spend millions a year [1] in lobbying to protect their business, at the expense of the American people.

[1] https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/turbotaxs-intuit-spent-re...

Ga Tech used to teach Scheme as an intro to CS course. I vividly remember sitting in lecture and being struck w/ the implications of functional programming as the professor said you could pass functions into functions and modify them. It was as formative of a moment as my 2nd Grade teacher showing us a really complex looking (at the time) rainbow flower in LOGO (she had one of few color Mac classic), and showing us it was simply the work of drawing the path of one petal, then repeating same “work” after changing two values (starting angle and color).

Yeah, especially cheaper if we get rid those EPA ones. /s

Ffs, take a look at how many superfund sites Silicon Valley has, from back when we manufactured semiconductors.

Eh, the whole em dash thing is a low accuracy tell. Most of my writing uses em dashes; iOS/macOS replaces "--" (dash dash) with an em dash. Fwiw, in your example, an em dash is the correct choice, not a dash.

I can already picture the Reddit post of an inverted aeropress brew fail while using trackpad as scale.

> Leon was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, according to his granddaughter, Nataly, who asked that her surname not be used because she fears U.S. government retribution against her and her relatives.

The irony here is beyond fucked up.

For fucks sake, an irrelevant partisan jab is all you can comment? Save that drivel for Reddit and please put a little more thought into your contributions here.

Point is, an Executive Order issued by the President did this to natural born citizens of the United States based on their ethnic background.

… and 2/19/1942.

Two thirds of those required to report to camps for internment, per the Executive Order, were US citizens.

Never realized they were that short lived. I loved playing with those at CompUSA. Always wanted one.

<!—- Insert joke about subscribing to the New Yorker and never finding time to read it —->

And a Q is an omnipotent being/continuum because in the 80’s it actually was cool to have a letter for a name.

I remember having to do this with the 2006 MBP, the first Intel books, when they were new.

ST:Voyager had a similar episode. The Commander gets captured and subjected to brainwashing to hate a specific group in effort to make him a foot soldier in a war. After being rescued and treated, the Commander still felt immense hatred at sight of the group he was told to hate, even though they helped rescue him. It closed with him making a remark about wishing it were as easy to stop hating as it is to start.

Unfortunately, we are where we are today. “Modern media” (whatever that is) and amplification from social media has allowed hate/outrage evolve from being a sledge hammer (e.g. “USSR is evil!”) into being a scalpel for daily governance and policy setting. Just look at how many people suddenly advocated for jailing (or executing, as I overheard at my kid’s baseball game) a specific former immunologist and presidential advisor. We’re tribal by nature and all too eager to treat the out-group as “less” than we are.

Exactly. That’s where the other comment about a “noise tax”, or enact fines for exceeding limits, are probably necessary to shift the calculus.

Japan is a good case study [1]. If nothing else, it’s fun to look at the charts showing noise reductions—not just in aggregate, but for each contributing input (e.g. engine, intake, exhaust, tires, cooling)—for both passenger vehicles and heavy equipment. Unfortunately, in the US, we have a few obstacles to legislation like this, least of which being public apathy as majority of voters who are not exposed to high sound levels daily.

“Japan's primary legislation governing noise regulation is the Environmental Noise Regulation Act, first introduced in 1986 and subsequently amended in 1999. This act sets different noise limits for different times of the day, with the maximum allowable noise level during the day set at 55 decibels and reduced to 45 decibels at night to prevent disturbances to those who are sleeping. Violators of these standards are subject to penalties.”

[1] https://www.lios-group.com/news/noise-regulations-in-japan-o...

Same! I think last time I was there was to buy a iMac — back when they first released the different colors. Bought lots of parts back in that era too. Glad to hear it’s still there.

> He imagines that the remote-imaging system could have several applications, including monitoring insect populations across agricultural land.

“Insect populations” is a funny way to spell secrets. Jokes aside, it does seem like this could serve a wide range of non-espionage related use cases. Really cool.

Depends on how the coffee was processed and the roast profile. I have several beans at the moment that didn’t really open up until 4-6 weeks rest.

Thank you. I’ve long held that calculus, formal logic, combinatorics, etc. should be started in elementary school, separate from arithmetic. Even after stripping away the numbers and procedural knowledge, there is tremendous real world value in simply understanding many of the concepts. Plus, (and I say this half-jokingly) won’t we all be using llms to vibe-math everything that needs math-ing anyway?

Yeah, majority of my comments never get submitted. I’ll type a reply, edit, challenge/research my assumptions, and then ask myself this it’s adding material value to the conversation that doesn’t need to be further explained/elaborated. Most often I’m content with having refined my thoughts on a topic and close tab without submitting. Kinda like work email chains pre-slack.

Hi, what are your hobbies?

Try zsh instead!