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I used to teach high school. The amount of time I spent doing crap work was insane. It was necessary. If you don’t remind students 100 times what the assignments are, they won’t do them.

You also have to spend an insane amount of time with the lowest performers, because with enough attention, they can improve dramatically.

But this creates tradeoffs. Should I neglect the students doing best?

One on one instruction is the best kind. It’s generally reserved for doctoral students.

I also tried homeschooling by eldest. It didn’t work.

Its insane more parents don’t homeschool.

“This whole time” - didn’t the OpenAI board get cleaned out after they failed to fire Sam?

I once read the the cheapest way to save a human life (ahem, the way to save the most lives for a given amount of money) is to spend it on DDT.

DDT is also a "very bad, evil, and wicked" thing - for anyone educated between 1970 and 2010.

I remember cartoons having villains who were seeking to make DDT legal again - that's how stigmatized it is.

The EA people did a pretty good job rehabilitating DDT. Good for them.

But the problem is there still asking, "What's the cheapest way to save a human life?"

Interesting. I always associate "1 + 1 = 1" with idempotency. Here, "1 + 1 + 1 = 1", but "1 + 1 = 0".

I'm not a math whiz, so I'm just stuck with "1 + 1 = 2."

How do you feel about Quillette? https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-...

What's the cost? Doesn't seem we can buy yet.

It’s so hard to read these comments and not have the song “Blame Canada!” in my head.

Could you expand on this?

Switzerland gave refuge to a large number of German refugees.

Canada's plan was to encourage the US to invade, so the British Navy could attack the US from the Caribbean. The US would get bogged down in the icy Canadian winter, while the Royal Navy took the Eastern seaboard, Mississipi river, and Panama.

The American plan was to throw everything we had at Canada, so it was probably a very good plan.

I don't think it would work anymore.

More practically - in the aftermath of the 1812 War, the US and British North America agreed to demilitarize the border. During WWII, this was preventing mobilization in the Great Lakes region, and Canada proposed undoing the treaty. The US diplomat in charge felt the treaty had historical value and should be kept in tact.

So the US-Canadian border is very demilitarized, by design.

The hypothetical pardon was promised by then candidate-Trump in a speech at the Libertarian Party convention.

The specific political agenda was to get support from libertarians, who lean conservative, but don't like Trump much - because he rejects libertarianism.

That's as political as you can possibly get. It wasn't a behind the scenes thing. It was literally announced at a political convention.

Now it's just a token.

Wow I didn’t know Squid is still around. Not the kind of software that gets much publicity.

Make sure to read the docs and understand this well. It has its own vocabulary that can be very counterintuitive.

I’ve heard lots of other places called “Asian Switzerland.” Bhutan, and and rural parts of Myanmar.

I’m pretty sure MIT had a “state school” stigma until after WWII. Vandaveer Bush made sure they got lots of war research.

Sounds like the plot of sneakers.

Which country?

Isn’t that a quote from The Mandalorian?

> It is a shame that your people suffered so. Just as in this situation, it was all avoidable. Why did Mandalore resist our expansion? The Empire improves every system it touches. Judge by any metric. Safety, prosperity, trade, opportunity, peace. Compare Imperial rule to what is happening now. Look outside. Is the world more peaceful since the revolution? I see nothing but death and chaos.

Look at the ADA language: GPS (GNAT Pro Studio) AWS (ADA Web Server) and ADA itself (American with disabilities act).

Why does Belgium exist? Is it because the Flemish revolted against Dutch rule?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution

Fair has its own issues - or did last I checked which was a while ago.

They used to claim reporters were biased towards the right. That used to be a left-wing claim, but it’s no longer credible. Something like 90% of reporters are left-wing.

Maybe they’ve reformed, and aren’t in the business of providing partisan talking points anymore.

A director of the NSA once said something like "we launch missiles based on metadata alone."

I've used /dev/null for exactly this purpose. I have output that needs to go somewhere, and I don't want to worry about whether that somewhere can handle it.

Later on in deployment, it will go somewhere else. Somewhere that has been evaluated for being able to handle it.

In that way, /dev/null is to storage what `true` is to execution - it just works.

Seems there’s a political angle in this.

Conservatives emphasize the importance of “mindfulness” type approaches, while liberals emphasize “trauma” approaches.

The ideological appeal is obvious: when there’s a conflict between the individual and reality, conservatives say the individual should change, while leftists say society should change.

But is really prefer my psychology not to be dictated by political ideology.

Arch Linux is the closest I've seen to BSD in the Linux-verse. I recommend trying it. I'm not sure about production though, or using more exotic things like CUDA.

Revelations is pretty metal.

So how do clients process this sort of feedback? As a dev, “negative user feedback” gives me scares that “failed behavior testing” does not.

The AI isn’t mad, and won’t refuse to renew. Unless it’s being run by the client of course.

Are clients using your platform to assess vendors?

My understanding is that precise measurement of time is the basis of all other measurements: space, mass, etc. They are all defined by some unit of time. So increasing time precision increases potential precision in other measurements.

Including of course information - often defined by the presence or absence of some alterable within a specific time.

We invent new uses for things once we have them.

A fun thought experiment would be what the world would look like if all clocks were perfectly in sync. I think I'll spend the rest of the day coming with imaginary applications.

Over the past few days I've spent a lot of time dealing with terribly designed UIs. Some legitimate and desired use cases are impossible because poor logic excludes them.

Is AI capable of saying, "This website sucks, and doesn't work - file a complaint with the webmaster?"

I once had similar problems with the CIA's World Factbook. I shudder to think what an I would do there.