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Yes. But only when they started taking the bus to school and having extra-curricular activities. They had zero portable screen time until they were double digit ages. When they got their iPads, it was made extremely clear that they were not to be used to avoid social situations. It doesn't come out when people are over. It doesn't come out during dinner. It doesn't come out when we're engaged in a family activity. That of course carried over to their phones.

They have zero issues with phones. They even use social media. Somehow they aren't the mindless zombies everyone else's children seem to be turning into. My daughters are in dance and show choir. My youngest plays flute, saxophone and cello. My middle daughter plays clarinet and violin and is learning on her sister's cello. She has a 4.1 gpa so far in high school and just received an award for it. She was one of seven students to receive it out of a class size of almost 600. Because of her musical accomplishments she was invited to play in the UK with other students from around the state next year. They both play tennis and volleyball and have recently taken up pottery. Both are voracious readers who keep testing my limits at Barnes & Noble.

It's amazing what mature and responsible people children can turn into when that's what you expect from them instead of constantly giving into everything they want. All of those activities are voluntary at this point. We don't force them into any of those things. They know that if they didn't do any activities we would find things to keep them occupied like we did when they were younger. So they do a good job of staying busy themselves choosing the things they want to do but still have plenty of time to chat with friends and play roblox and minecraft and even scroll tiktok when they want. Neither of them have a set bedtime. But they know staying up late won't get them out of getting up in the morning so they manage that themselves as well at this point.

We set expectations around them being responsible and mature and they have delivered and have many privileges as a result of it. They have definitely slipped. They are humans. They have bad days and sometimes bad weeks. And when they stop being responsible, they lose those privileges including their phones. Earlier this year my youngest lost all of her electronics for over a month because she's stubborn and still tests things. It wasn't difficult at all to remove and keep the devices from her until behavior changed. The fact that so many parents on HN find it impossible without legal enforcement on everyone is quite frankly fucking insane. But it also seems to explain things like the literacy crisis. These "parents" cannot even take phones away from their children. No way in hell they are making them read.

By being an actual fucking parent and not a push over who thinks that because your kids friends are doing heroin it's fine for them to do too. I know it's difficult for you to say no to your children. But it's critical for their well-being. And no you cannot wait until the rest of society decides to criminalize the things you want criminalized before you decide to try to be a parent. The dividing line is the limits you personally set versus those society deems acceptable. I mean how fucking pathetic is this question? Do you just bow to every popular demand? Are you literally the kid who would jump off of a bridge just because your friends did it?

Sounds like you're extremely limited in your experiences in the US. Maybe you should sit this one out? Your ignorance is not as good as someone else's lived experience.

https://ncac.org/resource/timeline-of-abstinence-only-educat...

> The public already gets its share via taxes,

You need to demonstrate this with receipts. Most of what I see are large corporations getting tax breaks regardless of job or wealth creation within an area. The idea that the public is offset by taxes on corporations is quite fucking ridiculous to anyone who pays any attention to what effective rates corporations pay.

Socialism is when the government does things I don't like. It's really not more complicated than that. People stating these things are some of the most ignorant in modern humanity. But they also represent like a third of the population in the US as depressing as that is. They are literally why we cannot have nice things.

Somewhere between the stomach and the anus fecal matter is created. E. Coli lives along the entire tract. You're not wrong, but it's not just fecal matter which contains E. Coli. Basically the entire process involves it. Stating that shit on your meat is the source of E. Coli is understating the issue but it also triggers a more visceral reaction.

It was actually one of the first things I tried when I got my sous vide. Amazingly tender and juicy but the texture reminded me too much of under cooked chicken that it made me queasy. Now I stick with steak sous vide.

Many seem to consider it a feature. Including the mods. Certainly feels organized at times.

Great answer. Just to add, this is with red meat where E. Coli is the main concern. That exists in the gut of the animal and that bacteria can travel to the surface of the muscles during the butchering process. Poultry on the other hand is mainly concerned with Salmonella which does live in the muscles of the animal. That's why people aren't ordering rare chicken breast.

> I don't know what the right answer is.

Raise property taxes in the burbs significantly so they can pay for their own infrastructure instead of relying on being subsidized by the poorest people in the area.

ffs there is literally no pleasing some people. "Hosting an open source project is too difficult! They should provide a free SaaS solution instead on their own cost but also no lock-in!!"

Not that it’s necessarily relevant, but the only coursera lessons I’ve voluntarily done have been exclusively because they were created by Andrew Ng. His intro to machine learning is probably the best out there.

This is the thing the anti-ai zealots will never admit. Humans fucking suck at writing code. They talk about software development as if it's only ever performed by the top 1% of the top 1%. They never acknowledge that humans make mistakes. No. Humans create perfect code every fucking time while LLM's only produce slop. It's such a fucking mind-numbingly stupid position that I have to think they have never actually worked in an organization which produced code as a value. These fucking morons want to pretend a human never introduces a memory leak when it's plain as fucking day that vulnerabilities that these "expert programmers" introduce to software are rampant. But no. The anti-ai zealot likes to pretend that only LLMs ever produce bad code. The only bugs in existence are due to LLM slop and not the literal decades of fucking slop produced by humans without any LLM assistance. It's so fucking tired at this point. They will never be able to admit that current day LLMs are far beyond the median human programmer. Their opinions are fucking useless at this point. These idiots think The Daily WTF started with LLM code. They are basically anti-vaxxers wrt to their grasp on reality. No one should take them seriously to any degree.

There's no reasoning with the folks who are anti-ai and claim LLM's cannot produce anything worthwhile. They are basically flat-earthers or anti-vaxxers at this point. There is literally no amount of evidence that will convince them. They will always say that LLMs cannot produce anything but garbage just like the anti-vaxxers who state vaccines just cause autism. They are both fucking morons who no one with any grip on reality should indulge.

> As much as people may dislike Regan, his goal for reducing taxes on the wealthy was based upon the laffer curve.

If this were the case, revenue would have gone up after the tax cuts. They didn't. Receipts as share of GDP fell and the deficit tripled. The debt went from 25% of GDP to 40% of GDP during Reagan. We've never meaningfully been on the wrong side of the Laffer curve. It's basically just conservative propaganda at this point.

As the other post mentioned, the strategy is and was Starve the Beast. We know this because that's what Reagan actually campaigned on.

> "John Anderson tells us that first we've got to reduce spending before we can reduce taxes. Well, if you've got a kid that's extravagant, you can lecture him all you want to about his extravagance. Or you can cut his allowance and achieve the same end much quicker."

In addition. It's perfectly historically accurate. When have conservatives fought the hardest? It's always at the distribution of rights which were always supposed to be "equal". Conservatives started a civil war to maintain slavery. They fought against women's suffrage. They fought against civil rights. They fought against gay rights. They are fighting now against trans rights. Conservative's most defended positions are about hierarchy and how they can maintain it. It's literally just bigotry. Always has been from Edmund Burke through Jordan Peterson. Conservatives will always fight at any minority group approaching peer status with them. They are afraid the minority will treat them the way that they always have treated the minority. Fortunately the world isn't made up of conservatives.

I think MAGA represents mask off conservatism. Largely they support the same things. They have the same "enemies" and targets. I think for too long Americans have bought into the myth that conservatism is just about a slow and measured rate of change. That's what conservatives want you to believe because they know they can't say the real things out loud. So they speak in euphemisms. Trump let's them dispense with the euphemisms and just say what's really in their heart out loud. If MAGA isn't conservative, then conservatives simply do not exist in enough numbers in the US to be relevant. I find that conservatives are showing you who they have always been to be a far better explanation than MAGA isn't conservative.

I wonder how much this overlaps with the seeming inability of so many developers to ask good questions. They want to jump right into screen sharing and talking about the issue. They cannot sit down and summarize the problem accurately and describe the things they have tried already. It's always "let's hop on a call real quick and walk through it". Just tell me what the damn problem is!

Those third graders didn't vote hard enough.

Guns are good and equal freedom. Boobs are bad and lead to degeneracy. I hate this place.

Wait. Based on the results of the test linked above you think this model might have been trained to produce it? Did you look at the results?!

Because the question is stupid on its face. If thing X is good, 1000x X must be good too is such a stupid fucking mentality. It doesn't apply to literally anything. Vitamin C is good. Too much is toxic. Sun exposure is good. Too much is toxic. Drinking water is good. Too much is toxic. Such a basic fucking concept that exists across basically everything in our society.

Yet here you are stating that because a higher minimum wage is good, it must be more good to make the minimum wage "a million an hour" too right? Which doesn't follow at all based on literally any other example of things that are "good". It's mind-numbingly stupid. It's a ridiculous straw-man made by someone either disingenuous or ignorant.

> “Oh water is healthy for you? Why don’t you drink a hundred gallons a day? Checkmate atheists!”

Brilliant argument you have there.

It is owned by capital and doing what they bought it to do. Working as designed.

This shooting war started by the US explicitly taking out Iranian leadership in a targeted strike.

For me, the memory capability is a holding zone for deviations from behavior I'm looking for. I've found that a "retro" after to process "memories" and create CLAUDE.md instructions from them instead works more reliably longer term. I don't do it every session. I've got a separate tool which tracks memories on a per-project basis and recommends when to hold that retro based on accumulated memories.

Have you tried using hooks? I have a similar changelog except I write it to a SQLite database for searchability across all my sessions. I use the Stop/StopFailure hooks and it reliably writes to the change log. I used to just use CLAUDE.md instructions for this, but as you've experienced it's not completely reliable.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

Not really. Republicans fight explicitly to disenfranchise people for their own benefit. “More representation” isn’t even something they pretend to want.

I don't know enough to verify, but there is this YouTube comment at the top:

> "Wrong date in the video, this clip was from a stream in 2026"

Oh no! You actually have to make decisions and parent instead of relying on the rest of society to conform around your desires!