Aerroon

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by Aerroon 7d ago
> You cannot do proof without intuition hence, if you emphasize proof, intuition will take care of itself. This isn't always the case. Our algebra (or analysis) course focused a lot on proofs for the exam. The result was that a lot
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by Aerroon 8d ago
> Then that family member does not worry like you do worry. Until they lose access to that account and then it becomes my problem to solve.
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by Aerroon 8d ago
Indeed. Disney's cultural impact has been far greater.
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by Aerroon 8d ago
They can have concrete definitions, but they conveniently don't have objective measures. I don't need to do mental gymnastics, because the purpose of school is learning. If measures can't improve learning outcomes then they s
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by Aerroon 12d ago
I think they can match a human in critical thinking, but they can't match a human in coherence and meta-thinking. You can prompt an LLM to critically think of any idea you want and it's often able to do so, but it's rarely go
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by Aerroon 13d ago
Well, when they are a child their material gains are treated as yours, no? (Parents of child actors control the money etc.) And once they aren't anymore you aren't responsible for their misbehavior either (because they've bec
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by Aerroon 13d ago
If things go bad then the problem they cause is so huge that nobody is capable of taking responsibility for it. The following is an illustration of what I mean: Eg imagine if one of these surveillance companies gets hacked. Personal data an
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by Aerroon 13d ago
The way AI and copyright is handled paved the way for this. If you aren't considered the author because you used AI to some extent in making the work, then why would you assume the liabilities? I've been saying since the start tha
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by Aerroon 14d ago
> You don't know what safeguarding and harm minimisation means, do you? They're weasel words people use when their proposal doesn't actually work. "It's totally making things better, you just can't see it i
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by Aerroon 17d ago
RuneScape is still one of the most popular MMOs out there. Last year it peaked at over 240k people online (concurrent users). It's nowhere near as popular as Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft but it's still doing very well. I think
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by Aerroon 18d ago
> Score results aren’t alone sufficient proof about whether a ban on phones in school is successful or not. If the scores aren't increasing as a result of it, then why are we doing it? We're clearly not asking for legitimate
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by Aerroon 18d ago
> - Social media and doomscrolling without sufficient parental controls: Several OECD countries are already addressing this by introducing or considering restrictions on teenagers’ access to social media. Surely this time banning thin
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by Aerroon 18d ago
> Given the big gap between the east and the west I thought the reason that China and Singapore were so far ahead of everyone else was that they were urban populations vs everyone else include rural areas. I assumed that Beijing, Shangh
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by Aerroon 19d ago
> I once visited a radio station and they took their shoes off there too for some reason (no, I don't believe it was ESD related). Isn't it reasonable/normal to take shoes off at work and put on indoor does like sandals o
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by Aerroon 25d ago
> I have a huge Steam backlog Yeah, and by the time you get to many of those games they will feel clunky and outdated. It's not just the graphics that ages, but also the game mechanics, UI and UX, and the general presentation of th
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by Aerroon 25d ago
I thought that was always the point. A world without any copyright at all obviously doesn't function.
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by Aerroon 26d ago
But we only have words for them. We don't have special symbols for them, kind of* * Technically you could read "k" as a symbol for thousand, "M" for million, "B" for billion, and "T" for trillion
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by Aerroon 26d ago
> In the later times Babylonians had a kind of zero, but it was very limited, only used to point the lack of a number between two, i.e. "2∅1" but never "21∅∅" which was written "21" (so numbers were ambiguou
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by Aerroon 29d ago
But I'm not making a comparison. The parent I'm responding to is asserting that kids before Facebook did not have a lack of freedom. I am saying that school is a lack of freedom, therefore his assertion is wrong. This is quite rel
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by Aerroon 29d ago
How do the lawyers filing these bogus claims not end up in prison? How is it not fraud?
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
Please don't try to derail the discussion. I'm clearly responding to: > I'm confident kids before Facebook did not somehow have a "lack of freedom". If you have an argument to make then do so.
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
I believe that too. I think myopia is an adaptation that we acquire by spending too much time in dim lighting. Ie indoors. Daylight outside is an order of magnitude brighter (and will therefore give you more detail to resolve) than indoor l
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
Of course they did? What do you think school is? Just because it's useful to society doesn't mean it isn't also a reduction in freedom.
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
> Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them Neither does anybody else since it's not settled science. And even then it's questionable how much you can trust the science due to the replication crisis. My p
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
I haven't used that in kde, but I've used the windows snipping tool and that one isn't as useful to me. Usually I want to take the screenshot now and then edit it a minute later. Paint works great for that.
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
Cropping and editing screenshots (eg add red circle) in a very lightweight application. Other image editing applications can do all of that, but they take 10 years to launch (during which they will ask for focus) and 2 GB of RAM.
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
And 5x the price
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
Yeah, it only took 4 years for them to fix an obvious screw up. Only 4 years. Surely every business can survive that.
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
The funny thing is that when the EU introduced these new VAT rules then it screwed over small and microbusinesses as well. It took them years to implement a minimum threshold for VAT (which every reasonable country has, but somehow EU rules
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by Aerroon 1mo ago
> Think of the meme going around right now from Milennials to Gen Z: "I wrote a 5 page essay on a book I never read!" <- They're saying this to AI generated essays as if there's any difference in the critical think

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