Desafinado

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by Desafinado 9mo ago
Welcome to parenthood in 2026. I can't walk into a Chapters or book fair with my kid without the tentacles of the game industry reaching him. That academics are failing worldwide due to overexposure to screens is the least surprising t
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
That's kind of the point of the article, though. Sure LLMs can churn out code, and they sort of work for developers who already understand code and design, but what happens when that junior dev with no hard experience builds their year
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Do I need to make money? If the answer is no, then I would do something physical and mindless like stocking shelves or landscaping. If the answer is yes, I'll stick with software. When I was in college I did residential landscaping in
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
That's true, but the parenting part isn't actually that complicated, particularly at a young age when you're laying the foundation. Basically just stay out of the way and let your kids do stuff. Don't do anything for the
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Ask HN: Doing sprints without story points. What has worked for you?
1 points by Desafinado 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Modernity has caused us to lose touch with our roots. When kids were a necessity in the household or farm they would naturally learn the skills they needed to thrive as adults. Modernity has upended this connection. Now having kids is basic
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
For the most part I'm keeping them away from addictive technology and in the real world, with the hope that they learn social and language skills. The idea being that social and linguistic skills are the most common attribute among suc
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Not really, that's kind of my point. A lot of pop non-fiction takes a few, minor commercial ideas that could be an essay and stretches them out into a book with a lot of fluff. Academic books will literally change the way you view the
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
I don't see how, in the scenario I mentioned, that just allowing a user to click away from a modal is a problem, though. Are they not losing value from alienating users who they do stuff like this to? Are they really gaining any value
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Right, I think everyone gets that, but clearly treating the actual users of their applications as products isn't working and hasn't worked, as evidenced by most people abandoning those applications But maybe it's too late in
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
"leaning in fully to parenthood" Hang out with your kid.
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
If you want truly, truly heavy and thought-provoking you need to get away from brick-and-mortar bookstore, commercial, non-fiction, and get into work that's produced within and for academia. For example, I've learned more from Ant
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
I think they are bad decisions despite the economics of it, though. Maybe they're good for Zuck and execs in that they're squeezing every ounce of remaining life from the company before it dies. But they don't seem to have mu
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Curious, do you know that this is the answer or is it a guess?
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Ask HN: Can someone explain why Meta makes such bad design decisions?
7 points by Desafinado 10mo ago|10 comments
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
The world is going to be underwater in a couple decades and we're fighting the world's biggest companies from eviscerating children's public education. It's not looking good. If there's any lesson to come from this
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
My wife and I don't drink caffeine anymore but still have a swiss water decaf coffee every morning. The caffeine aspect is completely unnecessary, but coffee still tastes good, warm drinks are still nice. It's all the ritual.
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Meta's Child Sex-Trafficking Problem(afterbabel.com)
4 points by Desafinado 10mo ago|2 comments
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by Desafinado 10mo ago
Posted on Jonathan Haidt's Substack today. Please share widely to friends and family with children using Meta platforms.
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
Save 2000 dollars (two computers) by using free, lightning fast software that will keep my hardware alive for another decade. Or buy new hardware that Microsoft is going to brick in three years, and will have poor performance the whole time
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
That's not really like-to-like, though. Forums come with an up-front caveat that you can't remove content. It's not in the fine print, it's how forums work. If people could just delete content the whole premise of forums
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
It's alarming how many blatantly anti-human features they've deployed. The one that gets me is arbitrarily restricting users from deactivating their Instagram account. You can only deactivate your account a week after re-activatin
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Ask HN: Which educational games and material do you use for kids on Linux?
2 points by Desafinado 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
I wasn't really thinking of forums when I made that comment. TV, movies, short form video, journalism. Youtube has merit but compared to books the level of quality isn't even close. Finding the right forum is exactly how you find
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
I read books all the time, every day. I don't watch TV, I don't use Youtube much, most of my activity online is reading. I disagree that you 'need to build the habit of reading to improve your cognitive skills'. There is
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by Desafinado 11mo ago
Just imagine having to be the face of this company. Imagine telling your own kids this is how you made your fortune. That's not worth all the money in the world.
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by Desafinado 1y ago
It isn't so much about the smartphone replacing family as it is about phones giving us something to do in our homes in lieu of the presence of other people. Even a family that lives close to each other is separated in space by differen
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by Desafinado 1y ago
It's not a competition between eras to see which is worse, my point is only that smartphones fill a need for isolated adults. That can be true and they can still pose a problem for teenagers, it's two separate issues. I find most
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by Desafinado 1y ago
The opposing viewpoint is that smartphones do fill a need of the modern world, and that is that most people have been separated from their families due to the logistics of finding paying work. Some of my relatives in the 90s, things weren&#
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Ask HN: Can you recommend any website blocking apps for Android?
1 points by Desafinado 1y ago|2 comments

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