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by jmathai 4y ago
I agree SM isn't the only issue. But I also don't think my teenagers are nearly as concerned about climate change and the world they are inheriting as they are living up to the life social media says they should have and feeling i
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As a parent, restricting social media is one of the most effective tools I think we have to promote well being. The things you mentioned are also problematic but I can limit social media access and when I do my kids are better off.
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I’ve been using google sheets as the backend database storage for a few recent projects. Using SQLite as the interface instead of the sheets API will be so nice. Btw - highly recommend sheets as a backend. For my recent projects it has been
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I don’t disagree but your post greatly misses the challenge Mozilla has competing against literally the best funded for profit organizations the world has ever seen. How is rust supposed to help? The free market isn’t interested in much tha
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My guess is because this is supposed to be a core competency of a bank. If a doctor unknowingly took out your heart instead of your gall bladder, it may be incompetence but that's unlikely.
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Voice control using a central mic that’s always on seems to deliver a poor user experience. I found myself shouting at these assistants while they try to interpret what I say mid sentence. The novelty wore off very quickly. But voice seems
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I think the point is that there’s plenty of ways in which Alexa could have been useful besides ones requiring LLM and if Amazon couldn’t deliver on these simpler use cases then it’s optimistic to think they’ll be able to do any different wi
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Tx for responding. My feedback isn't specific to Rows. The dealbreaker for us was post-evaluation. On paper, the alternative option looked preferable but it wasn't until we started using it that the friction became problematic. Th
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The problem with non-linear career paths are that they're less predictable and work for people who have a higher career focus. I think job (er, company) hopping is a perfectly good career strategy. It's just better suited for a di
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Navigating using the keyboard, drag/drop for reordering rows/columns (in a way that wasn't painful), conditional formatting on ranges of cells. At the end of the day, we actually didn't want or need the rigid structure w
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We moved from Google Sheets to use a "fancy spreadsheet" product and the missing table stakes were a lot more painful than the benefits of the fancy features. Turns out Google Sheets has solved a lot of corner cases that we took f
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Something can be harder but still possible. If you're saying that the language which math is taught in has no bearing on learning - then we disagree.
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Surely you would have had an easier time if the teacher taught in German.
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As a California resident, I'm surprised there's no mention of % of ESL (english as a second language) students. There's a very large population of ESL students in California that drag down these statistics as the students cat
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I still use Photoshop CS3. It doesn't support retina and the dialogs are super grainy. I pray with each OS update that it continues working.
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I've grown weary of subscriptions. But I also think people who don't want to pay monthly would definitely be opposed to paying the equivalent one-time purchase. Remember, Adobe Photoshop was like $500+ before they made it availabl
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There's a financial independence forecast that is separate from the budgeting app. The site is more focused on the forecast tool. What I came to learn was that the forecast was predicated on having a predictable outflow of expenses whi
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Maybe “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”? There’s too many things to list that you “can” do that society collectively believes you shouldn’t because the negatives outweigh the positives.
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Congrats on the launch. I don’t know how folks manage to consistently budget if they have to enter transactions manually. After trying a bunch of overly complex budgeting apps like ynab - I wrote one for my wife and I (it used to be open fo
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Ding. Ding. Ding. Basically my response :).
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Not sure why you think 20 year old PHP code would be difficult to refactor. It's extremely backwards compatible and things don't change much at all. I have a couple large projects written in PHP from 10-20 years ago that I'm
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There's something to be said for a set of technologies you can continue using for a couple decades. I don't use MySQL anymore but otherwise this is my favorite stack. Nowadays, I use sqlite, flat json files, or google sheets.
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I have a few hobby projects which use Google Sheets as a backend. It's great. Google Forms is a great frontend for Sheets if you just need a way to collect data.
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I don’t think any Google shareholders are happy with the stock price after their announcement.
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If it's in writing, and you want to pay for lawyers, and things go your way, it's real.
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Agree. I'm not recommending gatekeeping to professionals. Ideally the product waits until it can be productively used by consumers before being launched. But the cat's out of the bag and I don't see anything slowing it down.
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This is a valid critique. Transparency for the source attribution of info boxes is lower than clicking to be redirected to the full web page with context. But chatbots take that a lot further...and generative AI specifically cannot really d
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I’ve been deep in this for about 5 years. A couple of thoughts and anecdotes that may apply. * You can probably trim your budget by 20%. I’ve talked with a couple folks who do this just by switching from a credit card to a debit card. Screw
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Feels like it will perpetuate the trend of young adults not being able to afford to purchase a home. Duplexes and more apartments mean more renters. No matter your view on home ownership, there’s a lot to be said of the ability to stabilize

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