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by lucumo 3y ago
> each legitimate bill has a unique serial number, and yes, at least at present I haven't heard of private actors outside of those that service law enforcement tracking it This isn't quite what you meant, but 20-ish years ago t
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by lucumo 3y ago
Yes. And write something to the logs, so you can find out there's a bug before users call your helpdesk. Arguably that's the most important part of any 5xx error. It's a bit of a purist argument, but 4xx series means the cl
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by lucumo 3y ago
It's clearly meant to invoke thoughts of Minority Report. There's not a court in the EU that will convict someone on a prediction that they will commit a crime. Made by computer model or otherwise. So it's stupid as hell to b
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by lucumo 3y ago
Yes, same. It's weird in a way, because there isn't all that much alignment going on in my code[1]. There's indentation, but that still works with a proportional font. And yet, it still looks wrong and hard to read. I can&#x2
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by lucumo 3y ago
> Policing tools which aim to predetermine where crimes will happen and by whom, are expected to be banned. They watched Minority Report and thought "that should get some attention." Ridiculous.
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by lucumo 3y ago
Is padding really cheating? I'd describe that as accounting for unforeseen setbacks and correcting for overenthusiastic optimism.
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by lucumo 3y ago
I found that retros tend to devolve into gripe sessions when the team isn't able to change its environment. Best to keep them focused on things they can actually change, and just to let them fix what they need instead of talking about
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by lucumo 3y ago
It looks like T-Mobile is the only one to phase out 2G before 3G. The other two networks (KPN, Vodafone) have already phased out 3G, but will keep 2G until 2025. T-Mobile announced 2G phase out will finish in June this year, but hasn't
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by lucumo 3y ago
I just figured I'd do some measurements of the different speeds. Location: in the center of a modern well isolated family home, with HR++ glass. So not ideal for optimal reception, but I didn't care to get up from the kitchen tabl
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by lucumo 3y ago
> If even one parent reads my post and says "hey yeah, we don't have to conform to this arbitrary social norm I don't disagree with you there. I think that's a good goal. But why do that in a way that lays down anothe
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by lucumo 3y ago
> she went on a tangent that parents also need their own sleep I know this seems like a tangent, but it's not. We all want to do the best we possibly can for our children, and yes, being a parent comes with a willingness to sacrific
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by lucumo 3y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Your just-so statements shouldn't convince anybody of anything, but I'll provide a few points to think about anyway. > I just don't get why you'd even want to sleep separately from your young chi
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by lucumo 3y ago
This was part of a longer conversation. It's pretty long and it got confused pretty easily, so I had to correct it multiple times. It was an interesting experience in its novelty, but it felt like pulling teeth to get it to give me a m
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by lucumo 3y ago
> ChatGPT can't play chess, for example Out of pure curiosity I tried this a while back. At some point it tried to move a knight from d4 to f6, and it was the most stubborn and obstinate child when I tried to correct it. It was the
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by lucumo 3y ago
Oh, that sucks. Is the school any good in other regards? Or just sucky in general? At my kids' school the tech is used mostly like I described, and it really does help to give a bit of needed challenge to them.
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by lucumo 3y ago
Hacking school security prepares these kids for the real world, where they have to hack company security to get any shit done. (Yes, I'm salty at a lot of security theater in companies with Big Dumb Company Disease.)
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by lucumo 3y ago
Some subjects can benefit from dynamic difficulty. A teacher can handle a limited number of difficulty levels for kids of different skills. A computer can handle many more. It's good for kids to get a subject at their own level, instea
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by lucumo 3y ago
That happened a couple of times, but that was because everyone was fighting in one big war.
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by lucumo 3y ago
Any study that isn't replicated at least a few times, should be called into question. That goes double or triple for psychology studies where it's not exception to find that less than half of a set of studies can be replicated:
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by lucumo 4y ago
It's a pretty good use of email. "What it's for" is not up to you to decide, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lucumo 4y ago
You can emulate them imperfectly. Underlining will use much more space with dashes. So much so that the spacing adds to the emphasis. And you can't use it in running text. Underlining with underscores OTOH is hard to read and has less
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by lucumo 4y ago
https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/m0399/i... Even in this letter from 1950, there is: - bold type - underlining - different text alignments - a table It's done shittily, but it's
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by lucumo 4y ago
This constantly pissed me off, especially since MacOS always seemed to pick the wrong window to jump to. There's an open source project to fix it though: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ Together with an app to fix t
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by lucumo 4y ago
Yes. Famously, this is why stuff on paper ever only uses a single font with empty line paragraph separators, and nothing else.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> I explained already: they are too tiny. Hard to say without anything for scale. They look about the same size to me. They're different models though. The standing one would be considered a bit old-fashioned here. New toilets don&#
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by lucumo 4y ago
YT Kids (the app at least) has a setting where only videos and channels are allowed that are whitelisted by the parent. We used to limit it to stuff from BBC Cbeebies, Numberblocks & Alphablocks, Sesame Street, Disney, and similar stuff
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by lucumo 4y ago
How old are your kids? I've had no trouble just controlling the terminals. The tablets and laptop that can be used by them are stored in shared spaces. If they want to access them, they'll have to get past us. But I can see that g
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by lucumo 4y ago
The time limits take pretty good care of that, here. I really don't mind them watching braindead stuff for a limited time. Especially so if that's the price for watching something interesting too. It's also slightly curated,
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by lucumo 4y ago
Kids are as different from each other as adults can be, so there's not really a one size fits all solution. That said, we've found that setting limits works fine. At least for the ages under 10. There's a limit in duration an
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Was it maybe on the What is Wrong with Hiring podcast? No, I haven't heard of that one before now. I looked again, but can't find the one I listened to. Side note: pay transparency is an economy podcaster's wet dream. Th

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