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by pflenker 2y ago
No to both - but it’s important to teach kids self-moderating, both when it comes to food and to internet stuff. Withholding either is in my opinion solving it short-term while leaving kids unprepared for dealing with these things themselve
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by pflenker 2y ago
I find that my search skills matter less and less because search engines try to be smarter than me. Increasingly I am confronted with largely unrelated results (taking tweaked keywords or synonyms to my query as input apparently) as oppose
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by pflenker 2y ago
That is true, but missing the point made by the parent comment. Being familiar with 0, we can clearly see how it follows from counting down. We fail to see why this would be ever difficult, since we’re so used to this concept. However, this
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by pflenker 2y ago
True - the point I am trying to underscore is that the concept of 0 is not the same as counting down and arriving at „nothing“. These are two related, but not equal, concepts.
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by pflenker 2y ago
To add to that: After you eat all the apples, the following statements are true: - there are no apples left - there are 0 apples - there are 0 oranges The following statement does not apply though: - there are no oranges left … as this
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by pflenker 2y ago
Back when the web was more open, I built a small page which displayed beautiful watercolor maps from Stamen and started listening for location based updates on Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, instagram and possibly more. Every time an update c
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by pflenker 2y ago
I approve this as it acknowledges the fact that language is not static. Next up, in my opinion, will be the _Deppenleerzeichen_, the idiot space, between two nouns. This space has rapidly gained in usage thanks to auto correct - it’s easie
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by pflenker 2y ago
That's the right mindset - when interviewing, we commonly look at their accomplishments in the past, but what we're really looking for is evidence that the candidate will be able to perform well at the new position. So we need to
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by pflenker 2y ago
I don’t know if this applies to all the 40 countries Tupperware is selling to, but at least here in Germany, the need to „eintuppern“ (to put something into a Tupperware container) has massively decreased. Up until the 90s it was much more
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by pflenker 2y ago
I used to follow this process for many of my logins (the less critical ones) before password managers were mainstream, and it was a conscious decision to do so. It’s more secure than a) reusing an existing password everywhere and b) setting
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by pflenker 2y ago
„there is no glory in prevention”.
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by pflenker 2y ago
I really have no opinion here at all. I just wanted to point out that the fact that it’s no morel season in the UK is no evidence in either direction since the post doesn’t claim that the poisoning was due to morels. I saw a comparable post
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by pflenker 2y ago
The poster doesn’t claim they ate morels. The section about morels was an example for something unrelated to the poisoning.
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by pflenker 2y ago
I think it's a bit sad that /now pages are going into a direction of listicles/media people consume and so on. The original explanation about what /now pages are has this following sentence [0]: "Think of what you’d
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by pflenker 2y ago
Not to step on the authors toes, but it’s not the job searching that is broken - it’s the market that has shifted to favor companies and to put applicants at a disadvantage, something that hasn’t happened in the IT field for a long time. P
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by pflenker 2y ago
When I was ~12 years old one boy pinned me down and another one shone a laser pointer in my eye just for fun. Needless to say, this has been my „bad eye“ ever since (I’m 39 now)
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by pflenker 2y ago
Agreed. The minute I learned one of my directs was reading my small blog posting to it became much, much harder.
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by pflenker 2y ago
I would like to politely disagree. Unless you are hiring robots or people working in a robot like role, there is - extreme outliers notwithstanding - almost never a single kind of answer that would make or break the interview. When intervie
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by pflenker 2y ago
This article misses that the asker knows about these limitations as well, and it also misses that the answer in itself alone is devoid of meaning for the interviewer. It’s the context that matters - for example a comparison of skill A which
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The Propeller-O System(flenker.blog)
3 points by pflenker 2y ago|1 comments
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by pflenker 2y ago
> when it seems to me the whole point of scary stories is to provide a safe place for children to feel scared and learn what it takes overcome fear. That’s not the point of the original scary fairy tales. The point was to keep kids from
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by pflenker 2y ago
Push notifications, for starters. But the more compelling argument is that from the user’s point of view, an app is something else than a web page. Even the most basic feature - being represented at the Home Screen on the device - makes a
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by pflenker 2y ago
The equivalent thought process is: you can’t optimize for both the whole system and each subsystem at the same time. If you optimize for one, the other will suffer. This is why even the best companies have in parts chaotic internal sub-stru
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The AI Fairytale(zeit.de)
4 points by pflenker 2y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 2y ago
Whether or not something solves the problem depends on the person having the problem. For avid social media users, the curation it brings seems to solve the problem better than other mechanisms. For you (or me) it doesn’t.
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by pflenker 2y ago
RSS works great if the amount of content is manageable. The problem social media feeds (or any other feed for that matter) solve is curation/filtering. Hacker News does the Dame thing, albeit with different mechanisms than classical s
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by pflenker 2y ago
Not sure if this holds true any more in the day and age of laptops, but back when I was working in tech support it was the cables 9/10 times.
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by pflenker 2y ago
Not adding most apps to the Home Screen adds just enough friction for me. For heavy offenders which draw my attention, there is one sec.
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by pflenker 2y ago
Notifications off by default and apps not on the Home Screen by default already goes a very long way. For me, there is no need to make my phone any dumber.
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by pflenker 2y ago
That’s a secondary concern. Right now, the race is on, and while it is ongoing it’s acceptable to burn money. Later on, enshittification will kick in and make the end result of the race worse in order to stop burning money.

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