thimkerbell

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   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   I will leave you to your pondering, sir.
2. 92.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   [flagged]
3. 93.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   It's been tried, in sci fi. The result is Influencers.
4. 94.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   Clickbait title.
5. 95.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   Reach out, peeps. Carefully.
6. 96.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   Another one. John Thornton, supporter of nonprofit public service journalism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/04/02/john-th... (How do we make sure that there's no benefit to someone
7. 97.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   I don't know him, or what happened to him. I do wonder, if there are members of the old guard who are feeling like the world is shutting off their options, if there is a way to know that and to help.
8. 98.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   Give an example of a great post that got too little notice, please.
9. 99.▲
   by thimkerbell 2y ago

   Seems it was quite impactful at U.C. Berkeley.
10. 100.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Isn't experimentation.
11. 101.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    And on Facebook.
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    Ask HN: How to work with your response to people with a chip on their shoulder?

    3 points by thimkerbell 2y ago|2 comments
13. 103.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Text (link) display is too truncated, so, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book..."
14. 104.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    "* SAT solver * is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem", has nothing to do with the SAT aptitude tests.
15. 105.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Another thing that's difficult, is that phones that were advertised as old-person-friendlly, physically were not. Black buttons on black background, etc. Maybe this sotuation has improved.
16. 106.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Libraries have tech support help sessions.
17. 107.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Could an LLM fix this, please.
18. 108.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    There's a year-old TedX talk allegedly by Marshall Brain in which he talks about climate change and proposes making NCSU, ASAP, into a carbon-neutral exemplar. Did he have support on moving forward on this endeavor? Is the talk video
19. 109.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Is there anyone here on HN who has non-news-article knowledge of what the situation was, around him, at NCSU?
20. 110.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    How could that more favorable venue be made, and have been made visible to him and to people like him?
21. 111.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    "almost everybody has a story (from previously) of slipping into a subculture where being smart was cool"
22. 112.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    How are other countries handling the availability of ChatGPT for use by pre-college students?
23. 113.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Written by the author of "Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree." A book of which I know nothing (yet).
24. 114.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Contains added sugar.
25. 115.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Could be. The time I noticed it in a travel nexus, everyone (young adult, white) was speaking unaccented English. (again, just before TG)
26. 116.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    What U.S. state has the best resources for kids at the gifted end of the spectrum?
27. 117.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Weird pattern, that posts with titles like that seem to surface around Thanksgiving. Russian? Chinese?
28. 118.▲
    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    That's unclear?
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    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    You & he might get inspiration from Low Tech Magazine, https://web.archive.org/web/20240122052820/https://solar.low...
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    by thimkerbell 2y ago

    Youtubing might be good for initial exploration, stuff maybe like (beginner-friendly dyi solar) https://youtu.be/adFGmOlDM-Y