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Also, I thought I heard "commercial" TVs are dumb TVs. Although, I haven't heard much about those.

I would encourage students to use all the tools available to them. Especially AI. I'd set the bar pretty high.

How would you set the bar pretty high? How would you avoid just evaluating ChatGPT, instead of the actual student?

Moving everything in class seems like a good idea in theory. But in practice, kids need more time than 50 minutes of class time (assuming no lecture) to work on problems. Sometimes you will get stuck on 1 homework question for hours. If a student is actively working on something, yanking them away from their curiosity seems like the wrong thing to do.

On the other hand, kids do blindly use the hell out of ChatGPT. It's a hard call: teach to the cheaters or teach to the good kids?

I've landed on making take-home assignments worth little and making exams worth most of their grade. I'm considering making homework worth nothing and having their grade be only 2 in-class exams. Hopefully that removes the incentive to cheat. If you don't do homework, then you don't get practice, and you fail the two exams.

(Even with homework worth little, I still get copy-pasted ChatGPT answers on homework by some students... the ones that did poorly on the exams...)

It's easy to break your phone addiction—I've done it a 1,000 times...

But, seriously, I've tried launchers, leechblock, and other software solutions. For me, they don't work long term because I end up just reverting and unblocking. I always have some justification in my head as to why I need to reinstall Discord or browse YouTube and then it's over.

For me, I've had much better luck with a device where those types of slips are impossible. Mostly... although sometimes I really do need a smartphone to scan a QR code or to pay a foodtruck with Venmo.

The Jelly Star seems to be the best compromise for me so far. It's still a smartphone, but the screen is so small that it's a lot harder to be on it for hours.

I'm a current owner of a Ratta Supernote A5X. I use the Supernote all the time. I previously had a Remarkable 2, but thankfully Remarkable added a subscription which made me look elsewhere and led me to the Supernote.

This seems right up my alley. Although, $800 seems steep.

The new Supernote A5X2 is due this year... at probably half the price? Granted it doesn't have the 60fps display, but it definitely has a bunch of other features. Is the 60fps worth $400 more?

Question for folks who live in non-English speaking countries: do you guys wear watches with calendars in English?

Last time I was in a mall in Mexico City, I asked a guy behind the counter of some store if they had any watches that had either the months or days of week in Spanish... surprisingly, the answer was no. English only.

The benefit for me is that I don't have to use an iPhone to listen to music.

You may be interested in Tangara. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

100% open hardware running open-source software

Although, Tangara looks quite a bit bulkier than the Nano.

For users, one of the ways PWAs are superior to native apps is that the user gets to use an app at all. It's hard to maintain 2 or 3 different codebases of an app, which means it might not get built at all. As a user, I'd rather use a decent app that exists, than not get to use an app at all.

Hello, HN!

I'm working on a todo app called Tasket. The goal of Tasket is to provide an unopinionated way to create and manage todos.

We work towards this goal by allowing users to:

1. create any task attributes they want, for example, status, priority level, schedule date, deadline—or nothing if they want to keep it simple

2. custom app actions, for example, a user can tap on a todo and move it to a different section—or they can tap on a todo and open a web browser, a phone dialer, prepare an SMS—with more interactions on the way

I started working on this because I found some todo apps, like Todoist, too limiting, but other apps, like Omnifocus, too complex. I believe Tasket can strike a better balance between easy to use and powerful.

The reason I believe a better balance is needed is to fight against task bankruptcy, where our todo list ends up overwhelming us.

People do not naturally think in thousands

A lot of us don't have trouble understanding 1,000 millimeters equals 1 meter.

Same here: 1,000 millidays equals 1 day.

Neat! I recently bought a Sony NW-A306. I wish the battery lasted longer. Also, Android is slow and janky. On the other hand, it's Android so it runs Spotify.

Hope Tangara is better!

TIL: Apparently, there are flip phones that support Waze: https://youtu.be/zbhIiCtAk34?si=Bc6TrBqCSQbqSUCN&t=194 Sunbeam F1 Pro

What dumbphone supports GPS directions?

The section on fractional scaling issues wouldn't exist if Framework offered a Linux compatible non HiDPI display.

It's a shame for Linux users that they decided to pick a display type that has had known issues for like a decade.

Here are two articles that helped me get closer to that "aha!" moment with CSS.

https://css-tricks.com/absolute-relative-fixed-positioining-...

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

If the new version of the app/schema doesn't behave as you were expecting, you only need to rollback the commit and undo the migration.

If I delete a "last_name" column, apply the migration, and then decide I shouldn't have deleted users' last names. Do I get that data back?

Firefox on Android runs uBlock Origin. But no uBlacklist. Kagi does have that built in.

Yeah, I'm strictly talking about search results. That's the main thing I care about. No ads is nice, but if I can't find information I need then that's not very useful to me.

I'm currently paying for Kagi. It's nice. But, so far I feel like it may only be like 2% better than Google, probably not enough to keep me long term.

A lot of times the results are better on Kagi than Google, but not by much. It makes sense they're similar since Kagi uses Google's index (among others).

What's the yearly income for a lifestyle business look like for a founder? $100k/year or $1M/year?

The outrage comes from having to carry both the wired headphones AND the dongle. The dongle is small and easy to lose. It's much harder to lose your headphones.

Neat, a list of companies for me to avoid next time I'm looking for a job.

So he "only" got a six figure salary, five figure bonus, stock grant, promotion, retirement fund, healthcare and FAANG-level benefits

My guy. Are you being held hostage by your employer? Blink twice for yes.

I had most of those things with a bachelors straight out of college, working for a dinky startup. A six figure salary is basically minimum wage for software engineers in the Bay.

If you're making less than six figures, your employer is exploiting you. I hope you find a better job.

270 login credentials work+personal. I don't use 'sign in with Google'. I regularly try (not always successfully) to go through my 1Password vault and delete accounts that I haven't used in a while.

(I wish 1Password let you order credentials by "last used". This way I could start deleting from the oldest last used accounts.)

I wish I had less accounts because each account means some random website holding my data hostage. It's too common that a website doesn't allow you to delete an account. Sometimes you can find a support email and request a deletion. Other times, all I can do is try to replace my data with junk data. Although, even that isn't possible sometimes!

(Rocketbook won't let you change your email, for example. Or ChatGPT saves your phone number after you delete your account.)

Am I the only one who (mostly) likes this new policy? I actively try to delete my online accounts—and it's _hard_ (or impossible for some companies).

I definitely have some Google accounts from like 10 years ago that I lost access to. I'm glad to know they'll be deleted.

That being said, 2 years does seem a little short.

But, I do like the idea of my data expiring. It seems creepy as hell that someone could go back 10 years and dig up a bunch of information about you that you forgot existed: blog posts, comments, photos, videos, emails, home addresses, phone numbers, credit cards.

Data breaches happen. Data brokers find your stuff. Stalkers exist.

lol! I thought the exact same thing! Totally reminded me of old MySpace pages.