lemonad

Some people do not realize that they're in a parasocial relationships with content creators like streamers and youtubers and feel that it is reasonable to have expectations. For me, applying your argument, that there is some responsibility for a creator towards their users, within that domain seems farfetched. Like, I can wish that they'd continue producing worthwhile content but apart from that, how would their responsibility toward me actually manifest itself?

This is nice! I looked into this quite a lot some years back when I was trying to summarize IKEA catalogs using color and eventually wrote an R package if you want to look into an alternative to e.g. k-means: https://github.com/lemonad/colorhull (download https://github.com/lemonad/ikea-colors-through-time/blob/mas... for more details on how it works)

I've spent some time thinking about this earlier as this indeed is one way a teacher would introduce a young child to programming (but by using actual bread, pb and j). An important underlying question is why kids would learn programming in the first place if they're not going to be programmers... one answer, which applies to math as well, is that it is learning another way to think. The whole point is that it is difficult to specify exact behavior, especially when you can't lean on someone's already established understanding of the world.

Another related idea (if I don't misremember) is brought forth in the book "Program or be Programmed": that it's not the programming itself but learning that things powered by software are intentionally (by meticulous instruction, like above) made to work like they do rather than just happen to work a specific way. Which hopefully leads to the realization that we have agency and can change how things work in the world, should we want to.

Now, some people are arguing for teaching kids programming via vibe coding and one the one hand I can see their point but on the other hand, it was never about the programming in the first place. Vibe coding is kind of the opposite of the two ideas if you don't first teach them. It's making the PBJ-making teacher/robot go "oh, so you want a PBJ, here's one". There's no learning new ways of thinking. It's also making it seem like things are not intentionally made to work a specific way but more just happened to become that way. Some of that empowerment and agency is lost, I feel, although I can see that there is agency in creating things too.

Same in Sweden! One of the public radio channels (P2) had some nighttime shows with Commodore 64 programs. I can't remember if it was purely BASIC programs or just loaders using data statements for machine code. Seems really impractical now but back then everyone was using cassette tapes to record music from the radio and the C64 had a cassette deck to load software, so it worked quite well. Except that they, as far as I remember, did not use compression so most programs took ages to broadcast.

My experience too. Early Spotify had the best music and I could find pretty much everything I liked, plus excellent recommendations. I don't think it was that the music I liked was particularly obscure or anything, it was just that it was all there. I just couldn't believe how great it was! Once out of beta (alpha?), it lost that magic.

I can definitely see the use case as it is annoying having to choose between actively looking at participants of a meeting on screen or _appear_ to look at the participants by gazing into the camera and not actually looking at them.

I sometimes use an Elgato Prompter to better enable eye contact during meetings. The camera and lens is mounted behind the screen so looking at the screen is also looking at the participants. The downside is that the screen is tiny and you leaning forward to read, say, a document does not look that great on camera. So either you have to zoom it substantially or read it on another screen, thus looking away from the participants. In this case though, you are not looking at the participants and faking that eye contact in this case would be kind of weird.

Like others have said, get a used Sony a6000 (or higher model, try to get one where the screen can be swiveled to point forward). If you expect to be sitting close to the camera, you can't go wrong with a Sigma 16mm 1.4 lens. If you have the space to place the camera further away, you should probably get a slightly longer lens.

Can’t speak for others but I use it in the context of a web app that really needs to be full screen on a mobile and that is delivered by/connects to embedded hardware without internet access.

Not an answer to parent comments, just wanted to emphasize that coming from "somewhere else" <=/=> invasive. Not an expert so there are likely edge cases but one example would be a meadow where many different plants grow, flowering from early spring to late autumn. Introducing a new plant could mean it finds its own niche in this system or could mean that it completely takes over the whole system, reducing the overall flowering period to a limited time and thus causing problems for pollinators. If the latter is the typical result, the plant would likely become classed as invasive.

Side note: In Sweden, Harry has once again become a quite popular name for children. My two-year old is named Harry and out of 15 kids at Kindergarten, there are two Harry :)

Wikipedia has some more information on the issue:

"By the end of October 2016, before its official release and after only three pre-release screenings in September 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival to small audiences, IMDb had registered over 86,000 ratings for the film. 55,126 of which were one-star and 30,639 of which were 10-star, with very few ratings falling anywhere in between. The majority of these votes had been cast by males outside of the US. By mid-November the total was over 91,000 votes, with over 57,000 one-star votes. Commentators assessed that these were mostly votes by people who had never seen the film, and that the one star voting was part of an orchestrated campaign by Armenian Genocide deniers to downrate the movie, which had then initiated an Armenian response to highly rate the movie."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promise_(2016_film)#IMDb_p...

(OT) I use that feature all the time when I know the name of, say, a mathematical term in one language but not in another.

It took me a while to understand why there was such a tricky character as semicolon in the first unit. On a Swedish keyboard, I think it's equivalent to typing the < key on a US keyboard (and the left shift key on a Swedish keyboard is tiny).

We have QWERTY though.

Also, it's visual in the sense that both parties can easily verify that it is the correct amount and avoids any "…but I thought I gave you five quarters…".

True. If I remember Hattie correctly, he argues something akin to that reducing class sizes is mostly a political move (it's certainly not research based) — and after spending huge amounts of money on that — there is no political incentive to spend at least as much on retraining teachers.

Also, if some of the money had been spent on professional development instead of reducing class sizes in the first place, his research shows that the effect of that on student achievement had been much, much higher.

The extensive research by John Hattie shows that reduced class sizes has a small but positive effect on student achievement but relative to other factors, it is very inefficient:

http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect...

One explanation to reduced class sizes not having a larger effect is that teachers, given smaller classes, rarely change their practice to optimize for the new situation.

Same for me with regular glasses but reading glasses for far-sightedness is another issue as you can't put them on temporarily while driving.

By conventional means, do you mean reading glasses? Observing people needing/using them, to me it seems like a hassle and definitely not a solution that most are satisfied with.

The video mentions both the GPS and speedometer as potential targets for this technology. Giving it some thought and being close to the age where I might benefit from this, it isn't such a bad idea after all.

For those who are not familiar with CC — and since most of the comments so far refer to speech-to-text — CC is more than regular subtitles.

CC often displays contextual information such as what kind of music is played and how it's played (soft, intense, etc.), sounds that are important to the scene, the names of out of view character who are speaking, etc.

The amount of cooling needed is not constant over time (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_heat), which is one of the reasons passive cooling systems are designed for days rather than weeks.

The first seconds/minutes are the most critical and after 72 hours the residual heat is down to a level which can be much more easily handled.

I think it was just meant as being local to Sweden.

I think some of the arguments in the video depend much on how tightly invention is defined.

Personally, I'd say that even if all components on a circuit board were already individually invented by someone else, as well as the process of combining them, a unique result would likely still be an invention in my eyes.

I'd also say that an improvement to an existing product very well could be novel enough to call it an invention (where that line should be drawn is quite subjective though.)

Furthermore, I'd argue that piecing together an already existing product through a novel process also could be classified as an invention. For me, it might even be enough to use an existing design in a new way or new field.

Thus, I don't think finding one preceding design is a good method in deciding that a later design isn't an invention. Which is not meant to imply that all Apple products are their inventions, just that sometimes the addition of garlic and cilantro (per the video) is novel enough.

Yes, and to make Django even more safe, a number of improvements have been made over the last year (e.g. https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15367).

It certainly is. Not that I think it is a derivative but to some extent it is what Douglas Rushkoff argues in his book Program or Be Programmed (2010):

"In a digital age, we must learn how to make the software, or risk becoming the software. It is not too difficult or too late to learn the code behind the things we use — or at least to understand that there is code behind their interfaces. Otherwise, we are at the mercy of those who do the programming, the people paying them, or even the technology itself."

I don't agree with everything in the book but it's nevertheless a great read.

It would be interesting to know what data they use for these kinds of assessments outside the given ones for the course, that is the best 6 homeworks out of 8 account for 30% of the grade, the midterm for 30% and the final exam for 40%.

I haven't used the rest of them but I can definitely agree on django-mediagenerator being awesome.

I found it a bit odd that writes for linux went down from 22MB/s to 17MB/s when Windows writes went way up from 13MB/s to 34MB/s. This at the same time as read performance went up to 27MB/s for both systems.

Edit: Seems like it's a regression that will likely be fixed for 0.6.1.

Looks great! Would it be possible to provide overseas shipping for a fee in the future?

Very unlikely, I would think.

Looks like the repo has been taken down now