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Great point. Intuitively it makes sense that sending kids out when you expect a bunch of their peers to be there is different from sending them out into empty streets. Thinking a little more about why this intuition holds: it's because once upon a time you were sending them out into a community, where they would learn the tried and tested practices by example. Once the link of cultural transmission is severed, it's hard to bootstrap it back again, even if you had a bunch of families that wanted to try.

I do this and it is powerful, but I find that not being able to swipe/autocorrect my mobile typing in Termius makes things pretty painful.

This is all helpful but I felt like it skipped past a critical part - how do you "extract the range my manager is looking for"? Presumably your manager has to stick to the polite fiction that estimates are a bottoms-up process, so what questions do you find helpful to get a sense of the number your manager/leadership team had in mind?

Yes, and none of that matters when the money runs out and you can't convince investors that your business will bring them a worthwhile return in an environment that includes all of those outside forces.

Something I ran into during exercise 2 (and from watching the solution video[0] closely I see the author did as well):

There were four consecutive changed lines in my original commit. When I split it, I selected the deletion and addition for the first two lines. In the resulting newly created commit, those two lines had been moved to below the other two lines, so the order was now 3 -> 4 -> 1 -> 2, with the second commit moving 3 and 4 back to their original places. I didn't figure out a clean way to fix this - when I edited the commit which changed lines 1 and 2 to put them back at the top, it made a conflict with the second commit which I had to repair.

Anybody know what I should have done differently to split the commit and keep the edited lines in their original places?

[0] https://www.loom.com/share/e3e148f07fb9420180ebb047f5ca94b3

This really feels like a glimpse at where video games are going, I felt like I could really enter into the character's role because what I said actually affected the dialog.

That said, I ran into the same issue someone else mentioned where I really struggled to get my phone to accept single words without a sentence context, the color reading challenge was incredibly frustrating.

True but I think there's still an element of falsifiability to a teacher's evaluation of an essay that doesn't exist in an oral exam or interactive discussion. An essay is an artifact and if a teacher is giving student A worse grades than student B, a third party can look at that artifact to see whether it's remotely reasonable. A 1:1 discussion or an oral defense is much more subjective.

Not saying this is a fatal flaw, but there is a bit of a tradeoff there.

It's a fair point about how awful recipe sites look without ad blockers, but this part is just plain incorrect:

You can tell just by looking at the URLs that those sites are going to be worthelss blogspam.

At least two of the three results in the screenshot are from legitimate baking sites (Cookie and Kate, Sally's Baking Addiction) which are generally trusted sources online. I don't know anything about the third. But Google seems to have actually done a good job of highlighting recipes from reliable blogs.

The points about the compromised experience on those sites due to intrusive ads remain.

It didn't make any sense to me either. I found this article[1] which frames it a little more clearly: it's not that they thought graphite and lead were the exact same thing, it's that they thought graphite was just a particular type of lead that was useful for drawing when first discovered.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wonde...

Counting calories. Say your weight is stable and you start eating a single extra piece of sandwich bread every day. After a year, you’ll gain 3.8 kg (8.3 lb) of fat. Almost no one counts calories that accurately.

I'd argue that one big benefit of counting calories is that it teaches you that a single piece of sandwich bread contributes a surprisingly high amount of calories to your diet. This potentially empowers you to minmax your plate with the things that will get you the most enjoyment/satiation for your calories.

I agree that Google is well-positioned, but they were also well-positioned to take advantage of these synergies with Google Assistant for many years and I would say that that did not meaningfully materialize in a way that was helpful to me as an Android and Google ecosystem user.

I had a Withings for a couple years and ended up frustrated with it. The tiny screen meant that many notifications took so long to read I often just got my phone out instead. But the worst thing was the lack of a "find my phone" feature.

I switched to the Garmin Vivomove and have been very happy with it. It looks fantastic IMO, the transflective screen is big enough to be useful, and it has only the features I want. The only downsides are that the Garmin Android app is not as well designed as the Withings app and the battery life is only 4 days or so instead of a week, which feels like an awkward amount of time.

This doesn't apply to the content complexity finding, but the finding that "product reviews which are in top search results are more likely to contain affiliate links than product reviews which are not" can also be explained by the fact that if and only I am getting a bunch of hits on my product reviews, I'm incentivized to monetize that with affiliate links.

Sure, the board has the prerogative to stick to that interpretation of its mandate if that's their motivation. But it looks like they won't have much of a company left if they do. Maybe they are fine with that, I guess we will see.

Seems like a pretty good list, but I think a lot depends on how much you weight each item and how many of the negatives were already "priced in" to the status quo ante when Microsoft was strategically linked to OpenAI without any formal control.

I don't think it's true that the Echo was only a novelty, it was and still is an extremely effective way to do a couple of tasks that people find very useful - mainly playing music of course. The hardware and processing required to recognize its wake word very reliably and arbitrary voice commands somewhat reliably in an open space was an incredible leap forward for consumer products at the time. But it has managed to add essentially zero value to the initial offering in the decade since then.

It's saying the overall prevalence in the population from which the study group was drawn was 4.3 per 100k. The study cohort (young men who took SAs during the study time frame) was less than 1000 people, of whom 4 exhibited PSSD. So incidence within the studied group was around 100x the general population prevalence.

I have it and if fitness/sleep tracking is the main thing you are after, it's easy to recommend. It looks fantastic and the battery lasts forever.

But I find it almost completely useless for reading notifications from my phone. The small screen + no way to recall notifications if you don't watch the whole thing scroll past when it originally comes in are very frustrating. Plus it's very annoying that despite having users asking for this for years they have not implemented a "find my phone" feature.

One way around the issue is rendering a globe on a screen. Google maps does this when you zoom out far enough.

This isn't a way around the issue because the screen is two-dimensional so you are still showing a projection of the globe. I think Google uses the perspective projection when you zoom out enough.

Absolutely it's different from a typical video game experience, I didn't mean to say that it was a replacement for a traditional video game. It's something that really does combine elements of video games and IRL activities into a wholly new kind of experience, and to me that's a more compelling argument for VR gaming than a regular video game but more immersive. Even if Echo Arena in particular doesn't tickle your fancy, I think it shows what category of experience is possible even with current VR technology.

Thanks for the Windlands recommendation, I will have to check it out.

There are already compelling VR games, but they are heavily outnumbered in fun but shallow arcade experiences and games which would be bargain-basement tier on any other platform. I highly recommend trying Echo Arena before it is taken offline in August. The player base is as awful as you would expect unmoderated 13-year-olds online to be, but if you mute everyone and just explore the mechanics it is mind-blowing and other-worldly. Unfortunately due to the weightlessness this is one that will definitely be off limits to those who struggle with nausea in VR.

The ability to make all content opt-in instead of opt-out would get you 90% of the way there. Very few services that I know of offer this. Most of them offer gating by age range into all content the service considers appropriate for that age, and most allow you to block specific content as well, but all I really want for my young kids is to know exactly what content is available to them because I have added it specifically.

Beyond that, there are some nice things you could do like a workflow for a kid to request new content and a parent to review and approve/deny it. But that's definitely a nice-to-have.

I'm really looking forward to trying this out, there have been multiple occasions over the last few years when I went looking for something exactly like this and came up empty.

I don't think you would need to disentangle it from income effects to address the concern of someone who actively avoids Teslas on the road, unless they also actively avoid cars that look like they belong to people with low income.

I guess I didn't read far enough. Seems pretty obvious you'd need to count that as a separate path, to me the 141 answer is plain incorrect.

That is fun! It's interesting, the solution is presented here[1], but I'm pretty sure it's wrong (off by 19) due to not taking into account the possibility for the pawn to move two squares on its first move.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-survive-this-de...

This website is incredible. It blew my mind when I realized it was showing a star map superimposed on a street view image of our actual location.

A question from a very inexperienced stargazer - we went outside to look at the Starlink constellation that was passing overhead, and in the five minutes we spent looking for it, we couldn't see anything moving on that trajectory but did make out three apparent satellites moving on different trajectories, satellites apparently not known to the web app. Is that plausible or is it more likely we were mistaking airplanes or imagining things?

Passthrough AR inherently has the same FoV as VR so I'm having trouble interpreting your comment. I also don't see how brightness would be an issue for non-passthrough VR. Did you mean "non-passthrough AR", like the HoloLens?

Just be very careful when you are applying finish, volatile solvents and flames are a bad mix!