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If you're active on social media (twitter), you will still see people, like the FFmpeg account, still bashing higher level languages (C) and praising hand written assembly.

Switching to nonsense with physical books is as easy as having two books in your bag/desk, or reading a physical newspaper with a comics section. Treating the ability to switch context quickly as essentially bad for learning is reductive, especially when the ability to add more context (searching unknown words, useful videos, articles etc) can obviously be incredibly useful.

Stopping the ability to do ctrl+T+reddit.com also prevents the huge amount of info the rest of the informative internet can provide.

The article also includes smart watches as computers, and personally as a Apple Watch user, the amount that this device can distract is incredibly low, and obvious to viewers like a teacher.

The Harry Potter and comic book argument also works for paper newspapers, the same object contains good, informative articles, opinion pieces etc, but also the comics page.

I am arguing that thinking that the same object cannot be used in two contexts is incredibly reductive and essentialist. They are stacking the books (by double counting time listening to music etc) to prove the idea that they are insistent on, that computers (which the article generalizes from desktops to chromebooks to iPads to smart watches) are essentially bad for learning, when this is not necessarily the case.

Students will continue to learn using computers, just as I will, because they are ridiculously effective for doing so.

This is largely just anti tech puritanism. I cant comment on the psych and neurological arguments, but the following line of reasoning

  > A pre-Covid survey exploring how US students aged 8-18 utilize digital technologies both inside and outside of school provides the answer (values below are per week) ...If we extrapolate and consider a typical U.S. academic school year of 36 weeks, these numbers suggest that students spend 198 hours annually using digital devices for learning purposes, and 2,028 hours annually using those same exact tools to jump around between scatter-shot media content.

It's like arguing that a student who likes reading Harry Potter, or Comic Books 2 hours a night is forming habits against the idea of using books for learning. Students who play games or watch movies are not alcoholics using beer for buoyancy studies.

Not only this, it groups listening to music on a computer as an independent recreation activity, and not something that students will do concurrently with homework or other tasks outside of class, double dipping on recreation hours. As if listening to music isn't a boon for learning, which it easily can be.

Yeah with this and the privacy zinger at the end its definitely time my monthlong experiment with arc comes to a close. Too bad that the thing theyre actually proud of, the tabbing UX, was actually really good.

That is a worse system, and this public policy change is preferable to poor people having to be live in workers.

I can't say the same, Hi-Fi Rush was incredible and I want so many more genre bending games like it.

Unity has much better documentation and tutorials abound for literally any topic. It also has all sorts of tools and assets that are easily available.

Godot is open source, and doesn't have the licensing fee controversy. You will not have to pay for Godot (unless you need to release to consoles). I also personally like writing GDscript.

Ah, my bad. Apologies for overeager correction.

#12 overall global university, #3 in Europe, a handful of other top 10 placements [1] seem like quite good rankings actually, and not knowing about the University of London seems like a gap in knowledge on your part if anything.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/un...

People will specifically not add android users to group texts. If I am making a casual group text, and there is one android user, it may just be easier to not add a person than turn everyone's text boxes green, reduce image size, etc.

Not social standing per se, but a 0.01% chance of being excluded isn't going to feel good.

He clearly meant what he said.

I wonder if the path stays consistent in other (maybe very high) number bases, or if that general path is random and unique to base-10

Mass transit construction, promotion, and adoption would solve the same problem with technology that is easier to build and distribute.

You're right, we should fix the laws.

The companies actions under the ownership of KKR should not be considered 'playing fair', and some corporate buyout laws should be changed to disallow this behavior, maybe by enforcing the anti monopoly protections that the US has on the books. Alternatively, we could make DRM illegal to make the market more competitive.

The rate of Forfeiture is going up [1] while the rate of burglary is going down. Unless you hold the position that dwindling number of burglars are becoming massively more efficient over time, it is clear that civil asset forfeiture is a major problem.

[1] https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/pfp3content/forf...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191243/reported-burglary...

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No one is arguing that it's illegal, OP only said its 'spooky', therefore bad. Sometimes bad things are plainly allowed by federal law.

No manufacturer wants a repeat of the 1080Ti

I think I'm out of the loop. What does this mean?

Google Takes a Stand Against Keyword Search Warrants—in Brazil

Google Fails to Challenge Keyword Search Warrants in the U.S.

Your distinction is already acknowledged in the second[1] article linked by the original article, that Google is being uniquely worse in America, where the Fourth Amendment does actually apply.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/google-fights-dragnet-...

How does someone weaponize your information? Increase your health insurance prices based on more detailed knowledge of conditions? Deny you health insurance entirely?

Swipe to upvote/downvote puts it leagues ahead of the official app already.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Aside from the xkcd, this 'everybody knows' effect can be domain specific. The people who hired the pinkertons, and any party interested in stealing corporate secrets, know who they are.

I love HN but the demographics of the users makes them more likely to assume the cops will do the correct action, when that does not always play out.

readers of Homestuck

I will develop a typing quirk for the express purpose of ensuring that I wrote the email instead of AI

The only way I see this being something that's truly time critical is if they're using "emergency" as a euphemism for school shooting.

Parents are regularly getting notified about school shootings several minutes before the police. I absolutely do not want a school taking my kid's phone in this increasingly common case.