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by neap24 7mo ago
I was in a group conversation last week where everyone was discussing what sophisticated new TV shows they were watching. When it got to me I said, “My family is really into Sabrina the Teenage Witch right now. It holds up really well and S
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by neap24 3y ago
Just what exactly about having kids is not ethical? If ethics is a human construct-and you are contributing to having no more humans around…I don’t know, it just seems like a strange way of framing it. As for the burden of having kids, I th
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by neap24 3y ago
I’m a big advocate of reducing Zoom/screen fatigue by doing manual labor after the work day. Do a home maintenance project, throw a ball with the kids in the backyard, etc.
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by neap24 3y ago
I'm 100% in favor of children working starting with chores at home and continuing through the rest of childhood, to some degree. But I'd rather see it be things like lawn mowing, babysitting, and what I would call "ordinary&q
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by neap24 3y ago
Yes. This is a better wording of the point I was making in a comment below—which somehow everyone is criticizing as “males need to share in the responsibility”. Putting that aside as a separate debate, I am worried about unintended conseque
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by neap24 3y ago
Meh. Maybe this would have been a bigger deal when birth control was difficult to acquire, but the price has dropped so drastically it’s practically free these days. Also, I thought the narrative was that High Schoolers were having less sex
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by neap24 4y ago
Are you a manager whose new hire just sent a reply to your AI generated welcome email? Don’t have time to read it? Workspace auto-hides the text and just shows you a simple three-word summary.
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by neap24 4y ago
Some were googling, for sure. But the best ones were not.
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by neap24 4y ago
Spreadsheet for time tracking, simple Python script to generate an invoice.
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Ask HN: With ChatGPT, is now a good time to leave education?
2 points by neap24 4y ago|0 comments
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by neap24 4y ago
So, we will be interacting with the computer just like in Star Trek sooner than I thought. I used to laugh off the scenes when some random bridge crew member would ask, “Computer, run a <fancy-term> analysis on <some-system> wit
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by neap24 4y ago
I don't believe this is a strawman...at least from an outsider's perspective. As someone who has only ever written software independently, the very idea of agile and sprints (at least reading about them here and talking to friend
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by neap24 4y ago
I really don't understand the obsession with homeowner solar. The financing schemes are crazy (companies owning part of your roof, renting the equipment, etc.). The only way to do it properly is to either pay someone else cash or to
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by neap24 4y ago
That’s right, we all know the real cause for Rome’s downfall was PM2.5
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by neap24 5y ago
As a teacher (CS and Math) for over a decade, I agree with much of this. I will only add that, as far as grading is concerned, I think the long-term incentive for the teacher is actually to put almost no effort in at all. There is no pay or
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by neap24 5y ago
I think that's true in some circles, this sense of shared empathy. But most people I'm around exude a sense of annoyance over the pandemic restrictions (regardless of how seriously they take covid). I suppose this might count as e
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by neap24 6y ago
There are a variety of bigger problems with the current TV show culture beyond getting cancelled early. Reliance on the cliffhanger, too much pandering to current events/politics, overuse of the "mystery box" plot technique,
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by neap24 6y ago
There are plenty of other viruses/infections that produce "long-hauler" effects. Just last year, I had a cough that lingered for nearly 4 months. It was annoying, but has happened to me before. That's not to say we shoul
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by neap24 6y ago
Firebase api calls don't seem to be working either.
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by neap24 6y ago
Similar situation here. We have been unaffected since my wife stays home and has homeschooled our kids for the past couple of years. But, there are a lot of parents in our neighborhood scrambling for a solution (and not seeing Kindergarten
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by neap24 6y ago
It's pretty silly to make an absolute claim that one is protecting workers when that is far from obvious.
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by neap24 6y ago
Ah, well. I think I can make this circular. It is perhaps exploitative to demand these laws. It's unfair treatment of Uber/Lyft employees to imposing regulatory regimes against their wishes (claiming it actually benefits them) to
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by neap24 6y ago
I think it’s pretty simple, actually. Start playing an instrument (or dig deeper into playing an instrument). Most “music buffs” I respect are decent musicians themselves. I great prefer a musician’s music recommendations to a music critic’
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by neap24 6y ago
In sixth grade, my entire class was obsessed with Far Side. Our teacher actually let us tape our favorite comics in two columns onto our school desks. I still remember the one about William Tell helped me answer a test question once.
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by neap24 6y ago
We do High School CompSci without the internet (for our intro course). I do see the internet as a distraction at this level. Forcing young students to think through the logic of a problem and come up with their own solution (no matter how c
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by neap24 6y ago
Tarka
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by neap24 6y ago
I've noticed the opposite phenomenon at a popular restaurant in Austin. The menu through DoorDash is priced higher than the normal price. Curiously, the restaurant's own, in-house delivery system is the same price as dining in.
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by neap24 6y ago
I already view the “meme” phenomenon the same way: a creepy, possibly semi-automatically generated image based on random keywords.
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by neap24 7y ago
This reminds me of a lesson I learned in an intro to Economics class : everyone's lot in life is a combination of luck, effort, and ability. Those whose view of the world from a left-of-center perspective (those who downplay self-reli
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by neap24 7y ago
It really is much more isolating today than it would have been years ago. Back when it was the norm for a parent (usually mother) to stay home with the kids, so did every other mother on the block. My wife stays home with our kids and, wit

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