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Hilarious, because accounting for this stuff is drilled into your head when you study the softer sciences (like psychology) even as an undergrad.

Science fiction is entertainment. There's no way to like, "misread" it.

Sorry, but you need to have at least some info about the humans involved before I would even consider using this.

https://youtu.be/ur296s3wIv4 ITM, RIP

The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare mi…

Not a single hyperlink in that article. Infuriating.

Call me when "infinite scroll" causes cancer.

How do you know they're not learning by using an LLM? You think just because they built something with an LLM they won't ever "view source" on the output? Very presumptuous.

re: "taste" - whatever that even means here - you could say the same thing about any of the thousands of Bootstrap or Tailwind or whatever CRUD apps made over the years.

They're 13. When we were using Hypercard or BASIC to make dumb little programs, we weren't learning any of that stuff either, really. Making apps is so complicated now that without…

Yeah, and I'm certainly not paying $20 a month - indefinitely - for it.

Too bad they had a falling out when Dvorak questioned the logic of hiring Vivek Kundra (remember him? of course not!) as the nation's first CIO.

Not really. My parents married in 1972 at age 18. Rust belt. Both worked. While comfortable, we were always worried about money and layoffs. Friends whose parents didn't do as well…

This level of filtering is so granular and bespoke that I'm not surprised no one offers it.

Have an upvote, you old chunk of coal!

Maybe schools should be self-hosting something like Sakai instead.

There is a reasonable middle ground between tossing everyone in the hole and letting petty crime run rampant.

Then we need to make it work their time by bringing back broken windows policing.

After reading these comments, I don't want to hear any of you suggest that kids shouldn't be allowed to have unrestricted access to smartphones or social media ever again. How did …

Blanking out is afaik the exact opposite of "mindfulness". This is almost exactly like Transcendental Meditation, even down the to the length of time of ~20 minutes.

Why do anything?

Yes, the military have fewer rights than civilians. That's a feature.

They scan my ID when I buy wine at the grocery store so, who knows?

Thank you for saying this. I've been similarly baffled. The call to ban children from social media seemed like it was coming loudest from tech people - like HN users. How did they …