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Praise is a verbal activity. And while words definitely matter, I think holistic encouragement is needed. Pats on the back, hugs, and periodic ambient physical presence when the ki…

Well stated. I read Nurture Shock before my kids were born. One of its main arguments is to praise effort rather than natural abilities ("you worked hard" rather than "you're smart…

Same for me. It came recommended by my upright bass teacher. I used to transcribe all songs that way. Recently, I've been lazy and learn new songs by watching players on YouTube.

Back in August, the Odd Lots Podcast had a good show about speculation in hazelnuts. As I recall, Ferrero buys like 25% of the world's hazelnut supply.

My neighborhood school issues Chromebooks to all kids starting in sixth grade. It's been an interesting, um, pedagogical experiment. In my kid's friend group (now 7th grade), the u…

I planted asclepias incarnata here in my south bay garden and orange aphids killed it within a month. Maybe not a great choice anyways, since it requires a lot of water.

I run the standalone Scratch program on an offline raspberry PI. My kids enjoy it. The best thing about offline is that they have to create something to play a game. We formerly us…

I'm in the same boat with Google Play Music and Youtube Music. I switched to AIMP and have been gradually moving files over.

> The other grant will examine how the protein lactoferrin – a novel protein found in human and cow’s milk – may help improve the intestinal absorption of iron That's interesting t…

> This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA. So, this is …

+1 Sequence diagrams force you to think about the flow of control in a system. When reviewing draft designs, I sometimes ask the author to convert a simple boxes-and-lines architec…

> Why does youtube want to copy tiktok when it clearly has already lost before it begun. It's no sure thing for youtube, but it's worth trying. Clearly there is a demand. Also, Tik…

> shared sounds that are able to go very viral rapidly Shared sounds was a nifty innovation and TikTok executed it well. While FB always focused on their vaunted friends graph, the…

Zeynep Tufekci's book Twitter and Tear Gas talks about this. In Tunisia circa 2010, Twitter was part of the new tactics used by social movements and enabled their early success. Es…

John McWhorter suggested that colloquial Indonesian would be an ideal universal language for the world. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/john-mcwhorter/

Is there an in-depth howto guide to do this?

I cut off the sleeve of an old fleece pullover. Works great as night cap and eye cover. (I previously used a sleep mask bought on Amazon but found it slipped off too often. Also, t…

From this thread, it sounds like the second vulnerability doesn't affect spigot or vanilla minecraft: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-security-releases-%E... Also, mojang's…

Couldn't you do this with Chrome search engines? https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/

IMO, much worse than touch screen buttons is touch screen glare. Driving westward in the mornings, sunlight is reflected directly off my car's touch screen into my eyes. Everything…

California property tax map: https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/

One possible explanation is that Facebook in US is subject to more adversarial actors than other countries. A propagandist-for-hire choosing to astroturf, conduct false flag campai…

Vape shops certainly do. This place down the road from Netflix HQ has kid-friendly posters of baby Groot, Spiderman, etc. in its windows. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2803855,-1…

I'm kind of glad I didn't splurge on too many guitar effects pedals back in the day. Behringer has cloned much of the BOSS line, now available at a fraction of the cost. https://ww…

I recently set up yubikey 2FA for several of my important accounts. I was dismayed to find that several of them (Vanguard, BofA, etc.) require SMS security codes as a backup.