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> On average, heavy social media use (more than five hours per day) is associated with lower wellbeing. Heavy users are significantly more likely to report higher stress and depres…

I agree with you. I think the "additional guidance" era we are in will be measured in single-digit years.

It's not that it won't be better at understanding, it's that there's too many possibilities to understand. This is true for humans too, but I can use the output to make money in a …

I also believe this must be true. Try asking Claude to program in Forth, I find the results to be unreasonably good. That's probably because most of the available Forth to train on…

I asked "what airline should I fly from NY to the Azores?". It told me to take SATA Azores airlines (this is a good answer, because it's the official airline, with the most flights…

I mostly share your perspective, but I don't know if I would share your emphasis. Lines of code for dollars used to be a trade businesses made with developers out of necessity, but…

The end of an era. This is nothing less than a travesty honestly. The current (now former) curriculum at NEU was uniquely exceptional, and now it will be conformingly adequate. Any…

I appreciate the humor but this confuses me. I also read in a biography of Thomas Jefferson that he reviled Calvinists, going so far as to say their God is not the God of the Bible…

I have a pet project to integrate org mode with LLMs via tags, and the hardest part has been interfacing with the base org-mode tags to provide all the functionality I want. This l…

I was a student at Northeastern (where Matthias Felleisen was a professor) from 2016-2020, so I have first-hand experience with exactly this system of teaching. The combination of …

> Note that def we have inserted, to define a global variable request. This is a powerful debug mechanism, but a better way to use it is a tool like [snitch]( https://github.com/Ab…

I still feel shame can be noble. To try to live up to the example of others and feel ashamed that you are not anywhere near their greatness. Not guilty, because you have not done w…

Another perspective: shame can be good. Feel it. Shame for who you are can light a fire in you, can propel you into transformation. Shame for one's past self is normal, if one has …

Energy use for constant audio monitoring would make that implementation impractical compared to simply monitoring the energy draw from the device.

You missed the big difference between the GUI and CLI. Even if the GUI is completely unfamiliar, and you have to learn it, you can still see the different buttons, menus etc. They …

Yes, people often have a shocking misunderstanding of historical attitudes, and attribute modern sensibilities to people way too far back in time. They obviously also haven't read …

Seems like quality is lacking in this case also, considering the plagiarism.

It will never be tidy enough to show other people, or at least that's the way it will feel. People would love to see what is done anyway, as this sounds like a fascinating project.…

I think this is an absolutely critical point. From my own tutoring experience insight with troubled students usually comes only _after_ engaging many "bad" questions in a row. Usua…

Who is John Galt?

A stack is a great idea! Peter's initial implementation was a vertical "shelf" like this, so I just stuck with that.

That's way cooler than this! Makes extensive use of canvas though, so I'm inclined to consider it cheating ;)

This issue should be fixed now. You originally had to click the popup again to make it close, but now you can click anywhere outside.

Yeah I found this limitation, didn't have quite enough time to work out all the kinks this weekend. I comment on this at the bottom of the page, I believe the mouse events go throu…