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I agree. As someone who spends their own time developing open-educational resources (OER), I was extremely limited in what I could do pre-AI. Now, AI has supercharged my ability to…

Charles Petzold's The Lost Art of Logarithms is a great read (still a work in progress). https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/

> the One country that dropped an A-bomb > "only country to use the bomb" I was confused. Two very different statements but I assume they refer to the US who dropped two A-bombs (H…

I was looking for this and finally found it in the comments. Derek Smart [1] is the indie developer behind the ambitious (and buggy) space sim Battlecruiser 3000AD [2]. He is known…

BobbyBroccoli on YouTube does an absolutely phenomenal job creating documentaries. Related to the dot-com burst would be the story he tells about Nortel. - Part 1: https://youtu.be…

> If you go by the actual years of the legal system to treat your kid as an independent individual, you probably have wrong approach to parenting. Oh I agree 100%. It's a pragmatic…

I would argue that there is a duty as a parent to monitor a child's welfare and that would include accessing a smartphone when deemed necessary. When a child turns 18, that duty be…

Taking away a phone from a child is far from meaningless. In fact, it is a very effective way of obtaining compliance if done correctly. I am curious about your perspective. Furthe…