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I saw this in the Netherlands: Chromebooks with which the children did their research online, submitted their homework online, got them graded online, organized their workgroups, s…

Sorry, I was not clear. Absolutely smartphones should be banned, at least during lessons, and at best during the whole time in the school, recess, etc. Giving a child a dumb-phone …

Using a dumb-phone is the reason a pre-teen neighbor of mine got bullied. So much that she ended up stealing money to get herself a smartphone. Shortly afterwards the parents folde…

To add another case: When I was 14 or so, a science teacher taught the whole classroom that the reason stars twinkle is because of light being waves. I considered interrupting and …

There is a minor but growing trend of schools (even whole countries, see Australia) banning social media or smartphones for under-16s. I tentatively agree. Are your kids now overly…

Even though the amount may be small this touches a very sensitive spot in Spain. In 1981 hundreds of people died and thousands fell ill due to adulterated rapeseed oil. The origin …

A minimal language for UIs sounds interesting. Can you share any details?

For those who don't get the reference: It's from the movie Children of Men. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o&pp=ygUPY2hpbGRyZW4...

To all the sibling repliers: PICO-8, TIC-80, Load81 and probably others are somewhat Lua oriented. What is it about Lua that makes it so popular in this area?

That sounds extreme! Source please?

It's already happening: https://youtu.be/A6s8QlIGanA

Invent or discover? Is there consensus about that when it comes to maths?

It has an interesting choice of screen resolution, 640x360, related to smartphones _and_ modern home screens. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/98985/why-the-360x640...

Somewhat off-topic: This reminds me of an article I read about law-making in Taiwan. Iirc there is some kind of crowd-sourced composition, with branches, versions, voting, etc. Unf…

Please, rouge is red. You meant rogue.

Nice language! To the creators of the language: How is it pronounced? And a bit about the etymology please. Do you foresee any challenges/inefficiencies when building a compiler fo…