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> (it's possible it's still attributed to me but I doubt it). It's still attributed to you.
can you prove that or is it just another conspiracy theory?
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Yes, the summary is missing one word: own labor.
Fair, What if I work and I give my kids the fruits of my labor and they rent it out to you. Should I not benefit from the fruits of my labor ?
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10 minutes a day on a commute to work and back is significant and, if you drop down a couple mph, is low risk. That’s almost an extra hour a week without giving up any valuable activity. I could only see the cost/benefit looking not worthwhile if you already have a lot of free time. An adult commuting 90 minutes a day might only have 2-4 hours of free time per day during the workweek.
There is an increased risk of an accident with reduced reaction time and any accident may be worse with more velocity/energy at play. Ask a paramedic whose worked in a big, commuter city about their experience.
The effect also depends on the natural speed at which traffic flows and how the extra time is spent, as fatigue also increases crash risk.
As tech gets more and more advanced and we get higher and higher levels of abstraction, I've noticed more and more programmers just don't understand _what_ their code is doing. There can be a lack of understanding of how calls translate to system calls and machine instruction. The abstraction is good, it allows you to do more and do it quickly. But when you don't understand what the abstraction is, then you are progr…
I should write a medium article on the questions we asked during interviewing and what the success rate was for each question (spoiler: it was depressing).
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Not exactly. Being able to use a keyboard or a mouse is different. By comparison, is not being able to drive a car. I sure know nothing about engine but can drive. A computer illiterate needs the minimum of being able to maneuver it. Files might disappear, they are an abstraction after all.
For all the things youth don't know one thing they do know is that youtube will fill in the gaps.
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I would love, so much, for Youtube to just stop targeting recommendations. At least then I'd see new things once in a while...
ive started to use freetube on desktop and newpipe on mobile. they are not great for discovery at all but at least I can watch the odd [insert-channel-i-dont-really-like-here] video every once in a blue moon without then being harassed for weeks/months/years after to watch more from the same channel
I think it works because I don't see those topics in my feeds.
My favourite one that surprised me and continues to surprise people: kids that have grown up with smartphones and iPads from birth are computer illiterate. People see their 5 year old using an iPad and the knee-jerk cliche thought/assumption us the classic "oh wow these kids just get technology!" (recall all the "I need my kid to program the VCR" type stuff from the 80s/90s - it is the same thing of older people assu…
I've seen in shopping mall little girl standing in front of aquarium, trying to move around fishes with her finger...
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For all the things youth don't know one thing they do know is that youtube will fill in the gaps.
YouTube is not useful when you need muscle memory. You can learn how to type on a keyboard with YouTube, but you will still be useless.