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The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by jounker »

syntaxfree wrote: post #235
hluska wrote: post #118

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I'm almost entirely plant based and despite this, my child will not go near a vegetable. It's reached a point where I use extra vegetables when I make stocks because she will eat soup, but only if it has meat and no visible vegetables. Putting extra vegetables in the stock likely accomplishes nothing but it makes me feel a little bit better. I've gone so far as to watch exotic cooking shows on YouTube with her to see…

I have a 9mo and we don’t cook usually so we’re feeding him industrialized baby foods (slowly introducing eggs, alphabet noodles, etc. His appetite is growing crazy fast and baby food isn’t cheap…) What is “stock”?

It’s soup base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_(food)

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Post by quadrangle »

mattlondon wrote: post #39
cpursley wrote: post #28

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Can somebody explain the "won't eat vegetables" thing? The only place I've heard about this being in issue is in America.

My kid (~2 years) prefers to eat food they like the taste of most. Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots. They'll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the…

I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It's like not liking peanut-butter.

Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there's something called "diet peanut butter" (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is "diet peanut butter"???? Peanut butter is this rich, delicious oily food. It doesn't need a damn thing to be a great treat. But in the U.S., it's not only typically salted, they add a large amount of sugar. That's already insanely stupid. You want to cut out the sugar? Just enjoy the plain amazing peanut butter on its own!! Nope, they made "diet" by swapping the sugar for xylitol or something. INSANE.

P.S. I live in and grew up in the U.S., I'm judging my own country.

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Post by msgilligan »

msgilligan wrote: post #240
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

You need to make a Use Case Diagram and further analyze the system. If you do this and properly understand the system, you will realize that you are the product and your UX is perfectly designed for the child who is the actual user in this system.

This also reminds me of the old joke:

> Q: How do your parents know exactly how to push your buttons?

> A: They installed them.

But the truth is evolution installed the buttons in parents as well as installed instincts in the children enabling them to push those buttons whenever they need.

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Post by killjoywashere »

jasonhansel wrote: post #218
simonh wrote: post #194

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It’s probably running a process that’s connecting to internet services such as mine craft or league of legends out of working hours. I’ve found that disabling internet connectivity at the WiFi router from 12:00 midnight until the morning can be effective to prevent wasteful background processing over night.

Disconnecting Wi-Fi is not recommended, since it may prevent access to firmware updates that improve overall friendliness. The real problem may be in your educational system, whose operating hours may be incompatible with the standard, pre-set clock phase that most models naturally acquire at that age. I suggest contacting your local school board to continue troubleshooting.

^Hmmm ... it appears Grown Child without Small Child has entered the chat.

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Post by collin128 »

plaidfuji wrote: post #2

How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??

Workaround - I tried installing the gem "bribery" but it only works intermittently and often fails silently.

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Post by watersb »

dylan604 wrote: post #180
na85 wrote: post #86

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Puppy also happily rolls in excrement if you don't run the Leash plugin. I have the 2017 Small Child Pro and mine tried to eat a cigarette butt that she found in a mud puddle but at least she doesn't roll in goose shit.

You should have splurged for the Small Child Pro Max++. It comes with the extra neural engine cores. Sometimes buying the top of the line unit seems too expensive at time of purchase, but it's only after some usage does the decision to save money up front come to be regretted.

Power management is terrible on the Pro Max++, to say nothing of the stability issues.

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Post by satyrnein »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #223

What happened? I thought that humor was strictly verboten on this site, according to regulations! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Anyway, what is a 'Mandarin-immersion preschool', can anyone enlighten me?

The teachers would speak mostly in Mandarin. My son came out of Spanish immersion preschool speaking pretty close to native level Spanish (despite neither my wife nor I speaking it).
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