The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent • Hacker News Board

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by kijin » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 6:23 AM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #78

kijin wrote: post #41

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Yup, not having to fix your own car happened one generation ago. Now it's happening to computers.

Not only that but people these days are terrible drivers now that cars have ABS, traction control, blind spot sensors, even brake assist and automatic cruise/autopilot. They crash into the car ahead of them in multi-car a pile up and cry they are innocent. People using computers seem to be the same people mindlessly click on anything with an OK button on it. Then their entire bank account is drained and they cry inno…

Just wait until self-driving cars become the norm. Very few people will know how to drive at all, let alone top up the washer fluid.

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by sametmax » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 9:31 AM UTC

metaphor wrote: post #95

sametmax wrote: post #90

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People are happy to be convinced. They want to have their car fixed, not necessarily fix it themself. I'm a linux guy, but why do you think people buy macs ?

Some people enjoy paying for their Kool-Aid as much as they like drinking it, and businesses are quite adept at parting fools from their money. Try again[1][2][3], just to cite a few. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/nebraska... [2] https://www.eff.org/issues/right-to-repair [3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evmeya/apple-ipho...

Again, i could link to many linux initive lile you do with cars, yet i know we are a minority.

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by BerislavLopac » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

jeena wrote: post #76

noir_lord wrote: post #37

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I'm seeing this right now, I grew up programming (started at 7), at 9 I was way more computer fluent than my 9 year old step-son is now. I think it's simply that modern machines are (generally) so reliable that you never have to get under the hood to figure out what broke until you (rarely) do and then you have no conceptual framework for trying to resolve what is broken. His trouble shooting process is handing it to…

> I think it's simply that modern machines are (generally) so reliable that you never have to get under the hood to figure out what broke until you (rarely) do and then you have no conceptual framework for trying to resolve what is broken. You have the same problem with cars. When I was 18 I was able to disassemble and reassemble my car and basically fix anything which broke. I even replaced the bodywork one time aft…

Why is that a problem? This is the case with all technology that has potential to become utility. Nobody complains that they can't take their water from a nearby well any more, or that their letters don't take days to be delivered.

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by TadaScientist » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:11 PM UTC

jeena wrote: post #76

noir_lord wrote: post #37

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I'm seeing this right now, I grew up programming (started at 7), at 9 I was way more computer fluent than my 9 year old step-son is now. I think it's simply that modern machines are (generally) so reliable that you never have to get under the hood to figure out what broke until you (rarely) do and then you have no conceptual framework for trying to resolve what is broken. His trouble shooting process is handing it to…

> I think it's simply that modern machines are (generally) so reliable that you never have to get under the hood to figure out what broke until you (rarely) do and then you have no conceptual framework for trying to resolve what is broken. You have the same problem with cars. When I was 18 I was able to disassemble and reassemble my car and basically fix anything which broke. I even replaced the bodywork one time aft…

Life in larger cities has become so expensive that it's difficult spending money on a car or time to take a car apart and putting it back together. Some people do it but empirically, I think it's mostly chavs.

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by TadaScientist » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

Get a raspberry pi and a couple of how-tos and you can watch your kid become addicted to making things sing with code.

Re: The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

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Post by goldfeld » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 3:30 AM UTC

dkersten wrote: post #93

goldfeld wrote: post #47

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Every user application doesn't have to be written in C.

Of course not, but from reading HN, I’m not the only one frustrated with the performance state of many applications. They don’t have to be written in C to perform well. For example, I quite like using Qutebrowser, a minimalistic keyboard-centric browser that’s more lightweight than Chrome or Firefox, yet its written in Python (well, I guess the actual browser engine is C++/Qt)

I'm reading this (late) in qutebrowser! Mine has so many tabs open but doesn't hang (until it does), which is a fresh change from luakit (and Chrome but not Firefox, alas mine has many many more tabs open so that I don't open it anymore.) And I'm using because it's written in Python (and so easily scriptable from my own Python program.)