Home schooling is illegal in my jurisdiction but this entire discussion is making me think about it more and more.
A question though: does homeschooling require essentially that the entire family can be supported on one salary? (Either by one parent working and the other schooling, or two parents working but paying a full time tutor which becomes a 2-1=1 sort of thing anyway.)
I had this discussion with Jerry Pournelle and he had a similar take. I think William Gibson was famous for saying, "Nobody is going to pirate you book or steal your work, hell if they read a chapter while sitting in the library you are ahead of most authors!"
Sean Fagan (@kithrup@wandering.shop) on Mastodon, periodically buys and then gives away Kindle books. I grabbed "Eric Carter: Dead Things" when he did than and ended up buying the whole 9 book series by Stephen Blackmoore! I can also recommend the whole "go to the library and check out a book that has arrived" to see if you like the author or not. But that does take more work.
For me part of the fun of home poker games comes from the tipsy players making mistakes and joking about it. If I want a serious game I go to a casino. Reducing a social activity with poker as the vehicle rather than the goal seems retrograde to me -- the last thing I want to do with a bunch of friends is stare at our phones together.
This is why I think Apple’s implementation of LLMs is going to be a big deal, even if it’s not technically as capable. Just making Siri better able to converse (e.g. ask clarifying questions) and giving it the context offered by user data will make it dramatically more useful than silo’d off remote LLMs.
Flash got close, but was too complex and expensive for the average user (HyperCard was initially free, but was not bundled with the Performa line of Macs). HTML captured a lot of what HyperCard offered, but web authoring tools never got as easy and still don't offer one feature that HyperCard did--consistency of the look and feel of the UI, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, but some users liked the fact that they could create a flipbook by adding two buttons (previous, next) to a page. Some even started businesses selling educational material bundled as HyperCard stacks. The HyperTalk programming language was not great though and was one of those languages that hippies liked but the average user was as lost with it as with C or Pascal. I always had a feeling that Apple tried to control what you could do with it too much, which is the opposite of what I expect a programming language and the tooling around it to do for me. If you want to get a feel of what it was like to code in it try coding something in AppleScript, you will see what I mean.
I really appreciate your perspective. We as a society really are too fixated on keeping up with the Jonses, and it really sucks from a mental health standpoint I think. The city life can exacerbate this feeling considerably too.
In that scenario, if you properly dropped that same range of !Copy structs, then the memory would be leaked just the same. If they deallocated their memory on drop, then they wouldn't be trivially destructible.
Also, those things aren't even true about Apple devices. Apple fanboys have been convinced that their hardware really is way better than everything else for decades. It has never been true and still isn't.
This isn't really advice, because ymmv, but young me just ignored homework (with minor exceptions).
I started programming at age 12, and that was more interesting. School was mostly boring so I didn't feel the need to extend it at home.
Looking back I recognise I was fortunate. My teachers didn't seem to over-mind (perhaps because I was well behaved and engaged in class, and did ok in tests). My parents didn't seem to mind as long as my teachers didn't complain too much.
I also now recognise that I went to a school with progressive values, good teachers, and a focus on flexibility (to a point).
I used to joke afterwards that I had a "unspoken agreement" with my teachers. They could hand out as much homework as they liked, and I would quietly ignore it all.
Even more interestingly in the comment below, apparently you can just flick on ECC for RTX 4090 cards!
Extra weird is Nvidia singling out ray tracing as a use case which shouldn't use ECC... I suppose it's no biggie if a single ray goes the wrong way down the BVH, out of trillions.
I tried building an old rig (maybe ~7 years ago or so) using ECC RAM (since I was running two Xeons). It was such a pain in the butt to get it to boot and find sticks that were compatible with each other, don't really want to go down that path again.
Not worth it at all. I rarely use battery power, so I'd rather have an intel or AMD chip with more cores and a higher clock speed at the expense of the battery. Oh, and an OS that can actually manage its windows, and customize keyboard settings, and not require an account to use the app store
yes, this is certainly a weak point in conventional semantics, but not relevant to this issue, which is about ensuring no dangling pointers, not memory leaks
For all I know that was AI generated, with no actual musical instruments or cameras harmed. I saw a piano at the landfill once, I wonder if whomever dumped it got canceled.
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And while subjective experience is important, it’s hard to argue with a position someone didn’t logic themselves into.
I live in Chicago and it’s much the same. I hear about carjackings and muggings and all sorts yet the one thing I see and experience nearly every single time I leave the house is being nearly run over by some impatient wanker in a car. I don’t feel that other stuff because I yanked the IV drip of fear-news-weather garbage media out of my arm and that’s really the only thing feeding this crap to people.
Most big cities are the safest they have been in history. Someone wants people to feel otherwise. I wonder why.
I don't have to be the founder of their company to be qualified to speak on product design. I've designed and built stuff for DocuSign, Brave, Nike, and some others but my portfolio speaks for itself: https://dribbble.com/bennyschmidt
Your reply was basically useless - like a LinkedIn support comment. The last thing the Bluesky founders need.
They need to hire talented people who know how to build good products fast instead of patting themselves on the back year after year while offering nothing innovative or interesting to the world.
It's not an impossible future - they're in a hell of a lot better position than 99% of other people and are actually a very privileged bunch - but so far they can't design or build, and their product ideas aren't even that good.
Yeah personally I find cheaping out on the storage far more egregious than cheaping out on the RAM. Even if you have most things offloaded onto the cloud, 128 GB was not even enough for that, and the 256 GB is still going to be a pain point even for many casual home users, and at the price point of Apple machines it's inexcusable to not add another $25 of flash
> not freeing an object is always okay, according to conventional programming language semantics anyway
Conventional semantics have to hit reality eventually. Long-running programs can't just alloc forever without free, hence an arena not being the only allocator in most long-running programs.
Yeah, and the worst part is that 15 minutes per class isn't enough to actually do any useful learning. It's just going to be two hours of pointless busy work.
