That's great and all but as a content creator, she has an incentive to create sensational, viral content. Which also introduce bias like exaggeration of the risk. Being financial independent does not exclude this type of bias.

>Also, I would group kids by subject, and not by age.

I would be cautious with this, they may have the same academic ability but a large gap in social skills.

Why is that worse than having large gaps in academic ability and social skills?

Even for non-emergency, the short amount of time before a health issue turn serious means that it's already hard for you to take second opinion.

I think it's just that naturally nobody is keeping 100% eye contact ( except maybe like TV news reporter ), it feels like an interrogation.

This is what I realized is uncomfortable about camera on group meetings in teams - I can't mute other people's video, and so it feels intensely weird to have a wall of people staring blankly at you.

> I can't mute other people's video

you can switch to another tab, use a miniplayer, in some apps u can focus one person's screen and if you choose someone who has a static avatar up you'll barely see other people's faces.

The nuclear option is to install PowerToys [0] and put something always on top (im a fan of the hotkey winkey+space to toggle always-on-top on and off) in the exact position of the other video feeds. notepad or something.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

This has been a feature since 2020 [1]. Similarly exists in zoom now.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/featur...

You can totally turn off incoming video on msteams. What you can't is have it as a default setting afaik.

My recent most favourite quote is "Anything is edible at least once".

I've consider it to be 4 handshakes but the middle 2 are merged.

There is a scenario called “simultaneous open”, which has 4 packets handshake and is a wonderful source of corner cases and debugging. Mostly doesn’t happen these days, but is possible by standard and is explicitly described.

It has been used for NAT traversal when both parties are behind NAT, but sadly it doesn't work with all routers.

>I wouldn't be able to simply look at some text and give you an accurate word count.

I actually think you would, lots of time I've been surprised by how accurate people can eye-ball stuffs.

Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent

Google meet on FF used to be almost a no-op but for the past year or so it has operated without any real issue. Screen sharing is sometimes off when iterating windows but that is pretty minor. (on Windows anyway)

I got some message like "XML error" and just denied out of meeting lots of time.

Slack works fine afaik, have been using it for a few years, but I can imagine Meet not working. I remember having switch to chrome for that.

Slack's huddle just straight up block Firefox for me ( 130.0.1, Fedora ).

> In reality the modal life expectancy of adults (most common age of death other than 0) has been pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history-

I am pretty sure this is wrong. East Asian cultures celebrate 60th birthday as becoming very elderly, and if you live to the 70s it's almost as if you achieved Buddhahood.

That was my Physics too, but Chemistry just completely glanced over the history. Same thing with Mathematics, no backstory of mathematicians. I guess that either 1. Physics History is short enough, well-recorded, or 2. Physicists really like teaching their history.

Physicists seem to be always seeking a deeper understanding of everything, more so than other fields like biology and sometimes chemistry, who have a tendency to get bogged down into to the idiosyncrasies of particular phenomena.

MIT has an excellent chem course on YouTube that goes into the history

Yeah, in retrospect I think this aligns with my experience. But I'd even say that with the famous physics experiments I still remember often thinking "How did they get such precision with such primitive instruments?" I mean they would explain the experiments in very basic/schematic terms, but would have been nice to actually replicate I've to truly understand how it worked.