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Random people would just message you this out of the blue. When I was about 10 or 11 some girl did this and we figured out we lived two hours away from each other. We ended up talking and kept in touch for years. Eventually our family’s had planned a vacation to the same city at the same time and we met up in person finally and had a good time. It never turned into a relationship but we kept in touch until I was in my early twenties. It just seemed like a different world compared to the social networking of today. Things were more innocent and there was a lot more inherit trust between people online.


I’m not an Elon hater but Tesla is the worst offender on Mozillas privacy study.


The report specifically says Tesla is not the worst btw


Surprising, since Mozilla's article(https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...) does place them dead last, right behind Nissan. Granted, it'll be hard not to buy a car on that list!


Yeah, that's interesting and it seems the report contradicts itself. They are indeed last on the list referenced, but when diving into their details for Tesla it says "So, how is Tesla at privacy? Well, they aren't the worst car company we reviewed"


Any news on when Bevy will have some legit documentation? I know there was a branch in work a while back that looked to have some in depth docs, but it doesn’t seem like it’s made its way into a release. This has always been a huge hurdle for me with Bevy. I really just don’t want to wade through discord to figure out how to use it. Wishing the best and awesome work. I think I’ll give bevy another shot once there’s an editor and good docs!


We'd like to open the floodgates on Bevy Book development asap. This taking so long has largely been my fault ... I've been overly protective of the Bevy Book while also not giving it the attention it deserves. Here is our current plan: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/issues/623#issuec..., which I'd like to execute during the next cycle.


I recently got my first macbook (coming from a thinkpad) and it’s honestly more about not having to give a shit about a charger. It charges incredibly fast when I plug it into its monitor, but otherwise I just throw it in a bag without even thinking about what my battery percentage is. I’ll leave the house with it and not even bring the charger.


I think this is the biggest selling point for me. Fewer cables around.


You don’t need 2-3 cars living rurally either. My wife and I dropped down to 1 vehicle a year ago with her being a stay at home mom and myself working remote.


Growing up in the suburbs with two parents working, and myself and my brother both playing sports on different teams, we would've had a hard time getting by with less than 4 cars.


Rideshare doesn't eliminate the need for private vehicles, but reduces the need for the Nth vehicle.


I made three vague 1 sentence arguments and the judge announced that I won. I definitely felt like I got crushed by gpt but I guess it went soft on me :/


I've noticed it as well. The most recent example I can think was with gitlab webhooks. I need to manage (create/delete/edit) a lot of web hooks across a lot of different projects. I normally would have probably just started doing it by hand in the web ui, but instead I had some python code from gpt to automate it in a few minutes.


In a few years it will be called Pilot instead of Copilot.


Where the hell do we even go from here? The logical step seems to be to start studying AI now but even Sam Altman has said that he’s thinking that ML engineers will be the first to get automated. Can’t find source but I think it was one of his interviews on YouTube before chatgpt came out.


In terms of job security, the trades is the first obvious answer that comes to mind for me. It will be a while yet until we have robots that replace plumbing and electrical wiring in your building.


I’ve landed in the same place. Feels like the more your job interacts with people or the physical world, the safer you are. Everything else is going to undergo a massive paradigm shift.


They've already killed nlp researchers in one release. Lol.


I wonder what the point of school is even going to be at this point


I had a similar reply in a separate thread, but human-to-human interaction is extremely important for young children. Teachers teach much more than school subjects in the classroom - they teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human".

I think as people age they can probably rely more on Khan Academy, etc.

Maybe this will change in the future as we find better ways to teach young children with technology, but I would be apprehensive with dropping a 1st grader in front of a screen and having zero human interaction.


> teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human".

Isn't that the job description of parents and/or day care?


Small modern families don’t have a ton of people around and the relationships between those people tend to settle into equilibrium. It’s not really adequate for practicing the adaptive social skills we usually (used to?) expect from adults.

And day care can provide more of that, but is naturally supplanted for 25-30 hours per week once kids start attending school.

Socialization is absolutely a function of schools. You can expect big societal repercussions if it were substantially removed.


Yes, but at that age it's important to be taught those things and be socialized through all aspects of life. You can kind of think of it like learning a language - you learn it faster when you're fulling enveloped in it.

It's easy for parents to miss things that a public school teacher with an education degree would not.

Also, children can be taught all of that by their parents and through day care, but still fail to do what they've been taught in a school setting. It's important for teachers to teach those things or reinforce those teachings.

I highly recommend asking teachers of young children about this, or looking into what education materials teachers are trained on. Many schools have professional development days, so what a teacher knows and works with changes/updates often.


School is more than pure pedagogy - learning social skills, making friends, and developing resilience are equally, if not more important.


Aren't team sports much much better at teaching those?


These aren't mutually exclusive, if anything most (virtually all?) school have team sport classes

Also: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/7-charts-that-show...


One important function of schools is not only to offer education, but to force people to become educated. (Nearly) everyone in a society sharing some common skillsets (like writing, basic math, critical thinking etc) is hugely beneficial, and allows individuals and society at large to get long-term benefits where on their own they might have chosen short-term benefits. Though arguably that effect is strongest in the early grades.


a) a shared reference frame (mainly social)

b) stability/refuge for kids/adolescents from unstable families

c) interpersonal connections with experienced humans (opposed to isolated discovery)

d) pedagogy

that was its main purpose for a while now; most people learn complex concepts through youtube these days. an engineers/hackers ability to dive into topics on their own doesn't map to the requirements for the healthy development of a child.


To provide environment for obtaining social skills and to shape brain development with a series of repeated pedagogical excersises.


What's your alternative though ?

Having kids learn on screens, play on screens and work on screens ? From kindergarten to the grave ?


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