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Children the Challenge chapter 3 discusses encouragement.
All this stuff should be done tastefully and without being overbearing. Like the previous poster said, it's a balance.
I read Nurture Shock before my kids were born. One of its main arguments is to praise effort rather than natural abilities ("you worked hard" rather than "you're smart"). Being one who naturally withholds praise, its message of not over-praising resonated with me.
In retrospect, I should have praised kid #1 more. It took me 10+ years to realize that. The book was not wrong but also not the message I needed.
Recently, I've been lazy and learn new songs by watching players on YouTube.
It's been an interesting, um, pedagogical experiment.
In my kid's friend group (now 7th grade), the usage is all over the map. Some kids write C++ code or do Tinkercad. Others watch YouTube from 8am to the closing bell, during class and lunch. Still more spend their lesson time on Minecraft Educational edition.
(YouTube is a bit of a loophole... Since some teachers use it for lesson material, the school's WiFi leaves it unblocked. So YouTube Shorts stands in for IG Reels and TikTok, which are blocked.)
We formerly used Scratch online, starting in 2nd grade at school. It had good and bad aspects. It was great to follow griffpatch, who has really sophisticated coding tutorials. On the downside, they got creepy comments on their Scratch projects. There were also various ruses to get the kids to upvote projects, typical social media crap.
Also, being on the Scratch community means my kids could just search for someone else's clone of (insert game here). So Scratch can turn into just another way to play video games. With offline, that's not an option.
If your kids are good at self-regulation, online can be fine, though.
I switched to AIMP and have been gradually moving files over.
That's interesting that a milk ingredient boosts iron absorption.
A dietitian recently suggested I serve iron-rich and calcium-rich foods at separate meals. They said that calcium in milk can inhibit iron absorption.
So, this is the slice that the telescope was observing.
Sequence diagrams force you to think about the flow of control in a system.
When reviewing draft designs, I sometimes ask the author to convert a simple boxes-and-lines architecture diagram to a sequence diagram. It can be revealing.
It's no sure thing for youtube, but it's worth trying. Clearly there is a demand.
Also, TikTok can't stay on cruise control. As they inevitably push to monetize, their UX will undoubtedly take a hit. A larger audience means more adversarial actors and trolls which could drive away creators. This has happened to nearly every social network.
Shared sounds was a nifty innovation and TikTok executed it well.
While FB always focused on their vaunted friends graph, there was an entirely separate graph waiting to be discovered which had nothing to do with friendship:
i.e. A graph of people worldwide who have lipsynced (or danced) to the same tune. It's a clever way to inject novelty (and dopamine) into the system!
Seems obvious in retrospect, of course.
In Tunisia circa 2010, Twitter was part of the new tactics used by social movements and enabled their early success. Establishment groups weren't ready for it and in some ways ignorant of the new technology.
She argues that those in power have since evolved their tactics to counteract these innovations so they're no longer as effective.
For example, in countries where mass censorship is not possible, establishments have adopted techniques of information overload and discrediting/questioning everything to reduce the effectiveness of social movements.
(I previously used a sleep mask bought on Amazon but found it slipped off too often. Also, the straps irritated my ears.)
https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-security-releases-%E...
Also, mojang's update instructions:
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message--s...
Driving westward in the mornings, sunlight is reflected directly off my car's touch screen into my eyes.
Everything on the dash needs to be matte -- it's a safety issue.
A propagandist-for-hire choosing to astroturf, conduct false flag campaigns, form vote brigades, etc. is more likely to target the US political market because -- globally speaking -- there's more political power at stake.
Whether FB can claim that as an excuse is another question.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2803855,-121.9498283,3a,37.5...
https://www.tonestart.com/ultimate-behringer-guitar-pedal-cl...
(Not to mention things like Axe-Fx, which while not cheap, can clone 100s of amps, cabinets, and pedals.)
According to Sapolsky's lecture on depression [1], a stressful childhood experience is 30x more likely to cause depression in individuals with a particular serotonin-related gene variant.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc @ 47:00
PUA "gurus" sometimes suggest this as a flirting technique.
Maybe that's true for the ones shipped eastward.
Here in the SF bay area, I find California Hass avocados are superior to those available from Mexico and Peru. They're easy to peel and the flavor is fantastic.