loughnane

looks fine on desktop. def AI, but I don't find it off-putting.

I think with AI we'll see a lot more of these little data viz projects that look good on machines like the one they were developed on, with little care for other devices.

Its not so bad. Before AI this information might not be even this accessible.

Generating what you want rather than chiseling _is_ the thinking for most cad systems.

Teloperated robots cleaning a house isn’t news. The big news will be when this can be done autonomously

FWIW my RM2 is still running well after 4y, and that includes plenty of abuse. I use it for notes at work, keeping track of little league lineups (and so tossing it in the grass many times), and its still a daily driver for me.

Haunting face aside, virtually anything that launches---for in-home use at least---in the next year or few will have tele-operated "fallback", which is likely to mean an army of tele-operators doing most of the work

Def not. There's so much soul-sucking labor that humanoids could efficiently do with an ROI of a few years.

Should link to the paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

> FINDINGS: In this cohort study of 11 286 youth participants, within-person elevations in self-reported Problematic Social Media Use behaviors were associated with higher parent-reported ADHD symptoms the following year during mid-adolescence. These within-person associations differed by sex and were significant among males but not females

I get it now. Nice thought. Hope people find it useful.

I’ve read it a few times both on my own and with my kids. I could maybe buy 50-60% of the length would be ideal, but not 10%.

Ironically, one of the points made in the book—and close to your point—is that even in the greatest book of all time there are passages that are more and less worthwhile. The art of being a good reader is identifying the worthwhile and going over it slowly (maybe even rereading it) and identifying the less worthy and going over it quick.

The nice thing about spending more time with HTRAB is it forces you to think about reading. That’s a worthwhile way to spend a few hours.

As someone who has been on i3/xfce/debian for years and hasn’t opened Mac since 2013… can someone explain this to me? I hear “bring current window to front and fade everything else” and it feels like how it ought to be by default. Is it not?

Works on print too, no?

> I hit my reading peak when I was eleven or twelve.

This has long been the way. Mortimer Adler pointed out in the 70s (at the latest) that reading instruction (ie how to extract meaning from marks on a page) doesn’t really advance after 6th grade. After that we still give kids harder things to read, but scarcely provide them with strategies.

His How to read a book was an attempt at filling in the gap. It’s one of my favorite books.

Long-time economist subscriber here. This feels too much like a "look what the AI said" sort of article for my tastes.

That said, though The Economist clearly has flaws I have yet to find something better. A weekly, sober, well-written newspaper is a hard thing to find.