I’ve seen how to draw a circle before, and even guessed the punchline the first time I saw it. Still funny every time.

I don’t have a horse in this race (I’m Canadian), but this reads to me like a bad joke, not a serious attempt at breast-enlargement hypnotism.

It was always terrible to make sexist jokes like this, but we’ve come a long way since #MeToo in 2017 to start challenging some of the systems of the patriarchy. In 2013, I’m pretty sure people would have agreed the joke was in bad taste, but I don’t think anyone would have been cancelled for it.

If we start retroactively cancelling people for things they said decades ago, then that’ll basically include all comedians and likely most people with lots of video footage of them in general. (Have you tried watching any fiction shows from the 90s or even early 00s lately? They all have intolerable sexism, to me anyway.) Isn’t it a good thing that people are changing with the times, and becoming more aware?

(Note: I have no idea who this is, so maybe I’m missing some important context.)

Similar for Japan.

But then you need to know enough about the topic already to know what is stable and what changes with newer versions.

Like, the “web dev boot camp” course I got from UDemy a few years ago as a guide for building a web dev high school course: I recently went back to to look something up, and the whole thing has been completely redone start to finish. Makes sense, considering that it’s updated to the newest versions of Bootstrap and other libraries (and who knows what else).

I know nothing about Rust, but I would assume there are at least some libraries that have major new versions in the last couple of years which might change best practices somehow? idk. But the harder part is not knowing what you don’t know.

My jaw literally dropped reading that.

I think it’s time to go outside.

Grading in red is generally avoided, nowadays. Red is closely associated with failure/danger/bad, and feedback should generally be constructive to help students learn and grow.

I usually like to grade in a bright colour that students are unlikely to pick: purple, green, pink, orange, or maybe light blue (if most students are working in pencil). Brown is poo. Black and dark blue are too common. Yellow is illegible. Red is aggressive.

Anyway, I’m guessing they just graded everything in green. The only time I’ve ever graded in more than one colour was when I needed to subgrade different categories of grades, like thinking/communication/knowledge/application. In that case, choosing a consistent colour for each category makes it easier to score.

Can we revert the special status of capital gains tax and treat it as income? Now that’s something I could support!

All true. But the unfortunate political realities the Democrats are facing seem to be that voters just don’t care enough so it’s political suicide to take strong action against climate change.

If voters actually cared about climate change, then it would be a major part of the platform. But there’s a huge swath of the population that only cares insofar as it doesn’t inconvenience them, or who have been brainwashed into believing it’s a “Leftist Conspiracy” while completely missing that the QAnon memes they got their “facts” from is literally a conspiracy.

We’re fucked. Biden doesn’t have the political strength to take any political risks. We’re seeing the same in Canada, with Trudeau not having the political capital for anything that could lose ground to the Canadian Conservative Party (which is currently polling as over 99% likely to get a majority government if there’s no change in the next 1½ years).

I don’t know how we can de-radicalize the Christofascist Right, but we’re fucked until we figure it out.

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Changing the names would be easier, but if you’re not comfortable lying, try only making friends with people named Alice, Bob, Carol, etc.

XKCD isn’t complete without the alt text.

Sure, but in this context I was mostly thinking about how the Singularity will make significant numbers of hours of work optional for most people. UBI might get us there even sooner. We have enough wealth creation already to support reduced work, if we restructure our economy.

Parenting choices look a lot different when families don’t need two people employed to stay afloat.

Anything that far out is in a post-Singularity future where all bets are off. Real, self-improving AGI will completely change pretty much everything. It’s hard to be too worried about a problem with human choices in the 22nd century when the entire incentive structure of our economy will, by necessity, completely change someone in the intervening years.

I’m hopeful for the post-Singularity world. 2100 may be closer to Star Trek’s economy than ours today (ignoring the space stuff, of course). I’m not going to hold my breath on this issue. There are many reasons to expect it to fundamentally change before then.

I feel attacked.

j/k. I’m happy in the education sector. The code I write won’t be seen by anybody but me.

I feel like calling it a “metric” is borderline clickbait since P(doom) isn’t measurable. It isn’t even Bayesian.

Still, it’s an interesting article and discussion point.

I’m in the low-P(doom) camp. There are a lot of vested interests in maintaining the status quo, and there’s no reason to expect AI to develop a benefit/cost function that leads to the destruction of humanity or civilization.

If anything, I think we’ll end up in an AI-driven utopia, where most of the work necessary to live is done by machines.

Probably should have started over with a new chat, priming it with some simple windows scripting in python.

That might have worked, anyway.

I’m a huge fan of Logseq.

It’s free/libre and stores files in plain text files using mostly standard markdown, so you have complete control of your data.

Their business model is to charge $5/mo to use their fully-encrypted sync servers, but you can sync the files however works best for you for free.

Merci! Je pense que je comprends.

Est-ce que je peux vous demandez un question à propos du français? J’essaye d’apprendre le français, mais je ne comprends pas pourquoi tu as dit “j’ai pas”. J’ai pensé que c’est “je n’ai pas”. Est-ce que “je n’ai pas” est plus formel ou ancien?

Et je suis désolée que vous n’ayez pas dormi très bien. C’est nul! J’espère que vous avez passé un bon moment avec vos amis!

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