interesting topic, but essential for who?
Essential as in "the essence of" not as in "necessary".
Readit Newsdevonbleak commented on Essential Coding Theory [pdf] cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/a... · Posted by u/ibobev
Why didn't the Democrats who were in power repeal it by Jan 2022 by itself or as part of other large bills they passed?
It wouldn't have been budget-neutral without a bunch of tax increases along with it which they don't have the spine to implement.
devonbleak commented on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29... · Posted by u/jjfoooo4
The blog post has a bunch of charts, which gives it a veneer of objectivity and rigor, but in reality it's just all vibes and conjecture. Meanwhile recent empirical studies actually point in the opposite direction, showing that AI use increases inequality, not decrease it.
https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20250215_FNC...
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/h...
Yeah, the graphs make some really big assumptions that don't seem to be backed up anywhere except AI maximalist head canon.
There's also a gap in addressing vibe coded "side projects" that get deployed online as a business. Is the code base super large and complex? No. Is AI capable of taking input from a novice and making something "good enough" in this space? Also no.
devonbleak commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil
One question - how does this prevent mosquitos from breeding in other bits of standing water that I can't locate?
I have no idea where ours are coming from; I suspect they hatch somewhere, and then migrate to the shaded areas of my yard, which is where I typically get bit.
Adding a bucket will prevent some mosquitoes from laying eggs elsewhere, but not all, right? Or is the bucket so attractive to mosquitoes that they ignore other water sources?
Our pest control put in a bucket called In2Care that has a little net with some powder suspended above the water - mosquito lands on the net, gets the powder on 'em, carries it to the next site and that site gets neutralized. They're designed for commercial campuses but for ~$200/yr it's well worth it for residential also.
They do take a while to take effect, and they do take maintenance, but my experience so far is that they're super effective.
Honestly it’s confounding to even think about it. Aborting a fetus with Down’s syndrome? Feels cruel to deprive someone of life for that. But if it meant you went on to have another child you otherwise wouldn’t have then you’re giving life.
I think at a certain point you can’t consider this stuff rationally.
I have a cousin with DS. You have to be committed and have the means to raise a child with extreme needs. Many of them will live with their parents their entire lives and will not develop cognitively beyond their tweens (hence the Britney Spears anecdote above). The ones that do move out tend to have to go to a place that specializes in assisting them. They can also have pretty extreme health issues.
Yes, they can be beautiful people that bring light to others around them, but those others also don't typically get exposed to the behind the scenes struggles of the entire family to cope with this.
Some people are prepared to do this; I don't judge the ones that decide they're not. I would hate for someone to go into it not understanding what they're signing up for.
devonbleak commented on Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging foxnews.com/tech/mini-rob... · Posted by u/Bluestein
I think I bought mine for $150 including the battery and charger. Money well spent, if you ask me (certainly cheaper than hiring a plumber). Before that I had a manual version similar to the one you linked to, but it just didn't cut it in my last case of a clogged kitchen drain.
The nice thing about the automatic version is that you can go in/out and clockwise/counterclockwise independently and with a simple switch, which makes it easy to route through complicated pipe geometries without getting stuck, and you don't even have to apply much force because the machine does that for you.
You can pop the handle off that Ridgid one and there's a hex bit you can hook up to your existing drill. It's admittedly a bit wonky to operate like that, but for a single family home it's mostly workable.
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> I remember when the discussion was how to escape the lock-in by hardware vendors such as EMC and Dell.
Somehow I've never heard about EMC/Dell in a context of the lock-in.
All the times I heard about lock-in was a vendor trying to get me to avoid locking into their competitor and lock into them.
Alternative version: check for dings on my phone from every news outlet sending a notification about it.
> In 2022, California became the first of a half dozen or so states to offer free school meals to all students, regardless of family income. Dillard supports free meals for all students with an emphatic, “Yes, yes, yes!” Food should not be based on income, she says: “It should be part of the school day. Your transportation is of no charge to students. School books are no charge to students. School lunch should be of no charge to students. … It’s just the right thing to do.”
On one hand, that seems like an excellent argument to use for free school lunches. On the other hand, it feels like school busses are like libraries, accidents of history out of step with the modern world. If this became a rallying cry there'd probably be a strong pushback to start charging kids to be taken to school.