Stephenson’s endings are fine.
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genghisjahn commented on A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z nealstephenson.substack.c... · Posted by u/boplicity
genghisjahn commented on Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix afranca.com.br/why-90s-mo... · Posted by u/jslakro
> he just stopped walking with a limp
Remind me where this is from, this sounds really familiar.
I have a memory of this but, just like that,"whuh"...it's gone.
genghisjahn commented on The Learning Loop and LLMs martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/johnwheeler
Amazing, unless you wanted to resize the window that is.
Dude,you could easily resize. There was the MDI form as well. You could snap controls to a fixed width to the edge of the window. VB6 is hanging out in the cooldown tent while the rest of front end tech stack still has laps to go.
genghisjahn commented on The Learning Loop and LLMs martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/johnwheeler
I mostly agree. I think it isn't drag and drop because it's surprisingly hard to make a GUI builder interface that doesn't suck balls. Some manage it though, like QtCreator.
I guess there is stuff like SquareSpace. No idea how good it is though. And FrontPage back in the day but that sucked.
VB6. yeah it was battleship gray, but you could amazing things.
genghisjahn commented on Apple reports fourth quarter results apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Not if you're a pedestrian.
According to this, pedestrians were dropping until around 2007, which I believe was the year of the iPhone. One could posit that distracted walking has increased pedestrian fatalities since 2007 and not car size.
https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/deta...
genghisjahn commented on Apple reports fourth quarter results apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
> We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.
We had that development with cars. 40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car. Nowadays, we have a subscription for seat warmers. The manual tells you to visit the dealer to get your brakes checked. Makes me sad, somehow. But people have choosen this path as a collective.
Cars are a lot safer now. People routinely walk away from collisions that would have killed everyone in the vehicle back in 70s. So there is some gain to the trade off.
genghisjahn commented on Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? seangoedecke.com/text-tok... · Posted by u/ingve
And a picture of a thousand words is worth a thousand words.
I type at .08 pictures per minute.
My children attended Montessori schools, and it really is a wonderful system.
I would really like to see an extension of this learning method up through high school --- the closest thing I'm aware of was a school I attended in Mississippi for a couple of years --- classes were divided between academic and social, social classes (homeroom, phys ed, social studies, &c.) were attended at one's age, while academic classes (reading, math, science, geography, history, &c.) were by ability (with a limit on no more than 4 grades ahead up to 8th grade) --- after 8th grade that was removed and students were allowed to take any classes.
Some of the faculty were accredited as faculty at a local college, and where warranted, either professors travelled from there to the school, or students travelled to the college for classes --- it wasn't uncommon for students to graduate high school and simultaneously be awarded a college degree.
Apparently, the system was deemed unfair because it accorded a benefit to the students who were able to take advantage of it, with no commensurate compensation for those who were not, so the Miss. State Supreme Court dismantled it.
I can’t find any record of a Mississippi Supreme Court decision regarding a program like you described. I did find evidence that Mississippi actively permits dual enrollment for secondary and post secondary education. Do you have a source for the decision you referenced?
https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-37/chapter-15...
This is more about criminalising poverty than anything about parenting. I live in a rich part of Wyoming. The kids are fucking feral.