I’m a big advocate of reducing Zoom/screen fatigue by doing manual labor after the work day. Do a home maintenance project, throw a ball with the kids in the backyard, etc.
Readit NewsI'm 100% in favor of children working starting with chores at home and continuing through the rest of childhood, to some degree. But I'd rather see it be things like lawn mowing, babysitting, and what I would call "ordinary" childhood expectations and responsibilities. Keeping kids focused on these domains mostly removes the problem of defining what counts as child labor and what counts as excessive. One problem I have with allowing kids to work in typically adult workplaces, is that I hate working in those places myself and have worked hard my whole life to avoid them, as much as possible.
neap24 commented on California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/lxm
This is a good bill, but I’m not really sure why the government thinks they should be free. On Amazon now you can get them as cheap as a quarter each.
Surely a bubble gum style vending machine and selling them at cost (or quarter or less) would be possible as well?
I think I’m mainly jaded of the government giving away things and the generally negative outcomes it creates sometimes.
Yes. This is a better wording of the point I was making in a comment below—which somehow everyone is criticizing as “males need to share in the responsibility”. Putting that aside as a separate debate, I am worried about unintended consequences as well as the generally small effect size when the price of all birth control is so cheap these days.
neap24 commented on California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/lxm
Meh. Maybe this would have been a bigger deal when birth control was difficult to acquire, but the price has dropped so drastically it’s practically free these days. Also, I thought the narrative was that High Schoolers were having less sex than ever anyway.
neap24 commented on AI for developers and Google Workspace blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/alphabetting
Are you a new employee? Not sure how to reply to your welcome email your Manager sent?
Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome reply email.
Are you a manager whose new hire just sent a reply to your AI generated welcome email? Don’t have time to read it? Workspace auto-hides the text and just shows you a simple three-word summary.
neap24 commented on AI for developers and Google Workspace blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/alphabetting
Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this?
It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads.
Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note to the team" example they give in the video. That's more the type of thing that should be personal and probably not from a starter template, googled or AI-generated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE But even here, the reality is people were googling for these starter emails already.
Some were googling, for sure. But the best ones were not.
neap24 commented on Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants? · Posted by u/thepra
Spreadsheet for time tracking, simple Python script to generate an invoice.
neap24 commented on Tell HN: Giving ChatGPT access to a real terminal github.com/greshake/Alice... · Posted by u/greshake
So, we will be interacting with the computer just like in Star Trek sooner than I thought. I used to laugh off the scenes when some random bridge crew member would ask, “Computer, run a <fancy-term> analysis on <some-system> with the following parameters…” to solve some problem. Seems more likely than ever.
I don't think it's really a question of "enjoy your riches," because no matter what your status, nobody can "afford" children, not even the ultra high net worth individuals. It's a burden regardless.
But I think therein lies the answer. There was a time not all that long ago that not having children was a burden. Who was going to bring in the harvest, or at the very least supervise bringing in the harvest? Who could you really trust to take care of you properly when you got old? And of course, there's a biological compulsion as well, but that's much easier to sidestep only in the last couple generations.
As for the burden of having kids, I think it’s way too simplistic to say it was a burden NOT to have them in the past. There were different cultural dynamics, for sure, but kids have always been a mixed blessing—both difficult and extremely rewarding. Having kids has historically forced adults to face their own shortcomings. Not an easy thing to do in any era.