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nomdep commented on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class   nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us... · Posted by u/signa11
aleph_minus_one · 6 days ago
> I live in a rural Red State, a place you'd expect less reading, and my kids, and many of their friends, read full books all the time and have since they were quite young.

> The curriculum in our public school regularly requires kids to read full books for class, and the kids you'd expect from the homes you'd expect read plenty.

Reading the expected books for school is very different from reading a lot privately at home.

I know quite many fellow pupils who read a lot privately, but detested reading the required books for school (they at best got some summaries somewhere, which in my opinion actually prepared you better for the tests since the people who write summaries typically know quite well which parts/topics of the books teachers consider to be important, and thus do quite some explanations on these).

On the other hand, I know fellow pupils who barely read anything in their free time (they had different interests), but for some reason actually liked (and liked reading) the books that you had to read for some classes.

nomdep · 6 days ago
Yeah, that was totally me.

The only book I ever read for school was by accident. I was already deep into it on my own when the teacher assigned it to us

nomdep commented on Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?    · Posted by u/JamesSwift
mbg721 · 9 days ago
My 5-year-old loves the British series Numberblocks, and they have lots of licensed toys.
nomdep · 8 days ago
My 9-year-old still remembers that show and sometimes says things like “did you know that fifteen is a staircase number?”

I think the show gave him an intuitive understanding of numbers and made basic math easy for him

nomdep commented on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
koakuma-chan · 9 days ago
> Career-motherhood conflict

Anyone tried to move away from this model where there is two people of opposite gender, living together as a family, working, and raising child(ren) at the same time? Why not have dedicated facilities that handle raising children professionally?

nomdep · 9 days ago
I'm 99% certain you don't have kids. The remaining 1% is reserved for the possibility that you do, and you just hate them and everything they stand for.

Otherwise you would realize what dystopian hellscape of an idea you are suggesting.

nomdep commented on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
justonceokay · 9 days ago
I suppose in this facility they would have special access to the knowledge and practice of how to raise a child
nomdep · 9 days ago
Maybe they could go there only half of the day and we could call those places "Schools"
nomdep commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri   reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
nomdep · 9 days ago
I figured the big scandal would be some bloated government contract shelling out millions for Calibri licenses. But nope, turns out the guy just… doesn’t like the font. What an absolute clown show.
nomdep commented on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset   clickhouse.com/docs/getti... · Posted by u/walterbell
GeoAtreides · 22 days ago
>I don't know why they continue to stand by this massive breach of privacy.

It's worse than that, it's an obvious GDPR violation. But it hasn't been tested in a (european) court yet. One day, it will be, and much rejoicing would be had then.

It's also a shitty provision that it's not made clear when signing up for HN, as it is a pretty uncommon one.

nomdep · 22 days ago
> One day, it will be, and much rejoicing would be had then.

You write like a Bible.

nomdep commented on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset   clickhouse.com/docs/getti... · Posted by u/walterbell
isodev · 22 days ago
But is that a reason to keep doing it? Is the penalty the only reason people hold back on doing bad stuff?
nomdep · 22 days ago
Not everyone agree over some things being bad

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nomdep commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
nomdep · 22 days ago
Are there any smart glasses being developed for people with prosopagnosia or really bad face memory?

I often bump into people I know on the street but can’t place their faces. A lot of them get offended when I don’t immediately recognize them, even though I remember who they are—just not what they look like.

nomdep commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
ActorNightly · a month ago
Its been proven many times over that the majority of "illegal" immigrants, whether they come US and either overstay their allowance, or manage to skirt by on refugee status, are all predominately doing it for financial reasons, willing to work jobs for lower pay that Americans will never do, which is a huge benefit for economy.

This idea that border control somehow failed is a lie sold to you by republicans. Also Trump killed the CBP funding bill in early 2024 that would have addressed a lot of issues.

nomdep · a month ago
> willing to work jobs for lower pay that Americans will never do

WTF? So your arguments is that stealing American jobs and not paying taxes “it’s good for the economy”?

Even if that were true, slavery is also “good for the economy”, but that doesn’t make it a good thing

u/nomdep

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