When they went from tickets with only the exit ID on them, to tickets that were time and date stamped. Somebody at the turnpike authority decided it would be a good idea to figure out the time between getting the ticket and paying, and considering at a speed violation if the time was too short. That idea did not last long.

Was a free directory assistance program that was also a training program for Google voice recognition. When they had enough data, they canned the service.

Yet millions of people believe itâ(TM)s a good bet to play 1 in 36,000 odds and happy to win a hundred bucks.

to the early days of app stores where there were five useful apps and 20 others that would pretend to pour beer out of your phone into a glass. Also, virtual cats. And fishtanks.

your dad was trying to use the intergalactic modem to contact Earth. I swear, you kids. . .

Some of us were around in 1974 for the US year round DST experiment.
It was not pretty. It was not safe. It was so dark at school bus stops, that many stores and even McD were giving out packs of reflective stickers for kids to paste on their clothes, shoes, and bookbags so they could be seen.
Just keep standard time year round. Happy farms, zero real harm, no more changing, no more kvetching about changing twice a year.

This rings true. Assembling a RPi into a working computer, printing a case, sussing out power, cables, setup os, add software, shows them the whole shebang and takes away the monolithic masque nature of current devices. Some problems are solved in code, some in hardware, some in pressing the right button. And they can take any path or part of this that they glom onto. Cuts through platform worship and slowly builds confidence that they have agency as they work through getting everything done.

I have always made sure that students see how to do something the *original* way, calculate stocks, chart results, see how and why stats were created and how to use them, *then* do the same tasks with a computer. They may curse me for a moment, but they are better equipped to see if the results make sense and to suss out bizarre results. The stubborn part which was made worse by the rush to LMS platforms is the google everything mentality. The world has become a massive old school game where you had unquestioning grab every object for your inventory. With largely the same future results of damage and regret. Wikipedia only slightly less so. Use your own brain first, then go rely on the billions of others *as needed*. Yes, electrons are easier to move than atoms, but atoms are easier to keep track of, and you mostly have to hit them with a hammer rather than a wrong keystroke to really mess things up.

Swift was able to turn a corner on this with Playgrounds on both macOS and iPadOS with an easy move to Xcode and the draw of being able to code an app on it. It is easy enough for newbies and challenging enough for middle school students who want to *really* code. I have heard many times that it is more important to get kids coding well than to focus on a specific language for specific reasons. And having seen AP CS live through three languages each of which have their rooters and detractors, this path seems valuable. Hypercard seems a toy now, but it was a great on ramp in schools and helped start the path to javascript which has had a pretty good run. Ya never know.

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A telescope is a sort of time machine. It WAS doing this billions of years ago, who knows what itâ(TM)s doing now. That makes it even more mind-blowing.

I have seen it work in both directions. I was a technology wrangler when desktop publishing took off. It was great that you no longer needed letraset and actual paste, but much of it turned into, if you can do this on your computer then you no longer need an assistant (then secretary). But that also took another valuable brain and set of eyes out of the process. Conversely, we worked on some multi year projects with LEGO, and watched as they automated more and more of their US plant. Adding computer control to sorting and packing lines, and automating such mundane tasks as making sure a minifig heads were on straight. They prided themselves for never losing a person from this, they would assign them to a new project or product. This was about the time they were turning the corner on adding outside IP to their lines. It allowed them to use experienced people to staff these new initiatives, and from all indications, it kinda worked.

maybe aim for same payroll AND more productivity?

hire a new person with the part of a job they have for making names for things you build and put on or in the things you and the people in the building with you make.

30 years ago, we worked with these through the MIT media lab but as stringable baubles.
Almost forgot about them until seeing the story a few days ago.
Very little chance they will somehow put the brakes on traditional LEGO.
Having worked with every generation of mindstorms, I was skeptical about spike PRIME.
Was worried it might be too simple and not enough expansion.
After seeing this yearâs FLL season, I had nothing to worry about.

A friend once worked in Washington on a defense project, and took classes in Russian at the Washington branch of the Defense Language Institute. He was very proud of himself and after a while, he decided to head to a Russian bookstore in town, walked in and told them in Russian that he was looking for some books on biographies of Russian diplomats. The clerk looked up and with a big smile exclaimed DLI !. Apparently Russians can tell that youâ(TM)ve been trained there.