I'm not easily swayed by the idea that digital means better. I like physical books, and a lack of distractions. However, I do think there is merit to using computers in the classroom.

I have a son who has dyslexia and ADHD. If he went to school in my day, he would just be labeled as a bad student and would be in remedial English. Instead, his teachers recognize that the quality of his ideas (and even his reading comprehension) have nothing to do with his inability to spell or write by hand. He's given an allowance to write everything with a computer and spellcheck, and his disability doesn't really effect his schoolwork at all.

Of course it is hard for a kid with ADHD to concentrate when he has a computer and the internet at his desk all the time. But guess what, he's going to have a computer at his desk all through college and probably at his job as well. He used to have a lot of trouble staying focussed, but now he doesn't get distracted as easily. This is because part of what he is learning at school is how to get his work done, even when the internet is at his fingertips.

Sure it's bad, but not like you are saying. They are not getting any latex in their samples (and they probably checked that from the beginning). They are saying that the powder that keeps the gloves from sticking together, which is not plastic and they knew was not plastic, can register as plastic in some of their machines.

The article said the couple are considering having another baby, but when they are ready to stop the mother will have the transplant womb removed. She only needs to take the drugs for as long as they are planning on having children.

The article says:

• The company has since said it has reversed the transactions...
• Lawmakers are calling for tighter laws. Local financial-market regulators say the gaffe has exposed fundamental weakness in the countrys digital-asset industry...
• South Koreas financial regulators said they had opened a formal investigation...
• Cryptocurrency exchanges, by local law...

For years you have been waxing poetic about how crypto doesn't have middle-men and is free of government oversight. Bitcoin is as tightly regulated as fiat and everybody acquires via a middle-man, after which point it is easily tracked.

In 2025 Bitcoin is estimated to have been responsible for 211 terawatt-hours of energy use (similar to that used by all of Thailand). Why exactly are we doing this? Is there a single upside to using Bitcoin over regular fiat?

Last summer 3 teenagers burned to death in a Cybertruck near where I live. They were just home from college, borrowing their parents' Tesla, and probably didn't know where the manual override latch was.

A lot of safety is sacrificed for very little to no upside.

I would imagine it is because the passwords were stored as one-way hashes, and they use a 3rd party payment processor for financial transactions.

You're talking about if the sound had 50% more energy. However, since human hearing is logarithmic, doubling the energy will lead to a 3 decibel increase, which humans perceive to only be about 25% louder. When people say "50 percent louder", in sound terms that is pretty close to 6 decibels (1.25 * 1.25 = 1.56), which is 4x the power.

So, they are actually pretty close to spot on. 50 percent louder can be heard roughly 2x farther away.

You are absolutely right. Not just the open web, but everything on the web with any kind of incentive. If there is anything to be gained, people will launch a barrage of slop in the quest to gain it.

"...combined field observations of more than 20,000 lake skygazer fish from lakes..."

Not sure how fishing fleets roaming the oceans impacted the lake fish, but if you say so ...

I'm not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the law is that they would be OK if they used traditional paints. If they hand drew the image using something like Photoshop or Painter, they might still be liable.

is created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means.

Maybe an ambitious lawyer would pull up some renaissance manuscript describing oil paint as high technology, but I think most judges are going to interpret that to mean it has to be digital.

I haven't seen Sassy Justice, but given what I know about the South Park universe, I imagine it would not meet the criteria of: is indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the identifiable individual when viewed as a whole by a reasonable person.

One dog I had as a kid (an American Eskimo) had a ridiculously large vocabulary. You could tell that she was always listening to everything said in the house. When we wouldn't want her to know what we were talking about we would spell words, and then she learned the spellings. My friends didn't believe me, so they would try spelling words using monotone voices, directed at somebody else etc, and she would always react.

She wasn't necessarily the most trainable dog because she was a bit stubborn, but you could always tell that she knew exactly what you wanted!

Yes, for a lot of dishes you can look to general purpose cookbooks (Joy of Cooking, or something like it). But a great part of the internet is that you can find regional dishes from all over the world. In fact, the very first thing I read when I got on the usenet in 1990 was from a recipe group.

For example, my son has gotten really into watching Liverpool football. People from Liverpool are often called "scousers" based on a stew that is popular around there, so the last time they played I wanted to make my son some authentic scouse to eat while we watched the game. How am I supposed to get an authentic recipe for a regional dish when I live halfway around the world if I don't use the internet?

When I went to find a recipe, most of the top results were indeed AI slop with all regional context removed. It's a stew, and a hundred locals will all cook it a different way - I want their stories of why they include the ingredients that they do, where the recipe comes from, etc. It was harder for me to find that then it was in 1990 when I was using usenet and a dialup modem.

It's weird for the article to not even address this, given how two sentences earlier they said "To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results..."

Javascript can have linked lists and recursion. It is not uncommon for me to use recursion in my js code. Linked lists are less common since js arrays can do most of the things that you would normally use a linked list for, but there is no reason why you couldn't have students build their own list implementation for the sake of instruction.

There may not be pointers in js, but there is enough of a concept of references to explain it. Similarly, you can show a student typeof() show them how types are mutable in js, and explain that in some languages that is not how it works. Any halfway smart student will understand the implications that strong typing would have.