That device is $200. A random household that grabs a roku stick from walmart for $20 is not the same target demographic.

Ignoring the fact that a large share of smart TVs use Roku as their OS as well. So those random TVs are either Google, Roku, or some vendor specific thing.

You're right, but our current economic systems are not well-equipped to deal with stagnating population growth. Personally I think that is one of the more difficult and important problems that we're going to have to address.

That is definitely not true. Most Japanese people's English is not anywhere near the average native speaker's, and the English exam is notorious for being more about rote learning and gaming the system than about actual ability.

20 magazine size or A4 size pages is a fair bit of information. It probably isn't like a novel with a narrative to follow either, it's likely to be technical.

I suppose the problem is that different children will find different things interesting. The whole class really needs to do the same book, and in the UK that specific book will be on the exam too so the choice is limited to what the exam company offers.

You are comparing Minneapolis, with a population for around 400k, to Japan, with a population of 120 million.

COVID seems to have had a much greater effect on Minneapolis, which is not surprising since Japan mostly kept schools open.

I'm not sure you can directly compare literacy rates between Japan and Minneapolis either. Obviously the Japanese speak a different language, with a completely different writing system, which has different criteria for proficiency. There is also very different history there, and different attitudes towards students with learning disabilities. Speaking of which, some people with dyslexia find that they it only affects English, and not Japanese or Chinese.

I don't think you can really conclude from your data that money isn't a very significant factor.

Management has been pretty adamant that we are at the point where a developer should *never* look at source code, and work purely on prose. So some dutiful people have taken it to that extreme.

So they tell me they spend hours in planning, reviewing the resultant generated plan to give themselves confidence that the resultant code should make sense, then let it chew on making test cases, making code, running the tests, deciding whether the test cases were bad or the code was bad when failures happen, repeating until it has satisfied itself and then it lands in the builds that the still-human QA get a pass at. Then the human QA person often basically says "WTF, this is broken as hell" and the developer starts over incorporating the feedback from the tester into the flow.

Now the folks that discard that mandate and use CodeGen for code completion, more curated prompting, they get respectable speedups, but no hope for management to just toss those long term if they still need to curate the CodeGen. So management *really* wants the narative to work for the case above. They have raised the question if the real problem is the human QA, it passes all the CodeGen test cases and it's own code review, so maybe the human QA is just raising a stink to look relevant... Doesn't help that management understands neither the customer, software, or how to develop code, so they base things largely on wishful thinking on what the cheapest and most convenient answer would be that supports them getting big bonuses.

Good for you, but don't be too quick to blame other parents.

In the 1980s, a single parent on typical wage could afford a decent house, nice car, and to raise a family of spouse and 2-3 children. Nowadays two parents working full time can't afford a single child in many places.

It's not just money that is tight, time is too. Both parents working, both tired after work, and increasingly with side hustles.

While AI might not be to blame yet for those figures, it is well within the era of TikTok where material that doesn't hit within 30 seconds, the audience is out.

I wouldn't read too much into this. AI is too new for it to have much of an effect here, and it could be measurement error. I've known kids who were supposedly bad at reading, but it turned out they were just bad at reading aloud and got bored with the material the school gave them because they were reading Lord of the Rings at home.

It's also possible that this anecdote is about a really bad article. 20 pages is quite a lot, and if they are losing track of what it is about then it suggests that it doesn't have a very good abstract or introduction that lays out its case before getting into the details.

It's more complex than one controls the other. Israel stated the war with Iran before the US was ready, and the US was forced to join in. Netanyahu will continue to annex parts of Lebanon, and break whatever ceasefire is agreed, and the US can't do anything about it.

There are some limits, lines Netanyahu can't yet cross, but he's definitely got the upper hand when it comes to forcing the US to do what he wants.

Iran won. Before the war, few believed that they could survive a direct attack by the US, but now it's very clear that they control the Strait, and can bring the global economy down whenever they like. The US can't stop them, nobody can.

The only winning move is to get off oil as fast as possible, which is the opposite of what the US is doing.

Meanwhile Israel continues to do whatever it likes, and the US has no control there either. All they can do is send more free stuff to the Israelis. Doubtless the ceasefire will last only hours before Israel breaks it.

It's actually kind of astounding how badly this has turned out, for everyone except Iran and Russia.

The value of money is determined by the economy that underpins it. That is why the US is hell-bent on ensuring that the dollar remains the currency for international oil trade. That's also why governments can print a little extra money without triggering inflation, if there is economic growth.

There is an economy underpinning Bitcoin as well, of sorts. But it's tiny.

Note that Gemini is responding to a user and not actually running the command.

He didn't say Gemini tried to use that to adjust brightness nor did be say he asked to code a brightness change/ automate it. So I assumed he gave the answer that Gemini would have given a random person asking how to do it.