That's fair.

That's what we learned from Star Trek. Any time there is an unexplained phenomenon, it was alive and about to swallow everyone whole.

The *really* smart kids might find school trivially easy. But if they're actually smart, they realize that school isn't just about learning facts, it's about learning how to navigate life. Good teachers are everywhere, and unfortunately, many have to put up with ungrateful students and parents. They have a thankless job, they but they do it anyway. It certainly isn't for the money!

There are bad teachers and lazy teachers, yes. I had some too. But very many, maybe even most (in public and private schools), do genuinely care about their students and do their best to educate them and help them grow up to be good citizens. Pay is not a great motivator for teachers, because pay is generally low. If they didn't love their work, there would be little reason to be there.

Next you're going to tell me the sun doesn't shine at night.

Grogu is already 50 years old so that might explain his powers.

Oh, my, you've never been to a "red state," have you! These people are very, very all-in with their Republican ideas. You deceive yourself if you think that people don't actually believe in their MAGA ideas. They absolutely do.

By the way, 90% of *all* businesses are owned by rich people. It's one of the primary ways people *get* rich.

And also by the way, billionaires are both Republican *and* Democrat. https://theweek.com/politics/u...

I'd like to see a mathematical standard enacted for district boundaries, something like: A district's border cannot be more than 6x its area.

This is daydreaming because it will never happen, but only such a rule would make a real dent in gerrymandering.

The unions don't want AI, not because AI is useless, but because they fear AI will replace teacher jobs. Is our goal the best possible education for children? Or is it preserving teacher jobs?

With that said, I don't see AI replacing teachers. As with programming, I think AI can augment what teachers do. For example, a properly trained AI could help students study at home, focusing on the areas where the student is weak. AI could act as a personalized tutor, for students who can't afford a human tutor. AI could help grade student tests or other time-consuming work that teachers struggle to get done. From experience, I can also say that AI can help teachers do their own preparation for teaching, helping them put together materials and presentations.

I don't think we should ban AI in schools, nor do I think we should think AI can replace teachers. As with most things in life, balance is key.

Teachers are absolutely really needed.

When you grow up, you don't remember the specific questions and answers that were on your final exams. But you DO remember and appreciate the teachers who were people of character, who poured their lives into the students they taught. This should tell us something about what part of a teacher's job is actually important. AI can't replace that.

AI might have a place too. But just as with programming, AI augments, but doesn't replace excellent professionals.

It's probably not well-written.

Who on earth reads the documentation for Google.com, or GMail, or Word, or Excel, or any widely-used software? If you are using one of these, and you can't figure it out from the UI, I'd argue that the UI is messed up and should be revised.

There's a lot of this in "regular" history too. A whole lot of what happens is never written down, or is subject to revised memories, or is slanted by ideological points of view.

On the other hand, is it *really* necessary to have detailed records of all code that is written, no matter how insignificant? If it were, businesses would demand it. Ask anyone who writes code for a company that must comply with SOC II.

If you can't read code, you shouldn't be programming!

For most PC-based operating systems, you can find the files on the internet archive. It may take you as long to search for them as to download them, because the files were so small in many cases. I've run NeXTSTEP in some emulator, can't remember which, it wasn't difficult and it worked reliably. I don't see the appeal of doing more than poking at it briefly if you're not running it on real hardware, but there it is. I think I ran it in QEMU/KVM with one of the older hardware models.

DNS-AID SRV-Records? I came here to write a joke about AI giving my PC DNS-AIDS, and the fuckers wrote it for me.