Read "Unauthorized Bread" from Cory Doctorow's book of short stories, "Radicalized". It's well write and entertaining, and really puts this in perspective.

I've loved Vivaldi since its inception, but I'll have to religate it to my 'other browser' once they move to Manifest v3. Their built-in blockers just don't do the trick. I hope Firefox and its derivatives get something like workspaces. I'll miss having a browser that I can make do exactly what I want...easily.

Yeah, I love Vivaldi, but I'm going to have to jump ship to Waterfox when manifest v3 hits the Chrome skins. I sure wish Vivaldi would switch to a Firefox base instead, but that's a lot of work...

If my lawyer can argue in iambic pentameter on the fly, yes, I want them. They're obviously a genius. And it's so much more classy than arguing in limericks.

Psychopaths display a lack of empathy because your emotions don't resonate with them; they can't see why some things are important to you if they're not important to themselves.

People with autism more often demonstrate a lack of empathy because they don't stop to think about your feelings. They can usually learn to do this though. https://www.frontiersin.org/jo...

This has been life-changing information as I work with a lot of administration folks. Determining which is which helps to guide communication strategies so those working with them can actually function in their jobs.

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Or, now hear me out, they could write spend just enough money to capture the 'true to the book' audience that cares more about good writing than high budget effects and actors. It's the story that will draw in this crowd and getting no-name actors with a little skill will slash their costs. Use cheap settings like the old BBC shows.

Programs that auto-'grade' essays have been around for at least 15 years. You get numerical scores in a few different categories. Usually, those scores go up the more you write, even if it's nonsensical. Even though the programs themselves say not to, teachers tell the kids to keep rewriting until they get a certain score.

What Writables did differently about 5 years ago was peer review. It'd anonymously make each student rate others' work in a few categories. Then the reviewers would get rated by the usefulness of their comments. It's not perfect, but it really did help students much more than the previous programs. Adding an LLM to the mix is probably just a marketing gimmick, but since it'll only be one of several scores, it might be a good thing.

If you want to see these in action, just search for "what about bunny" on YouTube or tiktok. I've been watching them for a few years now.

I think the reason many don't like this 'PIP then fire' strategy is because the people doing the evaluating frequently place the people they like higher and then construct terminations for the people they don't. Its compounded by the fact that bad managers are the ones more likely to pull this and keep their similarly bad buddies.

I've seen it work the other way too, but only when it's a good manager that's willing to fight for transparency so everyone can see that the process is really the same for everyone.

In most schools around here, K-3 students are the ones who use iPads, the kids most likely to have issues using (or choking on) these dongles.

There's less than before, but it does exist. Here's some that I know is currently in use that doesn't work on Chromebooks:

Universe Sandbox^2 and Minecraft: Education Edition for k-6, full versions of Photoshop and the rest of Adobe Creative Cloud, full versions of MS Office, Corel Painter, basically any "industry standard" software that our kids learn on.

Mind you, I'm all for teaching kids about transferable skills rather than specific tools, but removing the option to use such a large set of software is undesirable. I'd love it if all those tools were platform agnostic.

I think I missed that story. Got a link?

Some of us don't have a reasonable way to raise the cap. I could pay more for faster internet, but then I'll just run up on the cap faster. Paying after that it's like going over your completely arbitrary SMS allotment in the 90's.

I have fiber running under my back yard to the other city across the street, but my city didn't buy in. My neighbors over there pay less for more bandwidth and no cap. It must be nice to have real competition.

To be fair, the service has been rock solid. I've only needed customer service once. They did try to tell me it was my modem, but that their rent-a-hotspot would fix the problem. Turns out waiting for them to finish maintenance upstream was the solution.

I'd be happy if most of my games didn't auto-update, as long as we have a feed of which games _do_ have updates available. Heck, the main reason I have so many old games installed is so I can see when they come out with a random update a few years later. The Activity feed is making progress, but it's not there yet.

3D at home is also great in VR! Yeah, the resolution is low on the 1st Gen sets, but you don't have all the other downsides that come with the cheap glasses. It's only going to get better as the headsets improve.

It's great to sit in your lazyboy and move the screen to the ceiling area. You just lay back and relax.