I have 3 kids, 2 use their phones like half an hour at a time, the other is completely hooked, hours and hours. If I don't intervene he doesn't dress in the morning, and continues until he really can't keep his eyes open anymore somewhere around 3am.

For him I use the parental control on my router. All his devices have time limited wifi, and he has no data in his phone plan. Since I've done this he goes outside more, and has developed other interests. Today he actually prepared lunch for us, a 14 year old boy!

My point is, I think it's better to help your kids use their phones moderately instead of completely blocking. I once heard from an alcoholic who always keeps beer in his fridge. Not to drink it, but to be sure you learn to deal with this shit, and wherever the beer is, you can manage not taking it if you don't want it.

I think this is mostly about learning to think and develop grit.

As a kid when I wanted to play a game I had to learn dos commands, know how to troubleshoot a non functioning sounds blaster etc. Sometimes took me days to fix.

Doing this develops understanding of a domain, problem-solving skills and grit.

My kid just opens steam and everything works. Any question he has he asks AI. I am really curious what effect this will have on this generation. It is tempting to quickly say "they will be brain dead zombies" but that seems too simplistic.

In 20yrs we'll know!

"No I don't watch those anymore, most of them are AI now... I don't like watching a fake cat."

Is this generation bounded, will young people enjoy an artificial reality?

Who knows, but my mom doesn't like it, it actually made her reality less enjoyable.

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In my student years I used DC++ just to watch free movies. With the rise of streaming I kind of forgot about it, until I got annoyed.

I don't like the Spotify. Most songs I like are available, but the 'playlist' experience is terrible. A lot of songs are actually part of an album. "Is an album like a playlist on a disk?" my kid asked. No it's not, a playlist is a randomly assembled list of songs, but an album are songs who belong together, they are the album.

And video streaming is the opposite. The experience is nice, but there is so much missing even if you have multiple streaming subscriptions.

Besides convenience there is politics, what if Trump wants a list of everyone who thumbed up 'The White House Effect' on Netflix?

So, after many years I took an old Raspberry 3 and started torrenting again. To my surprise piratebay is still active (although my old account doesn't work anymore, no clue how to provide new content).

I'm really happy, the Raspberry has a Samba fileshare. Just download the VLC app on your smart tv and you can stream anything you like.

I know there are more advanced solutions to torrenting, but I like this simple approach, and it makes me completely independent. Let's start sharing great content again!

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But no, let's build us a slightly better code generator.

Strange times we live in...

This is a non-trivial exercise. How does one transform knowledge into a knowledge graph using RDF?

RFD is extremely flexible and can represent any data and that's exactly it's great weakness. It's such a free format there is no consensus on how to represent knowledge. Many academic panels exist to set standards, but many of these efforts end up in github as unmaintained repositories.

The most important thing about RDF is that everyone needs to agree on the same modeling standards and use the same ontologies. This is very hard to achieve, and room for a lot of discussion, which makes it 'academic' :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_Man

Intel provides processors for many vendors and many OS. Changing to a new architecture is almost impossible to coordinate. Apple doesn't have this problem.

Actually in de 90s Intel and Microsoft wanted to move to a RISC architecture but Compaq forced them to stay on x86.

Don't know if this is standard for any browser now, FF is my main browser since I left Opera...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-ZktmjIfE

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Others, like myself, are easily distracted, quickly bored and only work hard with a specific goal in mind. Working on smaller tasks makes it easier to not be distracted. I feel this is more important for people with ADHD.

But you are right, in the end it is useful strategy for everyone :)

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At the same time I use copilot on a daily basis, both for coding as well as the normal chat.

It is not perfect, but I'm at a point I trust AI more than the average human. And why shouldn't I? LLMs ingest and combine more knowledge than any human can ever do. An LLM is not a human brain but it's actually performing really well.

For a long time, I was lazy, and took pride in quoting Bill Gates "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

I thought I was smart, but after years I discovered I became more lazy, and had never developed any deep knowledge on matter.

"if it's the more difficult path, it's probably the better path", I like that :)