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New comment by eigencoder in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

eigencoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:47:56 +0000

Really? I feel like android doesn't change at all with a keyboard, and doesn't support half the keyboard shortcuts you can use on iPad.

New comment by eigencoder in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

eigencoder — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:46:17 +0000

Absolutely

New comment by eigencoder in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

eigencoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:10:29 +0000

Call me old-fashioned, but I have a family computer. I got rid of my laptop, and got a desktop instead. It stays in the living room, in a desk drawer. The monitor is a portable monitor, and it gets put away when the computer is not in use. My kids aren't old enough to use it yet, but it will be the family computer eventually.

New comment by eigencoder in "The paper computer"

eigencoder — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:11 +0000

I've been thinking about this too. I think it would be cool if you could put the interface in a pen, somehow. Like embed a tiny projector and camera in a pen. Then, if you want to read your emails, you can project them on a surface. If you want to reply, you write with the pen, then point the camera at it.

New comment by eigencoder in "Honda is killing its EVs"

eigencoder — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:47:54 +0000

Just gotta hope that slate auto is successful!

New comment by eigencoder in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

eigencoder — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:06:34 +0000

But that's not rugged individualism. It's just letting the market actually do its job, and let consumers and producers actually communicate a price

New comment by eigencoder in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

eigencoder — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:23:28 +0000

Do you have a child? Because I think the device makers haven't really done a good job, there are just too many workarounds.

New comment by eigencoder in "Data does not speak to you"

eigencoder — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:59:37 +0000

Why is obedience bad?

New comment by eigencoder in "Data does not speak to you"

eigencoder — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:48:01 +0000

I think "formation" is essentially a short-hand for "character formation"; I've seen the term used that way in Christian education literature and worldview studies.

New comment by eigencoder in "MacBook Neo"

eigencoder — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:41:51 +0000

It's probably a problem with my devices. I've never seen these problems with more expensive devices, but my cheap bluetooth speakers will only charge with certain cables.

I also have cheap cables that don't seem able to do data transfer. Guessing it's not actually following the USB-C spec.

New comment by eigencoder in "MacBook Neo"

eigencoder — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:56:19 +0000

USB-C is the bane of my existence. Everything looks the same, but certain cables won't charge certain devices for seemingly no reason, and other cables won't transfer data, and there's no easy way (AFAIK) to tell the difference

New comment by eigencoder in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

eigencoder — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:17:02 +0000

I've only read the first Hyperion novel, none of his other works. Thanks for recommending them!

New comment by eigencoder in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

eigencoder — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:51:02 +0000

Honestly, I don't get it. So many tech companies are happy to do business in China and serve its interests, when it would gladly see them fail. But they won't defend their own country and its interests.

New comment by eigencoder in "Child-free 'Disney adults' are transforming the company's theme parks (2023)"

eigencoder — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:17:06 +0000

I think it's short-sighted. Most of those Disney adults started out as Disney kids.

New comment by eigencoder in "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026"

eigencoder — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:04:30 +0000

No it's not -- powerful CLIs with lots of features are made to be wrapped

New comment by eigencoder in "Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that"

eigencoder — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:09:21 +0000

Reminds me of the [tin can](https://tincan.kids/). Don't have one yet, but hope they stick around so I can get one for my kids when they get a little older.

New comment by eigencoder in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

eigencoder — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:25:14 +0000

I think it's this one: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is...

But in general, Sam Kriss tends to weave fiction and nonfiction together in his writing.

New comment by eigencoder in "How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?"

eigencoder — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:25:49 +0000

I heard that Nancy Guthrie was not paying for the subscription that let her view her old video footage. So it's interesting that Google was still storing all that footage.

New comment by eigencoder in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

eigencoder — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:07:37 +0000

If a person confidently told a human to run over people in the intersection ahead of them, they would almost certainly do it?

New comment by eigencoder in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

eigencoder — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:42:12 +0000

Yeah, that makes sense.