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New comment by hooskerdu in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

hooskerdu — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:50:59 +0000

I don’t disagree with your final statement, but they’re also not wrong. Growing up it was well-known that homeschool kids were strange, intelligent in some ways, and completely inept in most ways that mattered. People who desire to completely shield their children are just as detrimental to their children’s development as those who over-expose. However, in my purely anecdotal experience, the ones who were over-exposed were better off than the former. And the middle road led to better outcomes overall.

New comment by hooskerdu in "Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most"

hooskerdu — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:38:31 +0000

It could be said that for any of us to think we could understand - with such a relatively short and still arguably shoddy understanding of the mind - or especially could say… is possibly insane.

New comment by hooskerdu in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

hooskerdu — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:03:37 +0000

Word on the ground is this is turning around

New comment by hooskerdu in "James Watson has died"

hooskerdu — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:02:12 +0000

I thought he was driving in his car up a mountain with his wife/girlfriend asleep in the passenger seat.

I need to re-read his book

New comment by hooskerdu in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

hooskerdu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:00:04 +0000

Wrong. ;P

New comment by hooskerdu in "IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021"

hooskerdu — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:24:43 +0000

Not saying this is you, but I’m reminded of a story of a woman who took a ton of photos of vacations - all the sights. But upon the death of her husband realized she never captured the people with her

New comment by hooskerdu in "The publishing industry has a gambling problem"

hooskerdu — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:02:34 +0000

Upvote for that there first sentence

New comment by hooskerdu in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

hooskerdu — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:49:27 +0000

Does a half-decent job of breaking down how things were affected https://youtu.be/j454KF26IWw

New comment by hooskerdu in "FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness"

hooskerdu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:30:03 +0000

Unit membership for manufacturing started with the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, but I’m not sure how involved or hands-off it was at the time.

New comment by hooskerdu in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

hooskerdu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:45:29 +0000

I’m all about that.

New comment by hooskerdu in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

hooskerdu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:43:48 +0000

As in “kick ass and we’ll pay ya even better than we are now” probation?

New comment by hooskerdu in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

hooskerdu — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:05:13 +0000

I really loved LabView

New comment by hooskerdu in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

hooskerdu — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:30:08 +0000

Dang. That’s an earlier rollout than any other agent I’m aware of! ;D

New comment by hooskerdu in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

hooskerdu — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:39:38 +0000

Could be a clever nom de plume?

New comment by hooskerdu in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

hooskerdu — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:29:41 +0000

Back in another life (videography), I had acquaintances who would throw looks when they heard I’d purchased a single terabyte. Seems that narrative might already be - at least mildly -pervasive.

New comment by hooskerdu in "Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN"

hooskerdu — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:16:53 +0000

Distasteful? I understand that sentiment for the family, but we should all be exposed to the horrors of these lapses. It’s exceedingly rare that you are ever subjected to the bodily carnage, and I’m reminded of when we ceased broadcasting footage of soldiers’ caskets coming home due to it dissuading popular opinion toward war.

New comment by hooskerdu in "Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens"

hooskerdu — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:47:04 +0000

Reminds me of a number of grad students I knew who could “talk circles” around all sorts of subjects but failed to ever be able to apply anything.