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New comment by interludead in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

interludead — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:29:29 +0000

For a lot of parents, the phone may actually be what lets them be physically around their kids more

New comment by interludead in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

interludead — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:26:12 +0000

I can easily imagine the phone use and the kid's insecurity both coming from the same underlying family dynamic, rather than one neatly causing the other

New comment by interludead in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

interludead — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:22:35 +0000

Being ignored because someone is staring at a phone absolutely feels different from them just being busy. At the same time, asking teenagers how much their parent's phone use bothers them and then finding that the most bothered teenagers feel less secure in the relationship is not quite the same as showing that the phone caused the insecurity

New comment by interludead in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

interludead — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:04:19 +0000

I agree with the general direction but I'm a little skeptical of the "just add a few more TB of RAM and the frontier moves local" version of it

New comment by interludead in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

interludead — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:26 +0000

I think this is right but it also depends on what "compete" means

New comment by interludead in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

interludead — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:57:47 +0000

Most people don't actually want to manage models, updates, context limits, quantization, etc. They just want the thing to work everywhere

New comment by interludead in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

interludead — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:56:16 +0000

I'm not sure it's a death knell for frontier labs so much as a narrowing of what people need them for

New comment by interludead in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

interludead — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:26:19 +0000

The worrying part is not just that banned substances show up at trace levels, but that a non-trivial number of products were apparently over the legal limit

New comment by interludead in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

interludead — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:21:05 +0000

It also shifts a lot of the real exposure onto farm workers and local environments outside the EU, while EU firms still capture the upside

New comment by interludead in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

interludead — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:18:58 +0000

The obvious question is: if these pesticides are considered too unsafe to use in the EU, why are EU companies still allowed to export them?

New comment by interludead in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

interludead — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:41:57 +0000

I think the pyramid/army analogy works for some kinds of work, but maybe not for the kind of work the essay is mostly talking about.

New comment by interludead in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

interludead — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:39:37 +0000

The more interesting question is whether you can make higher levels of government depend more explicitly on lower levels, instead of the other way around

New comment by interludead in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

interludead — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:30:30 +0000

I think the middle ground probably isn't "no hierarchy" but "less fake hierarchy"

New comment by interludead in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

interludead — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:25:18 +0000

Plenty of startups recreate the same dysfunction at a smaller scale, just with less process and worse boundaries (I think...)

New comment by interludead in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

interludead — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:10:53 +0000

A polished website and audited reports don't always tell you whether aid is reaching people effectively on the ground

New comment by interludead in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

interludead — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:09:23 +0000

I agree with the second point especially. What stood out to me was not just that Django endured the bureaucracy, but that he remained grateful and composed through it

New comment by interludead in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

interludead — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:06:59 +0000

It sounds less like arrogance and more like both sides trying to improvise with incomplete information

New comment by interludead in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

interludead — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:04:34 +0000

From the outside, the "official" shipping route feels like the safest and most obvious option

New comment by interludead in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

interludead — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:34:21 +0000

Your doorbell has an excellent threat model

New comment by interludead in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

interludead — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:31:41 +0000

I think the distinction is: physical access helps bootstrap the research, but the resulting key/signing logic is not device-specific