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New comment by vitro in "Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027"

vitro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:08:38 +0000

Well yes. A teacher can have a box for phones, but kids need to put the phone there themselves. Of course, depends on the relation teacher has with their kids, but that's how you should do it by law.

And even then, if the teacher trips the box, it is on them to reimburse owners for broken phones.

New comment by vitro in "Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027"

vitro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:48:14 +0000

But if kids refuse to put their phones away during classes, teachers have no right to take them since they are the kids' personal property. And yes, it is in the school rules that you cannot use your phone during class.

My SO teaches English and struggles with it permanently. Kids are on their phones and not paying attention to the lecture. And no support from the headmaster. Other teachers claim they do not have the problem to save face, but then you talk to an expat teacher who was in their class for observation and hear something else.

New comment by vitro in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"

vitro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:27:25 +0000

Right, there can be a religion without spirituality and there can also be a spirituality without religion.

New comment by vitro in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

vitro — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:57:40 +0000

Wish you all the best!

New comment by vitro in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

vitro — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:24:10 +0000

Volunteer. Always had good experiences with it and made some nice memories and connections I would not have otherwise.

New comment by vitro in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

vitro — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:34:07 +0000

I know people who would purchase solar panels and batteries, but they do not have enough capital to do so.

New comment by vitro in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

vitro — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:03:57 +0000

In Czech Republic as well. You need to have driven certain amount of hours, have attented theory lessons, then test, followed by a test drive with a policeman.

New comment by vitro in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

vitro — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:12:50 +0000

Couldn't you build some internal knowledge that would stay and you could teach a model this way. A very fast local memory of some sort. You could also specialize model this way so it is very skilled in your domain. The more you use it, the smarter it gets. I guess the problem is for the model to decide whether the information stored in memory is sufficient or not.

New comment by vitro in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

vitro — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:57:38 +0000

My car leaks oil. So I refill it here and there. This fixes issue with any car maker and does not require action of any other actor.

New comment by vitro in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vitro — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:34:04 +0000

Maybe some of them may have had a purpose. With this one, if you were used to putting your elbows on the table and there were more people around, you just took up too much space and made it unpleasant for others around you.

New comment by vitro in "How I write software with LLMs"

vitro — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:22:02 +0000

For me it is just a good habit that I want to keep.

New comment by vitro in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

vitro — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:32:10 +0000

Forrest would be so silent if only the best birds would sing.

New comment by vitro in "Agents that run while I sleep"

vitro — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:16:10 +0000

Then, run the agent vm-sandboxed, with tests mounted as a read-only directory, if your directory structure allows it.

New comment by vitro in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

vitro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:08:22 +0000

You can self-host their notification server, and in their app you provide this server's url.

New comment by vitro in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

vitro — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:29:39 +0000

But how ntfy does it then? It is one app that allows you to subscribe to multiple different notification endpoints. I have uptime notifications set up this way.

Wouldn't it be possible for Zulip to go this route as well?

New comment by vitro in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

vitro — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:02:31 +0000

True, no phones, no distractions, I can see someone who finds their passion early on to get this good.

New comment by vitro in "U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded"

vitro — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:27:56 +0000

Cheap? Depends on how you look at it. What about treating all those respiratory illnesses caused by burning coal? Is that accounted for in the price of the electricity as well?

New comment by vitro in "The highest quality codebase"

vitro — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:19:50 +0000

I sometimes think of it as a sculptor analogy.

Some famous sculptors had an atelier full of students that helped them with mundane tasks, like carving out a basic shape from a block of stone.

When the basic shape was done, the master came and did the rest. You may want to have the physical exercise of doing the work yourself, but maybe someone sometimes likes to do the fine work and leave the crude one to the AI.

New comment by vitro in "Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology"

vitro — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:57:45 +0000

Maybe he meant that the information was consistently incorrect, which was entertaining..

New comment by vitro in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

vitro — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:07:30 +0000

And different colors for GET/POST/PUT.. etc methods, maybe :)