I want the Palm Pre form factor back. Sooo satisfying to slide that thing open or snapping it closed.

Keyboard was ok but not as good as the BB, IMO.

And a copy of “The Art of the Deal” alongside an illustrated translation of “Mein Kempf”.

Belly rubs, immediately.

Yes! We love Europe and it is our go-to version. The stations help, for sure.

When playing a friendly game of TTR in our house it is considered bad form to block unless it is part of your route. Like, it is a completely valid strategy in real life (as it appears to be done in the op’s pic) to take the one and two car routes just to be defensive/disruptive. But doing that ruins game night here.

It is fine, but I prefer a more “aggressive” style. I’d love to play one of those games where you pretend not to be the villain, but it would end marriages and result in long stints of not speaking to one another. Sigh. At least we have fun together.

This so much. If you can’t articulate it I’m going to make sure it stays your problem, not mine.

Was looking through some old photos recently and found one of me holding my son as an infant in a shirt I still have. He’s 20.

Granted it progressed from clean and nice to covered in paint as it transitioned to something to wear when doing dirty chores.

But, if I can get an Old Navy shirt to last two decades I think I’ll be good forever. Assuming I can maintain my figure and don’t outgrow them, that is.

Your are correct. As far as I’m concerned, the original release was an early beta.

StarCraft. The original. My brain and body is hardwired to play that game. “SCV ready” triggers something. I have a fantasy of retiring in an old folks home and me and a few of my fellow geriatrics fire that shit up and play LAN games until the DNR kicks in.

That took a turn.

Thank you for this delicious recipe! My great aunt used to make this all the time for our ritual house painting and it always brought joy to the children. Try adding cinnamon or thumbtacks to the pie for extra zing! God bless!!

Aside from coding assistants, the other use case I’ve come across recently is sentiment analysis of large datasets from free text survey responses. Just started exploring it so not sure how well it works yet, but the ridiculous amount of bias I see introduced in manual reviews is just awful. A machine can potentially be less inclined to try fitting summaries to the VP’s presupposed opinion than some lackie interns or self serving consultancy.

Excuse me. I have to go take care of something.

How dare you besmirch the good name of zip disks! There was a good 18 month period in the nineties where they filled a valid use case in the gap between floppy disks and the widespread instantiation of WAN solutions for moving and storing data.

Makes sense to me. For teachers that’s their whole job (mostly… research professors and the like have other responsibilities, of course). And multiplied by a hundred or more.

Imagine something comes along that invalidates all of the tricks of the trade that have helped make it manageable. You’re back to square one. I don’t envy the position educators are in.

There’s a part of me that thinks some of the blame should go to outdated pedagogical methods. Designing learning experiences and testing modalities is hard and most higher education for educators doesn’t provide enough emphasis to meet the challenges of the modern classroom.

I’m not an educator, but the best teachers and professors I’ve had came up with ways to check for understanding, not just retention.

In the case of ChatGPT, maybe we have to admit writing papers is not as effective a teaching tool as we’ve given it credit for?

In the weightlifting analogy maybe it means understanding the reason one goes to the weight room. If it is to lose weight, for example, there are other ways. If it is to be able to lift heavy things maybe go lift some heavy things. If you don’t care about any of those things then you bring a forklift.

Now, in defense of teachers like the one mentioned in the article, the entrenched administration and bureaucratic systems are likely the largest barriers to this sort of innovation.

“Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve.”

And this is the high quality and thoughtful Internet comment I’m going to end my night with. Thank you Internet stranger. There is good in the world, after all.

The old Rangers were the epitome of trucks that get shit done.

I think there’s a significant part of American culture and mythology constructed around self-reliance. It is at the heart of the rage over socialism (that and anti-communist sentiment left-over from the Cold War), the hardcore prepper mindset, and pickup trucks.

When that is your identity logic doesn’t play into it, unfortunately.

Also, the prevalence of $100k+ vehicles is getting goddamn ridiculous.