I argue that most kids are far better at using complicated remotes and mobile phones / apps than most adults. This has been true for a long time. Programming VCRs was a dark art reserved only for teens in the 80s, and I have no doubt the Romans had similar issues :)
This kid is only 3. I doubt that he is old enough to navigate the complex on-screen menus, while taking the delays and other puzzling behaviors into account. This is not to say that young kids are stupid. But the modern device interfaces often feel like a pile of random hacks, rather than something based on the sane and well established design principles that were formulated on the basis of experience and human psychology.
Some audiobooks also seem to gain over the book; for instance, IMO, James Saxon's narration of "Blandings Castle" is truly excellent and gets out the most of Wodehouse.
I have a couple of USB cables from the 2000's like this, some of them original apple cables. But most are fine.
While some show brittleless, more plstics goes gooey and tarry - especially some ABS coating that makes the material more grippable,like computer mice or binoculars.
With the new information from OP we might have an answer. My phone cables were in box with phone and battery, enclosed space. I believe the battery electrolyte decomposing over the years outgassed and caused the TPE to degrade. mayyybe small amounts of hydrogen fluoride.
Btw, which other note taking apps worth talking about exist? I am aware of org-roam and scimax (?) and both look promising but I find that (at least for org-roam) there’s not enough big picture explaining what is going on behind the curtains. That somewhat discouraged me from spending a lot of time with it, but a quick glance did look promising.
org-roam is a very small and stable codebase, worth reading on its own simply for education, but I also find that if you're interested in the internals, it's pretty accessible.
Just to clarify: Trump didn't do worse than Maduro (he got stopped) but he did do much worse than "ignore the election results" in that he actively tried to overturn the results.
There are two possibilities. Either we live in a rules-based international order, in which case China would be punished for invading Taiwan. Or we live in a world where power decides outcomes, in which case China would still be punished, this time by the United States, which is arguably still the strongest actor.
Unless, of course, you’re suggesting that Trump effectively gave China the green light. Which is not out of the question, but I would find quite surprising.
With the US being now engaging her Navy in South America more, I am not so sure that America can really match a Blitzkrieg-style invasion, and it is probably not quite able to project enough soft power to get the 'vassal states' to effectively help.
So while I am by no means pro-Taiwan invasion, I do believe that there is a very significant downside wrt China with this move.
N.B. I'm no military wonk or political strategist, far from it. I just call 'em as i see's 'em.
>Unless, of course, you’re suggesting that Trump effectively gave China the green light. Which is not out of the question, but I would find quite surprising.
There's someone else in this thread suggesting that the quid pro quo was exactly that. My brothers in Christ, I am worried.
Just like vote-counting, testing students is perfectly scalable without anything but teachers. But: In Europe, I have witnessed oral exams at the Matura, and at the final Diploma test. In the US, I understand all PhDs need a oral defense session.
To me, this mindset of delegating to AI because of laziness is perfectly embodied in "Experimenta Felicitologica" (sp?) By Stanislaw Lem.
AI is great when performing somewhat routine tasks, but for anything inherently adversarial, I'm skeptical we'll soon see good solutions. Building defeating AIs is just too inexpensive.
and TIL that this story is only in the original Polish and the German translation.
This is a summary of sorts:
"Trurl, having decided to make the entire Universe happy, first sat down and developed a General Theory of All-Possible Happiness... Eventually, however, Trurl grew weary of the work. To speed things up, he built a great computer and provided it with a programmatic duplicate of his own mind, that it might conduct the necessary research in his stead.
But the machine, instead of setting to work, began to expand. It grew new stories, wings, and outbuildings, and when Trurl finally lost his patience and commanded it to stop building and start thinking, the machine—or rather, the Trurl-within-the-machine—replied that it couldn't possibly think yet, for it still didn't have enough room. It claimed it was currently housing the Sub-Trurls—specialized programs for General Felicitology, Experimental Hedonistics, and Happiness-Machine-Building—who were currently occupied with their quarterly reports.
The 'Clone-Trurl' told him marvelous tales of the results these sub-Trurls had already achieved in their digital simulations. Trurl, however, soon discovered that these were all cut from the same cloth of lies; not a single sub-Trurl existed, no research had been done, and the machine had simply been using its processing power to enjoy itself and expand its own architecture. In a fit of rage, Trurl took a hammer to the machine and for a long time thereafter gave up all thought of universal happiness."
It's a great allegory. A real shame there is no english translation.
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