Cogent Sins🔎

@Mechanical_Dodo Yeah this is the sort of thing I recall making it sound just awful. 🙁

Minor related anecdote: friend was traveling in Uzbekistan. I can't remember which town he was in exactly. Rickety old taxi turns up to where he was and out steps...a blonde German girl about 18 years old travelling on her own.

@IsaacKing314 I would only be comfortable using it the "spurious correlation" sense, I've not seen it anywhere else I can recall.

Do you know what the word "spurious" means?

@zacsmithtweeto Fighting back against this by being across the other side of the park doomscrolling & ignoring them 🫡

curious what the generational ramifications will be of the tendency for parents/grandparents now to hover 5-15 feet away from their children at all times while at the playground, staring intently and usually barking orders to be careful and play only in the proscribed ways

@RizomaSchool Ehh, this very seldom happened & now the all the kids will give each other hugs to comfort them when they're hurt & they usually get on great, I'm happy with our short (~2 year) spacings.

This starts to get into woo woo territory but I do think close birth spacing has a spiritual deficiency Often you see a toddler hitting their infant siblings and it's because they are mad at them and you for not giving them the attention they needed in their babyhood

@KelseyTuoc Dunno if you necessarily want that for Claude or not...

@KelseyTuoc For a weekly sports thing I deliberately buy the season ticket, even though I typically don't quite go to enough events for that to be cheaper than paying per event. I explicitly want the zero marginal cost & feeling of sunk cost to encourage myself to go more often.

Objectively speaking, being on a $20/month plan from Anthropic and paying for ~$50/month of extra usage is a better deal than being on the $100/month plan, but I find that I hate having to think about how much a project is going to cost me

@DanielW_Kiwi They've got a surprisingly long range IIRC. What's your actual plan for these?

The actual purpose for this is outside of our home. However the kids helped me test it and loved the game. We hid them in a room and they sat there waiting for one to go off. They had to run into the kitchen where this was setup and put it back on the stack and tell me the number. They loved it.

@tenobrus Hell, I'm blocking those in other people's replies.

one of the most terrible consequences of openclaw is that now whenever i get a ~thoughtful reply from a random lowbie account my default reaction is annoyance and assumption is they're an engagement farming selfbot

@simonsarris How often do you carry your kids & some of their friends at the same time?

People say this all the time but we've had 3 babes in a 2016 Outback for a year and a half and it's been a bit annoying, but fine. You have to buy slim car seats, but that's a lot cheaper than a new car. Something else is the real reason.

@Andercot EVTOL micro-mobility is hard, apparently.

@Andercot Lilium Aerospace, 11 years old, 1.5 billion raised, publicly listed. Never mind zero commercial passenger miles, they never even got something worth putting a test pilot in before going bankrupt.

@audreystayshome @beyondwaiting Yeah this is the way. We have "quiet time" in the afternoon for everyone. Even if not a nap, it's still a break for me & my wife.

@beyondwaiting He does most days. But even when he doesn’t, he still has to have quiet time in his bedroom.

Nah. We syncing nap time in this house.

@Fudmottin @DanielW_Kiwi Ages ago: The spec had a fairly wide tolerance band to allow for the inevitable variation from early & pretty rough sawing techniques, and as it became possible to cut boards more accurately everyone started making them just above the bottom end of the tolerance range to save $.

@DanielW_Kiwi I just finished locating the stud for my VESA mount. Now I just have to choose the height. No cross brace needed. It's an interior wall. However, there's a staircase on the other side. Also, 2x4 in the USA apparently means only 1 ½" thick. When did that happen?

Who needs a diagonal anyway?

@geoffs73 @BradRTorgersen I've heard of that as a theory for why PTSD rates were so low. Not sure if it's a consensus view or not.

I’ve also read the idea that the shared travel back on ships gave them time to talk it out with the guys who were there. I know my grandfather never spoke about his time in the pacific theater. Not to my dad (even after dad’s time in Vietnam), not to anyone so far as we know. But I bet he talked with the guys on the boat home.

(TL;DR) Here's the thing about WW2. It called up millions of ordinary American men who were shoved into the IET pipeline—Initial Entry Training, aka: "Boot Camp," followed by specific jobs skills training—then spat out the other end as infantrymen, signalmen, artillerymen, adjutants, mechanics, truck drivers, tankers, et al. And when it was all done? Most of them went back to civilian life. Their service (those who survived) ended when the war was over. These were not professional soldiers. They were normies made to perform soldiering for a specific war, and only when the war was done did they exit the soldiering life. And went back to being normies again. But the soldiering life gave them a shared experience they would keep with them. It provided a common nomenclature and emotional framework that could be referenced in an instant. Any setting or situation. Sometimes just even by guys looking at each other. They could tell. (break whistle, guys sitting down to open lunch buckets) "You in North Africa?" "Naw, Bougainville. What about him over there?" "Jumped from a Gooney Bird over France." "I heard that was rough." "Not as rough as The Bulge." And so on, and so forth. It was for many of them *the* singular touchstone of their lives. And it cut across economics, class, status, even ethnic barriers. A language of shared suffering, shared boredom, shared laughs, shared effort, sometimes shared terror, also sometimes tears, and ultimately formed a common-denominator vibrational bedrock which echoed through the decades. Influencing both families, and communities.

@goblinodds ...that made no sense without the link sorry. x.com/Insect_Song/st…

@Insect_Song oh wdym!

watching real life fake wizard talk about stories on youtube and like how...did i forget? never learn? that stories are civilizational tech? they're not just entertainment, they're not even just tool to raise morale, they actually pass on civilizational wisdom

@LizzieMarbach @allie__voss I think this is huge for risky play, but my wife is way better than I am at letting the kids do their own food prep, I'm too impatient 😅

Yes! And honestly, I think the reason so many kids aren’t getting this kind of parenting is that many don’t have active fathers. It is much more likely and natural for women to parent in a more helicopter manner. My husband’s first instinct is to hang back, and my first instinct is to immediately help. He helps me rein in my “helicopter” tendencies so much.

Not a parent, but I do feel like I've watched one example of this in real time working in childcare: -Child struggles with something -Parent immediately swoops in and helps, despite the kid not even asking for help -Next time the kid doesn't struggle as long, and just looks to the parent to fix it This often happens with things kids SHOULD struggle through (holding chalk, getting dolls' clothes on, building blocks) that kids need to learn for developmental reasons It feeds the parent's ego because they get to save the day, but over time the kid learns not to even try to solve their own problems, and that their success is someone else's responsibility The parents who tell their kids "You don't need me, you've got this" end up with the grittier kids

@thinkingshivers Claude's is actually a different meaning, it's phrasing with your original "born into" yields: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only being born into privilege allows.”

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@AndyMasley Like, it's not value for money, but driving definitely gets more pleasant as you spend more.

I spent $13k on my car and I do not understand how anyone could want anything better beyond it being a purely positional good

@CastlesofImagin @sonyasupposedly

@sonyasupposedly Or the teacher is an alien

bit concerning how many books for kids are basically about hating school