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For those wondering who he is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_intelligence
23·7 days agoNTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.
It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.
2·7 days agoArticle said they said 30 seconds would be a success. Not clear how long it stayed up? Clock froze at +18 seconds.
We gave our oldest a basic feature flip-phone when he started Middle School, mainly so he could text and coordinate pickups. In 7th grade, we gave him a smartphone because he was going on a class trip to DC and the kids were encouraged to take pictures and share. At home, we made it a rule that the phone had to be plugged into charger in our bedroom to avoid bedtime disruption.
That same year I created social media accounts for him on every service, mainly to reserve his username. But they were all blocked using parental controls, based on advice from school. We also had software/hardware from Circle (now Aura: https://meetcircle.com/) that blocked access on wifi and cell and capped usage.
In high school, when he turned 16, as part of his birthday gift, we gave him an envelope with his own non-school email account, and all the links and passwords for social media accounts. We also took away all the filter blocks. Figured he was mature enough without feeling left out.
It really worked out well. Later, he asked to put usage limits back on so he would be forced to put it down and go to sleep.
Came across this a few weeks ago. ATProto plugin for Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/plugins/neznam-atproto-share
Combined with the existing https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ActivityPub and RSS/Atom support, it should be possible to post once / share everywhere.
I was one of those. Happily discovered Voyager. I go back, usually when a search link takes me there.
The mobile app is designed by people who I only imagine get paid by the bulk number of raw clicks/taps on UI elements.
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
Nah, they really shouldn’t. Way more fun this way.
9·20 days agoRFC 2549: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549
This problem was solved years ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-fastest-way-of-transferring-lots-of-data
0·22 days agoYou may want to do some research into Japanese wood joinery. There are some amazing techniques out there. Just one of them…
USB hubs.
Plain old splitters will almost certainly damage the port, and if this is with a machine where USB-C is part of the motherboard, it could cause even more damage and be really expensive to repair.
The power-only ones are not too pricey. But if you also need high speed data transfer (like drives) those cost a bit more. Be careful that even the ones that claim data exchange may not support drive speeds. It took me three tries to finally find one that worked.