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If one existed, it will probably be like: children under 18 using the internet without parent permission, but then that doesn't do much. They are not guns which you might not ever use. Many people use it daily.


I'm one person how used it for 6 years, and let me to state something that wasn't mentioned. A average family will keep using one bag untill junior-high school. So what? If you buy a bright red or pink bag as a pure 6/7 year old boy, and some how your parents had a Idea not to stop you, your doomed in the age of around 10 begging your parents to buy a new one. Very unpractical. There is not a bit of benefit at all.


You can't change the RAM, so using it as a student, and then use it as a reliable sub pc in the future might make it last long.


It sounds like a perfect idea on paper until you notice that junior devs will not be able to learn about stable code. Unless AI get's good enough to write stable code, or good enough that no human has to look in the code, the next generation will face a bigger problem than now. Well it's AI that started it so let's make AI take responsibility... Oh they can't. Now what?


I don't recall that there is a situation that you can turn on gaming RGB on your head. Someone suddenly starting to shine is as bad as keep shining. It's just either stealing everyone's concentration near you or give a jump scare to how ever was unlucky to look at your direction when you turned it on.


Say you’re at the reception after and you want to take a few photos with friends and family.

Or the traditional post-commencement board mortaring where you light up and throw it into the air.

Actually that gives me an idea: a grad cap that is also a drone. So when you throw it up with everyone in celebration yours just keeps going.

Goodbye hat. I uploaded my student debt into you. Don’t come back.


Yeah it's a helpful and useful tool. It's the people who use it in annoying ways and marketing pushing it too much. It's natural for people to think like that. It's strange being there. Isn't exception a word that describes it well?


Twitter would make you think it’s dooms day with AI yet there are pockets of “wow that’s incredible”


LLMs said quintessential what?


Wow some story. I forgot time reading it. It's fiction, Right?...


Seems like they just get what they did. To be honest, I think it should be less milder.


We have overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is harmful in general, and very harmful for kids.

As someone that was on the receiving end of that kind of violence due to growing up in a fundamentalist evangelical family, I will not mince words: the view you have expressed is pure evil. I simplly cannot imagine the mentality that kids need to be physically tortured to learn how to behave.


>We have overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is harmful in general, and very harmful for kids.

This is false. The evidence is not overwhelming; it's actually extremely poor quality. And the research question is one of the most difficult to resolve in social science. I wrote on this here: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/the-academic-literature-on-sma.... See also this guy: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=2HtqmZ0AAA...


You might not have noticed what you've done here, but you've not only agreed to corporal punishment for children but also for harsher corporal punishment for criminals across the board. Read the whole conversation chain and reflect on how bad the optics are. There is a reason why your stance is unpopular.

"Spanking looks like an 8/10 on the subjective harmful scale, but actually on the objective harmful scale its closer to a 3/10. We must rectify the bad reputation of spanking!" is not the type of motivation that should drive pedagogy research.


If you're saying we should pretend that spanking is worse than (we currently know) it is, then I don't agree.

I haven't said anything about corporal punishment for criminals, and I don't know of any evidence for or against it - that strikes me as a very different argument, partly because the level of violence is likely to be much greater.


There will never be proper studies with control groups to test exactly how harmful beating children is, so this is an unrealistic standard to expect. Given this context, the person you're responding to is correct: we have overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is harmful in general and very harmful for children.


The point isn't just that we can do RCTs. The point is that the methods used are not even adequate on their own terms. Just as one example, the standard method with longitudinal data would be to throw in individual fixed effects. But they don't do that. Another example: I know of no serious cross-country panel analysis with (say) time and country fixed effects to examine the effect of national spanking bans. There is a cross-country cross-sectional analysis, which is just not adequate to draw any conclusions.

Even if the methods were the best possible given the difficulties, you wouldn't then say this was "overwhelming" evidence. You'd say "the best evidence we've got" and you'd then assume that parents don't know nothing and exercise a bit of humility. (Though to be fair, that argument does not generalise to the Singapore decision-making authorities! Maybe they don't have any deep local knowledge that should lead us to trust their judgment.)


Yeah my bad. I was the getting bullied side of students, but the current punishments are something that should be ended.


Vibe coding isn't bad. It's those people who do all there coding(?) with it and post it like it's there creation is the problem.


This applies to all software. You didn't make the monitor your app is being displayed on. Stop taking credit for the compiler that made your code runnable, etc.


There's a great difference between making a table with tools other people made, and ordering a custom table on Amazon, waxing it, and claiming you made it. This shouldn't even be an argument.

What a crazy era we live in where people can finally take full credit for someone else's work, because that someone else is an algorithm that even encourages you to do so.


If you mean Komai specifically, I think that this characterization is unfair.

Komai is explicitly presented as a fork of Nheko. We credit the upstream project, major libraries (matrix-sdk) and assets (iconsets, etc.), and are open about using AI during development.

I’m not claiming sole authorship or pretending Komai was created from scratch. It's built on existing work (done by various humans over many years) and we're being transparent and thankful about it.

Disclosure: I've spent multiple months working on Komai (with AI and other humans).


I was specifically addressing my parent comment, which was equating taking credit for LLM output to taking credit for making something using tooling or hardware.


Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.


Yeah! The burning of litres of waters is theirs, the degredation of their intellect and ability is theirs, the financial support of the companies ruining the internet and the world is theirs, the support of the hype machine ruining the economy is theirs!

It's not like they woke up and went "I'm selfish, let's make everything a little bit worse for everyone" - but evil wins when good people vibe slop and we just let it go.


Let's not blame the victim for this. I know it's unorthodox to think that evil corporations are exploiting their users in order to get away with evil things.


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