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Comment · 8 months ago
Apologies for so many questions, this is a very interesting line of reasoning.

What makes petroleum artificial compared to any other substance found on (or in) earth?

It seems you are proposing that "any food that has had a petroleum product added to it at any stage is artificial", which is an oddly narrow focus.

For that matter, does this definition of "artificial" extend to the range of substances that can be synthesized with bio-feedstock?

To expand on our discussion, would this mean that ethanol made other feedstock is natural, but made from petroleum is artificial?

Comment · 8 months ago
AI is not reaonable.
Comment · 8 months ago
"Hours spent on the project" would be a much more useful metric, with no confounding variables. As it is, the mere mention of interleaving time with your kids and time engrossed in tech hits a nerve at time when IMO too many parents are doing this already, and lends unwarranted validity to the idea.
Comment · 8 months ago
I'll bite.

"between time with the kids" is another person's "during time with the kids".

For me, "between time with the kids" means my kids are engaged in another activity that does not require my input until they are done with it. Whatever I am doing during this time also is typically very interruptible, so I am ready to help the kids along to their next "thing" (the joys of being a parent!). On a typical weekend (my oldest is 7), I'll get maybe 2 hours of this time during the time my kids are awake.

Comment · 8 months ago
On the other hand, I think this would solve Claude Code's current problems with their React-rendered terminal app.
Comment · 8 months ago
I don't see why you need to bring your kids into this, and as a parent any suggestion of being distracted by tech during time with the kids raises my suspicions.

We have a strict no laptops and no phones rule when the kids are around (unless we're specifically doing something with them using those tools - looking at the weather forecast, or looking up some information).

"I can prompt AI while playing with the kids" is not a future I want.

Comment · 8 months ago
What have you done with CTRL+SHIFT+T??
Comment · 8 months ago
From the list of problems they are experiencing with rendering in the terminal, it sounds like they want a GUI (Electron would be a good fit).
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm with you on this one. "Terminals are too slow to support lots of text so we had to change this feature in unpopular ways" is just not a plausible reason, as terminals have been able to dump ~1Mb per second for decades.

The real problem is their ridiculous "React rendering in the terminal" UI.

Comment · 8 months ago
Do you have any examples of slow terminals, and what kind of maximum characters per second they have?
Comment · 8 months ago
It can be distilled from petroleum, and there is the key distinction that wasn't answered - are "natural" ingredients ones that could be made by "natural" (I'm assuming that "biochemical" is meant here) processes, or are they ones that are made by "natural" processes? Or is it just petroleum that is the problem?

Where does salt fall here?

Why isn't petroleum natural, when it is plant-based?

Comment · 8 months ago
They've re-branded for the release, and removed "Universal".
Comment · 8 months ago
Even if it were distilled from petroleum?
Comment · 8 months ago
On the upside, at some point the ground in those infamous electronics "recycling" towns will become so contaminated they'll be able to strip-mine for rare earths!

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