devilbunny

Humans are not bomb calorimeters. The physics is undeniable and straightforward, but the biology is messy and hard.

Thank you. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. My 27” 2015 iMac is getting very long in the tooth, but that 5k screen is still beyond beautiful.

I played a lot of FCPro back in the 1990s. As noted at the link, it had more possible games, automated stack movement if you had enough free spaces, had unlimited undo/redo, and had solvers (that could either solve it for you, or just tell you that a solution was still possible - the latter was immensely helpful in letting me get better at the game).

> That alone won’t teach them to read

Oh yes it can. It won’t teach phonics, which is a very valuable skill especially in English, but my biggest struggle with phonics was that I could already read the words they were trying to use to teach us how to sound things out. Kids vary but some will already be picking up written words by 2-3 and self-guided by 5-6. Reading the same book every night is tedious to parents but really lets the kids connect shapes on paper to language.

> too lazy to write custom software to do it

Hell, I’m not a coder; I don’t even work in IT. I can install Linux and configure it reasonably well for an end user, but ask me to code something up and… well, hope you like Claude’s output.

Her desktop is a 27” iMac that’s too old for OCLP to help keep it going, and I keep thinking about putting Linux on it, but I can’t imagine trying to get her onto something that isn’t either Windows (used at work) or macOS (we have full Apple ecosystem at home and her laptop is an M2 MBA) until it just won’t run Citrix and a browser capable of hitting Gmail. Or until Apple finally makes another 27” iMac, which given the RAM and storage situation isn’t happening any time soon.

Okay, clean a 16000 email backlog on a phone.

On her phone.

Without her computer logged into her email.

Without her phone.

"I can do this for you, but I will need to use your computer to do it, and I will need you to read me off a bunch of 2FA codes in all likelihood, so you can either give me your phone or you can sit next to me while I do it. Oh, and they're your emails, so you may as well pull up a chair or I'm just going to have to guess whether you care or not."

My time is valuable too. You want me to do it, you help.

Good luck convincing anyone outside of HN types. I get regular requests from my wifeto assist with some task and my answer is “you can’t really do that on a phone or tablet, you need to use a real computer”. They are still not done.

Not impossible, just so unpleasant that I wouldn’t do it on vacation. If you’re getting paid for it you probably do have a different opinion on the matter.

You must be made of sterner stuff than I am. It was 14.5 hours for me to go to college, and after freshman year I always crashed at a friend’s place along the way. 12 is fine, 13 is stretching it, but at 14 hours there’s no way I’m doing it in one day.

Thank you. You do far more important work than I do and we appreciate it.

Yes, because the expected survival rate without surgical intervention is zero. With it, slim, but not zero.

My father-in-law once asked me how long it would take to teach him how to put people to sleep. I said, five minutes, but if you want them to wake up at the end, a lot longer.

We very rarely lose people unexpectedly.

Crystal, or Louisiana Brand, are much more my preference. I just don’t care for Tabasco peppers.

One of the reasons I am an anesthesiologist is that while you might have issues with the surgeon or the surgery, I find that very few people decline my services. If anything, they generally want more.

> it forces you into too many arcane areas to configure what should be basic functionality

This is a real pain point with OpenWRT, made worse by the developers' concept that there are "proper" ways to do it (which are supported by almost no other software) and so the workaround is either to do the dance or replace everything with OpenWRT that will do it "properly".

Defensible idea, but the reality is that most people who are willing to do this in the first place are trying to reuse an old router as a low-usage wireless bridge on a network that is otherwise centrally controlled like Unifi or Omada. My pool controller would be fine to run on 802.11b (setting aside what that would do to the rest of the wireless network), it doesn't need a WiFi 7 device.