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Same. But Alfred is not immune to these frustrations.

An alternative design for an education system is quite a challenge. You say it allows smart but lazy people to succeed. In truth, it allows many kinds of people to succeed.

And “the hardworking but less gifted kids struggle” doesn’t ring particularly true, unless you mean something quite strong by “less gifted”.

First of all, mathematics is about so much more than the area of a triangle etc. that any analogy based on such simple things is overwhelmingly likely to be too simple to be of value.

Secondly, there is no truly objective truth to the area of a triangle. At bottom, this “truth” is simply “everyone is convinced, and for good reason”.

Without persuading other people of the “truths” that you discover, there is no real mathematics.

Answers to a lot of questions, with breadth, depth and nuance. And assistance in carrying out work on a lot of fields, not just programming.

Bullet journals are the opposite of a fad that fetishizes perfect notebooks. Proper bullet journals are very pragmatic.

Some people then add layers of fetishizing to that, because humans gonna human, but the actual idea itself doesn’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush.

I resemble that remark!

“…the person you don’t care about…”

Your comment is below the intellectual and interpersonal standard that makes HN a good place to be.

I don’t doubt your sincerity and I can abide your opinion, but you should be restrained in ascribing such points of view to others.

I sometimes want to create PDFs that contain text (Python code) that is not selectable. I want my students to type it in, not copy and paste.

I don’t know whether this tool enables that, but the idea is in the neighbourhood of “make it look scanned”.

That’s a serious misreading of the NeoVim ecosystem, and I’d bet good money against your predictions coming true.

I wrote a TUI to search for words/phrases in a crossword dictionary. I’ve never written a reactive TUI before, and never written Go either. I was very happy with the assistance rendered by ChatGPT.

Of course, it was great to have exactly the features I want, and I enjoyed learning some new things.

I think seeing superiority or obnoxiousness in the comment you replied to was a pretty large reading error on your part. The tone was sympathetic to people whose inboxes receive more than they can handle.

The last sentence of your comment sounds quite condescending.

Same here on all counts.

Garages in duplexes typically are not big enough to fit an average car comfortably.

That’s a huge exaggeration. Tall buildings require a much greater footprint than a single detached home.

Knock down three adjacent homes and you can get maybe 6-8 levels, which would be no more than 40 families.

If I had the “lots of money” required, I’d try out a zero-day work week instead!

If you made income, and enough gain in stocks to pay that much in tax, you should be happy.

I want to know why you are keen to become an Australian citizen if you’re not enthusiastic about contributing your share.

Constructive discussion about appropriate levels of taxation is important, but let’s at least agree that the things we rely on (roads, hospitals, schools, defence, …) cost something.