vidanay

Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.

I was promised hologram cubes!

> Old tools with brushed motors arc during normal operation!

I have all of my grandfathers old Craftsman steel-shell electric power tools with brushed motors. I put a new cord on one of the hand drills a few years ago (the old cloth covered cords are terrifying) and tried using it for a project. That thing throws sparks like a Zippo.

The entire point of the article is about underprovisioned infrastructure.

Not commercial RE

I've got ten bucks that says you've shopped for groceries at "Jewels"

Speak for your dense population area self. 418m gets me to the end of my rural driveway. Kids school is 8.3 miles (13.4km).

> haul them to school 300 meters away

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I can vouch for this first hand. Music has absolutely zero meaning in my 16 year olds life. They don't listen to music - new or old. They don't know who current artists are, and they certainly don't have an opinion about who is their favorite.

Thankfully, they are also just as disinterested in social media.

My first experience with 3D was with AutoCAD 10 or 11 when they had "2 1/2"D. I've used ProE, Catia, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, Solidworks, Inventor, etc.

The workflows in FreeCAD are completely irregular and alien compared to those others. It's incredibly frustrating to use and I have had zero luck becoming fluent in it.

Surprisingly few companies (or people) care about paying for good security.

It's worked for 45+ years for cable companies.

Headed out to where the down boys go

> Pandora had decent algorithms for recommending things, but it had such a small library that it would frequently repeat the same handful of albums for anything I searched for. This irks me, as I hate wearing out good music.

I've been a daily user of Pandora for something like 10 years. It's been getting steadily worse the whole time, and especially in the last two years.

I like to create my own station that is "seeded" by a few artists, and then allow the algorithm to do what it wants to play related music. This used to be great, until one day I noticed that it had become stuck playing the same 50 or so songs. This was after about three years of listening to that station on a weekly basis. As an experiment, I created a new station and seeded it again with similar artist. Again, it was fine for 2-3 years until it got stuck on a handful of songs. I did this again recently and it has become stuck within four months. There are even a few of my seed songs that it simply ignores and never plays.

I see two possible paths:

* As the population ages, the elderly will pass laws and policies that favor themselves at the expense of the younger. Social services will become more and more of a burden on wage earners - even to the point of unsustainability (as long as those in power as a "ruling" block get what they believe they are owed.)

* As the elder population gradually loses their political power, the younger leaders will pass laws and policies that favor themselves at the expense of the elder. Social services will become less and less meaningful - even to the point of neglect and abject poverty for those who need it (as long as those in power as a "ruling" block get what they believe they are owed.)

Those two paths are not necessarily divergent and are quite likely sequential.