cool! It would be nice to have a "watch a random video" button

It's funny how those same billionaires who sell these devices, do not give their children devices until the age of 14.

PS to parents: give your child a toy or a book not a tablet ffs.

I agree for age of 3-6 years, but until age 14 is ridiculous.

Not all devices are equally bad.

I've been happily learning to code my own video games on Intel 486 PC in QuickBasic since late elementary school (age 10), and yes, I played outdoors with other kids too.

Before I had PC of my own, I was making them on paper (game design and mechanics, not literal code).

The difference there is that you had a difficult, meaningful, constructive experience instead of one designed to just addict you. Even though both were running on von Neumann machines.

I think there is a meaningful difference between an Intel 486 and a portable device like a tablet, especially if the former is not connected to the internet (or is connected to the internet as it was circa 1995). I think it could be fine and even beneficial to give a kid a desktop computer to write games using QuickBasic, and at the same time very harmful to give them a tablet.

You brought me back to hand-drawing platformer puzzle levels for my fictional game as a kid. Good times.

Another thing to blame on the billionaires then. Soon they will become like gods, feared and blamed for intentionally causing plagues and famines when people dont appease them enough.

They certainly have more affect on our lives than any "traditional" god. Apparently, reducing their tax exposure brings 10 years of good harvest.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu

We could learn a lot from China. They know how to keep their own home grown billionaires on a leash. We in the West can't even do that.

Why would the west want to do that? Leashes are for dogs, not people. The people want to live in the land of the free, not the land of the leash.

some of us feel like we're on the leash and the billionaire's are holding it. A gov't, in theory, is supposed to represent the masses. The masses holding the leashes to billionaire's sounds like a great improvement over what we have

> Leashes are for dogs, not people

They did say "billionaires"...

Because billionaires use their money to put leashes on us all.

This. So much this.

I remember trying to emulate this game on my i7 laptop a decade ago. It was running like 15 FPS.So for me this look like magic.

a better title: "China Planted 78 Billion New Trees but at what cost"

"but at what cost" ?

I'll pay.

https://genius.com/Jc-chandor-margin-call-boardroom-scene-an...

not a justification but to give the chronological context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Starobilsk_strike

> According to Russian officials, drones struck the dormitory and nearby educational buildings of the Starobilsk College

I am biased, as while I love the Russian people, I despise Russian Imperialism, and I cannot believe anything that they say at this point.

I have seen no evidence to support that story. Given the preponderance of phone cameras, one would expect at least a photo or two.

good thing our politicians say the truth all the time so we get all confused to hear russians and question it

Can you please break this response down for me? I genuinely do not understand.

meta: Wait a second, how did you even see my reply to a 3rd party, on an old post, and comment back within minutes?

I would add also Little's law for throughput calculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

Linus's Law : "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".

Applies to opensource. But it also means that code reviews are a good thing. Seniors can guide juniors to coax them to write better code.

it's a record of the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "On This Land" (English translation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0).