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multiplegeorges

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Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy

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multiplegeorges
·15 時間前·議論
> San Francisco schools decided a couple of years ago that they would no longer teach Algebra in 8th grade.

This has nothing to do with this at all. We're talking about 4th grader literacy nationwide and you're talking about algebra in a single area in a different grade!?

The second point where there aren't enough teachers nationwide (10% missing workforce) is probably because teachers are terribly paid, disrespected, and subject to bad working conditions.

Maybe that's why people aren't clamoring to be teachers and the quality of work is low?
multiplegeorges
·29 日前·議論
Using my phone in grayscale convinced me of the power of shiny colours. It is shocking how boring my phone feels in grayscale.

This really does help break any feeling of attachment to the device and the solutions in this post really do make it more practical. It does kind of suck using the camera in grayscale.
multiplegeorges
·2 か月前·議論
> blocking a referendum because they didn't consult indigenous groups

The requirement to do so is in our constitution, the Charter. It's not optional and not absurd to anyone with proper historical understanding of Canadian history.
multiplegeorges
·2 か月前·議論
Sedition, technically.
multiplegeorges
·2 か月前·議論
There's something to be said about first impressions and the GnuCash website's first impression does not give confidence in its ability to handle finances.

Ironically for this thread, I think an AI redesigned website would do wonders here.
multiplegeorges
·2 か月前·議論
When the leading CEOs are saying the next generation will be unemployed due to AI... uh yeah, you're gonna lose them!
multiplegeorges
·3 か月前·議論
A very well done type system + native code performance, with the ease of use of Ruby is a massive selling point, IMO.
multiplegeorges
·3 か月前·議論
That is very high. Not sure who they are using for processing, but I know Stripe will give registered charities a (very small) cut on their fees, I'm not sure about non-profits. But even with market rates, the average fees through Stripe would be well below 10%, IME.
multiplegeorges
·3 か月前·議論
So, if Thunderbird instead asked for users to sign up for an annual software subscription, it'd be fine?
multiplegeorges
·3 か月前·議論
How many space telescopes better than anything we currently have can we put up when launch costs are <$50m?

A huge synthetic telescope in orbit with an aperture the size of the planet?

How many private earth observation satellites?

The market is huge when weight constraints largely go away and $/kg drops so hard.
multiplegeorges
·3 か月前·議論
> novel path

Reusing Apollo-style stack, reusing Shuttle engines, reusing Shuttle-style SRBs. Novel?
multiplegeorges
·4 か月前·議論
Much like the vouch system mitchellh is working on for open source contributors, the wider web needs a trust layer that can vouch for a poster's status as human or AI, along with a "quality" score that can travel from site to site.
multiplegeorges
·4 か月前·議論
Literally what they wrote: service members.
multiplegeorges
·5 か月前·議論
Art is often only appreciated in retrospect, so it is typically undervalued at the time of its creation.

> equals the value of what they give to the tax payers in return

This seems incredibly shortsighted.
multiplegeorges
·5 か月前·議論
Kinda like the ones they are already burning in Starship to put these in space in the first place.

Anywhere on earth is better than space for this application.
multiplegeorges
·6 か月前·議論
> mostly to religious sights [sic]

Don't be so sure.
multiplegeorges
·6 か月前·議論
Hopefully getting a true UX practitioner in as Head of Design will help avoid these incredibly obvious usability issues.

Ref: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
multiplegeorges
·6 か月前·議論
It did for me. You have to be truly heartless to see a dog being sad about not going outside. So you take it for a walk, then another and another. Soon enough you're researching hiking trails in your region and getting healthier.

Dogs are the best.
multiplegeorges
·7 か月前·議論
> If people demand evil, they will make evil, if people demand good, they will make good.

This is so naive.

People do not ask corporations to be evil and they certainly don't demand it. People ask for good value and convenience and corporations respond by doing by amorally pursuing that.

However, when you ask consumers if they want value and convenience at the cost of *evil*, they almost always say no.

Corporations have a demonstrated and well-documented history of actively hiding their evil actions because they know consumers are not aligned with them at all.

If consumers "demand" evil, as you say, then corporations wouldn't try to hide it.
multiplegeorges
·7 か月前·議論
"The dose makes the poison."

Comparing modern algorithmic/addictive social media to print articles with cliffhangers isn't a serious argument.