Twitter was interesting when you couldn't post photos or videos. You would link to twitpic and knew that people maybe would click... or not. Reminded me of IRC in that regard.
I wouldn't say never. I mean, you might be right, but between GPU support and WebAssembly, there is a lot of potential for web-based apps to become more popular than native apps in the future. It's all going to come down to the developer and user experiences of each.
Definitely, I just don’t remember Vice being so terrible. I saw 404s intro post here on HN and every subsequent article from them that I saw on HN was like looking at a buzzfeed top10 lists.
The issue is more about people changing their devices too often: I remember from years ago (so possibly outdated) that the average person changes smartphone every two years and laptop every 3/4 years. What OP is saying is that most people could totally work with an older laptop that doesn't have 16GB+ of RAM. Especially since most people are using cloud services anyway.
>For every parent who has the right personality, time AND education to teach their child at home, there are 5,000 who should NOT be teaching their kids - or anyone's kids.
Could say the same about teachers in schools really.
I have a vague sense from talking with teachers that the school systems are soul crushing, for both teachers and students. The consensus seems to be that there are very little resources for anyone not in +/- a half std dev of the mean, academically speaking, so both those outlier groups suffer.
> They can beat their kids or feed them candy all day, and nobody will know for a decade.
If they disappear into the forest, never to be seen by society again, sure. But for the families that have some community engagement, you soon find out. People notice, people talk.
Of course, knowing and doing something about it are very different things.
As someone who has been around the education systems my whole life, this is an unhelpful perspective to have. At least teachers generally have been educated in how to teach, specialize in a couple of fields(and age groups), and have a support structure for special needs students. The same is not expected from a homeschooling parent.
Ya no the schools routinely fail special needs students and even actively encourage homeschooling those kids sometimes because they see it as a big disruptive headache. I’ve seen this specifically with fellow parents who have kids on the spectrum (even though legally speaking the schools have an obligation to help these kids and meet their needs, there is a lot of dysfunction in how they try to do this and in some situations it seems intentionally harmful to deter the parents from keeping the kids there).
While I admire teachers (the many good ones) and their training, the fact is you don’t have to be smarter than them when you are teaching one or two kids full time and they are teaching ~25 for 6 hours a day.
There were almost 500 sexual misconduct complaints again public school teachers in just Chicago in 2022 when not all kids were back in school. There's something fundamentally broken there.
If you read section 4 of the CPS report they reference, you’ll find some interesting stats that Illinois Policy neglected to highlight:
- The investigative unit in question does not have discretion over what it must open a case for; they must open a case and investigate every claim even when said claims are submitted anonymously, or without evidence, even without names attached.
- That same investigative unit recently had its role expanded to include broader, non-sexual violations of the CPS guidelines for staff/student interactions.
- Over the past four years, it has only substantiated 300 policy violations, of which only 16 resulted in criminal charges.
So … suffice it to say Illinois Policy is selling a pretty slanted narrative there. They aren’t a neutral party. The actual report paints a hell of a lot less damning picture.
It is extremely misleading to say that 500 sexual misconduct allegations were leveled against teachers in one year.
In elementary school it's typical to have a single teacher for a whole year. A bad year can very easily throw off the rest of a child's education as they try to catch up.
Not really (even though the low pay for teachers is a filter for talent) - public school teachers still have to have at least a documented education to teach, and must maintain their certifications/training.
A documented education, however, does show that one can exhibit consistency with regards to a curriculum. Regardless of how you feel about expertise (judging from your comment history, I'd say you probably don't value expert opinions highly), the ability to adhere to a particular regimen is a virtue in education.
Journos' relationship with Twitter is a bunch of self-styled smart people that don't realize they're serious-posting about their version of discord mod drama.
Definitely playing with fire. Inflation works in practice because people are intrinsically happier when they have more money. And we discovered in 1971 that “the printing press is inexhaustible.” Maybe shifting attention to producers is the goal? Feels like a short-term fix.
> Millenia will pass before the cheapest monitors and Windows laptops people buy have HDR screens.
People are still buying laptops with 1366x768 screens in 2023. People still buy things because they are the cheapest available with no concern for features.
If you require the cheapest devices to support something then by that measure no technology really takes off until it is really ubiquitous, often never.
For phones, OLED is already in the mid-range market. It won't be that long until there are more HDR-capable screens than non-HDR screens.
