Thank you. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. My 27” 2015 iMac is getting very long in the tooth, but that 5k screen is still beyond beautiful.
I played a lot of FCPro back in the 1990s. As noted at the link, it had more possible games, automated stack movement if you had enough free spaces, had unlimited undo/redo, and had solvers (that could either solve it for you, or just tell you that a solution was still possible - the latter was immensely helpful in letting me get better at the game).
Oh yes it can. It won’t teach phonics, which is a very valuable skill especially in English, but my biggest struggle with phonics was that I could already read the words they were trying to use to teach us how to sound things out. Kids vary but some will already be picking up written words by 2-3 and self-guided by 5-6. Reading the same book every night is tedious to parents but really lets the kids connect shapes on paper to language.
Good luck convincing anyone outside of HN types. I get regular requests from my wifeto assist with some task and my answer is “you can’t really do that on a phone or tablet, you need to use a real computer”. They are still not done.
It sounds like she’s asking you for help and you’re suggesting using a different tool rather than helping. If you keep repeating that it means she either doesn’t want to or has trouble doing it. Just take care of the tasks dude lol
"I can do this for you, but I will need to use your computer to do it, and I will need you to read me off a bunch of 2FA codes in all likelihood, so you can either give me your phone or you can sit next to me while I do it. Oh, and they're your emails, so you may as well pull up a chair or I'm just going to have to guess whether you care or not."
My time is valuable too. You want me to do it, you help.
Sometimes, "use a different tool" is in fact the correct and most helpful answer. If someone comes to me asking why they are having such a hard time pounding in nails, and I see they are using the handle of their screwdriver, I'm not going to give them tips on how to hold the screwdriver better, I'm going to say "dude use a hammer, you'll be much better off".
Especially in this department, where limitations are very much fixed. Even if he wants it to work on a phone, he cannot make it do certain things if the OS doesn’t intend it to be possible. If she were trying to do things on Linux, at least you could accuse him of being too lazy to write custom software to do it. Not true on closed platforms though.
Hell, I’m not a coder; I don’t even work in IT. I can install Linux and configure it reasonably well for an end user, but ask me to code something up and… well, hope you like Claude’s output.
Her desktop is a 27” iMac that’s too old for OCLP to help keep it going, and I keep thinking about putting Linux on it, but I can’t imagine trying to get her onto something that isn’t either Windows (used at work) or macOS (we have full Apple ecosystem at home and her laptop is an M2 MBA) until it just won’t run Citrix and a browser capable of hitting Gmail. Or until Apple finally makes another 27” iMac, which given the RAM and storage situation isn’t happening any time soon.
You must be made of sterner stuff than I am. It was 14.5 hours for me to go to college, and after freshman year I always crashed at a friend’s place along the way. 12 is fine, 13 is stretching it, but at 14 hours there’s no way I’m doing it in one day.
14 and 10 used to be the trucking standard. 14 on the road, 2 for eating and 8 for sleeping. Many people did that continuously for weeks. Doing it for a couple days isnt impossible.
Not impossible, just so unpleasant that I wouldn’t do it on vacation. If you’re getting paid for it you probably do have a different opinion on the matter.
One of the reasons I am an anesthesiologist is that while you might have issues with the surgeon or the surgery, I find that very few people decline my services. If anything, they generally want more.
Was always a childhood plan to do anaesthetics. Always fascinated me. But I did get to spend time as a paramedic and did many a rapid sequence induction. I never met an anaesthetist who wasn't happy to share time and knowledge when we had to do periodic tubes for recert or CE. So I appreciate you.
My father-in-law once asked me how long it would take to teach him how to put people to sleep. I said, five minutes, but if you want them to wake up at the end, a lot longer.
I interpret that as they lose people all the time, but if you come into the ER with 10 bullet holes in you or after coming to a grinding halt on the freeway after a head on collision, they don't expect you to make it and it's not the sleepy drugs at fault.
Here's a thing humans do: They knew what they meant, but saw an amusing way it could be parsed, and said that, because it's amusing. We all knew what the comment really meant.
There's actually a few ways it could have been meant, or it could have been meant to convey all of them. We all have a pretty good idea in the general sense what they meant, but that amusing reply is also an invitation for the person to elaborate and add nuance.
They probably do. Not all medical procedures have a greater than 50% expected chance of survival, but it still might be better than the alternative. That doesn't necessarily mean the anesthesiologist is the once responsible for the death, nor that anyone is, for that matter.
I have a friend that is a retired anesthesiologist.
He made very good money, in his day, but, apparently, the malpractice insurance for anesthesiologists, is sky-high.
I am fortunate to have a very good dentist, these days. This was not always the case. I have two crowns, and I believe they are both from dentists that caused tooth damage, on purpose.
> it forces you into too many arcane areas to configure what should be basic functionality
This is a real pain point with OpenWRT, made worse by the developers' concept that there are "proper" ways to do it (which are supported by almost no other software) and so the workaround is either to do the dance or replace everything with OpenWRT that will do it "properly".
Defensible idea, but the reality is that most people who are willing to do this in the first place are trying to reuse an old router as a low-usage wireless bridge on a network that is otherwise centrally controlled like Unifi or Omada. My pool controller would be fine to run on 802.11b (setting aside what that would do to the rest of the wireless network), it doesn't need a WiFi 7 device.
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