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As a teacher, do you have any techniques to make sure students learn to write the code?

In-person analog checkpoints seem to be the most effective method. Think internet-disabled PCs managed by the school, written exams, oral exams, and so forth.

Making students fix LLM-generated code until they're at their wits' end is a fun idea. Though it likely carries too high of an opportunity cost education-wise.


If I was a prof, I would make it clear to the students that they won't learn to program if they use AI to do it for them. For the students who wanted to learn, great! For those who just wanted to slide through with AI, I wouldn't care about them.

Yeah, it's important to elect councillors and MP's that represent the people and not monied interests.

Problem is that you must already represent monied interests before you get anywhere near an MP/councillor seat.

The words aren't important. The regulated meaning is. Does it have a legal meaning? If so, what is it? Who enforces it? Consider made in Italy vs made in Germany are different in meaningful aspects.

Is there even a regulated meaning to "made in X"?

The way I see it, "made in Europe" may be dubious, but "made in EU" should be just as okay to write as "made in USA". And if it's not a thing, well, nothing is a thing until people make it a thing.

EDIT: also we're talking about a software product here, where most things written on the product is legally meaningless - otherwise we'd have special customs regimes for those major software exporter places like "love" and "♡".


I know that there is a regulated meaning—at least for food—even down to the region (Scotch, Chianti, Champagne, etc.) or even city (Modena, for balsamic vinegar), but laws aren't the same in every country.

"Made in EU" would be equivalent to "Made in USA", and I'm pretty sure it's regulated.

This is just an app though, so they can say whatever they want. I've seen "Made with love", "Made on Earth", etc.


As my comment implied, there is in some places, but the regulations aren't uniform. Also, the person I responded to mentioned supermarket products. I was asking legitimate questions & was hoping to get an informed response.

On top of this, Tech Bros want to capitalize on your talent like white bands covering Black artists during segregation.

A very frustrating part is how much bad faith the admin is engaging in. We see a question asked in good faith and an answer that completely ignores the question at hand and instead against a strawman. This is also the regular MO of Vance and Miller, etc. It's obvious these folks never grew out of their trolling people on message boards phase.

Between the use of AI to generate videos and photos and the way the administration refuses to engage the media or their constituents in good faith, it just shows that they are trying to create their a reality that simply doesn't exist. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..."


The situation we're in today has obvious roots in the aftermath of 9/11 and the PATRIOT act, and the relative lack of voter outcry after the Snowden leaks. Voters seem all too glad to trade in freedom for fear of boogiemen & have a reverence for LEO that is wholly unearned. I honestly think the reaction would be closer to something like, "well, what did they do to deserve it?" (until it happens exactly to them, of course)

Yeah, I think when making a game, in general, fun is the first thing to consider. All these games are lumped into the article as "city builders", but Age of Empires and Sim City are completely different genres, just as one example.

I expect an RTS game like Age of Empires to be balanced for competitiveness rather than realism.

Sim City 2000 at least markets itself as a simulation game, which I'd expect to be more realistic in terms of city building. For better or worse, though, the simulation seems rather simplistic, which could lead to unrealistic city designs or confusion around why the Sims don't want to drive over the fancy highway bridge I just spent $5000 on...


I don't think it's bad that our elected officials tell us what they're doing. Yeah, it sucks when they're doing heinous shit like Trump, but it's awesome that Zohran Mamdani is doing what he can to tell New Yorkers about all the great stuff he's doing, whether it's fixing bike routes, funding universal child care, or undoing the corruption of the previous admin.

It's bad that Biden was silent. This enabled the mainstream media, which is captured by conservative oligarchs, to define Biden's presidency. There's going to be an onslaught of news either way, and it's already an uphill battle for anyone who isn't right wing to get a fair shake. So, you shouldn't let others make the news for you. Biden expanded overtime pay and oversaw a number of worker and consumer protections. It's bad that he wasn't tooting his own horn about this stuff!

Additionally, for America to ever return to being the shining example of democracy it claims to be, the next administration needs to very publicly make an example of the current administration. Americans, and the world, need to know that authoritarians have no place in America.


> the next administration needs to very publicly make an example of the current administration

There is no chance of that happening. Trump will pardon every single person in his administration and anyone else who carried water for him. The next President will say "we have to move on" and Trump himself will ride off into the sunset with the billions he made for himself and his family.


The problem is not Trump "telling us what he's doing".

The problem is what he's doing.

Not needing to think about the president, or politics in general for that matter, has nothing to do with how much media coverage there is. The whole point of delegating professionals to handle making all the decisions is exactly so that you don't have to think about them yourself.


This is naive. You have to hold your elected officials accountable, lest they walk all over you. This requires thinking about them, what they're doing and thinking about politics.

No disagreement.

I fear you're interpreting what I'm saying the wrong way.

Imagine you have two children. As with any loving parent, doing what you can to support your children is paramount.

One of your children has substance abuse issues and has been struggling to keep a job and the other is running a few successful bookstores in a vacation town and recently got married.

Of course you don't have favorites. And of course you will do what you need to do to make each child successful.

But one of those children you're going to spend a lot more time thinking and worrying about than the other. But that does not mean you're not taking your job supporting either of them seriously.

I'm saying I'm getting real tired of thinking about which rehab center is best and googling the effects of barbiturates, if you know what I mean.


Mainstream media, including and especially the White House press corps, hated Biden. I don't think Biden was at fault, I think mainstream media, captured by oligarchs, didn't report on good news, which looks like silence from Biden.

they've been fighting democratic presidents hard since clinton

no one remembers the constant mud slinging at obama?


You're giving Biden no agency in this situation when he was the freaking president of the USA. He could have done more if he wanted.

Sure, he could have done a Trump and ruled by executive fiat? Biden Admin had some pretty good wins, like CHIPs act is a standout. But man lucky we didn't backrupt the Country by forgiving some student loans amirite?

Biden removed troops from Foreign Wars, Donald Trump does the opposite and instead pretends he stopped 8 wars or something.

This is just poor memory. Us Americans are notorious for this, unfortunately.


For the latter question, ask your insurance company. I'd be surprised if they care specifically that waymo was involved. If you don't have insurance, ask a lawyer what your options would be in that situation.

Can you elaborate? Are you saying you think people are going to give up their cars because Waymo is available?

I think it fundamentally shifts the cost of transport from marginal to capitalized. Meaning a 20 minute trip is $0.50 of gas and some fraction of the manufacturing cost of the car. Today it's that plus $5-10 to the driver.

It's somewhat equivalent to the advent of trains but on a personal level. In the way that trains made shipping goods across the country more or less free once the rail was built that's what's going to happen to people and packages getting around cities.


Remind me who's owning and operating these driverless cars? A private company?

Probably but I go back and forth. Likely means that it will end up a mix like taxis and private cars are today

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