9 minutes less sleep nightly sounds pretty significant for a single cause. That’s about 2%. If anything I think this article demonstrates that blue light does affect your sleep.

Literally the best case for pinker is accessory after the fact to child abuse. But I don’t give any epstein associates the benefit of the doubt at this point. He probably raped children.

Sure it is. Doom is a very optimized program with available source that for almost 20 years has served as a benchmark for demonstrating the ability to hack a piece of electronics with a display.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principle_of_charity

Not to defend Google, but they have said they will leave a way for people to sideload. Still sucks that they feel justified in making it more annoying https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-17-sideloading-interview-sameer-samat-3647478/

Civil engineering and aerospace engineering almost always use Z axis to represent the vertical.

I believe there’s been real progress in the Sahel in western Africa. Iirc it involves more than just planting trees but full on land management like having grazing livestock graze in newly forested areas.

It’s an article published on ars technica, written by a journalist with more than a decade of experience writing about the automotive sector. Sometimes a story about a product is just a story about a product.

Duo enforcement, for example. It’s pretty robust and hard to spoof. Some companies are willing to pay a lot of money to control their employees.

Some workplaces require chrome, unfortunately

Vienna is a great example of this for anyone interested.

I’ve recommended Ian’s site to so many people over the years. Such a great resource for such a simple task.

Personally I like Ian’s fast knot. Took me a few days to master but I’ve been using it ever since.

Restaurant at the End of the Universe scene is a bit different than what you describe, but yes it has something sort of similar to that.

It’s not dead, it’s run by Apache now. But LibreOffice is much more active and widely used.

Let them fight.

Less clickbait and more reblogging, but yeah it’s not a good piece. It attempts to set a little context but overall fails miserably to explain the complexities around this and fails to evaluate how much credence should be given to the original poster.

He used to be. He realized eventually and has massively improved.

Yeah. Students entering college in the last 5 years were in elementary during the disaster of NCLB. Common core didn’t recover us from that disaster entirely either. There are problems in education that need fixing. Sensationalist journalist Rose Horowitch is not going to be guiding us toward a solution.

Overall, this article seems to either misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent a lot. Like they misrepresent/misunderstand what “no zeros” policies are. They don’t address the reasons so many schools stopped requiring SAT scores. Etc

I didn’t dive too deep into the report in question.

I definitely agree on being suspicious of the motives behind the article.

I mean it’s a democratic republic. The words describe aspects of the political system and nation.

The republic is the nation/government itself (of the people etc). Democracy is the political system used to achieve our republic.

But yes both are under attack by Nazis.

I just found a recent video from Chris Wilson that does a much better job distinguishing dark patterns from game mechanics some people might enjoy and shared it here: https://beehaw.org/post/23297295