Voting adults can’t necessarily afford or arrange childcare which is a legitimate reason to bring their non-voting children.
Effectively all non-voting children will one day be voting adults. Exposure to politics before participating in politics is valuable not only for them, but for everyone who will be eventually governed partially by their vote. Legitimate reason #2.
Regardless of the lack of vote, non-voting children are still governed by elected officials, giving them legitimate reason #3 to interact with politics, even if they can’t do so in the form of a vote yet.
You’ve picked a poorly thought out hill to die on.
That's a very well-reasoned argument. It is perhaps a shame that it's been placed against the most absurdly sarcastic train of thought I could come up with ("Coloring books have no legitimate purpose at such an event, and therefore nor do children"), but your take remains well-reasoned nonetheless.
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I won't be in NYC tomorrow. But if I were planning to go then there'd be a good chance I'd pack my usual way for a short-duration trip: A backpack with a laptop, a change of clothes rolled up tight, and a Raspberry Pi.
Some people bring things like cards or a [coloring] book, but those are not my preferred styles of distraction.
SBCs like that don't take up much space. They pack fairly well and give me something out-of-band to goof around with when I'm traveling and bored, where my usual household distractions don't exist.
I get some pretty creative systems stuff done on them sometimes by creating some whimsical problem, working out the steps for a solution, and then implementing it and seeing how it plays out -- in the field, away from my usual pile of resources. It's fun for me.
There's almost certainly some manner of Pi already in my bag right now, left over from my last trip -- probably housed in one of those cheeky red-and-white plastic cases that the Pi Foundation offers.
It would not be a huge loss if I had to dumpster it like a forgotten nail clipper at the airport after 9/11, but it sure would be surprising. It's not a particularly devilish device and has never attracted any sort of attention, and I would never have reasonably expected it to do so.
I guess if Russia invaded Western Europe and Putin decided to switch from Cyrillic to Latin script so the subjugated peoples would more easily read and learn Russian, that would be neutral too?
About the "bad argument", I can't argue with you, because I'm not the one arguing. You'll have to take it up with the author of these lines:
"In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far"
(Besides, what's so strange about transposing Cyrillic to Latin? It happens all the time even today when people don't want to or can't switch keyboard layouts.)
The tendency for LLMs to romanticize everything and speak like they’re in a novel will never not bother me.
In any case, this is cool that you built these tools, but I think it’s important to understand that this is technically not different than any other time you’ve used a cloud based LLM. LLMs are stateless, and every interaction feeds in the full context (or truncated summary) of your entire conversation. In that sense, your first prompt may go to data center A, and your second prompt may go to data center B, where A and B are many miles apart, and it’s no different than both prompts going to A. The LLM didn’t “teleport” from A to B, because LLMs are stateless and ephemeral. Anthropomorphizing LLMs is a bit disingenuous, because it’s not a stateful being.
Again, it’s cool you restored context automatically in a claude code session. In the web UIs for popular LLMs, you can typically see conversation history and resume across machines, it’s a shame this isn’t built into Claude code by default.
Do you mind elaborating? Obv GitHub isn’t the end-all be-all, but I think a lot of people (myself included) aren’t familiar with anywhere else open source is happening on a similar scale. Maybe 1 out of 100 project links I follow end up taking me to gitlab.
