Apple TV 4k has an idle power draw of 0.49W and a 4k streaming power draw of 2.31W. That mini desktop will likely run at around 20W idle and approaches 30W under relatively light load and up to 60W on high loads. Plus keyboard and mouse are generally terrible couch devices. I've already got a NAS and plenty of devices I can stream from. The Apple TV is an almost perfect small and efficient device to stream to.
If by summer reading assignments, are you referring to Scholastic summer reading programs? I quite enjoyed those as the available options for reading were very wide and I could always get some new Goosebumps books from the book fairs. But those are parent initiated, not something the school assigns. They can't really assign anything over the summer as they have no authority to do so outside of some IEP designed to get a particular student back on track.
I have a friend who was in a serious car accident years ago and had a broken hip. It still gives him daily pain. He has turned to cannabis to treat his pain long term and it seem to be working for him. He never describes it as "immediately eliminating the pain" or anything close to that. Really just takes the edge off so he's not as focused on his pain. It's easier to push to the background and ignore.
I've not explicitly used skills or MCP, but have had zero issues with Claude calling apis via curl as an example. I'm not sure what the MCP server or skill is actually enabling at this point. If I wanted CC to talk to SQL Server, I'd have it open a nix-env with the tools needed to talk to the database. One of my primary initial claude.md entries has to do with us running on NixOS and that temporarily installing tools is trivial and it should do things in the NixOS way whenever possible. Since then it has just worked with practically everything I've thrown at it. Very rarely do I see it trying to use a tool that isn't installed anymore. CC even uses my local vaultwarden where I have a collection of credentials shared with it. All driven through claude.md.
If a change requires cascading changes in almost every other service then yes, you're running a distributed monolith and have achieved zero separation of services. Doesn't matter if each "service" has a different stack if they are so tightly coupled that a change in one necessitates a change in all. This is literally the entire point of micro-services. To reduce the amount of communication and coordination needed among teams. When your team releases "micro-services" which break everything else, it's a failure and hint of a distributed monolith pretending to be micro-services.
As I said, they mention having a problem where each service depended on different versions of internal shared libraries. That indicates they did not need to update all at once:
> When pressed for time, engineers would only include the updated versions of these libraries on a single destination’s codebase.
> Over time, the versions of these shared libraries began to diverge across the different destination codebases.
> ...
> Eventually, all of them were using different versions of these shared libraries.
I can't speak for your adolescents, but my kids make generally good decisions. I don't relate to the kids are stupid automatons with no agency or valid opinion mindset that is so prevalent with HN contributors. If your kids would only ever pick junk food, maybe that is a reflection on you more than them?
I myself was recently an adolescent, and still know many adolescents myself. My take is coming from my anecdotal experience, and the behaviour I've observed from my peers. Perhaps your kids don't show that side of them in front of you? I know my peers and I certainly didn't go out of our way to advertise such activities to our parents when we were younger.
Seems like a pathetic appeal to authority to me. Why should I care what weird idiosyncrasies billionaires have? I'm sure they have tons of things they don't want their children learning that a lot of people would consider to be trivial. In my mind this goes back to whether you model children as property that you own or individual humans you're hoping to introduce to the world in the best way you understand how. It sucks that other people's children are going to youtube to turn off their brains. But my kids are excelling because of it and similar services. My girls are constantly trying new things because of what they see on social media and youtube. My 12 year old daughter already plays flute, violin and cello but wants to pick up the saxophone because of content she has consumed. We get everything from weird science experiments to a desire to try sewing or knitting. When people talk about the "dangers" of the internet and social media I struggle to understand what they mean because it's always been an enabler to me to excel. Somewhere along the way so called "hackers" wanted to create safe spaces to completely isolate their children from any variables the world can throw at them and I just cannot understand the mentality.
I remember enjoying quite a bit of MST3K but also have been burned by revisiting nostalgia too many times so I tend to just leave things alone now. I know it's subjective and not a fair question, but is the newer MST3K worth following up on?
The host segments with Jonah aren't too bad. I don't care for the host segments with Felicia Day & Patton Oswalt; but, I didn't care for Pearl and Bobo, either. I don't care for the changing voices and characteristics of the bots, either.
I think the riffs are more "generalized." In the original, there were riffs that were regional or more obscure (e.g. Hamdingers).
I don’t like them as much, but Jonah at least feels like a legitimate third human on the satellite after Joel and Mike. Starcrash is one from that Kickstarter season to check out.
At this point it sees the fans are split into people who follow whatever MST3K and Rifftrax do, “keep sharing the tapes,” and people who liked MST3K because it was funnier and scrappier than other shows and tapered off when it lost that. I lean toward the latter, but I’m friends with the former and we make it work.
The vibe is not the same, but Jonah is likeable, Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt are good as the Mads, and the movie selection is fantastic: Reptilicus? Munchie? The Christmas Dragon? Every film is a magnificent slice of different B-movie territory.
pluto.tv has the older "Joel" episodes and I've been enjoying them occasionally. The newer stuff for me has a bit too much "drama kid" energy, if that makes sense.
Yes, it's the same MST3K as always, honestly. Some great episodes, some weak ones, etc. Everyone's good.
IIRC, they might have been crowdfunding for a fourth new season, but they ran into some major issues with getting backers their rewards on the last one, and I think that made a lot of fans reluctant.
Given different printings and formats for books, I’d be very surprised if asking about a specific page number works reliably at all across books. I don’t even know if epub has page numbers embedded to keep track because the number of words on a page of an ereader is entirely arbitrary. My wife has her kindle in grandma mode or something. Only about 50 words fit on a page.
I would expect much more reliable results from chapter numbers though.
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