All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

Posted by yurivish 6 hours ago

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it(mathstodon.xyz)

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red_admiral 3 hours ago|

Relevant past HN submission: https://www.hgreer.com/PlayingInTheCreek/

(summary: AI as a metaphor for optimising the fun out of play)

Terr_ 3 hours ago||

An insightful SMBC comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagination

> Father: "Ugh, how do kids enjoy this garbage?" [...]

I had forgotten how often young-me would be daydreaming about stuff. I don't think having more digital distractions fully explains it.

zshn 4 hours ago||

"C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante" - "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important"

Markoff 4 hours ago||

the post has unreadable font in Vivaldi

hutattedonmyarm 3 hours ago|

Might be a Vivaldi problem. It has "Computer Modern Sans" in Firefox which seems to be perfectly legible

TonyStr 3 hours ago|||

I found Computer Modern Sans quite unpleasant to read. Disabling it and reading Mastodon Sans Serif was much more pleasant

Gualdrapo 2 hours ago||

Yup, quite an odd choice to set the typeface for big blocks of text to a display typeface as CM Sans

thaumasiotes 3 hours ago|||

In Firefox, all text outside the headline post, including the name and username that begin the headline post, appears to be in some kind of shrunken state which ruins its appearance. Zooming in solves the problem and causes the letters to appear correct rather than grotesquely malformed.

I don't know how the site was allowed into production like this.

Markoff 1 hour ago||

you are right, it seems to be more zoom issue than font issue (or combo since I don't really experience this elsewhere, which is why I mentioned it), if I zoom out to 90% it becomes normally readable, but at default 100% zoom it is malformed unreadable (btw. I use 225% Windows 10 scaling at 2560x1440)

thaumasiotes 1 hour ago||

I can attest that the same thing happens to other fonts.

I have the opposite problem from you, though; for me the font (outside of the focused post) is already being rendered too small and zooming out doesn't help. Zooming in to 110% fixes it (while making some pretty big changes to the layout of the webpage...).

I'm at 150% scaling, 3840x2160.

ktallett 3 hours ago||

I am not a Tao hater but also not a fanboy but this is spot on! He is right, I don't love AI in many states and feel it is used for pointless task, however the beauty of that helping hand supporting you do tasks that you have no idea how to do is the magic in it. As a child we all asked questions regularly of what if we did this instead of this, why do we do things this way, why not try something else. Work and adult life gets us stuck in a rut, so anything that gets us out of a rut is welcome.

alansaber 2 hours ago|

Exactly, breadth not depth of knowledge, from a tutor with no ego

sublinear 4 hours ago|

All well and good. I agree with the sentiment, but why are we asking for permission? Does this not strongly demonstrate the inherent corruption of institutions?