FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

”Going into schools, I meet thousands of children a year and every day I become more certain that, if justice for all is to be our organising principle, AI is not for children and not for young people. … It risks halting learning before it can take flight. Studies show, over and over, that when we engage in AI-assisted learning we give up sooner. … We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”
—K. Rundell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom
#ai #learning

MEMENTO MORI

guitar strings are a cruel reminder of mortality

@foone so, antennas need to radiate photons. An antenna is "just" an arrangement of components that turns a changing electrical stimulus into enough of an electric/magnetic field flux that it emits photons.

Anything can radiate photons. Yes, people have hooked up bed springs and lightbulbs to HF radios to emit shortwave frequencies.

It's a question of what's in phase, what's out of phase, and how much is radiated versus reflected back down the antenna versus converted into heat.

(ctd)

maybe it's just more/less coiled? in which case... why?

I know it's folly to try to understand RF, which is all obscure magic, but one part I thought I understood was that frequency and antenna size were correlated, right?

but I got a pile of 433mhz transmitters and receivers, which have different sized antennas.

Isn't transmitting and receiving symmetric? wouldn't you need the same size antennas?

Naan throw

Baguette throw.

The question was: which could you throw further: a baguette, or a naan?

Science demands an answer.

OH: pro tip, other people are bad at telepathy

SHOCKING: Local YouTuber Makes Big Announcement, Writes 10,500 Words To Explain Why

here it is: an exhaustive discussion of what i've been up to this year, the art i've made, the things i've endured, the hope i've lost and gained, and what it all means for the future of my video work.

it's been a shit year, but i'm not dead yet.

https://www.patreon.com/ltas/posts/shocking-local-166161680

if OS/2 got a version called OS/2 Warp, why didn't the PS/2 get a version called PS/2 Weft?

ohh, 迷う [まよう] is both “to lose one's way; to get lost” and “to linger (of a departed soul); to be restless in one's grave; to be unable to rest in peace”…

🐌

Math is hard.

#gamedev #railways #trains